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, 577 enlisted men of the, 465 first-class, need of a, 632 excellence of the, 34 General Board of the, 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 manœuvres 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 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, 578 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 Negro 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, soundings by, 625 Netherlands, the, 151, 668, 669 Nevada, 362, 414, 416 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., 681