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No. XXI.-Balance of Trade (1886-1888). Monthly Excesses (C.).*

Showing, July 31, 1888, a Balance against us of $44,484,650.

The following table shows the imports and exports of merchandise, gold and silver for the year ending July 31, 1888:

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* This and other preceding tables on "Balance of Trade" were prepared and given to the United States Senate, Aug. 29, 1888, by Senator Sherman, in his speech warning the country of the large Balance of Trade

No. XXII.-The Free List.

Summary of values of imports of merchandise during the years ending June 30, 1888 and 1887, admitted free of duty. [OFFICIALLY CORRECTED TO AUG. 3, 1888.]

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NOTE. - Abbreviation "n. e. s." means " not elsewhere specified."

No. XXIII.-Cost of the Democratic Rebellion:
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1870, inclusive.

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Completing the defences of Washington......

Commutation of rations to prisoners in rebel States....
National cemeteries..

Purchase of Ford's Theatre

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Temporary relief to destitute people in District of Col...
Headstones, erection of headstones, pay, etc......
Tennessee, keeping and maintaining prisoners.....................................
Capture of Jeff Davis..

Removing wreck gunboat Oregon, Chefunct River, La.
Support of Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen.....
Claims for quartermaster's stores and commissary, etc.
Miscellaneous claims audited by Third Auditor..
Claims of citizens, supplies furnished during rebellion.
Payment for use of Corcoran Art Gallery...
Expenses of sales of stores and material...............................
Transportation of insane volunteer soldiers...

Horses and other property lost in military service...
Purchase of cemetery grounds near Columbus, Ohio
Fortifications on the Northern frontier...

Pay of the Navy..

Provisions of the Navy..

Clothing of the Navy.

Construction and repair
Equipment of vessels..
Ordnance........
Burgeon's necessaries

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912,283 01
320,636 62
4,162,848 39

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1,080,185 54

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4,170,304 54
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NOTE.The above is carried down to June 30, 1870. By adding the total annual expenditures from that time, merely for pensions and interest on the public debt, the total expenditures growing out of the war will be found at the ending of the fiscal year, June 30, 1888, to have far exceeded eight thousand millions of dollars.

PART I.

Removals from Office

CHAPTER XVII.

Addenda.

Circular Letter

of Postmaster-General Vilas, April 29, 1885.

[Confidential.]

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF POSTMASTER-GENERAL,

WASHINGTON, April 29, 1885. DEAR SIR: The continued illness of Mr. Hay* will delay his coming for some time yet to the Depart ment, and I think it desirable that some action should be taken in the way of removals, and am impatient to assist our people in securing relief, to which they are justly entitled, from partisan postmasters.

I have had a conference with the Virginia delegation, and they will soon bring in their cases, and I sball hope to make the earliest removals in that State. As soon as they shall be ready, and I hope within a week, I desire to appoint from three to ten in a county in Virginia, and amounting to several hundred altogether.

I had intended to write yourself and the Democratic delegation from Ohio to meet me this week and consider the plan upon which we should proceed in making removals in Ohio, but I understand it will be inconvenient for some of them to travel hither now, and it has occurred to me that perhaps the same end might be accomplished by writing.

I shall beg you, therefore, to consider the sug gestions I make as to the methods of procedure, and if you can adopt them and get some cases ready within the next two or three weeks, I think within the month of May I can give substantial relief that will take away the importunity and discontent.

I think that from 15 to 20 per cent of the fourth-class postmasters in Ohio might be removed within the next two months, and a great good accomplished thereby, if our people will adhere to a proposed plan.

That is, in fact, to pick out the most obnoxious and offensive partisans in each county to the number of a sixth to a quarter of all, and choose first-class men to take their places. I will require no more proof of partisanship in these selections than the affirmation of knowledge on the part of a Representative or Senator that the postmaster has been an active editor or proprietor of a Republican newspaper, printing offensive articles, easily shown by the slips, or a stump speaker, or a member of a political committee, or officer of a campaign club, or organizer of political meetings, or that his office has been made the headquarters of political work, or that his clerks have been put into the performance of political duties. Possibly other acts of equal force will be needed in some cases.

If the Representative does not know the fact, it should be established by some affidavit of some person whom he can affirm to be of unquestioned credibility, or by some documentary evidence.

In recommending for appointment, I beg the Representative will state the age, business, and what kind of business experience, and a description of the business character of the applicant, and also his habits and standing in the community, and where there are various candidates, I shall be obliged by any explanations the Representative can give. This necessarily imposes a little trouble, and yet not very great, but it seems to me reasonable to require very extraordinary care and trouble to be taken to represent surely the facts.

The earliest removals and appointments of this kind will challenge the keenest scrutiny. The former must be justifiable, and the latter beyond criticism. Some mistakes have perhaps occurred, and our adversaries are keenly interested to make the most of every fault, because they have perceived a strong current of general disapprobation of the purposes of the Administration.

In rendering this justice to our people, which consists of the removal of enemies and substitution of our friends, I feel that it is very desirable to proceed with extreme care, and that I am correctly representing the President's wishes and purposes in earnestly soliciting that as the common good is infinitely beyond the welthat every step may be taken accordingly. I may add fare of any one person, however great his place, so appointments to further a mere personal end should be absolutely forbidden, and recommendations upon that basis may well expect disfavor.

I shall very willingly take up the case of any district or of any county, whenever they are ready; and I shall be glad if the Representative can personally attend and go over them. Papers should be sent in as soon as possible, and will be then carefully briefed in the Department; and when so made ready, appoint. ments can be made with great rapidity.

Should you think it desirable to have a personal conference before this is begun, I shall be very glad to meet the delegation; but as I have felt it desirable to relieve them of unnecessary journeying and expense, I have written a similar letter to each Representative from Ohio, and respectfully solicit responsive action in accordance with the spirit of it. Very truly yours,

WILLIAM F. VILAS, Postmaster-General.

PART II.

President Cleveland's letter on Silver He proposes a Suspension of the purchase and coinage of Silver.

The following letter addressed by Grover Cleveland to Representatives in the Fortyeighth Congress only a few days before he took the oath of office as President, March 4, 1885, will at this time be read with interest. It speaks for itself.

ALBANY, February 24, 1885. To the Hon. A. J. WARNER, and others, members of the XLVIIIth Congress.

GENTLEMEN: The letter which I have had the honor to receive from you invites, and indeed obliges me to give expression to some grave public necessities, although in advance of the moment when they would become the objects of my official care and partial responsibility. Your solicitude that my judgment shall have been carefully and deliberately formed is entirely just, and I accept the suggestion in the same friendly spirit in which it has been made. It is also fully jus tified by the nature of the financial crisis which, under the operation of the act of Congress of February 28, 1878, is now close at hand. By a compliance with the requirements of that law all the vaults of the Federal Treasury have been and are heaped full of silver coins,

*Hon. Malcolm Hay, then First Assistant Postmaster-General, in charge of appointments,— Compiler.

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