M. trappwdteaiaa patriotic'spirit of devotion teJJS'SM of British North America, so long a subject New Ulm Review. tried and punished ka txmformlty with Mexican m9 Gold 142.9S2.191 OS the compact and a failure on the part of tneinteieats f tlie entire country and with a of anxious difference between the United law* Jurisdiction was sustained by ELraLfu a I Venezuela to complete an arrangement so Silver. 29,311,219 0 3a.753.M3 i vfl]JBCMHt ^^ething for the pubus/l irle the courts of Mextoa in the Cutting case, States and Great Britain, was met by an adverse The value of some of our leading exports during persistently sought by her during many ttooA. 3 the last fiscal year, as compared with the approved by the executive branch of vote of the senate April 13 last, and years, and assented to by this government TIB PUBLIC DEBT. same for the year immediately preceding, fe here J0& BOBLETER, Publisher. that government upon the authority of the thereupon negotiations were instituted to in a spirit of international fairness, although The earn paid upon the pubho debt duringthe given, sad furnishes information both interesting Mexican statutes. The appellate court in releasing ns at year ended June 30,1886, was $44,551,- to the detriment of holders of bona fide obtain an agreement with her Britannic and suggestive: 043.36. During the twelve months ended Oct. Mr. Cutting decided that the abandonment awards of the impugned commission. majesty's government for the promulgation MINNESOTA. NEW ULM, -For Year Ending 31,1886,3 sercent bonds were called for redemption of the complaint bv the Mexican of such interpretation and definition of the Jane 30,1885 Jane 30,1886. NATURALIZATION. amounting to $127^283,100, of which citizens aggrieved by the alleged crime (a Cotton and cotton article of the convention of 1818, relating I renew the recommendation of my last $213,799,'1,49 $86^643,200 was so called to answer the requirements libelous publication), removed the basis of manufactures $219,045,576 to the territorial waters and inshore fisheries PBESIDEHTS MESSAGE. annual message that existing legislation concerning of law relating to the sinking fund further prosecution, and also declared justice Tobacco and its and -$466399 for the purpose of reducing tho of the British provinces, as should secure citizenship and naturalization be revised. 24.767.30". manufactures 30,424,908 to have been satisfied by the enforcement of public debt by application of a part of tbe surplus We have treaties with many states the Canadian rights from encroachment by lbO.370,8.11 Breadstuffs 125.846 858 a small part of the original sentence. The in the treasury to that object. Of the providing for the renunciation of citizenship United States fishermen, and at the same 107,332,456 Provisions 90,625.216 admission of such a pretension would be attendee, bonds thus called $102,269,450 became subject by naturalized aliens, but no statute is found time ensure enjoyment by the latter of the OurImports during the last fiscal year, as com fie Urges theReduction of Federal Taxation with serious results, invasive of the under each calls to redemption prior to to give effect to such engagements, nor any privileges guaranteed to them by such convention. pared with the previous year, were as follows Nov 1, 1886. The remainder, amounting to jurisdiction of this government and highly and the Suspension of Silver which provides a needed central bureau for The questions involved were of 1886. 1885 $25,013,650, matured under the calls after dangerous to our citizens in foreign lands. the registration of naturalized citizens. Experience Merchandise .$635,436,136 $579,580,053 84 that -date in addition to the amount subject long standing and grave consequence, and Coinage. Therefore, I have denied it, and protested suggests that our statutes regulating Gold 20,735,349 26,691,69b OU to payment and cancellation prior to Nov from time to time for nearly three-quarters against its attempted exercise as unwarranted extradition might be advantageously 1 There were also paid before that day certain Silver 17,850.307 16.550.b27 00 of a century have given rise to earnest international by the principle of law and international bonds amounting to $5,072 350 which were anticipated amended Dy a provision for the transit discussions, not unaccompanied usuagea A sovereign has jurisdiction as to the maturity, of which $2,604,- FEDERAL TAXATION. Extended Remarks on the Affairs of across our territory, now a convenient thoroughfare by irritation. Temporary arrangements of offenses which take effect within his 60O had been called prior to the 1st ot November. of travel from one foreign country BEDUCTION RECOMMENDED the War, Navy, Postoffice and Interior territory, although concerted or commenced by treaties have served 1836, to the extinguishment of our bonded i to another, of fugitives surrendered by a In my last annual message to congress attention and interest-bearing debt, leaving on that day outside it but the right is denied of any to allay friction, which, however, has revived Departments. was directed to the fact that the revenues foreign government to a third state Such and still outstanding $1,153,443,112. Of this foreign sovereign to punish a citizen of the as each treaty was terminated. The of the government exceed its actual need, and it provisions are usual the legislation of amount $86,848,700 were still represented by 3 United States tor an offense consummated last arrangement under the treaty of 1871 was suggested that legislative action should be other countries, and tend to prevent the per cent bonds. They, however, .have been since on our soli, even though the offense be taken to relieve the people of the unnecessary was abrogated after due notice by the United miscarrying of justice. It is also desirable Nov 14, or will at onoe be, further reduced by against a subject or eitizen of such sovereign. burden of taxation thus made apparent In States on June SO, 1885, but I was enabled $22,606,150, being bonds which have been to remove the present obstacles that authority THE PRESIDENTIAL, MESSAGE. The Mexican statute in question makes view of the pressing importance of the subject, called, as already stated, but not redeemed and to obtain for our fishermen for the remainder should be conferred on the secretary \fHAT IS THOUGHT OP IT I deem it my duty to again urge its consideration. the claim bodily, and the