H? THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. citizens of the United States to vote in the States, with a view of its occcpation as a naval sources of our country have a fair opportunity, part of some members of thettribe, and finally^ several States of the Union and for other purposes, station, if found desirable to the service. and relief from present difficulties will to the outbreak, appears to have been caused ?I 'sJS Delivered to the Last Session of the or any acts amendatory thereof, or supplementary surely follow.^ *m$F* Wff& RELATIONS WITH MEXICO. by an insufficiency of food on the reservation, ^#,~{J thereto. It is the opinion of the 45th Congress, Dec. 2, 1878. and this insufficiency to have been owing to the,,, Since the resumption of diplomatic relations OURABMV. sf ^J TT:v lisKV attorney general that the expenses of these by'si"- inadequacy of the appropriations made with Mexico, correspondence has been opened The report of the secretary of war shows proceedings will largely exceed the amount Congress to the wants of the Indians at af*-" "f and still continues between the two governments that the army has been well and economically which was thus provided, and I rely confidently FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OP time when the Indians were prevented roml* ^J npon the various questions which at one supplied, that our small force has been actively upon Congress to make adequate appropriations REPRESENTATIVES: Our heartfelt gratitude is due supplying the deficiency by huntings time seemed to endanger their relations. While employed, and has faithfully performed all to enable the executive department to enforce to the Divine Being who holds in His hands After an arduous pursuit by the no formal agreement has been reached as to the service required of it. The morale of the the laws. troops of the United States, on several engagements the destinies of nations for the continued bestowal, the troubles on the border, much has been army has improved, and the number of desertions the hostile Indians were reduced to sub- /j I respectfully urge upon your attention that during the last year, of countless done to repress and diminish them. The has materially decreased during the year. the Congressional elections in every district, in jection, and a large part of them surrendered effective force of United States 'troops on the blessings upon our country. We are at peace The secretary recommeuds that a pension be themselves as prisoners. In this connection if')' a very important sense, are justly a matter of Bio Grande, by a strict and faithful compliance granted to the widow of the late Lieutenant with all nations. Our public credit has greatly desire to call attention to the recommendation, vmade interest .and concern throughout the whole with instructions, has done much to remove Henry H. Benner, who lost his life by the yellow improved, and is perhaps now stronger than by the secretary of the interior that a country. Each State and every political party the sources of dispute, and it is now understood fever while in command of the steamer J. ever before. Abundant harvests hare rewarded sufficient fund be placed at the disposal of ther is entitled to a share of power which is conferred that a like force of Mexican troops on M. Chambers, sent with supplies fer the relief by the legal and constitutional suffrage.It executive to be used with proper accountability the labors of those who till the soil. Our manufacturing the other Bide of the river is also making an of the sufferers in the South from that disease. at discretion in sudden emergencies of the Indian is the right of every citizen possessing the industries are reviving, and it is energetic movement against marauding Indian service. qualifications prescribed by law to cast one untimidated believed that the general prosperity, which has tribes. This government looks with The establishment of the annuity scheme, ballot, and to have his ballot honestly The other case of disturbance was that of a the greatest satisfaction upon every for the benefit of the heirs of deceased officers, been so long anxiously looked for, is at last counted. So long as the '^exercise band of Northern Cheyennes, who suddenly evidence" of strength in the national as suggested by the paymaster-general the within our reach. of this power and the enjoyment of left their reservation, in the Indian territory. authority of Mexico, and upon every effort put adoption, by Congress, of a plan for the publication this right are common and equal, practically a'nd marched rapidly through the States of TgE VELLOW FEVER. forth to prevent or to punish incursions upon of the records of the war of the rebellion, as well as formally, submission Kansas and Nebraska in the direction of their The enjoyment of health by our people generally our territory. Reluctant to assume any action in-1 now being prepared for that purpose. The to the results of the suffrage will be accorded old hunting grounds, committing murders and has, however, been interrupted during or attitude in the control of these incursions crease of the extra per diem of soldier teachers loyally and cheerfully, and all the departments other crimes on their way. From documents the past season by the prevalence of a fatal by military movements across the border, not employed in post schools, and liberal appropriations of the government will feel the true vigor of accompanying the report of the secretary of pestilence, the yellow fever, in