PRESIDES MESSIQL iKew Ulm Review. that,-.it was intended tompetatj and knowledge theforce of saargumentMwhich btaationto')naiaain the price of any com limited in, its application,)instead of conferrimr involves the welfare and liberal'oftpnaa modity -to the ^tariff point furnishes proof a continued disuration and authority. tion of our laboring people Our 4abo is thaf some onetis willing to accept lower Abstract of the Proceeding^ otth! No condition, ought to exist -which honorable in the eves of every American prices for such eommodity, and that such would justify the graat-of .power to a single citizen. As it lays the foundation ef our prices are remunerative and lower prices Senate and House* BRANDT & WEDDENDORF, Publishers., President' Cleveland's Annual Essay official, upon his judgment.of-its necessity, development and progress, it is entitled, produced by coanpetition prove the same 8BNATK. bOX to withhold from or"release to the business .to Congress Happily aud Unexueetediy without affectation or bvpocrisy, ..to the thing. Thus where either of these conaitions NEW ULM, of the people, in an unvsoal .manner, money MINNESOTA* utmost regard. The standard' of our laborer's exist a case would seem to be presented "The'Senate was organized without troub' Brie held in the treasury, and thus .affect, at his life should not be measured by that.of for an easv redaction of taxation. The Je. There has been antr there will be nodeadlock. will the financial situation of the coontrv any other country less favored, and considerations which have been presented The Republicans did not object and. if it is deemed wise to lodge in the secretary they are entitled to their fall bar touching our tariff laws are intended only to The total fire loss daring November to swearing in of Deinocna-tic senators of the treasury the authority in the of all our advantage* By' the last enforce an earnesi^recommendation that the and the Democratic senators did not object No Topic.Is Discussed Aside from fee reached 7$16.003,975, an increase o! present juncture to pturohase bonds it census it is made to appear that f .the surplus revenue of i,the government be. prevented to the udministration o! the oath, tothe should be plainly vested an i provided as far 17.372.099 of our population engaged in all by the Question of the $6,000,000 ov er the same month .last Republican senators. as possible with ouch checfee and limitations kindsef industries, 7.670.4383 areteinployed SEDUCTION OF euB- CUSTOMSiBTrrrssl But-one senator is kept standing at tha- year. This is the heaviest November as will define this omciaTs right and discretion, in agriculture. 4,0741.238 in professional ?$ tff tariff. i&p aud, at the same time, to emphasize ^suggestion doorMr. Eautkner ol West Virginiaand and at the same tune xelieveiluan from add personal service (2.944,876 of wno onvrecord, except at the time *o the that in accomplishing this purpose undue responsibility. In considerinr the hestn-nds aside with the common consent are domestic servants and laborers),-whil weonay discharge a double duty to our people .Boston fire and if the December loss- question of purchasing beads as. a means of of both parties in the senate, obtained just 1.8104236 are employed in trade and transportation, A Seduction of the Treasury Surplus by granting to them a measure at relief restoring to circulation the surplus moody and 3.837,112 are classed .asem before the assembling of the senate as the -f this year merely equal those oi from tariff taxation in. quarters where it is accumulating in*the treasury, it should be ployedin manufacturing and mining.p^v^-, .result of a compromise. His credentials^ Ugged with All the Force of :v# borne in mind that premiaaaeanustdf .coarse most needed and from .sources where it can 1886 the total fire waste of 1887' will are alleged to lie irregular on their face. THE NtTMBEB TOO BSQH. :^A*'i S' Earnest Argument, &$- be paid upon such purchase, that these may be,most fairly and.justly accorded. Nor can Mr. Turpie of Indiana took the oath and Tor present purposes," however, tbeflast be $130,166,406, against $116/#Q be a large part of these bonds held as^in vestments the presentation made of such .considerations subscribed his name to the book of oathe any degree of, fairness, regarded number given should be eeasiderablyveduced. which cannot be purchased.at any be, wi fftjOQQ fori last year. and holds his seat upon his credentials. Without attempting to enumerate, price, and that combinations amongtholders as evidence of unfriendliness toward vs all, it will be conceded that there should be Mr Hoar objected for the time being to *V- The Removal' or Material Lessening who are willing to sell, may unreasonably ear. manufacturing interests, or of any lack deducted'from these which it includes 37S,- administering the oath of office to Mr. enhance the cost of such bonds to .the government. of appreciation of their value and .im- V- of tiie Duty on Wool Is Recom- 143.carpentersand joiners,285,401 milliners, Faulkner. i It has been suggested that portance. These interests:constitute alead'ingand dressmakers and seamstresses, 172,726 The great game that is going on.up-on He understood that, whatever question^ *V^*.Vi/ mended. H'~^ most substantial element of our national THE 2BE8EMT BOKDSS) tMBBff j,^^/' blacksmiths. 133.756 tailors and tailoresses. aroae.