principle, if conceded, canceled be ore the latter date. of that season enjoyment of the full of state to lbsue a certificate in case of an The income of the government, with its increased "WASHINGTON, Special Telegram. Dec. 6 would create a dual responsibility in privileges accorded by the terminating arrest for the purpose of extradition to the volume and through economies its the citizen and lead to confusion of that The president's message is generally commended SILVER. officer before whom the proceeding is pending, treaty The joint commission by whom the collection, is now more than ever in excess ol certamtyin law which is an essentail of liberty. THE YEAR S COINAGE for its dignity, but it cannot be said showing that a requisition for the surrender treaty had been negotiated, although invested public necessities Tbe application of the snrplu8 When citizens of the United States Dunne the fiscal vear ended June 30,1886, that it fully meets the expectations of his of the person accused has been duly to the payment of such portion of the public with plenary power to make a permanent voluntarily go into a foreign country they there were corned under the compulsory silvei made. Such a certificate, if required to be debt as is now at our option, subject to extinguishment friends. The passage which relates to the settlement, were content with a coinage act of 1878 29,838,849 silver dollars, must abide by the laws there in force and if continued at tho rate which has received before the prisoner's examination, civil Bervioe is regarded by those who are temporary arrangement, after the termination aad the cost of the silver ued in such coinage will not be protected by their own government lately prevailed would retire that class of indebtedness would prevent along and expensive judicial of which the question was relegated to was $23,448,960 01- There had been coined up the most Interested in the subject as too from the consequences of an 'off ease wltain less than one year from this inquiry into a charge which the foreign government to the close of the previous fiscal year, under the the stipulations oi the treaty of 1818, as to against the laws committed in such foreign vague and general, and as notable chiefly date Thus a continuation of our present revenue might not desire to press. I also provisions of the law, 203,882,554 sdver dollars, the first article of which no construction country but the watchful care and interest would soon result in the receipt of an for its omissions. The free traders are not recommend that express provision be made and on Dec. 1, 18S6, the total amount of such satisfactory to both countries has ever been of this government over its citizens are not annual income much greater than necessary Batisfied that the message does not contain coinage was $247,131,54*). The director of the for the immediate discharge from custody to meet government expenses, with no agreed upon. The progress of civilization relinquished because they have gone abroad, mint reports that at the time of the passage of of persons committed for extradition where specific recommendation, and they do not Indebtedness upon which it could be applied and if charged with crime committed in the and growth of population in the British the law of 1878 directing this coinage the intrinsic the president is of the opinion that surrender consider that the very specific recommendation We should then be confronted with a vase quantity foreign land, a fair and ooen trial, conducted provinces to which the fisheries in question 941 value ef the dollars then coined was should not be made. of money, the circulating medium oi the of the secretary of the treasury as to with decent regard for justice, will are contiguous, and the extension of commercial cents each, and that on the 31st of July, 1886, people, hoarded in the treasury, when it should COPTBIGHT free wool and free raw material compensate be demanded for them With less than that the price of silver reached the lowest stage ever intercourse between them and the The drift of sentiment in civilized communities be in their hands, or we should be drawn into known, so that the intrinsic or bullion price of this government will not be content. When for the omissions of the president Columns United States, present to-day a condition of wasteful public extravagance v\ ith all the corrupting toward full recognition of the rights our standard silver dollar at that date was less the life or liberty of its citizens is at stake, the creations of human intellect could be filled with statements of the affairs scarcely realizable at the date of the national demoralization which follows of property than 72 cents The price of silver on Nov whatever the degree to which extradition in its train. Buf it is not the simple existence negotiations of 1848 New and vast interests pretended views of congressmen on the has brought about the adoption by 30 last was such as to make the dollars criminal jurisdiction may have been of this surplus and its threatened attendant have been brought into existence modes many Important nations, of an international message, but the expression of opinion for intrinsically worth 78 cents each These differences formerly allowed by consent and evils which furnish the strongest argument of intercourse between the respecti countries copyright convention which was signed at in value of the coins represent the the most part would be perfunctory The reciprocal agreement among certain against our present scale of federal taxation. Its have been invented and multiplied- the fluctuations in the price of silver, and Berne on the 18th of September, 1885 Inasmuch recommendations of the secretary of the worst phase is the exaction of such a surplus of the European states, no such doctrine or thev certainly do not indicate that compulsory as the constitution gives congress methods of conducting the fisheries have through a perversion of the relations between practice was ever known to the laws of this treasury relative to wool and clothing are coinage by the government enhances the price the power to promote the progress ot science been wholly changed, and all this is necessarily the people and their government, a dangerous country or of that from which our institutions acceptable to the free traders in Mr Morrison's of that commodity or secures unuormity in its and useful arts by securing for limited times entitled to candid and