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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1898. 5] zovernment which has exist- | that recognition was qualified by the dis- occupation and give its peo- | tinct understanding that the responsibility in life 'and property and en- of each of the component sovereign repub- under a just and beneficent | lics toward the United States remained wholly unaffected. This provision was needful, inasmuch it will be | as the compact of the three republics was curity ment e in possession of Cu- d the islan ve aid and direction to this | at the outset an association whereby cer- a Government for them- | tain representative functions were dele- uld be undertaken at the | gated to a tripartite commission, rather onsistent with safety | than a federation possessing centralized . It is important that | powers of government and adminis- ith these people shall be of | tration. In this view of the relation friendly character and 1 relations close and reciprocal. | publics, a change in the representation of « st in every | this country in Central America was pe Y to build up the waste places | neither recommended by the executive or the island, encourage the industry of |initiated by Congress, thus leaving one of people and t them to form a|our Envoys accredited as heretofore sep- ment which shall be free and in- | arately to two States of the Greater Re- ndent. thus realizing the best aspira- | public, Nicaragua and Salvador, and to a of the Cuban people. third State, Costa Rica, which was not s rule must be replaced by a|a party to the compact, while our other benevolent and humane 'n\‘~'rn-]l<3x1\'uy was similarly accredited to the the people of Cuba, | union State of Honduras and the mon- all international | union State of Guatemala. The result has ich shall encouraga| been that the one presented credentials and prosperity and pro- only to the President of Costa Rica, the good will among all of | other having been received only by the whatever may have hecn | Government of Guatemala. either re-| Subsequently the three associated re- |d have a place in | publics entered into negotiations for mak- Until there is com- | ing the steps forecast in the original com- on the island and a|pact. A convention of their delegates inaugurated, military | framed for them a federal constitution continued. under the name of the United States of tae rupture with | Central America and provided for a cen- _of the United tral federal Government and Legisla- family of nations|ture. Upon ratification by constituent with cordiality and the | States, the st of November last was fixed ar finds most of | for the new system to go into operation. BRarlly anse g ;}:le‘ }‘yax;mr:es felw weeks therafter the plan 008 Of SoversiEpEues o severely tested by revolutionary honorable solution by ami- people to for: selves, This should be our duty to as: r W ew Gov rnmer mand for unity o i | the milita y of action on the part of Ty power of the federal States o suppress them. Under this strain the New union seems to have been weakened through the withdrawal of its more im- ‘gnnmu members. This Government was ; ugxthoeflirclé‘ailtlr);ma;:in\':se% gt the llnslfqllz:ltlon 3 and has malintained a attitude of friendly expecxall&‘,\'f‘ i a dispute as to the ex- between the Argentine | Republic and _ Chile, ing along the 5 Andean crests to the Chile southern border of the . i Atacama ert, the and Argentine.} Straits, hearly | the le ontinent, assume arly part of the! unaltered by vernment occa- that the resor tile responsibilities of us remained tentative relations their among themselves, The Nicaragua C p | | anal Commission, un- - mplated by |der the chairmanshi 1 3 the parties, | Jonn & R\'i'fl;m‘e‘rd,mlml ave difficu pointed July 24, 1897, ull1l- I am happ. Importance of = R ! s er the authority of a his (Tffé ‘1;‘:3; chcnmgua provision in the sundry 2 s of fact UPon | Gana) Wo civil act of June 4 of . nissioners were | TE. that vearsinas’ nearis completed its labors and v for deter- | the results of its exhaustive inquiry into touching | the proper route. the i y s the At-| COSt of constructi e a s | e Y on of an ce: ng trea-| canal by a Nicaraguan rogire miit peqrag djustment, | before you. In the performance of its rer by | Work the commission received all possibie > United | courtesy and assistance from the govern. s been | ments of Nicaragua and Costa. Rica ast re- | Which thus testified their appreciation of the importance of glving a speedy and approach the | Practical outcome to the project that haw ew to re- 10T SO many vears engrossed the attention of lhlehrn-spm'u\'% countries. s € Scope of recent inquiry the whole subject, with lhqe iari)mer;px;:;i% ing plans and surveys for a canal by the most_convenient route, it necessarily in. cluded a review of the results of previous surveys and plans, and in particular those : by the Maritime Canal Company under its existing goncessions from Nica. 1 the d 1 the mat- Ve conces- azil to foreign ng hope that a or- | tent these grants necessarily held an e commer S8 Yy hel] an es Unitea | Sential part in the deliberations and con South | clusions of the Canal Commission, as they almost | have held and must needs hold in the d_l cussion of the matter by Congress. Un- ted to | er these circumstances and in view of hess of an in- overtures made to the governments of be the inter. | Nicaragua and Costa Rica by other par Y hles | ties for a new canal concession predicates N8 GAUlS on the assumed approaching lapse of th A contracts of the N with those states of an m perm w_l I have not hesitated 1o express my convictions that considera- po: of a0 s | tions "of expediency and international o all countries | policy, as between the several governs ments interested in the construction and 823X s not tme | control of an interoceanic Y