-eoncerning the title oi that senator' the (European chessboard promises greatness and furodsh the proud*prOof 102.473 masons, 76, 241 butchers. 41.30 *might be refunded at a less rate ef interest Ar toa peat, arose on the credentials themselves, of our country's progress. But if in the bakers, 22,083 plasterers and 4.891 engaged^ resul ts never dreamed of before in tfa) and the difference between the .old and .new the whole proceedings of the legislature emergency that presses upon us oar manufacturers in manufacturing agricultural implements,^ .security paid in cash, thus finding use for Congress Referred to the Department and the history of the case being there widest -period cf speculation. Russia are are asked to surrender something amounting in the aggregate to 214.028, the surplus in the treasury. The success of disclosed and fully recittd. Assuming that, for the public good and to avert disaster, Beports for an Account of Government leaving 2,623,089 persons employed in!' itttffl plan, it is apparent, must depend oupou has awakened to some sense of mence their.patriotism, as well as .a grateful in accordance with the usages of the senate, such manufacturing' industries as are' the volition of the holders of the present Operations. inithe'Canadian Pacific railroad he would himself be n. member of the committee claimed to be benefited by a high tariff.: '*f^ognition otadvantages siready afforded, bonds and it is not entirely certain thatithe appeal. i.s made. should lead them to willing cooperation. on privileges and elections, he save inducement which must be offered tiiem *\V to her settlements along the Pacific. To these the to save their Ko demand is.made that they shall forego all tbenBsuraiice that thequestion should be would result in more financial benefit toithe' 'employment and maintain their wages by Therefore,, abroad is to be built across "J tie benefits .of the governmental regard: dealt with at the earliest possible moment, ggov-esmaent than the purchase ef bonds, resisting a change. There should be no disposition PRESENTED BY CKOVER. .bat they cannot fail to be admonished of reduce1 whue the latter proposition would so that the gentleman entitled to the seat to answer such suggestions by the Siberia to the-sea of Ochotsk. The their duty, as well as their enlightened selfinterest tbeprjracipal of the debt by actual payment would be alile to enter on the discbarge of allegation that they are in a minority among The President's Me*sge Devoted Exclu.sivelr cost is something unparalleled in the and safety, when they are reminded instead of extending it The proposition so .those who labor, and therefore should Jforegro his duties as senator. g' te the Tariff Que-tionA Redaction .of tfce fact that financial panic and .collapse, deposit the money held by the government an advantage, in the interest of low Mr. Kennasrnid that the course suggested"^ -history of road^buildina, but the Government to -which the present condition tends, afford of the Surplus Urgent.y Urged. inibai&s throughout the country for use by pricesfe the majority their compensation, seemed eminently appropriate and he no gneater shelterr protection to our manufacturers undectakes the work unhesitatingly. the people is, it seems to me, exceedingly as maybe ab'ected by the operation of tariff .To the Congress of the United States: You trusted thit the action would be taken than our other important enterprises. objectionable in principle, as establishing laws, should at all times be kept sorupulausly are confronted ,ac the threshold of your legislative without the formality of a vote. This su?- Opportunity far safe, careful, and too.close a relationship between the operations, in \view and yet, wito slight reflection duties with a conditiea of the national gestion was adopted and the board ad deliberate reform i now offered and none of .the government treasury and ihe th^y will not overlook the fact that they adjourned. ,v finances whioh imperatively demands of us should be unmindful of a time when business of the country, and too extensive a .are consumers with the rest that they, toe, .fifp'^y- HOUSE. -*^f5v^" an abused and irritated people, heedless of immediate and careful consideration. The commingling of their money, thus fostering have their own wants and those of their If there are any more poor people those who have resisted timely and reasonable amount of money annually exacted, tbrousrh an nnnatur&l leliance in private business families to supply from their earnings, and The roil call which followed the calling relief, may insist upon a radical and uponpublic^funda If this scheme should who think of removing to California the .operation of present laws, frdm the industries that the price of the necessaries of life, as to order of the house was interrupted just sweeping rectification of their wretos-s. be adopted it should only be done as a temporary well as the amount of their wages,will regulate and necessities of the peopie largely as it began by a crank, who, sitting in the they may as well foe warned in time The difficulty attending a wise and expedient to meet an urgent necessity. the measure. of their welfare and comfort exceeds the sum necessary to meet the expenses northeast corner of the gallery, started up i fair revision of our tariff laws is Legislative and executive effort should that poverty and misery await them But the reduction of taxation demanded the government When we consider thedoxology as the gave] came down, and not under