Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-07

labor is not in excess Of $3.50 per annllm. I
! beileye this to be simple act Of justice
i ana heartily recommend it,
on the subject Of forest reservations he
/ recommends an increase in the appropria-
| tons for this work of the interior depart
ment
The Census.
The census and the Pacific railroads are
treated as follows
In accordance with the act of congress
| approved March g. 1899 the preliminary
work in connection with the twelfth cen
sus is now fully under way The officers
required for the proper administration of
the duties imposed have been selected.
/ The provision for securing a proper
| enumeration of the population, as well as
/ to secure evidence of the industrial growth
of the nation is broader and more COM
/ pfehenstve than any similar legislation in
the past. The director advises that every
| needful effort is being made TO push this
| great work 10 completion in the time linn
| lted by the statute. 1t is believed that
the twelfth census will emphasize our re-
| markable advance in all that pertains to
national progress.
The Pacific Railroads.
Under the authority of the act of con-
/ gress approved July Z, 1898, the commission,
! consisting of the secretary of the treas
| ury. the attorney general and secretary
OF interior, has made an agreement of
| settlement, which has had nv approval,
of the indebtedness to the government
| growing out of the issue of bonds 10 aid
| IN the construction of the Central Pacific
/ diAN NcSAttIl FdlfOdQS. Inc agree
ment secures to the government the
/ principal and interest of said bonds,
1 amounting to $5S ,Sl2,7154S There has been
paid thereon $ll, 762 543.12, which has been
covered into the treasury, and the re-
| mainder, payable within ten years, with
interest at the rate of three per cent. per
annlm' payable semiannually, is secured
| by the deposit of an equal amount of first
mortgage bonds of the Pacific railway com
| panies.
The amounts paid and secured to be
| paid to the government on account of the
racine railroad subsidy claims are:
! Union Pacific, cash ..........$ So AIS 223 75
| Kansas Pacific, cash.......... G S03 900 .OO
! central and Western Pacific,
easn. .......... 80. $50. ii, 79S 3l4. IA
/ Notes, secured ................. AZ $50 l72 &c
Kansas Pacific dividends for
deficiency due United States,
cash .......... ................. S21, S97. 20
Making a total of 1924, 421. GOT .95
The whole indebtedness was about $780,
100000, more than half of which consisted
OF accrued interest, for which sum the
| government has realized the entire amount
less about $6,OOO,OO0 within a period of two
| years
Department of Agriculture.
Regarding the work of the department of
agriculture the president refers TO the in
estimable value of the department. to our
! agricultural interests. and says of it:
Markets are being sought and opened up
1 for surplus farm and factory products in
| Europe and in Asia The outlook for the
education of the young farmer through
! agricultural college and experiment sta
| tions, with opportunity given TO specialize
1 in the department of agriculture, is very
i promising. The people of Hawaii, Porto
! Rico, and the Philippine islands, should be
! helped, by the establishment of experiment
| stations, to more scientific knowledge of
/ the production of coffee, india rubber and
other tropical products, for which there is
| demand in the United States.
There is widespread interest in the i'm
i provement of our public highways at the
| present time, and the department of agri-
| culture is cooperating with the people in
each locality in making the best possible
| roads from local material and in expert
menting with steel tracks A more intelli-
! gent system of managing the forests of the
| country is being put in operation, and a
careful study of the whole forestry prob
| lem is being conducted throughout the
! United States A very extensive and com
| plete exhibit of the agricultural and horti-
| cultural products of the United States is
being prepared for the Paris exposition.
The Philippines.
or all the subjects treated the Philin-
pines receive probably the greatest amount
| of attention. He reviews the connection of
| this government with the islands since the
! of the attempt of the administration to as
| sure the people of the islands of the good
will and friendly intentions of this gov
| eminent, and of this says:
From the earliest moment no opportuni-
tv was lost of assuring the people of this
| islands of our ardent desire for their wei.
fare and of the intention of this govern
| ment TO do everything possible to advance
| their interests. In my order of the 18th
| of May 1898. the commander of the mill
| tary expedition dispatched 10 the Philip
! pines was instructed TO declare that We
f came not to make war upon the people
/ tof that country, nor upon any party OF
faction among them, but TO protect them
/ In their homes. in their employments and
| in their personal and religious rights "
| That there should be no doubt as TO the
| paramount authority there, on the nth
lfpe.
! must ne no joint occupation with the in
| surgents." that the United States must
| preserve the peace and protect persons
! and property within the territory occupied
! by their military and naval forces: that
! the insurgents and all others must rec
ognize the military occupation and au-
| thority of the United States. As early as
! December 4. before the cession, and in
anticipation of that event the commander
| in Manila was urged TO restore peace and
| tranquility and to undertake the estab-
/ lishment of - beneficent government,
which should afford the fullest security for
J life and properts
The Philippine Commission.
He reviews the organization Of the Phil
4 ippine commission and its purpose, and
states that before their arrival at Manila
the insurrection had broken out. OF this
| commission ard the outbreak of the insur-
i rectiou he says:
BUT before their arrival at Manila the
! sinister ambition of few leaders of the
FilipinoS had created a situation full OF
! embellishments IOF US anu most &fieXOIlS
III its consequences to themselves The
/ clear and impartial preliminary report OF
! the commissioners, which transmit here
with, gives so lucid ana comprehensive a
| history of the present insurrectionary
\ movement that the story need not be here
/ repeated. 1t is enough TO say that the
! claim of the rebel leader that he was prom
! ised independence by any officer of the
/ United States in return for his assistance
]. has no foundation in fact and is categor-
| ically denied by the very witnesses VINO
/ n @ nor tnAi in
sargent leader hoped for when he came
! back 10 Manila was the liberation of the
! islands from the Spanish control which
! they had been iaborng for years without
! success to throw off
AguinaldO's Ambition.
The prompt accomplishment of this work
! by the American army and navy gave him
| other ideas and ambitions. and insidious
! suggestions from various quarters pervert-
| ed the purposes and intentions with which
| he had taken up arms. No sooner had our
| army captured Manila than the Filipino
/ forces began TO assume an attitude of sus-
| picion and hostility which the utmost eff
forts of our officers and troops were unable
! to disarm or modify Their kindness and
| forbearance We're taken as a proof of
| cowardice. The aggressions of the Fill
| pinos continually Increased until finally,
| just before the time set for the senate of
| the United States for a vote upon the
| treaty, an attack, evidently prepared in
| advance, was made all along the Amer
| tcan lines, which resulted in terribly de-
| structive and sanguinary repulse of the
| insurgents.
| Ten days later an order of the insurgent
| government was issued to its adherents
who had remained In Manila, of which Gen