some portions imperatively demanded for the protection of the for the ereetion of buildings for schools the popular will thus expressed. No temporary the interior it appears that this disorderly band' of the Southern States, creating an emergency lives and property of our own citizens, I shall and libraries at the different posts the repeal or administrative interests of government, was as fully supplied with the necessaries of which called for prompt and extraordinary take the earliest opportunity consistent with or amendment of the act of June 18, 1878, forbidding however urgent or weighty, will ever displace life as the 4,700 other Indians who measures of lelief. The disease appeared at the proper discharge of this plain duty to the use of the army the zeal of our people in defense of the primary remained quietly on their reservation, New Orleans and other place* on the lower Mis* recognize the ability of the Mexican government as a posse comitatus or rights of citizenship. They understand and that the disturbance was caused by sissippi BOOH after midsummer. It was rapidly I to restrain, effectively, the violations of otherwise for the purpose of executing the that the protection of liberty requires the men of a restless and mischievous disposition spread by fugitives from the iniected towns our territory. laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances maintenance in full vigor of the manly methods among the Indians themselves. Almost the and cities, and did not disappear until early in of free speech, free press and free suffrage, as may be expressly authorized by It is proposed to hold, next year, an international whole of the band have surrendered to the Novembei. The States of Louisiana. Mississippi and will sustain the full authority of the government the constitution or by act of Congress the exhibition Mexico, and it is believed military authorities, and it is a gratifying fact and Tennessee have suffered severely. to enforce the laws which are framed' passage of a joint resolution of Congress legalizing that the display of the agricultural and manufacturing that when gome of them had taken refnge in About 100.000 cases are believed to have occurred, to preserve these inestimable rights. the issues of rations, tents, and medicine products of the two nations will the camp of the Red Cloud Sioux, with whom of which about 20,000, according to intelligent which were made for the relief of sufferers tend to abetter understanding and increased they had been in friendly relation^ the Sioux The material progress and welfare of the estimates, proved fatal. It is impossible from yellow fever that provision be made for commercial intersts between their people. held them as prisoners, and readily gave them States depend on the protection afforded to to estimate with any proximate to acearacy, the erection of a fire proof building for the their citizens. There can be no peace without up to the officers of the United States, thus the loss to the country occasioned by SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES!. preservation of certain valuable records, now giving new proof of a loyal spirit, which, such protection, no prosperity without peace, the epidemic. It is to be reckoned by With Brazil, and the republics of Central and constantly exposed to destruction by fire. alarming rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, and the whole country is deeply interested in the hundred millions of dollars. The South America, some steps have been taken These recommendations are all recommended they had uniformly shown ever since the the growth and prosperity of all its parts. suffering and destitution that resulted toward the development of closer commercial to your favorable consideration. wishes they expressed at the council of September, While the country has not yet reached complete excited the deepest sympathy in all parts of amity of feeling and reciprocal confidence between 1877, had been complied with. the Union. Physicians and nuises hastened THE NAVY. intercourse. Diplomatic relations have been the communities so lately and so seriously from every quarter to the assistance of the afflicted The report of the secretary of the navy shows resumed with Columbia and Bolivia. A boundary MOUNTED INDIAN AUXILIARIES. estranged, I feel an absolute assurance communities. Voluntary contributions that the navy has improved during the last fiscal question between the Argentine republic that the tendencies are in that direction, and of money and supplies in every needed form Both the secretary of the interior and thesecretary year. Work has been done on seventy-five and Paraguay has been submitted by those with increasing force. The power of public were speedily and generously furnished. The of war unite in the recommendation vessels, ten of which have been thoroughly repaired governments for arbitration to the President of opinion will override all political prejudices government was able to respond in some measure that provision be made by Congress for the organization and made ready for sea. Two others the United States, and I have, after careful examination, and all sectional or State attachments in demanding to the call for help by providing tents, of a corps of mounted "Indian given a decision upon it. A naval are in rapid progress toward completion. The that all over our wide territory the medicine and food for the sick and destitute, expedition up the Amazon and Madeira rivers total expenditures of the