estimated. It will require generally be 4c the opposite direction and should be so measured as not to tbat the theory our institutions that overrated country. Thousands had finally to be hauled out bodily by the-* on the part of the congress great labor should haye a tendency to divorce, as much necessitate or justify either the loss of employment heels before he would stop. Mr.' guarantee to every dt&en the full enjoyment and care, ana especially a broad and national and as fast as.can safely be done, the treasury by the workingman nor the lessening of mechani cs and laborers axe to for4speaker. contemplation of the subject, and a patriotic Clark called for nominations of ail the fraits of his industry acd enterprise, department from private enterprise. of his wages. and the profits still remaining be found in every town and city without disregard of snch local &nd selfish claims as Sunset Cox nominated Of course It is,not expected that unnecessary with only such deduction as may to the manufacturer, after a necessary are unreasonable and regardless of the welfare and extravagant appropriations will be made John C. Carlisle, and 4 readjustment, should furnish no excuse be his share towards the easeful and economical employment, without the necessaries of the entire country. Under our present for the purpose oi.avoiding- the accumulation for the sacrifice of the interests of his employes, Cannon nominated Thomas B. Reed. Ran-' maintenance of the government which laws more tnan four thousand articles of life and totally" without of an excess of revenue. Such expendi ture, either iu their opportunity to work dall. Mills, McKinley and Long of Massa-- i protects him. it is plain that the exaction .of are subject to duty. Many of these do not beside the demoralization of all just conceptions or in the diminution of their compensation. chuHetts were called on to act as tellers. means to return to more favorable more than this js indefensible extortion and in any way compare with our own manufactures, of pu&ie .duty which it entails, Nor can the worker in manufactures fail to But 313 votes were cast, of which Carlisle- ^f a culpable betrayal of American fairness and and many are hardly worth attention localities. People with -considerable solum.ates a habit of reckless improvidence understand that while a high tariff is claimed got IU3, and Reed 148. Nichols of North, as subjects of revenue. A considerable justice. This wrong inflicted upon those not in the least consistent with the mission of to be necessary to allow the payment capital can do well in California as Carolina and Smith of Milwaukee voted'' reduction can be made in the atrarregote by who bear the burden of national taxation,' our people or the high and beneficent purposes of remunerative wages, it certainly results for Bi'iimm, the Greenback Republican they can anywhere else, if th ey have of our government. I have deemed it like .other wrongs, multiplies a brood of evil in a very large increase in the price of nearly from Pennsylvania. The clerk then appointed ADDING THEM TO THE FREE'LIST. my duty to thus bring to the knowledge of all sores of manufactures, which, in almost consequences. The public treasury, which good business sense, but those without Reed and Cox a committee to escort xcy countrymen, as well as co the attention The taxation of luxuries presents no features countless forms, he needs for the use of himself should only exist AS a conduit conveying Mr. Carlisle to the floor of the house. of their representatives charged with the responsibilicies capit al are Tjetter off at home. of hardship but the necessaries of life and his family. He receives at the desk the people's tribute to its legitimate of legislative relief, the gravity Judge Kelby of Pennsylvania, as the &\ used and consumed by all people, the duty of his employer his wages, and perhaps before The climate is almost t*he sole attractio objects of expenditure, becomes of oar financial situation. The failure of congress upon which adds to the cost of living in oldest member ef the house. n$j$ he reaches his 'home is obliged, in a a hoarding place for money needlessly heretofore to provide against the' dangers every home, should be greatly cheapened. purchase for family use of an article which n, and that is delicious in many stepped Jorward nnrl ndministered the.^' withdrawn from trade and the peoples' which it was quite evident the very nature The radical reduction of the duties imposed embraces his own labor, to return in the oath to Carliule, and the latter, taking the"*..* localities, and not attractive in others. of the difficulty must necessarily produce, use, thus crippling our national energies, noon raw material U6ed in manufactures, or payment of the increase in price which the gavel, became for the third time speaker caused a condition of financial distress its free importation, is, of course, an important tariff permits the hard-earned compensation suspending our country's development, of the house. He spoke nt some and apprehension since your last aojoummenfc factor in any effort te reduce the of many days of toil preventing investment in productive length, mostly on tlie vital nacessity which taxed to the utmost all the authority price of these necessaries it would not only ofreilncing taxes so us to avoid the enterprise, threatening financial disturbance and expedients within executive con-, relieve them from the increased cost caused