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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1895
Page
5
The document presents the president's complete views and recommendations as submitted to Congress. It outlines policy priorities, proposed legislation, and rationale supporting executive proposals.
President Cleveland outlines foreign relations, national finances, and fiscal policy in his annual message to Congress. He stresses retirement of treasury notes, warns of free coinage evils, and discusses neutrality regarding the Cuban revolt and Armenian outrages. He presents interdepartmental reports and recommendations for national betterment.
The address covers Argentina's tariff concessions for U S wool, Brazil's victory in a boundary dispute, Chile's specie resumption, and China and Japan relations. It notes Chinese anti foreign outbreaks, U S commissions in China, and the need to protect citizens. It discusses Behring Sea, Alaskan boundary delimitation, the Venezuelan dispute, Hawaii, the padroone system, Samoa, Cuba, Armenia, and consular service improvements. It also analyzes currency and gold reserve issues, bond issues, and a proposed syndicate plan to restore the treasury.
Grover Cleveland lays out a plan to cancel United States notes and treasury notes issued for silver purchases, retire greenbacks, and issue long term bonds. He argues gold reserves are strained by silver policy and calls for bank circulation and tax reforms to stabilize the economy and restore public confidence. He warns against free coinage of silver and defends maintaining a gold standard with cautious reform.
Dispatches from Constantinople and London describe the powers’ firm stance on granting extra guardships to the Bosphorus. The Dryad withdrawal was temporary amid threats of Mussulman rioting, and negotiations proceed as ambassadors plan action if the sultan resists firman passage. Reports note possible deposement fears for the sultan and coordinated support by all powers for any forceful entry.
The article discusses the impact of free coinage on US finances, warning of dire effects from compulsory silver coinage. It argues that unchecked silver purchases by the government diluted the circulating medium for over 15 years, eroded international confidence in financial ability, and caused domestic distress.
Secretary Crlisle transmits to Congress the cabinet estimates for running the government in the 1897 fiscal year ending June 30. Totals include Legislative, Executive, Judicial, Foreign Intercourse, Military, Naval, Indian affairs, Pensions, Public Works, Postal Service, Miscellaneous, and Permanent annual appropriations, totaling 418,091,073. For 1896 the estimates were 410,485,079 with appropriations at 412,850,264.
The government on Monday transferred the Northern Michigan mail between Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and Michigan Central via Canada, placing United States postal clerks on Canadian soil. In Windsor, Ontario, Albert Coubillon’s family fell ill after eating Bologna sausage likely infected with hog cholera. a 13 month old girl Louisa died and five other children were seriously affected but expected to recover.
W. T. Hart long time commissioner of streets in Rockford died suddenly from apoplexy. Separate dispatches report a daring robbery at the Chico depot of the Burlington & Quincy near Albi Louisiana with Adams Express Company claiming a loss of about 2000 dollars. Three children named Gangel aged four to one perished in a fire at Gladstone Manitoba during their mother's absence.
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