tnis z route require the maintenance of the h c status quo until the Canal Commission shall have reported and the United States Congre all have had the opportunit 10 pass finally upon the whyle matter dur- ing the present session without prejudice by n of any change in the existing , it appears that the go aragua, as one of its las sovereign fcts before merging its n d, and when ernment of D t n n_ for on of |in those of the newly formed United t 1 be brought | States of Central America, has granted | Claimed upon : P o tional concert an optional concession to another asso- : aterial carriage | clation to become effective on the expira- face of the | tion of the present grant. It does not ap- pear what surveys haye been made or Jefferson Page | what route is- proposed under this con: been pend- | tingent grant, so that an examination ted. The | of the feasibility of its plans s necessarily of Argen- | not embraced in the report of the Canal Commission. All these circumstances sug- f the American people | gest the urgency of some definite action ed to the ruler and | by Congress at this session if the labors people of Austris gary by reason_ of filiction that has Sympathy and Hun; a practical waterway is to_be realized. Satisfaction 3 y is now more than ever_ indis for Austria. te and ready inter- Queen of that | P alm. On Sep- communication betwe : took place at stern seaboards demanded by t 2 a body of | nexation of the Hawalian Isiands of Luzerne | the prospective expan h twenty- | and commerce to th and forty-four | national policy now more imperatively 1 of the killed ana | than ever calls for its control by thi ustrian and | Government, are propositions which ¥ deplorable 1sed the solicitude of iment which, kiliing and on of our influnece and wisely act upon. A convention providing for the revival of the late United States and flean Claims Commission and the cons ustifiable mis- a0l of claime which were duly pre: reparation for | n";(- late commission, but not considered | the searching | od, yqe of the expiration of the time lim- emptory action | *400" the duration of the commission nnsylvania, the | oo gigned May 24, 1897, and_has remain- Jpropriate steps | . ynacted upon by the Senate. The i5¢ In order 10 | torm therein fixed for effecting the ex- Ny power. The gicoms | change of ratifications having elapsed, the convention falls, unless the time be ex. tended by amendment, which I am en- deavoring to bring about with the friendly concurrence of the Chilean Government. The United States has not been an indif- hav 1:\L'llvwn indicted for gs on the grot ine of their official th that of with: ding the re- tter after learning for indemnity for | pean powers; but the prospect that the vast commerce which the energy of our citizens and the necessity of our staple productions for Chinese uses has built up in those regions may not be prejudiced through any exclusive treat- ment by the new occupants has obviated the need of our country becoming an act- or in the scene. Our position among nations having a large Pacific coast, and a constantly ex- panding direct trade with the farther Orient, gives us an equitable claim to llotted for prep- m‘(»r.nnrry at the Brussels in 1867 nction of a larg- ng regard to articles e; . than those of other countries. The worth of such a result In making knows rapacity to L it % consideration and friendly treatment in of this internation aracter this regard and it will be my aim to sub- ing more frequent as the exchanges of | por v 9ur large interests in’that quarter by all means appropriate to the constant policy of our Government. The territo- ries of Kiaochau, of Wei-Hai-Wei and of Port Arthur and Talian Wan, leased to Germany, Great Britain and Russia re- spective for terms of years, will, it is announced, add to international com- merce during such occupation; and if no discriminating treatment of American citizens and their trade be found to exist or be hereafter developed, the desire of D his Government would appear to be real- s zed. In this relation, as showing the vol- jelgian restriction on the im- | Ume and value of ‘our exchanges with cattle from the United States, | China and the peculiarly favorabie condis iginally adopted as # | tions which exist for their expansion in commercial countries grow more intimate ried. Hardly a year passes that vernment is not invited to national tion at some important foreign ut often on too short aoticz to >course to Congress for the to do so. My predece the advi; itation of this This plan has | | I trust portations of Restrictions sanitary precaution,will | the normal course of traae, I reter to the at an earlydate be mod- | communication addressed to the Speaker on Cattle ified as to their present | of the House of Representatives by the I itiong 1d future of hardship | Secretary of the Treasury on the 1ith of mportations. 1d discrimination, so | last June, with its accompanying letter of to admit live cattle | the Sec y of State, recommending an under due regulation of their slaughter ; appropriation for a commission to study after landi I am hopeful. too, of a fa- | the commereial and industrial conditions vorable in the Belgian treatment | in the Chinese Empire and report as to of our preserved and salted meats. The | the opportunities for and obstacles to the direct tr not alone for growth of de between the two | enlargement of markets in China for the atr Belgian 2 con- | raw products and manufactures R United States. Action Was not taper her Ml on during the late session. I cordially has veen both encouraging | urge that the recommendation reseie No effort wiil be spared to | your hands the consideration which fos antazes by seeking the re- | importance and timeliness merit. % of needless impediment and by ar. | Meanwhile there may be just ground for or increase commercial | disquietude, in