entering Nevada and forcing the Duck Valley Indians to join them, and had gone west into Oregon to seek assistance from the Piutes on the Malheur reservation. Major Egbert of the United States army having arrived with his command, Governor Adams found the conditions anticipated in my second order fulfilled, and at once proceeded to disband his volunteers. In all matters pertaining to the protection of our frontier, Governor Adams displayed good judgment, and his conduct throughout the short campaign commanded my approbation. The Indians are the special wards of the Federal Government, and any expense incurred by a State in protecting its people against their depredations, is a proper charge upon the Federal treasury. If you were to memorialize Congress, and ask repayment of our expenses in both the Spring Valley and Bannock Indian wars, I see no reason why the request should not be granted.

CHINESE.

In my last message to the Legislature, I discussed at some length. the Chinese question. I called special attention to the fact that they were gradually substituting their labor for that of our people, both male and female. Two years ago they held "undisputed sway as domestic servants in families, in restaurants, and hotels." They had nearly entire control of the laundry business, and were extensively engaged in many other industrial pursuits. At present, scarcely any other than Chinese labor is employed in procuring the immense quantities of cordwood that are consumed in the western part of this State. It is safe to say that not less than five hundred white men have been deprived of any opportunity to work by the employment of cheap Chinese labor in this industry alone. They are, also, much more extensively used as farm hands than formerly.

Thus it will be seen that the Chinese have either wholly, or to a great extent, absorbed nearly all the labor pursuits of Nevada, except mining, and this they would have controlled before now, had it not been for Miners' Unions. As a consequence of this influx of Chinese laborers, our white population is not on the increase, and if our white population does not increase, there will be no increase of property, real or personal. We should feel it our highest duty to exercise all constitutional power to discourage, if we cannot prevent, the further immigration of Chinese to this State.

CONCLUSION.

Before closing this message, I hope it will not be considered inopportune to refer to the condition of the State eight years ago, when I first took charge of the Executive Department, and its present condition. Then the State was loaded down with a debt of over seven hundred thousand dollars. State warrants were hawked about the street at from sixty to sixty-five cents on the dollar; there was no money in the Treasury; heavy defalcations had brought disgrace upon at least two departments of the State Government. In a word, we had staring us in the face "an exhausted credit and bankrupt Treasury." Now we have over six hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($660,000) in the Treasury; our entire public debt is paid, or the payment provided for; taxes have been reduced

from one hundred and twenty-five to ninety cents on the hundred dollars, and can at this session be again greatly reduced; the morale of the entire administration is of the highest character, and each department stands above suspicion.

Eight years of economical administration has placed the State Treasury one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($1,350,000) better off than it was on the first of January, 1871, and that on a reduced rate of taxation. In bringing about this great change, I feel my obligations to all the heads of departments of the State Government; to their hearty co-operation and efficient administration of their respective departments, the people are indebted for our present prosperous condition.

Feeling grateful for the constant and warm support of my constituents during the eight years I have devoted to their service, I bespeak for my successor and the incoming administration the same generous support.

Before the throne of our Divine Father, let us prostrate ourselves, with thanks for the almost universal good health and great business prosperity with which he has blessed the people of our State.

L. R. BRADLEY.

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