President Grant Endorses Arbitration Peace and Civil Reform
President Grant submits his fourth annual message to Congress praising peace at home and abroad, noting the Geneva and German awards resolving San Juan, urging a national currency and public credit, and recommending commissions on telegraphs, mail contracts, and education. He underscores Indian policy, territorial issues, Cuba, and measures to curb corruption, while calling for revisions to territory laws, census plans, and preparations for the 1876 Centennial.
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Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
Boston
Chicago
Congress
Great Britain
Geneva
San Juan
Ashington
Chas
Francis Adams
Board of Commissioners
Germany
Bancroft
Moyecge
Secretary of War
Canada
West Indies
Pacific Mail Line
San Francisco
Japan
Brazil
California
New Zealand
Australia
Paraguay
South America
Treasury Report on Cash on Hand and Public Debt Reduction
The report details fiscal year 1872 receipts totaling 374 106.00 from customs and other sources, with total available cash 44 042 537.15. Expenditures cover civil, foreign, Indian, pensions, military and naval establishments, and debt redemption. Net public debt reduction is given as 100 544 491.23, with long-term reductions since 1869 totaling 363 696 999.87. The text advocates tax reduction prudence and supports a national currency, outlining wartime policy impacts and future protectionist considerations.
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Navy Yards
Treasury
Saat
Congress
Policy on Indians Drives Railways and Settlement Expansion
The report argues that the current Indian policy facilitates rapid railway construction and western settlement by relocating Indians to reservations and expanding frontiers. It cites increases in land sales, survey activity, agricultural output from Southern superintendency tribes, and missionary influence, while noting needs for improved governance in Arizona and Texas and suggesting territorial governance for Indian lands.
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CS Vankee
Europe
Omaha
Sacramento
Chris Maaising
Arizona
Texas
Department
Indian Territory
Report of the Secretary of War on expenditures and reforms
The War Department fiscal year ending June 1871 spent 35 749 991 52 and the year ending June 30 1872 spent 35 372 157 20, a reduction of 427 834 62. Next year estimates total 33 801 378. Freedmen’s Bureau affairs moved to the War Department with speedy bounty payment rules for colored soldiers. Rail transport costs totaled 1 300 000 with 80 857 on Pacific lines. water transport 626 373 52. stage 48 975 84. transportation animals and related costs 924 600 64. About 370 000 collected from Southern railroads. 4 000 000 remains due. Loyal citizen claims for Quartermasters’ stores totaled 376 172 71. Subsisting supplies to Indians amounted to 8 904 812. The record notes personnel figures and stresses the medical corps requirement as mandated by the 1866 act, with typical annual candidate numbers. There is an incomplete continuation on the third page.
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O Klux
Kansas
Congress
Atlantic Seaboard
Navy
Postmaster General
Land Office
Patent Office
Secretary of the Interior
Utah
United States
District of Columbia
France
Russia
Germany
Europe
International Statistical Congress
St. Petersburg
Juarez
Mexico
Cuba
Spain
Commissioner of Agriculture
Secretary of War
Washington
Freedmen’s Bureau
War Department
Treasury
Pacific Railroads
Southern
Byrne
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Nue
Public Lands
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House On Education and Labor
Pensions
Vienna
Indian Office
Geological Survey of
Territories
Postoffice Department
Peechas
General Treasury
Vstal
the Mail Steamship Service
United States Transatlantic Mail Steamship Service
United States Ocean Steamship Service
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
China
Anderica
Minster of Finance
Ital
Hay
Jno
A. J. Creswell
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