Show PRESIDENT MESSAGE what he has to say about the mor mons THE I 1 tile legislation of congress for the ic ie of poly polygamy a liiv has after years of resistance on the part of ofilio tile inor cormons mormons mons at last brauff brought ta lit them to conclusion the tint thit ri resit bat ni narceis ceis unprofitable and unavailing tji the c liwer of if con congress gress over this ii j icet should not by be surrendered until we have sati satisfactory A factory evidence that eliat tile the people of the skate to be created would ex exercise ercie the exclusive power of ill the katr i overt over this his subject in the ilie sanie same dav way cheque alie question s tion is not whether these people now obey the law of congress polygamy poly anly hutira linau ither ther would they ill make a ke e enforce haild such laws themselves wIves if absolutely free to regulate tile the subject we cannot a afford affo akl to elperin experiment lei it with this subject for when a i state is once constituted the net act is final a and ni any irli mistake stake no compact it in the en enabling ablino act could it in my my opinion be binding or effective POSTAL I 1 have in a nies message sage to the proceeding credill ce edill cull con gi le ess S expressed my lily views as to a modified use of the tele telegraph raph in connection with the mail in ili view and in pursuance odthe neail liw law of march 31 1891 ind after a most careful study of tile whole subject and frequent coll conferences feren faren ces with flip offices onic offic rs adver were issued by the post master general inel leral for fifty thieo to ficat britain and the continent twenty seven to south Anic america rica 3 to china and japin japan 4 to Aust australia raila ind ellid pacific slope seven to 10 the he NN et indies and diio to mexico exico Il it was not of course expected that bids for ill all the se ic lines should be received reined service upon all should hould lie ile contracted for jt ie intended in fur therence of the act to secure as man v new lines lilies as possible while i ili I 1 e including in the list albore or all 01 or olm the borei foreign r ii lines now occupied aupied by american ships it was that a litle line to F england n arill anil perhaps one to the continent would be secured but tire alie outlay required to equip such lines wholly with new ships hills of first class and the adt ddt of establishing new lines 11 colo competition petition with those liz dished lied deterred bidders whose ili oise interest had bad been enlisted enlist ciL jt it is a way may inas yet lie be found of cl P ng these difficulties the brazilian stean steamship iship cotil coin imy awny by rea on of miscalculation 1 ui I to till the sliced of its it was ivas not able ablee io bid ill under the terms of t too lie the policy of i llie lie department ws irs to egure ibrom t e lill an ye I 1 service as i con dittin of rhein civill to the henclik s of the law titis this in all in lias has beell attuned LI i lied the ith enste eral flut ili an expenditure in american hip shipyards yards will ibe be enigk the bidders construct to const vie ie for by the service cervice ellich ala thy v have ac 1 cupl il I 1 doi lot thiril there is any in arri ason on for ej bent or tor guiv cn turning bs bk k frona froia the policy ce 1 lii illin indeed a 1 glod brinning by inning M lias has I 1 een cialle and a tit is Ti further e considered onside red and under capitalists capita litts and aliv pl lew adew linoa will lie midy d to in meet Air ainther ther and we me crivy the pa pi sage of thyi tb ani and res ival lii piling linte rests caid and the atif if a care ex c of taw tl cair yit trade of tile the wo world all we were rec civin rot for foreign postage learh iander the old and tle tie butla for ocean tur sur ice did not exo exa eil cl yr if r all lill it is jj the pu amater that if ail the contract loLd lire ire vod cosa it will t for tins tilis year acir in addition to the ap fur sea ea aill inland lia tage I 1 alro uly iia the ind abat fur for the next fiscal year julie 30 1893 there wl would uld probably neel ca ill ii loutt AS TO in the depolt of the secretary ex with inter interesting eting fu ful hiess tj alie C condition or of tile territories they have rh li n ml with the states D the C great in ill farni farm products fai iu ire 0 baingi 11 a yearl yc arly y large laige areas J into to cultivation by extending their inala ealia inal lit 8 this work is dom conf it liy individual or awal r to rl I 1 it ond ind inthout t eliat ila t sy steni which isa is a full preliminary survey kirvey of the water supply and ille the ir irrigated lands would enable them thein to adopt tile the future of the t territories of now mexico arizona and utah in thi ir material growth it ind in the increase indrea e independence and of their people is very ve I 1 dependent upon air fid nd til linzely liely le legislation i either I 1 liv congress or their own legisla regulating tire distribution or of tive the watter supply furni funn lied hed ly by their str streams earris if this neatter is much longer neglected private i ca rp orations will have bave unrestricted control of oil one or of the elements of life and the patentees of arid lands landi N will ill he be tenants at tile the will of the w water af