dangerous surplus, in the treoRiiry. and inviting- schemes of public plunder. Urol and these uppear now to be exhausted.' by the tariff on such material, but the manufactured WOOL. The national pure-food convention, The speech was received with satisfaction This condition of our treasury is not altogether It disaster results from the continued inaction product being rhus cheapened tbat on both Hides, the sigh key not- of new and it has more than once of of congress, tne responsibility must rest part of the" turiff now laid upou such product which will meet in Washington in January, The Kemoral or Reduction of Duties Thereon protection which entered into his tariff reduction where it belongs, 'i hough the situation thus late been submitted ro the people's representatives as compensation to our manufacturers for will be a much more important Suggested, Supported by Exhaustive comments being especially pleasing far considered is fraught with danger which the present price of raw material could in the congress, who alone can to the Randall Democrats. Bhouid be uily realized, and though it presents Argument. be accordingly modified. Such reduction, assemblage than scores of gatherings, apply a remedy. And vet the situation still features of wrong to the people as well or free importation, would serve The procesii f electing officers of thehouse continues, with aggravated incidents, more The farmer or agriculturist who manufactures denominated conventions, which as beside to largely reduce the revenue. It is was much ns usual. Cox offering iv nothing but who pays the increased than ever presaging financial convulsion not apparent how such a change can have resolution embodying the names adopte'iby challenge public attention somewhere price which the tariff imposes upon every and wide-spread disaster. It will not do to any injurious effect upon our manufacturers. the Democratic eaucus, and Cannon offering agricultural implement, upon all he weais Jy: PEfirt TO THE COUNTET, ''~l?''- r'\' neglect this situation because its dangers are in the country every yoar. Its principal On the contrary it would appear to give them nn amendment to substitute the and upon all he uses and owns, except the it is but a result growing but of a perfectly not now palpably imminent and apparent. a better chance in foreign markets with the object will be to induce congress names selected by the Republican caucusAfter increase of his flocks and herds and such palpable and apparent cause, constantly manufacturers of other countries, who They exist none the lesB certainly, and await drawing seats the Houso adjourned. i"/i things as his husbandry produces from the reproducing the samo alarming circumstancesa to take measures to preve nt the adulteration cheapen their ware with tree material. Thus the unforeseen and unexpected occasion, soil, is invited to aid in maintaining the congested national treasury SENATE. -"'Hf?^.-*$ our people might have the opportunity of when suddenly they will be precipitated of ioods and medicines. Its present situation and he is told that a high and a depleted monetary condition in the extending their sales beyond home consumption, noon us. n June 30, 1885, the excess of duty, on imported wool is necessary for those business of the country. It need hardly be The president sent the following nominations mission is, therefore, in every sense saving them from the depression, who have sheep po shear, in order that the stated that while the present situation demands revenues over public expenditures after to the senate: interruption in business, and loss caused by price of their wool may by increased Threy, a remedy, we can only be saved from worthy and deserving of wide sympathy complying'with the annual requirement of glutted domestic market, and affording their Lucius Q. C. Lamnr of Mississippi, associate of course, are not reminded that the farmer a like predicament In the future by the removal the sinking fund act, was $17,859,735.84 employes more certain and steady labor, and abundant success. The evil justice of the supreme court of the who has no sheep is by this scheme obliged, of its cause. Our scheme of taxation, during the year ended June 30. 1886, such with its resulting quiet and contentment United States William F. VilRRof^Visconsin, in his purchases of 'clothing and woolen by means of which this needless surplus is which it would breast is far more extinsive The question thus imperatively presented excess amounted to $49,405,545.20 and secretary of the interior Don M. Dickinson goods, to pay a tribute to his fellow farmer taken from the people and put into the publio for solution should be approached in a and detrimental to the American during the year ended June 30, 1887. it of Michigan, postmaster general as well as to the manufacturer and- mer- treasury, consists of a tariff or duty levied spirit higher than partisanship, and considered reached $55,567,849.50. The annual contributions chant nor is any mention made of the fact Charles S. Fairchild of New York, secretary upon importations from abroad and internal people than type has ever expressed. in the light of tbat regard for patriotic that the sheep owners themselves and their revenue taxes levied upon the consumption to of the treasury George L. Rivers of duty which should characterize the^aotion The question involved Js households must wear clothing and of tobacco and spirituous and malt liquors. New York, assistant secretary of state of those intrusted with the weai of a confiding S.V THE SINKING FOND ifi&.