careful consideration departure from the rules which limit the right have mainly been derived. In the case value Everv fair and legal effort has been made following, but Mr Morrison is much to authors and inventors the exclusive of federal taxation. Good government, of which in the adjustment of the terms and conditions of Mexico there are reasons especially strong by the treasury department to distribute this displeased that the president should recommend right to their respective writings and discoveries, every American citizen boasts, has for its objects ot intercourse and commerce between for perfect harmony the mutual exercise currency among the people. The withdrawal of the this government did not feel warranted the passage of the Mexican treaty enabling the United States and their neighbors along United States treasury notes of small denominations of jurisdiction Nature has made us irrevocably in becoming a signatory pendmg the action PBOTICTION OF EVERT PERSON act, and should even hint at more reciprocal a frontier of over 3,500 milea This propinquity, and the lsoiimg of small silver coins has neighbors, and wisdom and kind feeling of congress upon measures of international within its borders with the greatest liberty con been resorted to in the endeavor to accomplish community of language and occupation should make us friends. The overflow trade relations with the Spanish copyright now before it, but the right of adhesion Bistent with tho good of the country, and his this result iu obedience to the will and sentiments and similarity of political and social institutions, of capital and enterprise from the United West Indies, for Mr Morrison is wholly opposed perfect security in the enjoyment of his earnings, to the Berne convention hereafter has of the representatives of the people in. States is a potent factor in developing the indicate the practicability and obvious with the least possible diminution for thi to reciprocity treaties in any form, been reserved. I trust the subject will receive congress On Nov 27 1886, the people held ot resources of Mexico and in building up the wisdom of maintaining mutually beneficial public needs When more of the people sustenance the-e coins, or certificates representing them, and characterizes all such measures as piecemeal at your hands the attention it deserves, property of both countries. To assist this is exacted through the form of taxation and friendly relations. Whilst I am the nominal sum of $166,373,041, and we still and that the just claims ot authors, so urgently legislation The silver men had been than is necessary to meet the just obligations of good work all grounds of apprehension for unfeignedly desirous that such relations have *7y,464.345 in the ireasurvf, ase against pressed, will be duly heeded. Representations the government and the expense of its economical a 05 5 the hands th people led to expect from semi official statements the security of person and property should should exist between us and the inhabitants about continue to be made to me of the administration, such action becomes ruthless that the administration would recommend be removed, and I trust that in the interests and $72,865,376 remaining in the treasury one of Canada, yet the action of their officials extortion, and a violation of the fundamental injurious effects upon American artists studying ot good neighborhood the statute referred to year ago The director ot the mint again urges some kind of a compromise on the basis of during the past season toward our fishermen principles of a free government ihe abroad and hav.ng free access to the will be so modified as to eliminate the present the necessity of more vault room for the purpose indirect manner in which these exactions are a new silver note, and chey are disappointed has been such as to seriously threaten the art collections of foreign countries, of maintaining of storine thee silver dollars which are possibilities of danger to the peace of made has a tendency to conceal their true char at not finding that in the message effoits to secure a satisfactory settlement. dutv againbt the introduction of the not needed fcr c'rculation by the people acter and their exrent, but we have arrived at a the two countries. The fishery question negotiations are still works of their biother artists of other countries, stage of superfluous revenue, which has THE NETHERLANDS. SUSPESIO URGED and I am induced to repeat my recommendation pending, with reasonable hope that before aroused the people to a realization Tne government of the Netherlands has exhibited I have seen no reason to change the views expressed for the abolition ot that tax. of the fact that the amount the close ot the present session of congiess THE DOCUMENT ITSELF. im last annual message on the ublect concern in relation to certain raised professedly for the support of the government such advancement will be made that an acceptable of compulsory ooinace and I again urge its features of our tariff laws, which are supposed is paid by them as absoluteh. if added to THE CHINESE. conclusion will have been reached. subpension on ail the grounds contained my by them to be aimed at a class of tobacco the price of the things nich supply their dail\ DIPLOMATIC AND CON UL.AR To the Congress of the United States In former i ecommenaation, leintorced bv the significant At an early day there may be laid before wants, as if it were paid at faxed periods into the produced in the Dutch East Indies. INCREASED COMPENSATION URGED increa-e ot our gold exportadons during discharge of a constitutional duty, and following congress the correspondence of the department hands of the tax gatherer Those who toil tor Comment would seem unnecessary upon the Pursuant to a provision of the diplomatic and the last year, as appeirs bv the corapara- dally wages are beginnm a well established precedent in the ot state in relation to this important unwisdom of legislation appearing to have a consular appropiiation act, approved July 1, to understand that tive statement herewi presented, and lor the subject, so that the history of the past fishing executive office, I herewith transmit to congress special national discrimination for its object 1886, the estimates submitted bv the secretary capital, though sometimes vaunting i* impor further reasons that the more this currency is season may be lully disclosed and the which, although unintentional, may