The Holly chieftain., 1900-12-07

VI Ht" YOU
gin the last session of the Fifty-sixth
Congress with evidences on every
hand OF individual and national pros
peTity. and with proof Of more growing
strength and increasing power for the
good Of republican institutions. Your
countrymen will Join with you in felici-
taticn that American liberty is more
firmly established than ever before.
and that there is more love for il and
determination to preserve it more
uni Fersally than at any former period
Of cur history
The republic was never so strong.
because never so strongly intrenched
in the hearts Of the people-as now. The
constitution, with few amendments,
exists as it left the hands OF its auth
ors. Additions which have been made
to i, proclaim a larger freedom and
moro extended citizenship. Popular
government has demonstrated in ifs
124 years Of trial here its stability and
security, and it's efficiency as the best
instrument Of national development
and the best safeguard 20 human
rights.
"W hen the Sixth Congress assembled
in December, 1900. The. population OF
now I6,3o4, T39. Then we had sixteen
states. Now We have forty-tiye. Then
our territory consisted of 90. go square
miles. 1t is now 3.S46. .J35 square miles.
Education and religion and morality
have kept pace with our advancement
in other directions. While extending
It's pcwer the government has adhered
10 its foundation principles and abated
nf sr, I,
peoples and possessions. A nation SO
preserved and blessed gives reverent
thanks to God and invokes his guild
ance and a continuance Of his care and
favor"
Concerning settlement of the Chi
nese troubles the President says:
Tile Russian proposition looking to
the restoration Of imperial power in
Pehin has been accepted as in full con-
sonancc with our own desires. for We
have held and hold that effective repa-
ration for wrongs siiff cred and an en-
during settlement that will make their
recurrence impossible can best be
brought about under an authority
which the Chinese nation revercnoes
and obeys. While so doing We foreso
no jot Of our undoubted right to exact
Of the responsible authors and actors
Of the criminal acts through which we
and other nations have suffered griev-
Gus injury.
For the real culprits. evil counsel
ors who have misied the imperial judg-
ment and diverted sovereign authority
to their own guilty ends. full expiation
becomes imperative within the rational
limit of retributive justice.
Il regard as one Of the essential fac
tors of durable Justice the security of
adequate guarantees of liberty of faith,
since insecurity to those nations who
may embrace alien creeds is scarcely Il
less efectual assault upon the right of
foreign worship and teaching than
would be the direct invasion thereof.
THE matter of indemnity for our
wronged citizens is a question of great
concern. Measured in money alone,
sufficient reparation may prove to be
beyond the ability of China to meet
All powers concur in emphatic dis
claimers of any purpose of aggrandiza-
ment through ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
empire. l am disposed TO think due
compensation may be made I'm part by
increased guarantees of security for
anu anu
most important of all. by the opening
Of China TO equal commerce to all the
world. These views have been and
will be earnestly advocated by our rep.
resentatives.
THE government of Russia has put
forward the suggestion that in the,
event of protracted divergency of
views in regard to indemnities, the
matter may be relegated to the court
Of arbitration at The Hague / favor
ably incline to this. believing that high
tribunal could not fail to reach a solu-
tion no less conducive TO stability and
enlarged prosperity of China itself
than Immediately beneficial to the pow
ers."
1T is gratifying to be able to STATE
that the surplus revenues for the fis-
cal year ended June 30, 1900, were $Tg,-
52T.o6s.1s. For the six preceding
years We had only deficits, the aggre-
gate of which from 1894 to 1899 In
elusive amounted. to $2S3, ,022, ,991. II.
The receipts for the year from all
sources, exclusive of the postofiice rev.
enues, aggregated S567. 24O. .s51. SO, and
expenditures for all purposes, except
for the administration OF the Postal
Department. aggregated $4S7, 49,
10l,I1. The receipts from customs
were 1898. 1G. .S71.16. an increase over
the preceding year of $27, ,$36. $50 II.
The receipts from the internal reve-
nue. were S295. .32T .026.76. an Increase
OF $21, $50, 1926 over 1899. The re-
ceipts from miscellaneous sources were
$3S, 74S!O53.97, as against $36, ,3S4,-
076.S2 for the previous year.
1T Is gratifying also to note that
during the year considerable reduction
is shown In the expenditures Of the
government The War Department ex-
penditures for the fiscal year 1000
were $134774,7617 q deduction of