year, including the auxiliaries," to be under the control of the name and character of citizens of the United the requisite directions for the purpose being has brought back information valuable for scientific amount appropriated for the deficiencies of the army, and to be used for the purpose of keeping States shall mean one aid the same thing, and given in the confident expectation that this action and commercial purposes. A like expedition previous year, were $17,468,390.65. The actual the Indians on their reservations, and preventing carry with them unchallenged security and respect. of the executive would receive the is about visiting the coast of Africa and expenses chargable to the year exclusive of and repressing disturbance on their sanction of Congress. About 1.8C0 the Indian Ocean. these deficiencies, were $13,306,914.09, or $797,- part. I earnestly concur in this recommendation. tents and rations of the value of about 199.18 less than those of the previous year, It is believed that the organization of PARIS EXPOSITION. FOREIGN COMMERCE. $25,000 were sent to cities and towns which applied and $4,928,677.74 less than the expenses such a body of Indian cavalry, receiving a. Our relations with other countries continue The reports of diplomatic and consular officers for them, full details of which will be including the deficiencies. The estimates moderate pay from the government, would peaceful. Our neutrality in contests between relative to the development of our foreign furnished to Congiess by the proper department. for the fiscal year ending Jane 30,1880, are considerably weaken the restless element foreign powers has been maintained and recommerce The fearful spread of this pestilence here, furnished many facts that have $14,562,381.45. exceeding the appropriations of among the Indians by withdrawing from it a spected. The universal exposition held at has awakened a veiy general public sentiment proved of public interest and have stimulated the present y"ear only $83,949.75, which excess Paris during the past summer has been attended number of young men and giving them congenial in favor of a national sanitary administration, to practical exertion the enterprise of our is occasioned by the demands of the naval by large numbers of our citizens. The employment under the government, which shall not only control quarantine, but people. academy and the marine corps. brief period allowed for the preparation and it being a matter of experience that Indians in have the sanitary supervinion of internal commerce arrangement of the contributions of our citizens As explained in the secretary's report, the appropriations our service, almost without exception, are in times of epidemics, and hold an advisory THE TREASURY. to this great exposition was well employed for the present fiscal year are $14,- relation to the State and municipal faithful in the performance of duties assigned The report of the secretary of the treasury in energetic and judicious efforts to overcome 528,431.70, which, in the opinion of the secretary, health authorities, with powers to deal with to them. Such an organization would materially unishes a detailed statement of the operations this disadvantage. These efforts, led and will be ample for all the current expenses whatever endangers the public health, and aid the army in the accomplishment of a of that department of the government and of directed by the commissioner general, were of the department during the year. The which the municipal and State authorities are task for which its numerical strength is sometimes the condition of the public finances. The ordinary unable to regulate. The national quarantine remarkably successful, and the exhibition of amount drawn from the treasury from July 1 found insufficient. But while the employment revenues from all sources for the fiscal act, approved April 29, 1878, which was passed the products of American industry was creditable to November 1, 1878, is $4,740,544.14, of which year ended June 30, 1878, were $257,763,878.70. of force for the prevention or repression too late in the last hours of Congress to provide and gratifying in scope and character. $70,980.75 has been refunded, leaving as the The ordinary expenditures for the same period of Indian troubles is of occasional necessity, the means for carrying it into practical operation expenditure for that period $4,669,563.39 or were $236,964,820.80. leaving a surplus revenue a wise preparation should be made to that The reports of the United States commissioners, during the pafit season, is a step in the $620,899.24 less than the correbponding period for the year of $20,799,551.90. The receipts end, greater reliance must be placed on humane giving its results in detail, will be duly direction here indicated. In view of the necessity of the last fiscal year. for the present fiscal year ending June 80, 1879, and civilizing agencies for the ultimate solution laid before you. Our participation in thiB international for the most effective meaures by actual and estimated, are as follows: Actual THE POSTAL SERVICE. of what is called the Indian problem competition for the favor and the quarantine and otheiwise for the protection of receipts for the first auarter, commencing July The department of the postmaster-general trade of the world may be expected to produce our seaports and the country generally from 1, 1878, $73,389,743.43 estimated receipts for It may be very difficult and require much patient embraces a detailed statement of the operations useful aud important results in promoting intercourse, this and. other epidemics, it is recommended the remaining three-fourths of the year, $191,- of the postoffice department. The expenditures effort to curb the uniuly spirit of the ravage lriendship and commerce with other that Congre=s gi've to the whole subject early 110,256.57. Total for the present fiscal year, of that department for the fiscal vear Indian to the restraints of civilized life, bnfc nations. and caretul consideration. actual and estimated, $264,500,000. ending June 30. 