give of state for the maintenance of the consular at its re assembling certain information tance and clamoring for the protect! and tavor distributed anions the people the greater becomes action and the intention of the administration our dut\ to protect it irom disaster that rise to injurious relations The establishment service have been recast on the basis of salaries of the government is dull and sluggish till concerning the state of the Union, together we now Lave aoundauce for all our needs, and touched by the magical wand of labor it bpnngs for all officers to whom such allowance is deemed closely comprehended More extended less than four years ago, of a legation with such recommendations for legislative that there seems but little propriety in building into activity, furnishing an occasion foi federal advisable Advantage has been taken of this to at Teheran, is bearing fruit in the interest reference is not deemed necessary in this vaults to tore such currency when the only consideration as appear necessary and taxation and gaming the value which en-vbles it redistribute the salaries of the officers now appropriated exhibited by the shah's goverment in the communication pretense io- its coinage is the necessity of its to bear its burden and the laboring man is for in accordance with the work performed, expedient Our government has constantly industrial activity of the United States and U'-e by the people as a circulating medium thoughtfully inquiring whether in these circumstances OTHER FOKEIGN MATTERS the importance of the representative the opportunities of benefit stable government maintained its relations of friendship toward and considering the tribute duties of the incumbent, and the cot of living The recommendation submitted last year is now happily restored in Peru by the all our powers, and of neighborly interest he constantly pays moo tho public treasury at each post The last consideraaion has been CUSIOHS COLLECTIONS that provision be made for a preliminary reconnaissance election of a constitutional president A as he supplies his daily wants, too otten lost sight of in the allowance heretofore toward those whose possessions are contiguous of the conventional boundary A HOST OF SUETS. period of rehabilitation is entered upon. Recovery he receives his fair share ot advantages. made The compensation which may suffice to our own Few questions have arisen line between Alaska and British Columbia The great numle of suits now pending in the 1 nere is also a suspicion abro id that the burplus is necessarily slow from the exhaustion for tbe decent maintenance of a worthy and capable is renewed I express mv unhesitating conviction Unit cl Statea Gturcs tor the buflern district of during the past year with other governments of our revenues indicates abnormal and exceptional caused by the late war and civil officer in a position of onerous and lepresentative that the intimacv ot relation with kew Yoik erovftas on* of th collection of customs business profits, which under the JVS and none of these are beyond the disturbances. A convention to adjust by arbitration trust at a post readily accessible and revn*a* tb prt of J#ew YSs, and the Hawaii should be emphasized As a result tem which produces such surplus increase lthout where the necessaries of life are abundant and claims of our citizens has been reach of settlement friendly counsel We number of aara satts that are ataest daily instituted, corresponding of the leciprocity treaty ot 1875, those islands, cheap, may prove an inadequate pittance promised and is under consideration. The are as yet without provision lor the settlement are certaroiy wwrthy the attention of on the ghvvay ot Oriental and Australian BENEFIT TO THE PEOPLE distant lands where the better part of a year naval officer who bore to Siberia the testimonials the congress These legal controversies, based of claims of citizens of the United traffic, are virtually an outpdst of at large the vast accumulations of a few among pay is consumed in reaching the post of bestowed by congress in recognition upon conflicting views by importers and the collector our citizens whose fortunes, rivaling the wealth American commerce and a stepping stone to duty, and where the comforts of ordinary States against Chili tor injuries during the of the aid given to the Jeannette survivors as to the interpretation of our present of the most favored in anti-democritic nations, civilized existence can only be obtained with the growing trade of the "Pacific The late war with Peru and Bolivia. The mixed has successfully accomplished his mission. complex and indefinite revenue laws, might be are not the natural growth of a ste idv, plain difficulty and at exorbitant cost I trust that lu Polynesian island groups have been so absorbed His interesting report will be submitted. It largely obviated by an amendment of those laws. commissions organized under claims conventions and industrious republic Our farmeis, too considering tbe submitted schedules no mistaken by other and more powerful governments But pending such amendment the present condition is pleasant to know that this mark of appreciation and those engaged directly and indirectly in concluded by the Chili government theory of economy will perpetuate a system that the Hawaii islands are left almost of this litigation should be relieved There has been welcomed by the Russian suppMng the products of agriculture see that which in the past has virtually closed to with certain European states, have developed alone the enjoyment of their autonomy, are now pending about 2 500 of these suits. day by dav, and as otten as the daily wants of government and people as befits the traditional deserving talent many offices where capacity an amount of taction which we trust which it is important for us should be pieserved. More than 1,100 have been commenced within their households recur, they are forced to pav friendship of the two countries. Civil and attainments of a high order are indispensable, the past eighteen months, and many of the others Our tieaty is now termnable at one excessive and needless taxation, wnile their can be avoided the convention in which perturbations in the Samoan islands have and in not a few instances has brought disdiscredit have been at issue for more than twenty-five products struggle in foreign markets with the year's notice, but propositions to abrogate on our national character, and