Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-29

ton at Its recent session in Detroit. Fully
concurrtng in the wisdom of this change
and in the imperative necessity for it, I
believe that the policy embodied in these
rules requiring expedition in prosecuting
cases should be placed beyond the posi-
hiiity OF change by amendment of the
rules of procedure. and to this end I
recommend congressional action.
The Census.
In reviewing the work of the eleventh
census the Secretary says:
The condition of the census division
and of the final reports shows clearly that
the eleventh census will be printed and dis
tributed at least two years earlier than was
the case with the tenth census Yet the
whole system of taking and compiling the
federal census should be changed, causing
as it does so much delay. 1t is the opinion
OF the commissioner of labor in charge,
which he states after most careful con
sderation, and in which / fully concur
that with more scientifically arranged
system, and the employment of a force
drawn from the civil service lists, s2O0l 600
and one year of time might have been
saved in completing the eleventh census
The work OF the geological survey las
progressed in a satisfactory manner dur
ing the year. The energies of the strictly
geologic force have been directed mainly
to areal surveying, with view to the de-
nneation on the topographic base maps of
the distribution and relations OF the yari-
Gus rock formations. Work in this line
was done in all of the great natural geo.
logic provinces Of the country. A special
geologic map on large scale was made of
the cripple Creek gold district of Colorado,
| and data were obtained for the compl .tion
OF the second part of the report on the
l-eadvilie mining district of Colorado. Four
teen foiios of the Geologic Atlas of the
United States were published during the
year. each folio embracing a topographic
map, several geologic maps and a descrip-
tive text" f.r
EdmC0 tlannl Stotf.xau.
| The report Of the commissioner of educa-
| ton shows that the total number of pupils
enrolled in 1894 in public and private
schools Was 1s.530ia6s. or % 50 per cent of
the entire, population ,s46,s5s in public
and private elementary schools 4S03;,S in
| secondary schools and 303 059 in institutions
q higher education. OF the grand total
u a;9. W. the npmbar in the public schools
| OF all grades was i4.0l2. 4aS, and in private
schools of all grades 1.57,TO.
L.. fncinc Railroads
| Considerable space is devoted to the sub
| tect of Pacific railroads. and the various
! plans of reorganization which have been
proposed are set forth by the Secretary.
The report urges that two things are to
| be considered: % The collection of the
debt due to the government and ca the
| creation of great through line from the
| Missouri to the Pacific, which was the
original purpose of the government lea ding
| to the issue Of subsidy bonds. The report
shows in detail the amount of the subsidy
| bonds the amount of the interest which the
government has paid On them and the
amount of the first mortgage bonds. The
Secretary says the government Is already
out Sill, $4,000 upon these bonds, and that
the first mortgage bonds only amount to
$64.6l3OOO: that the property Is worth vast
ly more than the first mortgage bonds, aud
that the government interests can be pro-
tected. II necessary. by taking up these
| In hat 10.
now maturing and draw 9 per cent, that
they could easily be replaced with 3 per
cent bond, If the government guaranteed
them. and as the government holds sec
ond Hen and must protect the property
against the first lien, the government
should see to ii, if my new set of bonds
are issued. that the first mortgage bonds
draw no higher rate of interest than gov
eminent bonds would draw. The Secretary
says the net earnings of each one of the
lines during the past ten years have made
an average of nearly per cent on the
sum OF the first mortgage bonds, and of the
government SUBSIDY bonds, and suggests
the possibility of new issue of bonds,
guaranteed by the government, drawing
per cent, equal in amount to the first mort
gage bonds and the subsidy bonds with
the interest on the same. AS the road
could easily earn the interest on these
bonds. and leave handsome surplus, cap
ltalists should be found who would buy the
property, subject to the bonds. and pay a
lair sum into the treasury each year to-
ward their liquidation. The Secretary dis
cusses the scheme Of the government di-
rectors and also of the reorganization com
mlttce OF the Union Pacific and finally
urges that the government. being in the
attitude of second mortgage security hold
er, 1t Is absolutely necessary, in order to
protect its claim, that negotiations be had
between the government, the other parties
In interest and such capitalists as are like
iy to take hold of the enterprise This
work cannot successfully be performed by
congress, and the responsibility for II
should be placed at once by Congress upon
commission or upon some duly author
lied representative Of the government.
whose duty 1t should be to take the subject
up IN business way and work out the
BEST plan for ,disposing of the governments
II terest with the least possible >loss.
The Dawes COmmission.
The Secretary submits without comment