of $18 per month therein mentioned to be proportionately divided for any degree of disability established for which section 4,695 makes no provision.-[Approved March 3, 1883.

POST OFFICE.

Chap. XCII.-Upon all matter of the first class, as defined by chapter 180 of the laws of Congress approved March 3, 1379, entitled "An act inaking appropriations for the service of the Post Once Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes," and by that act declared subject to postage at the rate of 3 cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof, postage shall be charged, on and after Ocfober 1. 1833, at the rate of 2 cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof; and all acts, so far as they fix a different rate of postage than herein provided upon such first-class matter, are, to that extent, hereby repealed. -[Approved March 3, 1883.

Chap. CXXIII.-Authorizes the issue at money-order Post Offices of "postal notes" for sums under $5, for a fee of 3 cents, said "notes" to be payable to bearer when duly receipted at any money-order office which the remitter may select, or at the office of issue, but it shall become invalid upon the expiration of three calendar months from the last day of the month during which it was issued. A money-order shall not be issued for more than $100, and fees for money-orders shall be:

For orders not exceeding $10, eight cents. For orders exceeding $10 and not exceeding $15, ten cents.

For orders exceeding $15 and not exceed. ing $30, fifteen cents.

For orders exceeding $30 and not exceeding $10, twenty cents.

For orders exceeding $40 and not exceeding $50, twenty-five cents.

For orders exceeding $50 and not exceeding $60, thirty cents.

For orders exceeding $60 and not exceeding $70, thirty-five cents.

For orders exceeding $70 and not exceed ing $30, forty cents.

For orders exceeding $80 and not exceed ing $100, forty-five cents.-[Approved March 3, 1883.

PUBLIC LANDS.

Chap. CI.-The fees allowed registers and receivers for testimony reduced by them to writing for claimants, in establishing pre-emption and homestead rights and mineral entries, and in contested cases, shall not be considered or taken into account in determining the maximum of com

pensation of said oficers. That registers and receivers shall, upon application, furnish plats or diagrams of townships in their respective districts showing what lands are vacant and what lands are taken, and shall be allowed to receive compensation therefor from the party obtaining said plat or diagram at such rates as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Laud Office, and said officers shall, upon application by the proper State or Territorial authorities, furnish, for the purpose of taxation, a list of all lands sold in their respective districts, together with the names of the purchasers, and shall be allowed to receive compensation for the same not to exceed 10 cents per entry; and the sums thus received for plats and lists shall not be considered or taken

into account in determining the maximum of compensation of said officers.-[Approved March 3, 1883.

Chap. CII.-The fourth section of the act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July 2, 1862, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land-scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States or of the States, or some other safe stocks; or the same may be invested by the States having no State stocks, in any other manner after the Legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto, and engaged that such funds shall yield not less than 5 per centum upon the amount so invested, and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unimpaired; Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section five of this act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."-[Approved March 3, 1383.

Chap. CXVIII.-Within the State of Alabaina all public lands, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands: Provided, however, That all lands which have heretofore been reported to the General Land Office as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale: And provided further, That any bona fide entry under the provisions of the homestead law of lands within said State heretofore made may be patented without reference to an act approved May 10, 1872, entitled "An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States," in cases where the persons making application for such patents have in all other respects complied with the homestead law relating thereto.-[Approved March 3, 1933.

Chap. CXXII.-In all cases where lands rednced in price to $1 25 per acre by the act of June 15, 1880, but which have not been offered at public sale at such reduced price, were inadvertently sold at private entry by the officers of the Land Department between the date of the passage of said act and the date of the receipt at the local offices of the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office relative thereto of October 10, 1881, the entries so inadvertently permitted to be made by innocent purchasers, and which are regular in all respects except as to time of entry, shall be confirmed as of the dates of entry, respect ively: Provided. however. That no valid adverse claim to any of such lands had at.

tached prior to the date of such entry.-[Ap. proved March 3, 1833.

TERRITORIES.

Chap. CXXXIV.-The fourth clause of section 1360 of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Fourth. No person belonging to the Army or Navy shall be elected to or hold any civil office or appointment in any Territory, except officers of the Army on the retired list."[Approved March 3, 1883.

Jowa Republican, June 27.