entailed our representative at Santiago is autnonzed during the past few years been a source of years These delajs subject the government to competition of nations which, by allowing a it would be, in my judgement, most llladvised. embarrassment and even suffering on those considerable embarrassment to the three to negotiate The cruel treatment of inoffensive loss of evidence and pi event the preparation freer exchange of producuons than we permit, The paramount influence we deputed to uphold our dignity and interests governmentsGermany, Great Britain and enable their people to sell for prices which distress necessary to defeat unjust and fictitious Chinese has, I regret to say, been have there acquired, once relinquished, abroad In connection with this subjec3 I earnestly the United Stateswhose relations and extra the Amenaa farmer As every patriotic claims, while constantly accruing' repeated in some of the far Western could only with difficulty be repaired, reiterate ttie practical necessity of supplying territorial rights in that important group are citizen rejoices in the constantly increasing mteiest threatens to double the demands some mode of trustworthy inspection and and a valuable coign of vantage states and territories and accounts pride of our people in American citizenship and guaranteed by treaties. The weakness of involved In the present condition report of the manner in which the consulates for ourselves might be converted in the glory of our national achievements and of violence against people beyond the of all the dockets of the courts, well filled with the native administration and the conflict of are conducted In the absence of such reliable into a stronghold for our commercial competitora progress, a sentiment prevails that the leading private suits, and with the force allowed the district opposing interests in the islands have led power of the local constituted authorities information efficiency can scarcely be rewarded I earnestly recommend that the strings useful to a nation in its infancy ly attorney no creamer than is neces-ary for King Malietsa to seek an alliance or protection or its opposite corrected Increasing competition to prevent and difficult to punish, are reported well, to a great extent, be discarded in the present existing treaty stipulations be extended for the ordinary and current business of his office, some one quarter, regardless of the trade has directed attention to the value even in distant Alaska. Much of this stags of American ingenuity, courage a further term of seven years. A recently these ruiuous litigations cannot be considered. distinct engagements whereby no one of the of the consular reports printed by the department and fearless self-reliance, and for tho In default of the adoption bv congress of a plan violence can be traced to lace prejudice and signed treaty to this end is now before the three treaty powers may acquire any paramount of state, and the efforts of the government privilege of indulging this sentiment with true for the general reoigamzation of the federal senate The importance ot telegraphic communication competition of labor, which cannot, however, to extend the practical usefulness of these reports or exclusive interest In May last American enthusiasm our citizens are quite tiling courts, as has heretofore been recommended, I between these islands and the have created a wider demand for them at justify the oppression of strangers Mahetsa offered to place Samoa under the to forego an idle surplus in the public treasury, urge the propnei of passing a law permitting United fotates should not be overlooked. The home and a spirit of emulation abroad. Constituting and all the people know that the average protection of the United States, and the late whose safety is guaranteed by our treaty the appointment of an additional federal judge question of a general revision ot the treaties a record of the changes occurring in rate of federal taxation upon imports is to-dav. consul, without authority, assumed to grant in the district court where these government with China equally with the most favored trade and of the progiess of tbe arts and invention is again under discussion at Tokio As the in Ztime "of peaoe but little less, while upon it The proceeding was promptly disavowed suits have accumulated, so that by continuous in foreign countries, they are much sought nations. In opening our vast domain to first to open relations with that empue and some articles of necessary consumption it is and the overzealous official recalled. Special sesbions of the courts devoted to the trial of for by all interested in the subjects which they actually more, than was imposed by the grievous as the nation in most direct commercial relation alien elements the purpose of our law-givers these cases they may be determined It is entirely agents of the three governments have been embrace. burden willingly borne at time when the gov with Japan, the United States have plain that a great saving to the government was to invite assimilation, and not to provide deputed to examine the situation in the eminent needed millions to maintain by war th lost no opportunity to testify their consistent would be accomplished by such a remedy and islands, with a change in the representation an anena for endless antagonisma The safety aud integrity of the United States It friendship by supporting the just claims of the suitors who have honest claims would not of all three powers and a harmonious understanding has been the policy of the government to collect paramount duty of maintaining public Japan to autonomy and independence among be denied justice through delay the principal part of its revenues bv a tax upon between them The peace, prosperity, THE TREASURY order and defending the interests of our nations A treaty of extradition between the import 8, and no change in the policy is desirable autonomous administration and nuetraiityot ITS CONDITION OUTLINED United States and Japan, the first concluded people may require the adoption of measures But the present condition of affeirs con Samoa can hardly tail to be secured. The leport of the secretary of the treasury exhibits ARMY AM ISAVY. by that empire, has been lately proclaimed Strains our people to demand that bv a revision of restriction, but they should not tolerate in detail the condition of the public THE WAR DEPARTMENT of our revenue laws the receipts of the govern