^i. use other articles manufactured from the It must be conceded that none of the things Isaac H. Maynard of New York, assistant one that cannot possibly divide en people. But the obligation to declared wool they sell at tariff prices, and thus during the three years above specified, subjected 10 internal revenue taxatiou are, secretary of the treasury Sigourney Butler party policy and principle is not wanting to a political lines and so there oueht as consumers must return their shares amounting in the aggregate to $138,- Strictly speaking, necessary. There appears of Massachusetts, second controller of" urge prompt and effective action. Bothef of this increased price of the tradesman. I 05S.S20.94, and deducted from the to be no just con%lain of this taxation by pot to be much difficulty in securing the treasury James W. Hytae of Connetticut. the great politcal parties now represented thinkitmaybe fairly assumed that a large surplus as. stated, were made by the consumers of these articles, and there in tUe government have, by repeated and treasurer of the United States. .iftiotive. legislative action on the sub- proportion of the sheep owned by the farmers calling in for that purpose outstanding seems to be nothing so well able to bear the authoritative declarations, condemned Little business done, and an adjourn* throughout the country are found in 3 per cent bonds of the government burden without hardship to any portion of the condition of laws which permit small nooks numbering from twenty-five to During the six months prior to June the people But our present tariff laws, the mentwashad until Thursday. the collection from the people of unnecessary fifty. The duty on the grade of imported 30. 1887, the surplus revenue had grown so vicious, inequitable, and illogical source of revenue, and have, in the most wool whioh these' ehep yield is ten cents large by repeated accumulations, and it was unnecessary taxation, ousbt to be at once sol mo manner promised its correction and each pound if of the value of thirty cents or feared the withdrawal of this great sum of revised and amended. These laws, as their A large number of amendments to the neither as citizens nor partisans are our The magnitude of the internal com* less, and twelve cents if of the valqe of more money meeded by the people would so affect primary aud plain effect, raise the price to rules were submitted and the President's countrymen in a mood to condone the deliberate than thirty cents. If the liberal es-imate of MIA business of the country, that $79,864,- consumer* "J jI! grtiolf imported an,d subject applied to the pay merce of the United States is strikingly 8 message was read. violation of these pledges. Oar wa sjx pounds be allowed for each fleece,- the 106 of sucE BUn^H? to duty, 6v precisely the sum paid for Erogress toward a wise conclusion will not duty thereon would be sixty or seventy-two ment of the principal ana, interest of the 3 such duties. Thus the amount of the duty ^Illustrated by the iact that the trade 6f improved by dwelling upon the theories cents, and this may be taken as the utmost percent bonds still outstanding, and which nieasjxjvjg, the tax paid by those who purchase of prorection and free trade. This savors the Lake Superior region alone, which Not in session. ennanoement of its price to the farmer by were then payable at the option of toe goy. for use' these imported articles Many of too much of bandying epithets It is a condition reason of thjs duty. Eighteen dollars would ernmentk The precarious condition of these things, however, areraised or manufactured passes through the Sault Ste. Marie which confronts us, not a theory. thus represent the increased price of the financial affairs among the people still needing in our country, and the duties now Belief from this condition may involve a canal, mu ch exeeeds in number of vessels relief, immediately after Jane 30, 1887, levied upon foreign goods and products are. In the house the committee on mileagewas slight reduction of the advantages which we wool from twent?rfiv sheep and $ 36 that the remainder of the 3 per cent bonds then called production to these home manufactures, announced as follows: Rogers 'Ark. and almost equals in tonnathat award our hme productions, but the entire from te woolof fifty sheep, andal. present outstanding, amounting with principal and because they render it possible for Belden (N. Y.), Howard (Ind.), Bnruett withdrawal of such advantages should not values this addition would amount to about interest te $18,877,500. was called in and those of- our people who are manufacturers which passes through the Smz (Mass.), Felton (Cal.) Resolutions providing be contemplated. one-third of its price. If upon its sale the applied to the sinking-fund contribution for to make these taxed articles and sell them N for t&e amendment of the rules of' ca(nal. In value the latt er is much farmer receives tbis or a less tariff profit, the the current fiscal year. Notwithstanding for a price equal to that demanded for the the house were offered as follows: wool leaves his hands charged with precisely these operations of the treasury department, imported goods that have paid customs duty. greater, since the freights of the steamships THE QUESTION OF FEES TBADE 5* By Mr. McCrenry, to amend rule that sum, which in all its