6. That stability is desirable in such public policies as relate to and affect all productive industries; and we condemn the threat of the Iowa Democracy to disturb and keep at unrest said industries and the capital and labor employed therein by "gradual and persistent efforts" to so change the customs laws as to establish free trade; and we insist upon such revenue laws as will encourage American industries and protect American labor in order that the American working men shall have a fair day's wages for a fair day's work, and tend to assure permanent employment.

7. That the inability of the Democratic party during the six years that it held undisputed control of the House of Representatives of Congress to agree on legislation for the revision of the tariff and the reform of the civil service, notwithstanding both subjects were constantly and prominently present in its platform promises and campaign activities, and the passage of laws affecting both of said objects by the Repub. lican Congress at its late session demonstrates anew the incapacity of the former to deal with questions of great public concern, and that the country must rely on the latter for practical legislation.

Iowa Democratic, June 6.

2. That we denounce the abuse of the civil service of the Government, State or National, inaugurated and perpetuated by the Republican party, and we favor the extension of civil service reform in every department of the Government.

4. That we favor a tariff for revenue only by a gradual but persistent reduction of protective duties; and we denounce the tariff legislation of the last Congress as the result of corrupt and disgraceful intrigues and shameless attempts to perpetuate exist. ing evils under the pretence of tariff reform Kentucky Republican.

3. That we favor the adjustment of a tariff that will not only provide a revenue sufficient to defray the expenses of the Government, but afford a just and reasonable protection to the industrial classes of our country without being oppressive to the agricultural and other interests of our people.

Kentucky Democratic, May 17.

3. That our laws in relation to revenue and taxation should be so framed as to secure equality in rate of assessments as nearly as possible, and to insure the collection of revenue in the most convenient and inexpensive manner.

Massachusetts Republican, Sept. 19. We believe in equal rights and a fairly counted vote, a thoroughly pure and reformed Civil Service beyond the reach of

party conflicts, a sound currency based on an honest specie dollar, a liberal, but in no wise extravagant or wasteful, expenditure, a largely reduced taxation, and wise and well-matured laws to protect and develop American industry and enterprise, both at home and on the ocean.

Massachusetts Democratic, Sept. 26.

We believe in a thorough reform in the Civil Service, in which fitness, not favor. shall regulate appointments, and in a tariff limited in amount to the sum necessary and adequate for revenue.

Minnesota Republican, June 28.

We believe in maintaining a system of internal revenue levied upon artícles of luxury, such as whiskey and tobacco, together with a system of duties on imports, so applied as to provide revenue for the necessary expenses of the Government, and so adjusted as to encourage the development of the manufacturing and labor interests of the whole country.

Minnesota Democratic, August 3.

We favor such a thorough revision of the present tariff laws as will remedy existing evils and result in the establishment of a tariff for revenue only as the permanent commercial policy of this country.

New-Jersey Republican, Sept. 18.

3. We congratulate the country upon the successful application of the principles of genuine Civil Service Reform in the National Administration, and favor the adoption of the system in all branches of our State government.

4. We believe that the prosperity and happiness of our own people are of paramount importance, and therefore we insist upon a tarif so adjusted as to give full pro tection to home labor and industry, and sufficient to develop all the resources of the country, and favor such wise and proper State legislation as will protect honest labor from unfair competition.

New-Jersey Democratic, Sept. 13.

They believe in that genuine and deepreaching Civil Service Reform which consists in the election to office of honest, intelligent, capable and courageous public servants, who will faithfully administer their trust, and who will be held to strict accountability for such discharge of it. They de nounce the sham methods of the Service Commission in its pretended exami nation of candidates for place, together with the disgraceful system of bargain and sale of office, which is now practised by the Federal Government, as shown by the abuse of patronage in Virginia and other States.

Civil

2. We favor a tariff for revenue, limited to the necessary expenditures of the Gov. ernment, and so adjusted as to give protec

increased; taxation for the support of Government has been reduced; a State Bureau of Labor Statistics has been established; the rights of the workingman have been further protected, and the injurious competition of convict labor has been curtailed; business methods have been the rule in the management of State affairs.