View of the unrest and re. tof opposition and le which A | certain of the Chinese provi i vival of theold sentimen: events in Central America | prejudice to alien peopl than passing mention. menacing_ rupture ~be- between Costa Rica and icaragua, was happily g1, pervades inces. the _case of the attacks upon our clfi:er‘nrsl in Szechuan and at Kutien in 1885, the United States Minister has been instruct- deserve more Troubles in Central composed by the s | ed to secure the fullest measare of pro- ‘ ture of a convention be- | tection, both local and imrerfal, for any America. tween the parties, with | menaced American interests and to de- the concurrence of the | mand in case of lawless injury to persons emalan representative as a mediator, | or property instant reparation appropriate g negotiated and signed on ’ to the case. Warships have been stationed teamer Alert, | at Tientsin for more ready observation ng in Central American waters.It | of the disorders which have invaded even eved that the good offices of our en- ' the Chinese capital, 80 as to be in a po- nd the commander of that vessel | sition to act, should need arise, while a suted to that gratifying outcome. | guard of marines has been sent to Peking my ge the situation was | {o afford the Minister there the same presented with respect to the diplomatic | measure of authoritative protection as the representation of this Government in Cen- | representatives of other nations have been tral America, created by the association | constrained to employ. of Nicar: . Honduris and Salvador Following close upon the rendition of under the title of the Greater Republic of | the award of my predecessor as arbitrator ra and the deciegation of | of the claim of the Ital- t their international functions to the Diet Arbitration ian subject, Cerruti, 1 While the representative (‘hnr-l Rpfl.ln!l the republic of £ the Dict was recognized by many | of the Lolomlly’lut d rlrfirences ) has been confirmed dur- arose between thie par- 1y mdministration by receiving its ac. | Cerruti Claim. ties to the arbitration in credited Envoyand granting exequaturs to regard to the scope and Consuls coming here under its authority, reached and | Fa8ua and Costa Rica, 8o that to this ee: | aritime Canal Company | our | of the United States to the several re- | movements arising, with a consequent de- | | | GUIDED THE SHIP OF STATE THROUGH SUCCESSFUL WAR TO SATISFACTORY PEACE, | | | wers - | tunatel | | of the past are to be utilized and the link- | ing of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by | the Oz them in That the construction of such a maritime | n our_ eastern and | paid, despite urgs ans | and | compact. Pacific, and that our | participation of t | doubt not Congress will duly appreciate | | missioner, with a view of securin i WILLIAM MCSKINLEY, bk s sint e D S UN TATES. articles were contested by Colombia, while Italy claimed their literal fulfill- ment. The award having been made by the President of the United States as an act of friendly consideration and with the sole view to an impartial composition of matter in dispute, I could not but feel concern at such a miscarriage and, while unable to accept the Colombian theory that I, in my official capacity, possessed continuing function as arbiirator, with power to interpret or revise the terms of the award, my best efforts were lent to bringing the parties to a harmonious greement as to the execution of its pro- visions. A naval demonstration by Italy resulted in an engagement to pay the labilit their ascertainment, b disposition of the contro- diplo- and this apparent versy was followed by a rupture o matic intercourse petween Colom Italy, which still continues, a..aough for- ] without acute s——ptoms havin Nhlw\lhsl-’lndl‘n):' lhlti..r {;‘; s are reported to ve continuing -3 };Og:\‘.\"al“m:“( of Colombia’ .(‘nnUnant lability on account of Cerrutl’s debts un- der the fifth article of the award. A claim of an American citizen against the Domingan republic for a bridge over ama River, which has been in dip- for several years, has supervened. lomatic (‘nr}]{l}(‘\\’(’r been settles y € award in favor of the claimant amounting %o about $90,000. It, however, remains un- ent demands for its set- to the terms of the tlement according s now every prospect that the it he ‘)'nitod States in the Untversal Exposition to be held in Paris in 1900 The Great D¢ BeS on 2 scale com- Paris mensurate with the ad- 3 vanced position held by Exposition. our products and indus- tries in the world’s chief The preliminary report of Moses who, under the act approved 7, was appointed special com- ng all attainable information necessary to a full and complete understanding by Congress in regard to the participation of this Gov- ernment in the Paris Exposition, was laid before you by my message of December marts. P. Handy July 19, 189 pert arbitration, and an | 110 1 ITED S section 4 of the same act, with a View to the Increase of trade between the two countries to their mutual advantage. Negotiations with other Governments, in part interrupted by the war with Spain, ate in progress under both sections of the | I hope to be able to anpounce | some of the results of these negotiations teriff act. during the present session of Congress. Negotiations to the same end with Ger- many have been set on foot. Meanwhile, no effort has been relaxed to convince the Imperial Government of thoroughness of our inspection of pork products for ex- portation and it is trusted that the effi- cient administration of this measure by | the Department of Agriculture will be rec ognized as a guarantee of the healthful- ness of the food staples we send abroad to countries where their use is large and necessary. ; I transmitted fo the Senate on February ast information touching the prohibi- tion against the importation of fresh fruits