The weakness of Liberia and the oppression of individuals of a The report of the secretary of war gives a detailed finances, and of the several blanches of the government ment shall be reduced to the necessary exp*nso the difficulty of maintaining effective account of the administration of his department, related to his department. I especially special race. I am not without assurance DELATIONS WITH SPAIN of its economical administration, and this dc sovereigncy over its outlying districts and contains sunury reeoinmendations direct the attention of congress to the recommendations It appearing that the government of Spain mand should be recognized and obeyed by the that the government of China, whose nendly have exposed that republic to encroachment for the improvement of the service which contained in this and the last did not extend to the flag of the United States peoples' representatives in the legislative disposition toward us I am most happy to It cannot be forgotten that this distant community I fully approve The army consisted, at the preceding report of the seerotarv touching the branch of the government In leadjusting the in the Antilles the whole measure of recipiocity is an offshoot ot our own system, date of the last consolidated return, of 2,103 recognize, will meet us half way on devising simplification and amendment of the laws relating requisite under our statutes for the BURDENS OF FEDERAL TAXATION officers and 24,946 enlisted men The expenses owing its origin to the associated benevolence to the collection of our revenues, and in a comprehensible remedy by which an continuance ot the suspension of discriminations a sound public policy requires that such of our of the department for the last fiscal ear were of American citizens, whose praiseworthy the interest of economy and justice to the government effective limitation of Chinese emigration against the Spanish flag in our ports, citizens as have built up large and import anr 36 9b0 903 28 including $6,294,305 43 for I hope thev may be adopted bv appropriate efforts to create a nucleus of civilization in I was constrained, in October last, to rescind industries under the present condition should joined to protection of those Chinese subjects public works and river and harbor improvements legislation The ordinary receipts of the the dark continent have commanded respect my predecessor's proclamation of Feb 14, not be suddenly and to their injury deprived of I especially direct the attention of the government for the fiscal year ended June 30, who remain in this country, may be and svmpathy everywhere, especially in this advantages to which they have adapted their 1884, permitting such suspension An arrangement congress to the recommendation that officers be 1886, were $336,439,727 06 Of this amount country Although a formal protectorate secured. Legislation is needed to execute umeBs. but if the public good requires it, required to submit to an examination as a preliminary was, however, speedily reached, $192,905,023 41 was received from customs, over Liberia is contrary to our traditional they should be content with suoh consideration the provisions of our Chinese convention of to their promotion I see no objection and upon notification from the government and $116,805,936.48 from internal revenue policy, the moral right and duty of the as shall deal fairly and cautiously with their but many advantages in adopting 1880 touching the opium traffic ot Spam that all differential duties to our While the totai receipts as per stated were $13,- interests While the just demand of the people United States to assist in all proper ways in this feature, which has operated so beneficially 747,020 68 greater than for the previous year, vessels and their caigoes from the United for relief from needless taxation is hones lv the maintenance of its integrity is obvious, in our navy department, as wells the increase from customs was $11,434,084.10, States or from any foreiarn country had been ON THE ISTHMUS. answered, a reasonable and timely submission and has been consistently announced during as in some branches of the army. and from internal revenue $4,407,210 94, making While the good will of the Colombian government completely and absolutely relinquished. to such a demand should certainly be possible nearly half a century I recommend that, The subject of coast defenses and fortifications a gain in these items for the last year of I availed myself of the discretion conferred without a disastrous shock to any interest, and toward our country is manifest, the has been fully and carefully treated bv the boardV the reorganization of our navy, a small $15,841,295 04a falling off in other resouroes a cheerful concession sometimes averts abrupt by law and issued on the 27th of October situation of American interests on the Isthmus on fortifications, whose report was submitted at vessel, no longer found adequate to our reducing the total increase to the smaller and heedless action often the outgrowth of ira my proclamation declaring reciprocal of Panama has at times elicited concern the last session of congress, but no constructed amount mentioned. The expense at the different needs, be presented to Liberia to be employed patience aud delayed justice. Due regard suspension in the United Statea It is most work of the kind recommended by the board hasbeen and invited friendly action looking to the custom houses of collecting this increased by it in the protection of its coastwise should be also accorded in anv proposed readjustment gratifying to bear testimony to the earnest possible during the past year from the lack: customs revenue was less than the expense performance of the engagements of the two revenuea to the interests of American labor so spirit in which the government of the queen of appropriations for such purpose The defenseless attending the collection of such revenue for the far as they are involved. We congratulate ourselves nations concerning the territory embraced condition of our sea coast and lake frontier regent has met our efforts to avert the preceding year by $790,608, and the increased that there is among us no laboring class in the mteroceanio transit With the subsidence is perfectly palpable The examination made initiations of commercial discrimination and receipts of internal revenue were collected at fixed within unyielding bounds and doomed of the Isthmian disturbances and