changes will adhere representations of distress in business circles So it happens that while comparatively a few is absolutely irrelevant, and the persistent 21 by adding thereto the foMowing: using the Suez canal consists to it until it reaches the consumer. not only continued but increased, and use the imported articles, millions of our claim made in certain quarters that all And all general appropriation bills shall When manufactured into cloth and other absolute peril seemed at hand. In these circumstances people, who never use and never saw any of efforts to Have the people from unjuxt and largely of goods of high cost compared be reported to the bouse within, goods and material for use, its cost is not the contribution to the sinking the imported products, purchase and use inecessary taxation are schemes of socalled with their bulk or weight, while the only increased to the extent of the sixty days after the appoint men t\ fund for the current fiscal year was at once things of the same kind made in this country free traders, is mischievous and far farmer's tariff profit, but a further of the standing committees, at the first completed by the expenditure of $27,684,- and pay therefor nearly or quite the same removed from any consideration for the freights from Lake Superior are chiefly sum has been added for the profit 283.55 in the purchase of government bonds charged price which the duty adds to the session, and within forty days alter thejj. public good. The simple and plain duty of the manufacturer under the operation of raw materials, such as iron ore, copper, not yet due bearing 4 and 4*2 per cent interest, imported articles. Those who buy imports commencement of the second session. which we owe the people is to reduce taxation thero tariff mws. In the meantime the day the premium paid thereon averaging pay the duty charged thereon into the public to the necessary expense-of an economical Mr. Hudd (Wis. to amend rule 8 so as grain and lumber. The average arrives when the farmer fiuds it necessary about 2 4 per cent for the former and 8 treasury, but the great majority of our operation of the government, and to restore to require every member to be present to purchase woolen goods and material to per cent for the latter. In addition citizens who buy domestic articles of the number of tons passed through the to the business of the country the within the ball of the house during the 1 othe himself and family for the winter. to this the interest accruing during same class pay a sum at leapt approximately money which we hold in the treasury session, unless excused or necessarily prevented, I Sault Ste. Maria canal in a day exceeds When he faces the tradesman for that purpose the current year upon the outstanding bonded equal to this duty to the home manufacturer. through the pet version of governmental and to vote on 11 votes rid on be discovers that he Is obliged not only indebtedness of the government was to This reference to the operarton of our powers. These things can and should be that of the Suez canal, though the each rol! call, unless personally ^.or to return, in the way of increased prices, bis some extent anticipated, and banks selected tariff laws is not made by way of instruction, done witn safety to ail our industries, withdus peculiarly interested in the'proposition^ yearly tonnage is a trifle Jess because tariff profit on the wool he sold, and wh.oh as depositories of public money were permitted but order that we may be constantly danger to the opportunity for remunerative under pain of liability to expulsion. By then perhaps lies before him in manufactured to somewhat increase tneir deposits. reminded of the manner in which they labor which our workingmen need the formei is closed by ice for about Mr.' Springer, to amend rule 26, paragraph^ form, but that be must add a considerable While the expedients thus employed to release and with benefit to them and all oar people, 3, so as to rend: "The fourth 'Monday of"'-- one hundred and forty days of the sum thereto to meet a further increase to the people the money lying idle in by cheapening their means of subsistence IMPOSE A BUBPEK each month after the eali of states and in cost paused by a tariff duty on the manufacture. the treasury seryed to avert immediate danger, and increasing the measure of their comforts. year^while the latter of course is constantly upon those who consume domestic products territories until adjournment on that.day. Thus in the end he is aroused to our surplus revenues have continued to The constitution provides tbat th as well as those who consume imported shall, when claimed by the committee oof open. But if the increase for the fact that he has paid upon a moderate accumulate, the.excess for the present vear president "shall, from time to time, give to articles, and thus create a tax upon allour the' territories be devoted exclusively_to purchase as a. result of the tariff scheme, amoumin? on Dec. 1 to $55,258,701.19, the congress information of the state of the people. It is not proposed to entirely relieve th^ present year in the Lake Superior which, when he sold his wool, seemed so consideration of business presented by and estimated to reach $113,000,000 on Union." It has been the custom of the ex the country of this taxation. It "must profitable, that committee, and any unfinished business traffic should equal that of the last,' June 3 0 next, at which date it is