from this country, which had been recently decreed by Germany, on ground of danger of disseminating the an Jose scale insect. This precaution- ary measure was justified by Germany on | the score of the drastic steps taken in | several States of the Union against the | spread of the pest, and the great danger to German fruit growing in- | terests should the scale obtain a lodgment in that country. Temporary re- *f was afforded in the case of large con- | signments of fruit then on the way by | infected. | | | peeled fruit and fruit w | | | 6, 1897, and showed the large opportunities | | to make known our national progress in | | art, science and manufactures, as well as | | el ferent spectator of the extraordinary gt et Lt T events transpiring in Tustion Sptative of | Extraordinary the Chinese Empir g e the whereby portlons of its O s ith Events maritime pé'n\'ln’(‘es are | s Gov- : assing unde: - arminious in /China.; FESTEEUNRCE-EI0 jo0n Euro. | retary | | _secretary. the urgent need of immediate and ade- quate provisions to enable due advantage thereof to be taken. Mr. Handy's death soon afterward rendered it necessary for another to take up and complete his un- | finished work, and on January 11 last Mr. Thomas W. Cridler, Third Assistant Sor‘--\ of State, was designated to fulfiil hat task. His report was laid beforé you Iy oy message of June M, 183, with the gratifying result of awakening renewed fnterest in the projected display. By a provision in_the sundry civil appropria- tion act of July 1, 1898, a sum not to ex- ceed $650,000 was ailotted for the organiza- tion of a commission to care for the proper preparation and installation of American exhibits and for the display of Sultable exhibits by the several executive | departments, particularly by the Depart- t of Agriculture, the Fish Commission g‘ne; the ngithsnnlan Institution, in the representation of the Government of the United States. Pursuant of that enact- ment, I appointed Mr. Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago Commissioner General, with an assistant Commissioner General and Mr. Peck at once proceeded to Paris, where his success in enlarging the scope and variety of the United States exhibit has oeen most gratifying. Not- withstanding the comparatively limited area of the exposition site—less than one- half that of the World’s Fair at Chicago— the space assigned to the United States has been increased from the absolute al- lotment of 157,403 square feet reported by Mr. Handy to some 202,000 square feet, with corresponding augmentation of the fleld for a truly characteristic represen- tation of the important branches of our country’s development. Mr. Peck’s re- ;ggtnw}ll be laid before you. In my judg- ment, its recommendations will call for 1y consideral{im}l‘. espec(all‘yugs s an increase of the appropriation {ggz{dleast one million dollars in all, so that not only may the assigned space be fully taken up by the best possible ex- hibit in every class, but the preparation and installation be on so perfect a scale as to rank among the first in that un- paralieled competition of artistic and in- ventive production, and thus counterbal- ance the disadvantage with which we start, as compared with other countries whose appropriations are on a more gen- erous scale and whose preparations are n a state of much greater forwardness than our own. Where our artisans have the admitted capacity to excel, where our inventive genius has initiated many of the grandest discoveries of the later days of the cen- tury, and where the native resources of our land are as limitless as they are valuable to supply the world’s needs, it is our province, as it should be our earn- est care, te lead in the march of human progress and not rest content with any secondary place; Moreover, if this be due to ourselves, it is no less due to the great French nation, whose guests we become, and which has in so many ways tfestified its wishes and hope that our participa- tion shall befit the place the two peoples have won in the field of universal devel- opment. lzl‘he commercial arrangement made with France on May 28, 1865, under the provi- sions of section 3 of the your ear] Trade With tariff act of 1867, went into effect on June 1, Germany tzéuowln% It hgs reliev- ed a portion of our ex- and France. port trade from serious embarrassment. Fur- extension of the award, of which certain | ther negotiations are now pending under | | uet. inspection and admission when found non- Later the prohibition was ex- tended to dried fruits of every kind, but was relaxed so as to apply only to un- aste. AS was to be expected, the alarm reached to other countries and Switzerland has adopted a similar inhibition. Efforts are in progress to induce the German and Swiss Govern- ments to relax_ the prohibition in favor of dried fruits shown to have been cured under circumstances rendering the exist- ence of animal life impossible. Our relations with Great Britain have continued on the most friendly footing. Assenting to our re- Our Relations quest the protection of mericans and their in- With l‘elrei\‘ls in Spanish juris- : diction was assumed by Great Britain. i1 diplomatic and Cons sular representatives of Great Britain, who fulfilled their delicate and arduous trust with tact and zeal, eliciting high commendation. I may be allowed to make fitting allusion to the instance of Mr. Ramsden, her Majesty's Consul at Santiago de Cuba, whose un- | timely death after distingulshed service and untiring efforts during the siege of that city was sincerely lamented. In the early part of April last, pursuant of a request made at the instance of the Secretary of State to the British Em- bassador, at this capital, the Canadian Government granted facilities for the passage for the United States revenue cut- ters from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic