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Naval Academy, United States, 33- 



36, 581, 584 



enlargement, needed, 633 

 graduates of the, 583 



Naval base in Philippines, 691 

 cadet, the title, 581 

 efficiency, standard of, 583 

 gun-practice, funds for, 631 

 intelligence, office of, 692 

 manoeuvres in peace, 582 

 militia, State, 583-584 

 militia, object of the, 583 

 officers, duties of, 34-36 

 Reserve, National, 584 

 Reserve, demand for, 584 

 shore duties, civilians in, 582 

 stations in Cuba, 646 

 vessels, need of new, 581 

 War College, 692 



Navigation, Bureau of, 692 



Navy, United States, the, 203, 401, 



465 



activity of, in peace, 121-122 

 admiral of the, 631 

 and Army, 463 

 auxiliary, 584 

 builders of the, 580 

 completing, no cessation in, 581 

 commercial, importance of, 394 

 condition of, in 1882, 402, 579 

 Confederate, 209, 223 

 Congressional action on, late, 



403 



credit for the, 580 

 Department, 34, 266, 295, 559, 



584, 691, 692 

 efficiency in the, 582, 691 

 efficient, need of an, 266, 394, 



enlisted men of the, 465 

 first-class, need of a, 632 

 excellence of the, 34 

 General Board of tne, 583, 592 

 General Staff in, 692 

 gunnery in the, 631 

 history of the, present, 579 

 importance of the, 577 

 improvised, impossible, 578, 632 

 inadequate, dangers of an, 632 

 instruction in the, 582, 583 

 Isthmian Canal and, 632 

 manoeuvres in, extensive, 631 

 marksmanship in the, 691 

 memorial monument, 401-404 

 men for, need of good, 583, 632 

 men of the, 120 

 men of the, credit to, 421 

 men of the, training for, 403 

 mercantile, our, 394 

 military, our, 394 

 necessity of a good, 584 

 necessity of maintaining, 198 

 no politics in, 209 

 officers, additional, needed in, 



633 

 officers and men for the, 581 



Navy, United States, the, officers 



in, credit due, 633 

 officers in, scarcity of, 633 

 officers of, work of, 691 

 peace, guarantee of, 267, 577, 



578, 632 



plea for the, 404 

 plea for, by President Monroe, 



690 



policy on, National, 402 

 preparation in, need of, 401, 



pride in, 492 



progressive instruction in the, 



583 



promotion in, fostering, 633 

 public debt to, 588 

 recruits in, raw, 633 

 retirement from, facility in, 633 

 Secretaries of the, 403 

 Secretary of, Advisory Board 



,to, 692 

 Secretary of the, 79, 309, 579, 



580, 581, 583, 656 

 services of the, great, 119 

 ships and crews in the, 632 

 ships for, providing new, 631 

 situation on the, 577-584 

 skill in the, need of, 120-121 

 Spanish, 580 



standard of the, high, 465 

 Surgeon-General of, 457 

 target practice in the, 582 

 the new, 402 



training in the, 119, 579-580 

 upbuilding of the, 402, 631, 691 

 war, not a provocation to, 578 

 Yard, Bremerton, Wash., 420 



Nebraska, 329 



Needs, National, laws for, 99 



Negro appointments, attitude on, 513 

 defended, 516 

 fewness of, 512 

 criminals, 524 



"domination," 511, 513, 516 

 office-holding, 510-518 

 rights of the, 446 



Negroes appointed in South, 516 

 appointments of, 511 

 victims of lynching, 524 



Nero, United States ship, sound- 

 ings by, 625 



Netherlands, the, 151, 668, 669 



Nevada, 414, 416, 362 

 agriculture in, 417 

 development of, 417 

 irrigation in, 415-416 

 Land reclamation in, 682 

 laws of, irrigation, 417 

 mineral products of, 417 

 public lands in, 415 

 stock raising in, 417 

 water supply of, 415 



Newell, F. H., 68 1 



New England, 97, 113 

 town meeting, 533 