expected ejsutive. in compliance with this provision be extensively continued as the source of that this sum, added to prior accumulations, remaining at the end oi the day shall?be to annually exhibit to the congress, at the the government's income and in a readjustment the year ly tonnage-, will surpass AN INCBEA8B IN PBICB will swell the surplus in the treasury to iu order until disposed of." By MrJ*** opening of its session, the general condition of our tariff the interests of American more, than sufficient to sweep away all the that of the eastern ditch. The $140,000,000. There seems to be no assurance of the country, and to detaiif with some particularity, Springer, providing for the abolition of the labor engaged in manufacture should be tariff profit he received upon the wool he that, with buch a withdrawal from use the operations of the different committees on Pacific railroads, invalid carefully considered, as well as the preservation canal at the falls of Ste. Marie was produced and sold. When the number of of the people's circulating medium, our executive departments. It would be especially pensions, mileage, militia and improvement of our manufacturers. It may be called farmers engaged in wool raising is compared business community may not in the near future agreeable to follow this course at the opened in 1855. I had then a lock of the Mississippi river, and the protection, or by any other name, but relief with aM the farmers in the country, and the be subjected to the same distress which present time, and to call attention to thr transfer ef tbeir functions to other committees. from the hardships and dangers of our present with two chambers, and would pass Small proportion ihey bear to our population was quite, lately produced irom tne same valuable tccomplishments of these departments Provision is also made for a tariff laws should be devised with especial is considered when it is made Apparent cause. And while the functions of OUT national during the last fiscal year. But! au. vessels drawing eleven and a half feet precaution against' imperiling the existence Knfral increase of the membership of the tnat, in the case of a large part of those who treasury should be few and simple so much impresses with the paramount importance of dur manufacturing interests. Bat mainiug committees aiid rearraugment of water. Its traffic for the first year own Sheep, the benefit of the present tariff and while its best condition would, be of the subject to which tbis communication this existence shou.'a not mean a condition of their duties to some extent, on wool is iliusory, and. above, ail, when it reached, I believe, by its entire disconnection has thus far been devoted, was 100,000 tons. Teri years later which, without regard to-the public welfare must be conceded that the Increase of with 'private business interests, yet, that I shall forego th* or a national exigency, must always insure Adjourned for several days. the cost of* living caused by such it was 700,000, and in 1875, 1,260,- when by a perversion of its purposes, it idly addition of any other topic, am. the realization of Immense profits instead of iS.h' tariff becomes a burden upon those holds only nrge upon your immediate consideration 00 tons. Then a new lock was begun, moderately profitable returns. As the volume with moderate means and the poor, the tbe "state of the Union," as shown in At the regular meeting of Minnesota Loy.l and diversity 'of our national activities employed ana unemployed, the sick and and was opened for business in the present condition of our treasury and al Legion at St. Paul.' the following were increase* new recruits are added to those IfONEX UStfLESSXT JOTBTBACTED Well, and the young and old, and that it eonr our general fiscal condition, upon which who desire a continuation of tbeadvantages admitted to the membership: -Gen. Alonso 1881. It is the fin st work of its kind from the channels of trade, there seems to stltutes a tax which, with relentless grasp every element of our. safety and prosperity which they conceive" the present system of Jay Edgerton, Capt. Loren Baxter. :Coi. he reason for the claim that some legitimate is fastened upon the clothing of every man, in the'world, Its length is 515 feet.' dependa: The reports of the heads of departments.' tariff' taxation directly' affords them. So .Charles Frank Hausdorf, Lieut. William means should be devised by the woman and child in the land, reasons are whioh will be submitted, contain ful stubbornly have all efforts to reform the its width 8 0 feet, and it will pass vessels government to restore in an eraergenov, Davie Faulkner, Caot. Exra Fransworth, suggested why the removal or reduction of and explicit information touching the trans present condition been resisted by those of without waste or extravagance, this dutv'should be included in a revision of Jr., Cot. George Franklin French, Lieut. El- drawing 1 6 feet of water. Since actions of the business iucrusted to them, our fellow cieisens~ihus engaged, that they such money to its place among the people. a tariff lawa In speaking of the increased woodSnenser Corser, Cnpt. John MtAviB and sucb recommendations relating to legis can hardly complain of tbeMisBiqioh, entertained If such an emergency arises there now exists that time the traffic has increased cost to the consumer of our home manufactures, Shaw, Cnpt. Electa* Abijah Pratt. CoL lat'on in the public interest as they