coast by way of the Canadian canal and the St. Lawrence River. The vessels had reached Lake Ontario and were there awaiting the opening of navigation when war was declared between the United States and Spain. Her Majesty's Govern- ment thereupon by communication of the latter part of April stated that the per- mission granted before the outbreak of hostilities would not be withdrawn pro- vided the United States Government gave assurance that the vessel in question would proceed direct to a United States port without engaging In any hostile op- eration. This overnment promptly agreed to the stipulated condition, it be- ing understood that the vessel weuld not be prohibited from resenting any hostile attack. It will give me special satisfaction if T shall be authorized to communicate to you a favorable conclusion of the pending ne- gotiations with Great Britain in respect to the Dominion of Canada. It is the ear- nest wish of this Government to remove all sources of discord and {rritation in re- lations with the neighboring Dominion. The trade between the two countries is constantly increasing and it is important to both countries that all reasonable fa- cllmtes should be granted for its develop- ment. The Government of Greece strongly urges the onerousness of the duty here im- posed upon the currants of that country, amounting to 100 per cent or more of their market value. This frult is stated to be exclusively a Greek product, not comin into competition with any domestic prod- The question of reciprocal commer- cial relations with Greece, including the restoration of currants to the free list, is under consideration. The long-standing claim of Berand Campbell sar damages for injuries sis- tained from a violent assault committed against him by military authorities in the island of Hayti has been settled by the agreement of that re‘ruhllc to pay him $10,000 in American gold. Of this sum $5000 has already been paid. It is hoped that other pending claims of American citizens :fia.(nst that republic may be amicably justed. £ Pending the consideration by the Senate of the treaty signed June 16, 1897, by the Plenipotentiaries of the Annexation United States and of the republic of Hawali, of - provi& ng gmt'h th’el an- nexation o e island, Hawail. 3 "joint Tesolution 1o accomplish_ the. same purpose by accepting the offered cession and incorporating the ceded territory into the Union was adopted by the Congress and Q)provefl July 7, 1898. I thereupon di- rected the United States steamer Phila- delphia to convey Rear Admiral Miller to Honolulu and entrusted to his hands this important legislative act to be delivered to the President of the republic of Ha- wali, with whom the admiral and the United States Minister were authorized the | to make appropriate arrangements for transferring the sovereignty of the isl-| ands to the United States. This was sim- | ply but impressively accomplished on the | 12th day of August last by the delivery of | a certified copy of the resolution to Presi- | dent Dole, who thereupon yielded up to ! the representative of the Government of the United States the sovereignty and | public property of the Hawaiian Islands. Pursuant to the terms of the joint reso. lution and in exercise of authority there- by conferred upon me, I directed that the civil, judicial and military powers there- { tofore exercised by the officers of the| Government of the republic of Hawail should continue to be exercised by those officers until Congress shall provide a government for the incorporated terri- tory, subject to my power to remove such officers and to fill vacancies. The Presi- dent, officers and troops of the republic thereupon took the oath of aliegiance to the United States, thus providing for the uninterrupted continuance of (I)F the ad- ministrative and municipal the annexed territory until Congress shall otherwise enact. Following the further provision of the joint resolution, I appointed the Honor- %hles Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, John . Morgan of Alabama, Robert R. Hitt of | Llinois, Sanford B. Dole of Hawali a Walter' F. Grier of Hawail as Cormrale. sioners to confer and recommend to Con- | gress such legislation concerning the Ha- lan Islands as they should deem sary or proper. The Commissioners having _fulfilled the mission confided to them, their report will be laid before you at an early day. It is believed that their recommendations will have the earnest consideration due to the magnitude of the responsibility resting upon you to glve such shape to the relationship of those mid-Pacific lands to our home | Union as will benefit both in the highest degree, realizing the aspirations of the community that has cast its lot with us and elected to share our political herit- | age, while, at the same time, justifying the foresight of those who for three- quarters of a century have looked to the assimilation of Hawaii as a natural and Ll':::'imhée consummation in harmony with needs and in fulfill - ished traditions. s Yo cner The questions tween Haw the allege treaty imi heretofore pending be- aii and Japan, growing ogut of m(}grxanlilreaunenll of Japanese nts, were, I am pleased say, adjusted before the act n? transl:-g by the payment of a reasonable indem- nity to the Government of Japan. Under the provisions of the Jjoint reso- lution the existing customs relations of the Hawaiian Islands with the United States and with other countries remain unchanged until legislation shall other- wise provide. The Consuls of Hawail here and in foreign countries, continue to fulfill their commercial agencies, while the United States Consulate at Honolulu is maintained for all proper services per- taining to trade and the revenue. It would be desirable that all foreign Con- suls in the Hawallan Islands should re- celve new exequaturs