1878. was $34,165,084.40. The oxperience shows that it is not impossible. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFERENCE. receipts, including sales of stamps, were $29,- Many of the tribes which are now quiat and orderly The expenditures for the same period, will In accordance with the provisions of the act 277,516.95. The sum of $190,436.90, included and self-supporting, were once as savage THE COLOR LINE. be, actual and estimated, as follows: For the of February 28, 1878, three commissioners were in the foregoing statement of expenditures, is as any that at present roam over the plains or The permanent pacification of the country by quarter commencing July 1st, 1878, actual expenditures, appointed to an international conference on chargeable to preceeding years, so that the actual in the mountains of the far West, and weie then the complete protection of all citizens in every $73,344,583.27, for the remaining the subject of adopting a common ratio between expenditures for the hscai year ending consideied unaccessiblc to civilising influence. civil and political right continues to be of paramount three quarters of the ear the expenditures are gold and silver, for the purpose of establishing, June 30, 1878, are estimated at $365,719.00 It may be impossible to raise them fully up to interest with the great body of our estimated at $166,755,426.73, masing the total internationally, the use of bi-metahc and the receipts, from all sources, at $20,664,- the level of the white population of the United ]eople Every step in this direction is welcomed expenditures $240,160,000, and leaving an estimated money, and securing fixity of the relative 023.00, leaving a deficiency to be appropriated States, but we should not forget that, they are with public aporoval, and every mteri surplus of the revenue for the year value between those metals. Invitations out of thetreaRuryof $5,907,876.10. the aborigines of the country, and called the notion of steady and uniform progiess to the ending June 30. 1879, of 244,000.00. were addressed to the various The report calls attention to the fact that soil their own on which oar people nave desired consummation awakens general uneasiness The total receipts during the next fiscal year, governments which had expressed the compensation of postmasters of railroads grown rich, powerful and happy. We owe And wide-spread condemnation. The recent ending June 80, 1880, estimated according to for carrying the mail is regulated by law, and a willingness to participate in its deliberations. Congressional elections have furnished a it to them as a moral duty to help them attaining existing laws, will be $264,500,000, and the estimated that the failure of Congress to appropriate the The conference had its meeting in Paris in August direct and irnstwoithy tfst of the advance thus at least that degree of civilization which ordinary expenditures for the same amount required for these purposes does not last. The report of the commissioners, tar made in the practical establishment of the period will be $236,320,412.68, leaving a surplus they may be able to reach. It is not onlj our relieve the government of responsibility, but herewith submitted, will show its results. No right of suffei age secured by the constitution of $28,179,587.32 for that year. duty, it is also our interest to do so. Indians necessarily increases the deficiency bills, which common ratio between gold and silver could be to the liberated race in the Southern States. who have become agriculturists or herdsmen, THE PUBLIC DEBT. Congress will be called upon to pass. agreed upon by the conference. The general All disturbing influences, real or imaginary, and feel an interest in property, will thencefoith In the foregoing statements of expenditures, In providing for the postal service the following conclusion was reached, that it is necessary to had bten removed from all of these States. cease to be a warlike and disturbing questions are presented: Should Congress actual and estimated, no amount is allowed for maintain in the world the monetary functions The constitutional amendments which conferifd element. annually appropriate a sum for its expenses the sinking fundB provided for by the act approved of silver, as well as of gold, leaving the selection freedom and equality of civil and political INDIAN EDUCATION. largely in excess of its revenues or February 25, 1862, which requires that of the use of one or the other of these two lights upon the colored people of the South It is also a well authenticated fact that Indians should such rates of postage be established as 1 per cent, of the entire debt of the United metals, or of both, to be made by each State. weie adooted by the concurrent action of the are apt to be peaceable and quiet when will make the department self-sustaining? States shall be purchased or paid within each THE HALIFAX AWABD. great body of god citizens who maintained their