deem to a certain extent, that there exists no clear and undoubted executive power resulting from a duty -laid upon imported Reuben Clark Benton, Maj. William Ragan^ advisable. I ask for these reports and recommendations enormously. Last year it reached an organised combination all along the of relief. Heretofore-the redemption of 8 articles of the same description, the Lieut. James Austin Bixby. Lieut. MarshV the deliberate examination line to maintain tneir advantage., We are in per cent" bonds, which were payable at the the total of 4.527,759 tons, and the look la not overlooked that competition ami action of the legislative brunch of thtgovernment, Pratt Hawkins, Col. William Berry McCord, the midst of centennial celebrations, and Option of the government, nas afforded a among our domestie producers sometimes There are other subjecs not Cant. Charles Henry Woods, Maj estimate for this year, based on the wkh becoming pride 4ro rejoice in American means for the disbursement of the excess of has the effect of keeping U&price of their embraced iu the departmental report* demand William Dinsmore Hale, Capt. John Puufe skill and ingenuity, in American energy our revenues but these bonds have all been products below the highest limit allowed by great increase during the early part of ng legiMiative consideration and whici. son. and enterprise, and in the wonderful retired, aud there are no bonds outstanding such duty. But it is notiortoun that this competition I should be glad to submit. Home of them, the summer, when, the latest returns natural advantages and resources developed the payment of which we have the right to is too often strangled by combinations Deputy UUted States Marshal EdwardV however, have been earnestly piesented iu by a century's national growth. Yet when insist upon. The contribution to the sinking quite prevalent at this time, and frequentivjoaued were made, is 5,892.900 tons, or previous message*, and as to them, I bee Sweetiter. arrested Josknus Towle, post* an attempt Js made to justify a scheme fund which furnishes the occasion for expenditure trusts, which have for their leave to repeat prior recommendations. A* master of New Avon, Redwood county^* about one hundred thousands tons which permits a t.x to be laid upon every in the purchase of bonds has oi ject'ihe regulation of the supply and price the law makes no provision for any report for fraudulently chncel'ng stamps in order* consumer in the laud for the benefit of our already tteen made for the current year, so of commodities made aud sold tty members greater than th^t of the Suez canal from the department of state, a brief history manufacturers, quite beVond a reasonable to increase the salary of his office and for that there is no outlet in that direction. In of the combination. The people can barely of the transactions of that'important departments demand for. governmental regard, it suit* for last year. Theestimated capacity using stam-m in payment of his' debts, in the present state of legislation the only pretense hope for any consideration in the operation together with other matters which the purposes 6f advocacy to oaH our manufactures violation of the postal laws. Towle was of any existing legislative power to of these selfish schemes. If, however, in of the canal "is ninety-six vessels daily. may hereafter be deemed essential to commend infant industries, still needing the restore, at this time, any part of our surplus taken to St. Paul. the absence of such combinations, a healthy to the attention of the congress, may highest and greatest dearfe of favor and I one day of the past summer 8 4 revenues to the people by its expenditure and free competition reduces the price of furnish the occasion for a future communication. Jim and Pete Barrett were indicted at fostering care that can be wrung from consi8SS in the supposition that the secretary any particular dutiable ariicie of home proT vessels passet 1 through it, so that its OBOVBB GUEVKLA.NI federal leeisiattoa. ft is also said that the Minneapolis for the murder Of street car of tLe treasury may enter the market ana auction below the limit which it might otherwise Washington. Dee. 6, 18b7. increase in the price of domestic manufacture driver Tollefcon. purchase the bonds of the government not ultimate capacity is nearly reached. reach under our tariff laws, and if, resulting from the present tariff i necessary yet due at a rate of premium to be agreed failed and'n'.. 'with such reduced price, its manufacture I Is proponed to build a new lock of Ivan Hansen efMI(ert^ in order that higher wages may be upon. The only provision of law from w^lch eontinue to thrive, it is entirely evident signed. George Newell Co. of Minneapolis, Kid to our workmgmen employed in mauustories, Pack: "I'm eotng to leave, mom!" 6ucb a power could be derived iB found in an enlarged dimensions in every way. that one thing has been discovered which and Raworth A Co, of Fargo are than are paid for what is called ''What tor? I am sure I navj dose all the work appropriation bill passed a number of years should be carefully scrutinized in an effort and capable of passing vessels of 2 1 the pauper labor of Europe. All will ao- the heaviest! creditor*. -Assets, $2,000 mywif. In order to keep a sirL" ago and it is subject to the* suspicion to reduce taxation. The necessity of com- liabilities, *6,01H). "Well, mum, ther work's not done to suit met" ieet draught. tm$