from this Govern- ment. The attention of Congress is c: the fact that our consui;arr omees,a'fi;?mfg ceased to exist in Hawaii and being about to cease in other countries coming under the sovereignty of the United States the provisions for the relief and transporta. tion of destitute American seamen in these countries under our consular regu- lations will in consequence terminate, It is proper, therefore, that new legislation should be enacted upon this subject, in oer‘e;r to meet the changed conditions. e interpretation of certain pro- of the extradition convention of %@c"e‘;‘r‘l%:f‘ 11, 1861, has been at va- rious times the occasion Controversy ©f controversy with the With Government of Mexico. An acute difference Mexico. arose in the case of the Mexican demand for the delivery of Jesus Guer- rera, who, having led a marauding expedi- tion near the border with the proclaimed purpose of initiating insurrection against President Diaz, escaped into the United States. Extradition was refused on the ground that the alleged offense was politi- cal in its character and therefore came within the treaty proviso of non-surren- der. The Mexican contention was that the exception only related to purely political offenses and that as Guerrera's acts were admixed with the common crime of mur- der, arson, kidnaping and robbery, the option of non-delivery became void, a position which this Government was un- able to admit, in view of the received in- ternational doctrine and practice in the matter. The Mexican Government, in view of this, gave notice on January 24, 1898, of the termination of the convention to take effect twelve months from that date, at the same time inviting the con- clusion of a convention toward which ne- gotiations are on foot. Toward this relation I may refer to the necessity of some amendment of our ex- isting extradition statute. It is a .com- mon stipulation of such treaties that functions of | demanding State. A recommendation in this behalf, made in the President’s mes- sage of , was not acted upon. The :Jnatter is presented for your considera- on. The problem of the Mexican free zone has been often discussed with regard to its inconvenience -as a gro"oca(lve of smuggling into the United States alon; extensive and thinly guarded land bor- der. The effort made by the joint reso- lution of March 1, 1865, to remedy the abuse charged by suspending the privilege of free transportation in bond across the territory of the United States to Mexico failed of good result, as is stated in re- port No. 702 of the House of Representa- tives submitted in the last session, March 11, 189. As the question is one to be conveniently met by wise concurrent legislation of the two ~ountries looking to the protection of the revenues by harmon- ious measures operating equally on either side of the boundary, rather than by con- ventional arrangements, I suggest that Congress consider the advisability of au- thorizing and inviting a conference of rep- resentatives of the Treasury Departments of the United States and Mexico to con- sider the subject in all its complex bear- ings and make report, with nertinent rec- ommendations, to the respective govern- ments for the information and the con- siderations of their Congresses. The Mexican water boundary commis- sion has adjusted all matters submitted to it to the satisfaction of both govern- ments, save in three important cases that of Chamizal at El Paso. Texas, where the two commissioners failed to agree and wherein, for this case only, this Government has proposed to Mexico the addition of a third member; the pr elimination of what are known as rcos,” small, isolated islands formed by the | Pending these questions it is necess: neither party shall be bound to give up its own citizens with the added proviso, in one of our treaties, that with Japan, that it ma{ surrender if it see fit. It is held in this country by an almost uni- form course of decisions that where a treaty negatives the obligation to surren- der the President is not invested with le- gal authority to act. The confirming of such authority would be in the line of that sound morality which shrinks from afford- ing secure asylum to the author of a heinous crime. n, statutory provi- sion might be well made for what is gxz]ed extradition by way of transit, whereby a fugitive, surrendered by one foreign Government to another, may be conveyed across the territory of the United States to the jurisdiction of the cutting off of bends in the Rio Grande, from the operation of the treaties of 1884 and 1889, recommended by the commis- sioners and approved by this Govern- ment, but still under consideration by Mexico; and the subject of the ‘“‘equitable distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande,” for which the commissioners rec- ommended an international dam and res- ervoir, are approved by Mexico, but still under consideration by this Government. v to extend the life of the commission, which expires December 25 next. The coronation of the young Queen of the Netherlands was made the occasion of fitting congratulations. The claim of Victor H. McCord against Peru, which for a number of years has been pressed by this Government and has on several occasions attracted the atten- tion of Congress, has been satisfactoril adjusteds A profocol was si~ned May. 17, 1898, whereby the fact of liability being admitted. the question of the amount to be ~warded was submitted to the Chief sustice of Canada as sole arbitrator. His award sets the indemnity due the claim- ant at $40,000. The Government of Peru has given the prescribed notification of its i abrogate the treaty of friendship. com- merce and navigation. concluded with this country August 1, #57. As that treat contains many important provisions nec- essary to the maintenance of commerce and good relations which could with