. The student's American history . \ o -TCI ^ - ^ i i ( I -i,V )~ • Vavannai- .^ w/ >^ S P A/jfJ 7 ^1 4s^J^arl/••-B• ^ /) 100 200 300 400 500. from 92° Greenwich 1885-1886.] RECONSTRUCTION, THE NEW NATION. 505 fought against him followed him to the grave, and among thepallbearers were several Confederate generals. 546. Clevelands first annual message ; the tariff; silvercoinage ; public lands. — In his first annual message to Con-gress (1885), the President called attention to the fact thatthe revenue of the Government was in excess of its actualneeds; he recommended the adoption of a tarif

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. The student's American history . \ o -TCI ^ - ^ i i ( I -i,V )~ • Vavannai- .^ w/ >^ S P A/jfJ 7 ^1 4s^J^arl/••-B• ^ /) 100 200 300 400 500. from 92° Greenwich 1885-1886.] RECONSTRUCTION, THE NEW NATION. 505 fought against him followed him to the grave, and among thepallbearers were several Confederate generals. 546. Clevelands first annual message ; the tariff; silvercoinage ; public lands. — In his first annual message to Con-gress (1885), the President called attention to the fact thatthe revenue of the Government was in excess of its actualneeds; he recommended the adoption of a tariff which shouldyield enough to meet all reasonable demands, while at the sametime it should protect the interests of American labor. * He urged Congress to suspend the compulsory coinage ofsilver dollars by repealing the Bland-Allison Act of 1878(§ 535)- He recommended that steps should be taken torecover public land which had been obtained by fraudulentmeans or through defective legislation for purely speculativepurposes. The Land Department acted on this suggestionand succeeded in getting back more than 100,000,000 acres,to be dispose

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