er conil R T alie I 1 I 1 c U united states should hould part with the ownership of the water sources and tile the s sites I 1 tes for reservoirs whether to the states and territories or to individuals divi duals or corporations only upon condition L 0 n that will insure to the their ili proper oper water supply upon poll equal and im terms in ili the territories orieLa this whole subject is under tire the full control of congress aid in ill the states it is practically ia as ion long as tire the government holds the title to the reservoir ites arti and water courses and can call grant M theu them upon such conditions condition a as it choo es tr to impose the ini improvident provident granting of franchi franchises of enor enormous value without recompense to the tate state or municipal city to which they proceed and without cioper protection of the public int interests erets is the mot mo t noticeable arld ami crying edving evil of present legislation 0 this 3 fault shot should ILI not be committed in dealing with a subject that will before anany many years affect so vitally thousands of our people till nil HANCE DANCE wu the out outbreak breal among adiong the die sioux which occurred in december last as to 0 o its causes und and incidents fully reported upon by alio war bellart client and the lie department of the interior that these indians hall bail some just complaints especially in the matter of the reduction of tile lie appropriation for rations in the delays attending 17 tire enact jentof laws t to depatt dt aart ment to iser perform forin tile the engagements entered into with thern them is probably true but the sioux trib tribes s are arc naturally warlike and turbulent and their warriors were ivere excited iv bv their medicine inon inen paid chiefs chief who preached tile coming co mingot of the indian messiah alio was to 10 r imp give them avii power er ta destroy then their enemies in view prevailed among the near tile the reservation and odthe fatal that would have front from ili an I 1 neiani aion 1 placed at tile dupil di of general milca milc commanding Di the division divi fion all the lie annius that were thought liv by hini him to le be ire is entitled to the credit of havill having tile the settlers and of the lio into subjection the hie least 11 P sible ible in loss of life the appropriation 0 afi JO 11 ll io for abe chaet choctaws hoc taws aws and chick a bivs contained ili the gene geneal rial inchan appropriation appropriate xi bill of math marili 3 1991 ls has bon expended for lie iho teason reason that J have ift yet vet avy r f rit loae to the eminent f the indian to tile lind land this rall ile be neade lilie sul eject of a special cirl pl acin before all tile facts baet s which have colre to my illy TA ty RY r ions gen vencial cial interest in the ope of alye treasury bas ba sleen beell nell aug 0 I 1 le divillo thelast year by 13 reaton of th theaon C co I 1 1 which paused and hallowed fallowed fall full owed till tariff will and obber legislation t of the last cou congress gres k ail fit as to the jp if suits of thi le legi upon apoll jl aliis trea treasury iury and 11 II tile countr country 0 hi it tile the onelia nil it was eliat ini imports ports would so 4 fit car fall on oft as 1 to leave tile thy trea treasury czury bankrupt and that tire of articles entering i into nto till th lining liing of people would 6 so co as to dit affect their rt atilt anil while on oil th 1 other liand hawl it wa ag agreed agreed that the loss of the revenue largely alie alt of placing sugar hilgar on the free lirt would be a dir direct acet gain to tile peri jole that tile of tile the necessaries if f lift life including those most highly protected bould not liot he that labor oL III have a i larre large market and the products ducts of tire farm ad v vicea prices while the lie trea treasury Aury surplus and it ir ceist would lie ir adequate to the appropriation including the large M exceptional 11 ll expenditures r es rot for the refund to 0 o the states of tile direct tax and the lie redemption of the four and a 1 half per cent bonds it is not my lily purpose to enter at any length into i discussion of the effects of tin this s legislation to which I 1 have referred but a brief cx amina tion of the file statistics or of the lie treasury rv and a I 1 general glince glance at the state of f business throughout fit the country will I 1 think s satisfy illy any impartial it enquirer that its results have disappointed the evil of its opponents and in d in ill a large measure realized tile the hopeful prediction of its friends rarely if ever before n the history of the country lias has been a I 1 time tillie when ill lie pro pio celda of one dav s labor or the ili product 0 or of one farmed chop could o c such a largo amount of things that enter intini into the living of the masses of the people I 1 believe that a 1 I full test will develop tile the fact that tile the tariff act of the lie Fifty first congress is I 1 very favorable in its ave average raffe effect upon till the prices of article artic leq entering into corni common tion use 1111 PENSION N BUREAU the administration of oatlie the pension bureau hns has been characterized during the year vear irv by great dillig elice tile the total number of pensioners upon