dini- culty be replaced by the nomination of re- newed provisions within the brief twelve months intervening before the treaty ter- minates I have invited suggestions b Peru as to the particlar provisions it is desired to annul, in the hope of reaching an arrangement whereby the remaining articles may be provisionally saved ‘His Majesty the Czar, having ann his purpose to raise the imperial R mission _at this cay to the rank of an em- Czar’s Peace bassy, I responded, Project under the authority ore ferred by the act o Favored. March 3, 153, by com- missioning and accredi ing the actual representative at St. Pe- tersburg in the capacity of Emba: extraordinary and plenipotentiary. ‘Lne. Russian Embassador to this country has since presented his credentials. The proposal of the Czar for a general reduction of the vast military establish- ments that weigh so hea 5 people In_time of peace was communi to this Government with an earnest in- vitation to be represented in the confer- ence which it is contemplated to assem- ble with a view to discussing the means of accomplishing so desirable a result. His Majesty dial sympathy of this Government with the principle involved in his exalted pro- nsn? and of the readiness of the United States to take part in the conference. The active military force of the United States, as measured by our population, territorial area and taxable wealth, is and under any conceivable prospective conditions mus continue to be, in time of peace, so co spicuously less than that of the armed powers to whom the Czar’s appeal is es- pecially addressed that the question ca ave for us no practical importance save as marking an auspicious step toward the betterment of the condition of the modern peoples and the cultivation of peace and good will among them, but in this view it behooves us as a nation to lend cou tenance and aid to the beneficent project. The claims of owners of American sail- ing. vessels for seizure by Russian cruisers in Bering Sea are beinz pressed for set- tlement. The equities of the cases justi the expectation that the measure of repar- ation will eventually be accorded in har- mony with precedent and in the light of the proven facts. The recommendation made In my special message of April 27 last is renewed, that appropriation be made to reimburse the master and owner of the Russian bark Hans for wrongful arrest of the master and detention of the vessel in February, 1896, by officers of the United States Dis- trict Court for the southern district of ssissippi. The papers accompanying my message make out a most claim and justify the urgency with which it has been presented by the Government Russia. Oanllomn Laupepa, King of Samoa. died on August 22 last. According to article I of the general act of Situation Berlin, “his successor shall be duly elected ac- in cording to lt{xe lgws and customs 0 amoa. Bamoa. Arrangements having been agreed upon he; the signatories of the genera} ac: ;;vre?k‘m r(-xur?\ of Mataafa and (he?flhpr ciled Samoan chiefs, they were brought ;l’)"égl Jaluit by a German war vessel and landed at Apia _on September 18 last. ‘Whether the death of Malietoa and the return of his old-time rival, Mat: % will add to the undesirable complications which the execution of the tripartite gen- eral act has heretofore developed remains to be seen. The efforts of this Govern- ment will, as heretofore, be addressed toward a harmonious and esact fulfill- ment of the terms of the international en- gagement to which the United States be- came a party in 1889 The Cheek claim against Siam, after some five years of controversy, has been adjusted by arbitration, under an agree- ment signed July 8, 1897, an award of 706,- 721 ticals (about $187.937), ert‘h the r‘el?ase of Cheek's estate from mortgage claims, having been rendered March 21, 183, in favor of the claimant by the arbitrator, Sir Nicholas John H‘aingan. British Chief Justice for China and Japan. An envoy from Siam has been accredited to this Government, and has presented his credentials. Immediately upon the outbreak of the war with Spain, the Swiss Government fulfilling the_ high mission it has deser edly assumed as the patron of the Inter- national Red Cross, proposed to the United States and Spain that they should severally recognize and carry into exe- cution as a modus vivendi during the con- tinuance of hostilities the additional arti- cles proposed by the International Con- ference at Geneva October 26, 1868, ex- tending the effects of the existing Red Cross gonventinn of 1864 to the conduct of naval war. Folowing the example set by France and Germany in 1870, in adopting such a modus vivendi, and in view of the accession of the United States to those additional articles in 1882, although the exchange of ratification thereof still re- mained unaffected, the Swiss proposal was cordially_accepted by us and simul- taneously by Spain. This Government feels a keen satisfac- tion in having thus been enabled to tes- tify its adherence to the broadest prin- ciples of humanity even amidst the clash of war, and it is to be hoped that the e tension of the Red Cross compact to ho: tilities by sea as well as on land may soon become an accomplished fact to the general promulgation of addi- tional naval Red Cross articles by the maritime Powem now parties to the con- wvention of 1864. The important question of the claim of Switzerland to the perpetual cantonal al- legiance of American citizens of Swiss orfgin has not made hopeful progress to- ward a solution, and controversies in this regard still continue, 'Fhe newly accredited envoy of the Uni- ted States to the Ottoman Porte carries instructions looking to Our Claims :he dlsmlzsal of ma ‘tvfrg n controversy t] Against T;xrkey torHa inumher % of vears. e is espe- the wurk. Cially charged to press for a just settlement our claims for indemnity by