On the record thus made, and to which it will steadfastly adhere, the Democratic party asks a renewed award of the confidence of the people. We invite with reason all friends of improved State administration, irrespective of party, to join with the Democracy in preserving and perfecting the reforms in progress and in extending them to all branches of the State service.

We heartily indorse Governor Cleveland's administration. It justifies the great vote which elected him. He has deservedly won the affection of the people by his industry, firmness, intelligence and aggressive honesty. The results make his administration one of the best the State ever had.

Ohio Republican, June 6.

2. That the Republican party believe now, as in the past, in the maintenance of a tariff system which will provide a revenue for the Government, and at the same time will protect American producers and American labor; that it is opposed to the Democratic doctrine of a tarit for revenue only," because such a doctrine, if indorsed, would of necessity compel American workmen to accept the unremunerative wages which are paid their foreign rivals. It looks with alarm upon the purpose already avowed by the Democratic leaders that the next Congress will revise the tariff by further reducing the duties on imports.

3. That the wool tariff of 1876 should be restored at the first possible opportunity.

10. That we reiterate the declarations of previous Republican conventions in favor of Civil Service Reform, and welcome every intelligent effort to make that measure practical; and we especially approve the provisions made by a Republican Congress for giving the patriotic soldiers of the late war, with the proper qualifications, the preference for all places under the Govern

ment.

Ohio Democratic, June 21.

2. We favor a tariff for revenue, limited to the necessities of the Government, economically administered, and so adjusted in its application as to prevent unequal burdens, encourage productive industries at home, and afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopolies.

3. The act of the Republican Congress, reducing the tariff on wool, while at the same time increasing it on woolen goods, already highly protected, was iniquitous legislation, discriminating in favor of monopoly and against the agricultural interests of the country, and ought to be corrected, and we heartily approve the action of the Democratic members of the Obio delegation in Congress in voting against that measure.

7. We reaffirm the resolutions of the State Conventions of Ohio in 1880, 1881, and 1882, and of the Democratic National Conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880, demanding a thorough reform and purification of the Civil Service, and charge that the

Republican party has violated every pledge it has heretofore given for the reform thereof, and has failed during its long adminis tration of the Government to correct even the most crying abuses; and we demand, therefore, a change in the executive administration of the Government itself, as the reform first of all necessary (as made still more manifest by the recent Star-Route trials), thereby ousting corrupt rings, confederated to protect crime and prevent the punishment of criminals, and by so doing to make it possible again to punish fraud and theft in the public service.

Pennsylvania Republican, July 11.

1. We unqualifiedly approve and demand the continuance of that system of protection to home industry which has proved itself to be the basis of National independence, the incentive to industrial skill and develop. ment, and the guaranty of a just and adequate scale of wages for labor; and we denounce all attempts to reduce the rates of the tariff below the level which will accomplish these objects.

2. That any surplus in the public Treasury arising from a redundant revenue should, after paying the National debt as fast as its conditions permit, be distributed from time to time to the several States upon the basis of population, to relieve them from the burdens of local taxation and provide means for the education of their people.

7. We commend every effort to inaugu rate thorough and correct Civil Service reform in all the departments of the National and State administrations.

Pennsylvania Democratic, August 11.

They believe in that genuine and deepreaching civil service reform which consists in the election to office of honest, intelligent, capable and courageous public servants, who will faithfully administer their trust and who will be held to strict accountability for such a discharge of it, and who will redeem and purge the departments of the General Government from that corruption and fraud with which they have been permeated under Republican rule and which that party has shown itself unable and un willing to eradicate. They believe in such taxation of the people as is requisite for the necessities of the Government, economically administered, and that import duties should be so adjusted in their application as to prevent unequal burdens, encourage productive industries at home and afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopolies.

2. They denounce the proposition of the Republican Party that the people should be taxed to raise a surplus fund for the Federal Government to distribute among States. The people should only be taxed so much as is absolutely indispensable for the frngal conduct of their affairs, not one cent for surplus and no unnecessary taxation. The existing surplus in the Treasury should be faithfully applied to the payment of the public debt. The money not needed for the expenses of the Government should remain in the pockets of the people.

3. To this end we favor the entire abolition of the present system of the internal taxation as a measure of relief demanded by the people from an unnecessary and unequal burden.