children are at school, and I am gratified Should the postal service be reduced by excluding fiscal year to be set apart as a sinking fund. Congress having appropriated at its last session the authority of the national government to know from the expressions of Indians themselves, from the mails matter which does not There has been, however, a stnbsantial compliance the sum of $5,500,000 to pay the award of and the integrity and perpetuity of the and from many concurring reports, that pay its way with the conditions of the law. By its the joint commission at Halifax, if after correspondence there is a steadily increasing desire among Indians Onion at such a cost of treasure and life as a Should the number of post routes be diminished? with the British government on terms the public debt should have been reduced belonging to comparatively wild tiibes \MSO and necessary embodiment in the organic the subject of the conformity ot the award to between 1862 and the close of the fiscal to have their children educated. I invite attention law of the just results of the war. The people Should other methods be adopted which will the reouirements of the treaty, and to the to the reports of the secretary of the year, $518,361,806.28. The actual reduction of of the former slave-holding States accepted increase the revenue or diminish the expenses terms of the question thereby submitted to the interior and the commissioner ot Indian affairs these results and gave, in every practicable the ascertained debt in that period has been of the postal service? commission, the President sholl deem it his touching the experiment recently inaugurated form, assurances that the thirteenth, fourteenth $720,644,739.61, being in excess of the reduction INTERNATIONAL POSTAL CONGRESS. duty to make the payment, communications in taking fifty Indian children, boys and girls, and fifteenth amendments and laws required by the sinking fund act of The international postal congresH, which met upon these points were addressed to the British from different tribes, to the Hampton Normal passed in pnrsurnce thereof, should, in good $203,282,983.33. The amount of the public at Paris May 1, 1878, and continued in session Agricultural institute in Virginia, where they government through the legation of the United taith. be enforced rigidly and impartially in debt less cash in the treasury November 1, until June 4th of the same year, was composed are to receive an elementary English education States at London. Failing to obtain the concurrence letter and spirit, to the end that the humblest 1878, was $2,024,200,083.18, a reduction since and training in agricultural and other useful of delegates from nearly all the civilized countries of the British government in the views citizen, without distinction of race or color, the same date last year of $23,150,617.39. work, to be returned to their tribes after the of the world. It adopted anew convention of this government respecting the award, I should, under them, receive full and equal protection completed course, as interpreters, instructors, REFUNDING THE DEBT. have deemed it my duty to tender the sum to take the place of the treaty concluded person and property and in political and examples. It is reported that the officer, The progress made during the last year in refunding Lamed within the year fixed by the treaty, accompanied at Berne, Oct. 9, 1874, which goes into effect on lights and privileges. By these constitutional charged with the selection of those childien, the public debt at lower rates of interest by a notice of the grounds of the the lBt of April, 1879, between the countries amendments the southern section of the Union might have had thousands of j'oung Indians is very gratifying. The amount of 4 per payment, and a protest against any other construction whose delegates have signed it. obtained a large increase ot political power in sent with him, had it been possible to make cent, bonds sold during the present year, prior of the Bame. The correspondence It was ratified and approved by and Congress and in the electoral college, and the provision for them. I agree with the secretary to Nov. 23,1878, is $100,270,900, and 6 per cent, upon this subject will be laid before you. with the consent of the President, country justly expected that elections would of the interior in saying that ''the result of this* bonds, commonly known as 5-20's, to an equal August 13, 1878. A synopsis of this proceed, as to the enfranchised race, upon the CUBAN INSURRECTION. interesting experiment, if favorable, may be amount, have been, or will be, redeemed as same circumstances of legal and constitutional universal postal convention will be found in The Spanish government has officially announced destined to become an important factor in the calls mature. It has been the policy of the department freedom and protection which obtained in all the report of the postmaster-general, and the advancement of civilization among the Indians." the termination of the insurrection in to place the 4 per cent, bonds within the other States of the Union. The friends full text in the appendix thereto. In its origin Cuba and the restoration of peace throughout easy reaah of every citizen who desires to in of law and order looked forward the postal union comprised twenty-three countries, the island. Confident expectations are expressed INDIAN TBANSFKR. vest his savings, whether small or great, in to the conduct of these elections, as offering to having a population of 