The age-herald., 1898-12-06
MKINLEY'S MESSAGE TO THE
 SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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 transfer of supernuemary enlisted mer
 and nothing contained in this act shall b
 construed as authorizing the permanent ir
 crease of the commissioned or enliste
 force of the regular army beyond that no'
 provided by the law in force prior to th
 passage of this act except as to the 1T
 crease of twenty-five majors provided fc
 in section l thereof" | Increase of the Army
 The importance of legislation for tn | permanent increase of the army is there
 fore manifest and the recommendation c
 the secretary of war for that purpose ha
 my unqualified approval There can be n | question that at this time and probably fo
 some time in the future 100000 men will
 none too many to meet the necessities c | the situation At all events, whether tha | number shall be required permanently O
 not, the power should be given to the pres i dent to enlist that force if in his diseretio
 1t should be necessary, and the further dis
 cretion should be given him to recruit fo
 the army within the above limit from tn
 inhabitants of the islands with the govern | ment of which we are charged.
 | It is my purpose to muster out the entr | volunteer army as soon as congress sha | provide for the increase of the regular es | tablishment. This will be only an act c | justice, and will be much appreciated b
 the brave men who left their homes an
 employments to help the country in it | emergency.
 In my last annual message I stated
 1.-The Union Pacific railway, main line
 was sold under the decree of the Unite
 States court for the district of Nebraska
 the first and second November, this veal | The amount due the government consiste | of the principal of the subsidy bonds, S27 | 236,512 and the accrued interest thereon | $S1, 211, .75, making the total indebtedness | $5S, ,554 223.75. The bid at the sale covere
 the first mortgage lien and the entire mort | gage claim of the government, principa l and interest,""
 This left the Kansas Pacific case uncon
 cluded. By a decree of the court in tha | case an upset price for the property wa l fixed at a sum which would yield to tn | government only $2,5OO,0OO upon it's lien Tn | sale at the instance of the government wa | postponed first to December 15, 1887, an | later upon the application of the Unite States, was postponed to February 16, 1S9' | Having satisfied myself that the interest | of the government required that an eHor | should be made to obtain a larger sum, l directed the secretary of the treasury, un der the act passed March 3, 1887, to pay ou l of the treasury to the persons entitled t | | prior mortgages upon the eastern and mid l dle divisions of said railroad out of an! 1 money in the treasury not otherwise appro l priated.
 History of the Case
 l Whereupon the encouragement prepares | a petition to be presented to the court offer l ing to redeem said prior liens in such man
 ner as the court may direct, and sayini | that thereupon the United States might b. | held to surrogate all the rights of sait | prior lien holders and that receiver nigh 1 be appointed to take possession of tn | mortgaged premises and maintain and oper
 ate the same until the court or congress | otherwise directed. Thereupon the reorgan 1 ization committee agreed that if said peti | ton was withdrawn, and the sale allowed t l proceed on February IS there would be il l the sum at the sale, which would realiz l to the government the entire principal of it ] debt, $6, 303, ,000.- Believing that no bette l price could be obtained, and appreeiatint | the difficulty under which the governmen would labor if 1t should become the pur 1 chaser of a road at sale, in the absence 1 of any authority by congress to take charg l of and operate the road I decided that upol | the guaranty of a minimum bid whicl should give the government the principa 1 of it's debt, the sale should proceed by thi | transaction. The government received al | | sum which the court had fixed as the upse l pr,ce and which the reorganization com | mittee had declared was the maximum (which they would pay for the property | It is a gratifying fact that the result O | these proceedings against the Union Pa I cific system and the Kansas Pacific line i | that the government has received on ac l count of it's subsidy claim the sum of $64, l 751 223.75, an increase of $1S,997, ,163.75 owe | the sum which the reorganization commit | tee originally agreed to bid for the join property, the government receiving 1t whole claim principal and interest, on thu | Union Pacific and the principal of its deb | on the Kansas Pacific.
 | Steps had been taken to foreclose tn, | governments lien upon the Central Pacific | Railroad company, but before action wa commenced congress passed an act, approv | ed July T. 1898, creating commission con | sisting of the secretary of the treasury, at | torney-general and secretary of the in | terior and their successors in office witt | full power to settle the indebtedness to th 1 government growing out of the issue O | bonds in aid of the construction of the Cen ! tral Pacific and Western Pacific bond aided railroads subject to the approval of th' president.
 No report has vet been made to me by the commission thus created. Whatevel action is had looking to a settlement of tht indebtedness In accordance With the act re
 ferred to will be duly submitted to con- No Report Made
 gress.
 I deem it my duty to call to the attention of congress the condition of the present building occupied by the department oi
 justice. The business of that department has increased very greatly since it was es tabished in it's present quarters The <;aI enough nor of suitable arrangement fol the proper accommodation of the business of the department. The supervising archi tect has pronounced 1t unsafe and unsuited for the use to which it is put. The attor- ney-general in his reports states that the library of the department Is on the fourth 1 floor and that all the space allotted to it is | so crowded with books as to dangerously | overlook the structure The first floor is 1 occupied by the court of claims. The build. l ing is of an old and dilapdated appearance
 unsuited to the dignity which should attacf ay,o