Alaska is still without civil govern
ment. No provisions for education or
to protect the lives and property of cit
izens retard permanent settlement.
ASSESSING PUBLIC OFFICERS.
A bill which will effectually suppress
the assessing of persons holding offices
under the government for political pur
poses will receive his hearty sanction.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
He hopes that something may be
done in the matter of devolving the
duties ot the president upon the vice
president when the president suffers
from inability to discharge the powers
and duties of his office.
SUMMING UP.
The president closes bis message in
these words: The closing year has been
replete with blessings, which we owe
the Giver of all good our reverent ac
knowledgment for the uninterrupted
harmony of our foreign relations, for
the dearth of sectional animosities, for
the exuberance of our harvests and the
triumph of our mining and manufact
uring interests, for the prevalence of
health, for the spread of intelligence
and tho conservation of the public in
' terest; for the growth of the country in
i all its elements of national greatness;
for this and countless other blessings
we should rejoice and be glad. I trust
that under the aspiration of this great
prosperity our counsels may be har
monious and that the dictates of pru
, dence, patriotism, justice and economy
! may be in the adoption of measures in
which congress and the executive may
heartily unite.
(Signed) Chester A. Arthur.
Washington, Dec. 4.
EVERY LADY SHOULD CALL
AT HILL & GOODSELL’S FOB
DRESSMAKING and MILLINER Y.
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Stockholders* Meeting.
