As to the ability of the Government without embarrassment to meet this expense there can be no question. Never in the history of the world has any nation or any people reached so high a plain of prosperity and wealth as this great united nation and people. The preservation of the Union gave an opportunity and impulse to the tremendous progress which has been made during the past fortytwo years which has placed this country in the lead of all nations in respect to agriculture, mining, manufactures, internal commerce, and wealth. With exports amounting to $1,853,718,000 and imports amounting to $1,431,421,000; with a paper circulation of $2,772,956,000, every dollar of which is based upon the national credit, and with a redemption fund in the Treasury of gold and silver amounting to $1,425,116,000; with a system of revenue which not only provided ample means to pay the current expenses of Government, but enabled the Treasury from 1865 to 1892 to pay $4,216,788,999 principal and interest on the public debt, and which has provided the Treasury a present available cash balance of $260,628,885, of which $240,278,701 is on deposit in national banks and subject to the draft of the Treasurer of the United States, it is obvious that the suggested appropriation of $5,651,790 will not embarrass the Treasury in the least. In behalf of these surviving officers of volunteers of the civil war, I have the honor to request that you will refer this letter to the honorable Committee on Military Affairs and bespeak an early and favorable report of your bill. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours, Hon. J. C. BURROWS, GREEN B. RAUM, Chairman. United States Senate, Washington, D. C. APPENDIX. ACT OF MAY 15, 1828. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving officers of the Army of the Revolution in the Continental line, who was entitled to half pay by the resolve of October twenty-one, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank in the line, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That under this act no officer shall be entitled to receive a larger sum than the full pay of a captain in said line. SEC. 2. And it is further enacted, That whenever any of said officers has received money of the United States, as a pensioner, since the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, aforesaid, the sum so received shall be deducted from what said officer would otherwise be entitled to under the first section of this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every noncommissioned officer, musician, or private in said army, who enlisted therein for and during the war and continued in service until its termination, and thereby became entitled to receive a reward of eighty dollars ($80) under a res Ive of Congress passed May fifteenth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, shall be entitled to receive his full monthly pay in said service out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That no noncommissioned officer, musician, or private in said army who is now on the pension list of the United States shall be entitled to the benefits of this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the officer or soldier entitled thereto, or to their authorized attorney, at such places and days as said Secretary may direct, and that no foreign officer shall be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer or soldier receive the same until he furnish to said Secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay allowed by this act shall not in any way be transferable or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by any legal process whatever, but shall inure wholly to the personal benefit of the officer or soldier entitled to the same by this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of said pay as accrued by the provisions of this act before the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be paid to the officers and soldiers entitled to the same as soon as may be, in the manner and under the provisions before mentioned; and the pay which shall accrue after said day shall be paid semiannually, in like manner, and under the same provision. (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 4, pp. 269, 270.) ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, soldiers, and Indian spies, who shall have served in the Continental line, or State troops, volunteers or militia, at one or more terms, a period of two years, during the war of the Revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, passed the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in the said line, according to his rank, but not exceeding, in any case, the pay of a captain in the said line; such pay to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and shall continue during his natural life; and that any such officer, noncommissioned officer, musician or private, as aforesaid, who shall have served in the Continental line, State troops, volunteers, or militia, a term or terms in the whole less than the above period, but not less than six months, shall be authorized to receive, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury during his natural life, each according to his term of service, an amount bearing such proportion to the annuity granted to the same rank for the service of two years, as his term of service did to the term aforesaid; to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person, receiving any annuity or pension under any law of the United States providing for Revolutionary officers and soldiers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless he shall first relinquish his further claim to such pension; and in all payments under this act the amount which may have been received under any other act as aforesaid, since the date at which the payments under this act shall commence, shall first be deducted from such payment. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the officers, noncommissioned officers, mariners, or marines, who served for a like term in the naval service during the Revolutionary war, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, in the same manner as is provided for the officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution. (U. S. Stat. L., Vol. IV, pp. 529, 530.) STATISTICS OF IMMIGRATION AT NEW YORK. Mr. LODGE presented the following STATISTICS OF IMMIGRATION AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK. PREPARED BY ROBERT WATCHORN, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 4, 1908.-Referred to the Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed. STATISTICS OF IMMIGRATION AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK. [NOTE.-The term "alien" as used in these tables includes alien immigrants, alien tourists, aliens in transit, and alien United States residents. The term "immigrant" as applied in these tables means aliens whose given final destination was the United States.] Alien steerage passengers landed at the port of New York under the jurisdiction of the State board of emigration, beginning May 1, 1855, the opening of Castle Garden as an emigrant landing depot," to April 18, 1890, the closing of Castle Garden. Number of aliens passed by the State boards from May 5, 1847, to May 1, 1855. Total number passed by the State boards.. 419,718 349, 233 85,795 2,031,512 7,690, 606 9,722, 118 1888. 1889. 1890.. Alien arrivals landed at the port of New York under the supervision of the United States Immigration Service. Yearly average during term of State boards of emigration. 1, 123, 844 277,775 482.891 222, 195 373,666 695, 608 1,029, 852 |