350,000,000 o$ of a revival of trade and prosperity, The question whether a change in the control these securities. The secretary of the treasury the general judgment of the country an important people. On the 1st of April next it will comprise of the Indian service should be made, was, at which it is earnestly hoped may prove well recommends that the law be so modified that opportunity to measure the degree in forty-three countries and colonies with a the last session of Congress, referred to a committee founded. Numerous claims of American citizens small sums may be invested, and that through which the right of suffrage could be exercised population of 650,000,000 of people, and will for inquiry and report. Without desiring the post offices or other agents of for relief for injuries or restoration of by the colored people, and would be respected soon, by the accession of the few remaining to anticipate that report. I venture to express the government, the freest opportunity may be property have been among the incidents of the by their fellow-citizens. But a more general countries and colonies which maintain organized given in all parts of the country for such investments. the hope that in the decision of so important long-continued hostilities. Some of these enjoyment of freedom of suffrage by tie colored postal services, constitute in fact as well The best mode suggested iB that a question, the views pxpressed above claims are in process of adjustment by Spain, people, and a more just and generous protection as in name, as its new title indicates, a universal the department be authorized to issue certificates may not be lost sight of, and that the decision, of that freedom, by the communities and the others are promised early and careful union, regulating upon a uniform basis of of deposit of the denomination of whatever it may be, will arrest further agitation of which they form a part, were generally anticipated, consideration. cheap postage rates the postal interests between ten dollars, bearing interest at the rate of of the subject, such agitation being apt to than the record of the election discloses. all civilized nations. FOREIGN RELATIONS. 3.65 per cent, per annum, convertible at any produce a disturbing *fect npon the service as In some of those States in which the The treaty made with Italy in regard to reciprocal time within one year after their issue into 4 Some embarrassment has arisen out of the well as on the Indians themselves. colored people have been unable to make their per cent, bonds, authorized by the refunding consular privileges has been dnly ratified conflict between the customs laws of this country opiuions felt in the election, the result is mainly HOT SPRING3 COMMISSION. art, and to be issued only in exchange for and proclaimed. No questions of grave and the provision of the postal convention due to influences not easily measured or In the enrollment of the bill making appropriations United States notes sent to the treasury by in regard to the transmission of foreign books remedied by the legal protection, but in importance have arisen with any other of the for sundry civil expenses at the last mail, or otherwise. Such a provision of law, the States of Louisiana and South Carolina and newspapers to this country by mail. It is European powers. session of Congress thaj portion which provided supported by suitable regulation, would enable at large, and in some particular hoped that Congress will be able to devise for the continuation of the Hot Springs tornmission JAPAN AND CHINA. any person readily, without cost or rigk, to Congressional districts outside of these States some means of reconciling the difficulties which was omitted. As the commission had The Japanese government has been desirous convert his money into interest-bearing the records of the election seem to compel the have thus been created, so as to do justice to completed the work of taking testimony on the of a revision of such parts of its treaties with security of the United States, and the money conclusion that the rights of colored voters all parties involved. many conflicting claims, the suspension of taeir foreign powers as relate to commerce, and it is so received could be applied to the redemption have been overridden, and their participation labors before determining the rights of claimants COURT BUSINESS. understood has addressed to each of the treaty of 6 per cent, bonds. in the elections not permitted to be either general threatened for a time to embarrass the The business of the supreme court and of powers a request to open negotiations with that or free. It will be for the Congress for interests, not only of the government, but also courts in many of the circuits was increased to The coinage of gold during the last fiscal view. The United States government has been which these elections were had to make such of a large number of the citizens of Hot such an extent during past years, that addilegislation year was $52,689,980: the coinage of silver dollars, inclined to regard the matter favorably. Whatever examination into their conduct as may be appropriate Springs, who were waiting for final action on under the act passed July 28. 