the roll on oil the day of june jillie 1801 1891 was there were allowed during n tile fiscal year ending at that time firne cases case of this liti number niber sa were allowed under the law of june 27 1890 tire issuing of certificates lias has been proceed proceeding ii i g at the rate of about per month about 75 per cent of these bring being under till new law the commissioner ex prees the opinion that lie will lie be oble to carefully adjudicate all and allow claims during file lie arc present ent fecil year ear the appropriation for the pa payment of pensions for the fiscal year 1890 91 was and ane anio amount expended IM le leaving an unexpended surplus of t 91 il lut lu t the comics conin donar is quite confident that there will bo be a call this year for a deficient appropriation notwithstanding the rapidity of cs which v the work is being pushed the iiii mistake take which hn lias been inada by bv many niana in their e estimate or of tile the cash of pensions nen is in not lot taking in account of the d 1 value of lirt firt payments under the dicent legislation legi legislation lation these payments pavil lelit under the laws leave lia vo been forni formally any verv very large its as the the alie pensions pension when date froin ithe tinie time ot the falln filing of tile the cla claim illi most of these hall had been sending ending for years years the first payment pain crit under the law of June 1800 1890 are arc relatively small and as the poi I 1 of if clicc caes cacs ca es increases and that of the old caws cases diminishes the annual aggregate of first payments i i is largely reduced tile the cornnie gionfr r under dl date lie of I 1 13 furnishes liias WO de with 11 ith the statement that during the last fouz months fi certificate i issued under the pil gen ecallaw eral larr law and S under the act of june 27 the average firtl firt firt l during the four months was while the nI t upon cases alliaud during the year ending ill dunc junc 30 10 1851 1891 was i 2333 b being a aci aaili luction ebion in ili average alist alpa ip indents during these four months of the fo far the fiscal fical year ending M june 38 30 1803 is 1144 which lw irv a careful CI reful I 1 examina examination tiou of the subject teiei th commissioner cammi commis ioner iz is of the abinion will wil be S ti I 1 ali ciell t W I 1 i i I 1 C t alief I 1 I 1 ef 1 odis I 1 I is b bursa u arse I 1 1 lu ants tu to tile disabled hill diers of tire recent cia war var are largo tiley du do nut not realize lize till alie exaggerated c L esti mates of thov tho aho vho aro are opposed to lo ali LII ii i i legislation legi dation tire the oatlie of thi interior shows with gicht beut fullness the lle care that mi k taken to ev yc clude lude fraudulent cla illis and also the J fact therit the pencas mencas to in pensions a ie going ire arc inen who W ho rendered not slight light but sub taut ial war rejoice rice wice IMrO liTs aal J durins th alv twelve flIS amin 11 oct 1 vijo V ijo to SL kept 30 20 isal uie total value or of our foreign n ira imports ports and expire ex colli combined billed was HG way was the lar i eat orally ear iii ii the history of t the lie united istatt tile largest in in illy any year was in ill 10 lo whon our coi amounted to and the 1 0 last jast year exceeds this ani aggregate om C by b 3 over J jt it is inU resting and ami to soine will ito ca surprising bur tu L know that during I tiring tin thu neal car andin C delit crt 30 10 1891 our of 0 merch andic amounted to lo which was lill an increase of more than over the value of tile imports of the cor months of the previous year alien the imports of merchandise r were larger in anticipation of the bariff tariff legisla legislation 0 ion then pending C the average annual value of the lie ini imports ports of nier merchandise chandise for the ten tell years from frolli 1881 to 1990 i and during the year ending sept SO 30 1891 this annual average was exceeded by W 2 the value of free ini imports ports during the he twelve months sept 30 30 1891 was more inore than of true free imports during 0 the corres cor responding months of the previous year vear and there was during the same period a decrease of 08 in the value of tile ini imports ports of dutiful merchandise the of merchandise admitted free of duty during I 1 the year to which I 1 have referred tile first under unde the new tariff was 1418 8 while during durins the prece proceeding eding twelve months under the old tariff was 0 mi ili increase of 1191 15 ja per cent if we tike the six months ending cil dill september ber 11 30 last N which ii ich covers th alie e time binic during which su sugar suar ar lias has been admitted free of duty the I 1 per c r cent of value of ni merchandise erchall dise ill imported ii free of duly is found to lo be which is a f larger ai r per cent of free imports i 1 parts than during any prior fi fiscal cal y year car in the history of the gov erni eminent nent if we turn to exports of merchandise tire the statistics are full of gratification the whole of such exports or of iner merchandise chandise for the twelve months ending sept 30 1831 was 92 7 6 while for the corresponding in previous twelve months it way was y ili an increase of rge 62 14 0 21 which is nearly ahr three C c times the average annual |