must convince us all that certain of our cities., a cost to the internal revenue bureau of $155,- reprisals, which are ever disastrous to the under all conditions to the inexorable fate MEXICO named In the report of the board, should be the erection of the State of Panama into a 944.99 less than the expense of snch collection material interests and the political good will of daily toil We recognize in labor THE TREATIES. fortified, and that work on tbe most important federal district under the direct government for the previous year The total ordinary a chief factor In tbe wealth of the republic, of the countries they may affect The profitable The encouraging development of the beneficial of these fortifications should be commenced at expenses of the government for tbe fiscal vear and we treat those who have it of the constitutional administration at Bogota, development of the large commercial once The work has been thoroughly considered and intimate relations between the ended June 30, 1886, were $242,433,138 50, for their keeping as citizens entitled to the most a new order of things has been inaugurated, exchanges between the United States and and laid out, the secretary of war reports, but being less by, $17,738,787 than such expenditures careful regard and thoughtful attention This United States and Mexico, which has the Spanish Antilles is naturally an object of which, although as yet somewhat all is deiaved in default of congressional action. for the year preceding and leaving a surplus regard and attention should be awarded them, been so marked within the past few years, solicitude. Lying close at our doors, and experimental and affording scope for the The absolute neoessity, judged by all standards not only because labor is the capital of our In the treasury at the close of the last is at once the occasion of congratulation finding here their main markets of supply of prudence and foresight, of preparation for arbitrary exercise of power by the delegates workingman, justly entitled to its share of fiscal year of $93,956,958 56, as against $63.- and of friendly solicitude. I urgently renew and demand, the welfare of Cuba and Porto an effectual resistance against the armored shlPB government favor, but for tbe further and not 463 771 27 at the close of the previous year, of the national authority, promises much my lormer representation of the need of Kico and their production and trade are and steel guns and mortars of modern construction, less important reason that the laboring man, showing an increase in such surplus of $30,- improvement The sympathy between the speedy legislation by congress to carry into which may threaten the cities on our surrounded by his family in hie humble home, scarcely less importuntto us than to Spain. 492,817 29 The expenditures are cemoared people of the United States and Prance, born as a consumer is vitally interested in all that coasts, is go apparent that I hope effective steps effect the reciprocitv commercial convention Their commercial and financial movements with those of preceding fiscal year and classified during our colonial struggle for independence cheapens tbe cost of living and enables him. to will be taken in that direction immediately The as follows: of Jan 20,1883 Our commercial treaty of are so naturally a part of our system that no and continuing to-day. has received bring within his domicde additional comforts valuable and suggestive treatment of the question obstacle to fuller, freer Intercourse should 1831 with Mexico was terminated according and advantages This relation of the workingman by the secretary of war is earnestly commended a fresh impulse in the successful completion For Year Ending be permit ed to exist The standing instructions to its provisions, in 1881, upon notification ro the revenue laws of the country and the to the consideration of the congress. and dedication of the colossal of our representatives at Madrid and given by Mexico, in pursuance of her inner in which it palpably influences the June 30,1886. June 30,1885 statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World" Havana have for years been to leave no effort announced policy ot recasting all her commercial question of wages should not be forgotten in the For civil expenses $21,955,609 04 823,824,342 11 THE APACHE WAB. in New Yoik harbor, the gift of Frenchmen unessayed to further thee ends, and at justifiable prominence given to the proper maintenance treaties Mexico has since concluded In September and October last the hostile For foreign inter- to America. A convention between the no time has the equal good desire of Spain of tbe supply and protection of wotl Apaches, who, under the leadership of Geronimo, with several foreign governments course 1,332,320 38 5 439,609 11 paid labor And thet considerations suggest been more hopefully manifested than now United States and certain other powers tor had for eighteen months been on the warpath, For Indians 8,038,153 17 8,552,482 63 new treaties of commerce and navisation, such an arrangement of government revenues as The government of Spam thus removing the and during that time bad committed many the protection of submarine rabies was For pensions 63,404,804 03 56,102,267 48 defining alien rights of trade, property and shall cartail the cost of living, while it does not murders and been the cause of constant terrors consular tonnage fees on cargoes shipped to For the military, signed at Paris on March 4, lb84, and has residence, tieatment of shipping consular curtail tho opportunity for work, nor reduce the to the Bettlers of Arizona, surrendered to Gen the Antilles, and by reducing passport fees river and harbor been duly ratified and proclaimed by this compensation of Amemcau labor and injuriously privileges and the like Our vet unexecuted Miles, the military commander who succeeded improvements has shown its recognzanc of the needs of government. By agreement between the affect its condition and the dignified place reciprocity convention ot 1883 covers Gen Crook in the management and direction of and arsenals 34.324,152 74 42,670,578 47 less trammeled intercourse An effort has it holds in the estimation of onr people But high conti acting parties this convention is their pursuit Under the terms of their surrender, none ot these points, the settlement of For the navy, including been made during the past year to remove our as then reported, and in view of