1878,tional is imperative to relieve and restrictions upon trade with Japan are to determine the validity of the their claims before making contemplated improvements. amounted on the 22d of November, 187S, to prevent the delay of justice, and possible oppression found injuriousto that people cannot but affect In order to prevent serious difficulties, claims of members to theii seats. In the meanwhile $19,814,550, of which amount $4,984,947 are in to suitors, which is thus occasioned. injuriously nations holding commercial intercourse which were apprehended, and at tho* it becomes the duty of the executive and circulation, and the balance, $14,829,603, is The encumbered condition of these dockets is with them. Japan, after a long period solicitation of many leading citizens of Hot judicial departments of the government, each still in the possession of the government. of seclusion, has within the last few years made presented anew in the report of the attorneygeneral, Springs, and ethers interested in the welfare of in its province, to inquire into and punish violations SPECIE RESUMPTION. rapid strides in the path of enlightenment and and the remedy suggested is earnestly -1 the town, the secretary of the interior was.'" of the laws of the United States which progress, and not unreasonably is looking forward "With views unchanged with regard to the act urged for Congressional action. The creation authorized to request the late commissioners t have occurred. I can but repeat what to the time when her relations with the under which the coinage of silver proceeds, it take^pharge of the records of their proceedings, of additional circuit judges, as proposed, would [said, in this connection, in my last message nations of Europe and America shall be assimilated has been the purpose of the secretary faithfully and to perform snch work as could properly that whatever authority rests with me to this afford a complete remedy, and would involve to those which we hold with each other. be done by them under such circumstances to to execute the law. and to afford a fair trial to end, I shall not hesitate to put forth, and I am an expense, at the present rate of salaries, of A treaty looking to this end has been made facilitate the further adjudication of the claims, the measure. In the present financial condition unwilling to forego a renewed appeal to the legislatures, not more than $60,000 a year. which will be submitted for consideration of at an early day, aiid to procure the status of of the country 1 am persuaded that the the courts, the executive authorities INDIAN AFFAIRS. the claimants, until their right should be finally the Senate. welfare of legitimate business and industry of and the people of the States where the The annual report of the secretary of the determined. The late commissioners com After an interval of several years the Chinese every description will be best promoted wrongs have been perpetrated, to give their assistance A plied with that request, and report that, the government has again sent envoys to the United interior, and ot the commissioner of Indian by abstaining from all attempts to towards bringing to justice the offenders testimony in all the cases has been written out," States. They have been received, and a permanent affairs, present an elaborate account of the and preventing a repetition of the crime. make radical changes in the existing examined, briefed and so arranged as to facili-"Uii legation is now established here by that present condition of the Indian tribes, and of No means within my power will be spared to financial legislation. Let it be understood, t%te an early settlement as authorized by law.' ,-jj^j government. It is not doubted that this step that branch of the,pubhc service which ministers obtain a full and fair investigation of the alleged that, during the coming year, the It is recommended that the requisite authority will be of advantage to both nations in promoting to their interests. While the conduct of crimes, and to secure the conviction and business of the country will be undisturbed by *J" as,*4 be given at as early a date in the session friendly relations and removing causes just punishment of the guilty. the Indians generally has been orderly, and interference with the laws affecting it, and we possible, and that a fair compensation bet*j^t(it of difference.,,, ,X fihS ^'f* *&> their relations with their neighbors friendly It is to be observed that the principal approbation may confidently expect that the resumption of j- aliowoo: the laic couiuiiKsumerx ror tne expons*-^ SAMOA. made for the department of jnstice at and peaceful, two local disturbances have occurred specie payments- which will take place at the incurred and labor performed by them since--* f^ a too last session contained the following clause The trcatv with the Sarauau Islands bavins appointed tune, will be successfully *ort easily which were deplorable in their the 25th of Jnne last. ttl t% vih& "And for defraying the expenses which may be been dnly ratified and accepted on the part ot maintained, and that will be followed by a cnartioter. but remained happily confined J* incurred in the act Approved Feb. 28,1877 entitled TIMBER THTEVES. *$$*'* ^J&y$ both governments is now in operation, and a healthful and enduring business prosperity. to a comparatively small number of an act to amend an act approved Hay 30 I invite the attention of Congress to the rec- |_ survey and sounding of the harbor cf Pago Let the healing influence of time, the inherent Indians. The discontent among the Bannocks, 1870, entitled an act to enforce the rights of have been made by a naval vessel of the United energies of our people, and the boundless re- which led first to some acts of violence on the [Continued on sixth page &M V*- ffikJR-Wit-^ WWBTO