the understanding to go into effect the 1st of January next, but vessels, which is so necessary to good relationship the hmderance to the proclamation of the which theBe murderous savages entertain machinery and FABMEBS AND AGRICULTURISTS, the legislation required for it execution treaty ot naturalization with the sublime of the assurances gived them, it wa considered 1 propose to initiate with Mexico negotiations those wno from the soil produce the fclnngrs consumed improvements of the United States has not yet been adopted porte, signed 1874, which has remained best to imprison them in buch manner for a new and enlarged treaty of commerce navy yaids 13.907,887 74 16 021 079 69 by all are perhaps more direcly and I earnestly recommend its enactment Cases inoperative owing to a disagreement of the as to prevent their ever engagme such outrages plainly concerned than any other of our citiz-jnb For interest on and navigation have continued to occur in Geimanv giving again instead of trymj them for murder interpretation of the clauses relative to the a jubi. and careful astern of federal taxat oa public debt 50,580,144 87 51.386,356 47 THE CUTTING EPISODE Fort Pickens having been selected as a safe place rise to much coirespondence relation to effects of return to and sojourn Those actually engaged in and more remot*y For the District of In compliance with a rebolution of the of confinement all the adult males were sent connected with iL kind of wotk number nearly ot a naturalized citizen in the the privilege of sojourn of our naturalized Columbia 2,892 321 89 3,449,450 9J senate, I communicated to that body on Aug thither and will be closelv euarded as prisoners. one La'f of onr population, noiio labor harder or Miscellaneous expenditures, land of oiigm. I trust soon to citizens of Geiman origin revisiting the land 2 last, and also to the house of representatives, In the meantime the residue of the band, who, more continuousij than thev No enactments i be able to announce a favorable settlement of their birth,-vet I am happy to state that though still remaining upon the reser\a*ion, the coirespondence the case of A. N limio their hours of toil, and no interposition of eluding public ot the differences as to this interpretation. our relations Vi ith that countiv have lost were regarded as unsafe and suspected of furnishing Cutting, an American citizen, then lmoristoned b3en highly satisfactory to note the the eminent enhances to any great esteaS buildings, light* It has aid to those on the warpath, had been none of their accustomed cordiality The the vaiue of their priducts, and yet for many oi houses, and col* Mexico, charged with the commission improved treatment of American missionaries removed to Tort Marion The women and larger th" necessaries i"d comforts of life which th lecting the rev- claims for interest upon the amount of tonnage of a penal offense in Texts, of which a in lurkey, as has been attested by their children of ih" hostiles were also taken there* most t-ciupulous cconov.iv enables *heij*to brin* enue .47 986,683 04 54 728,036 21 dues illegally exacted liom certain Mexican citizen was the object After a demand and arrangements have been made for putting acknowledgments to our late minister to into the homes, ana for tneir implpments ot For the current vear, to end June JO 1^87, had been made toi his release, the German steamship lines were favorably reported the children of proper ago Indian schools. that government of his successful ex3rtions hubandry, ihey are obliged to pay a price the ascertained receipts up to Oct 1, 1836, with charge against him was amended so as to by both houses of congress at the last largeH lnc-eased by an unnatural piofit which, such receipts estimated for the remainder of in their behalf The exchange of ititication THE NAVAL KSTABLISHMEM include a violation ot Mexican law withm seBbion, and I trust will leceive final and the awtion of tLe government, ia srivea to tha the pandituresamount vear. ascertained$356 to 000,000 The exe The report of the secretary of tne navy contains ot the convention of Dec 5, 1885, with and estimated for th Mexican territory This joinder of alleged more favored minu'acturer I recomir^nd tbaS a detailed report of the condition of his department, favol able action at an early day Venezuela, tor the reopening of the awaids oftenses, one withm and the other exterior keeping in view all th^se considerations, tha increasing sam.? period are $266,000,000indicating an with such a statement of the action of the Caracas commission under the claims and unnecessary surplus of national income to Mexico, induced me to order a special investigation anticipated surplus at the close of the vear of needed to improve the sam* as should challenge convention of 1886, has not yet been effected annuallv accumulating be reloased to the $90,000,000 The total value of the exports the earnest attention of congress The present of the case, pending which Mr. owing to the delay of the executive ot that Presene time people by an amendment of our revenue laws from the United States to foreign countries daring navy of the United States, aside from th ships THE FISHERIES. Cutting was released. The incident has, republic in ratifying the measure. I trust construction,*fconsists which snail sharpen the price of necessaries ef the fiscal year is ae follows: course of of First, however, disclosed a claim of jurisdiction THE NEGOTIATIONS. that this postponement will be brief but no life and give freer entrance to such imported fourteen sinjde-turreted monitors, none of which For the Tear Ending by Mexico novel In our history, whereby anv sio materials as by American labor may be manufactureo should it much longer continue, the delay The recommendations contained In my mxn SS^-2? offense committed anywhere by a foreigner into marketable commodities. Nothing may well be remembered as a recision of June 30,1880. June 30,1885. last annual message in relation to a mode of serviceable. The batteries of these ships arc and of which a Mexican is the object, may, if can be accomplished, however, in the direction Domestle mdse. fS65.9S4.BQ9 09 i7*,682,44 00 abeoiete, and they can only be rel'ed upon at settlement of the fishery rights in the waters the offender be found in Mexico, be there of this much-needed reform unless the subject auxiliary ships in harbor defense, and then aftei I Foreign mdse 13,560,301 vo 15,500,009 00