reason of the destruction of property of American missionaries resident in that country dur- ing the Armenian troubies of 188, as well as for the recognition of older claims of equal justness. He is also instructed to seek an adjustment of the dispute grow- ing out of the refusal of Turkey to recog- nize the acquired citizenship of Ottoman 7 ntion to | s at once informed of the cor- | meritorious | born citizens naturalized in the United States since 1869 without prior imperial consent, and in the same general relation he is directed to endeavor to bring about a solution of the question which has more or less acutely existed since 1869 concern- ing the jurisdiction and rights of the United States in matters of criminal pro- cedure and punishment under article IV of the treaty of 1830. This latter difficulty B0 out of a verbal difference, claimed by Turkey to be essential, between the original Turkish text and the promulgated translation. After more than two vears from the ap- pointment of a Consul of this country to Erzeroum he has received his exequatur. The arbitral tribunal appointed under the treaty of February, , between Great Britain and Ven- England ezuela to determine the boundary between the and latter nndG\r‘w volu:ly gg British Guiana is Venezuela. convene at Paris during the present month. 1t is a source of much gratification to this Government to see the friendly resort of arbitration applied to the settlement of this controversy, not alone because of the earnest part we have had in bringing about the result, but also because the two members named on behalf of Venezuela, Mr. Chief Justice Fuller and Mr. Justice Brewer, chosen from our highest court, appropriately testify the continuing inter- | est we feel in the definite adjustment of question according to the strictest rules of justice. The British members, Lord Herschel and Sir Richard Collins, are jurists of no less exalted repute; | whilé the fifth member and president o the tribunal, M. F. de Martens, has earned a world-wide rc{nlunnon as an au- { 3 international law O aim of Felipe Scandella against Venezuela for arbitrary expulsion and in- jury to his business has been adjusted by the revocation of the order of expulsion and by the payment of the sum of §16,000. 1 have the satisfaction of being able to state that the Bureau of American Re- pubiics, created in 1890 as the organ for promoting commercial intercourse and fraternal relations among the countries of the Western Hemisphere, has become & more efficient instrument of the wise pur- pose of its founders7and is receiving the cordial support of the contributing mem- bers of the international union whiich are actually represented in its board of man- | agement. A commercial directory in two | volumes, containing a mass of statistical | matter, descriptive of the industri I interest of the variou | commer s t tries, has been printed in Englis ish, Portuguese and German, monthly builetin, published in these four languages and distributed in the Latin- America countries as well as in the United proved to be a valu- able me ting informa- tion and furthering the varied interests of the international union. ast year the During the past important | work of collectin, of practical Dbenefit to Ameri _and trade and con- been steadily advaneed, and in order to lay such data before the public with the least delay the practice wary, 1885, of issuing the | through the agen | sular officers, has i was begun in commercial reports from day to day as they are received by the Department of State. It is believed that for promptitude, well as fullne: of information, the service thus supplied to our merchants and manufacturers will be found to show sensible imoprov ent and to merit the liberal support of Congres The experiences of the last year bring | forcibly home to use a sense of the bur- dens and the waste of It is true we than other | able trade and commerce. may suffer in such c. communiti more or les: and apprehe ! To Render ar. We desire, in com- | vith most civilized | War Less o reduce to the I ; ble point the | Terrible. Jamage sustained in | time of war by peace- | P | | s are damaged > of uneasiness throws the entire commercial 1t should be our object, therefore, to minimize, so far as practicable, this inevitable loss and disturbance. This pur- pose can probably be best accomplished | by an international agreement to regard | all private property at sea as exempt | from capture or destruction by the forces of belligerent powers. The United States Government has for many years advo- cated his humane and beneficent princi- ple and is now in position to recommend it to other powers without the imputation of selfish motives. I, therefore, suggest for your consideration that the Executive be authorized to correspond with the Gov- rnments of principal maritime powers with a view of incorporating into the permanent law of civilizel nations the principle of the exemption of all private t:ropflrp\"at sea,dnnt contraband of war, rom capture or destruction by from oo 0 ction by belligerent The Secretary of the Treasury reports “lhut the recéipts of the Government ! from all sources durin | Revenues f,ho fi;cul year ende | une 30, 1898, includin; of the 384,751,223 received from ot ent. Sale of Pacific railroads, am]nulnted to 3-10.-. 21,335, and its expenditures $443,368,582. There was obtained from cuts(: toms $149,575,062, and from internal reve- nue $170,900,641. Our dutiable imports amounted to $324,735,479, a decrease of $58,- 156,690 over the preceding year, and im- portations free of duty amounted to $291,- 414,175, a decrease from the preceding year of 35"5:»2&1,0‘1';:, lnlrerr'ml revenue receipts exceede: ose of the preceding ye: $24.212,068. 5 dabialsd The total ta: | X collected on distilled spir- | its was ,999, on manufactured tobac- co $36,230,522 and on fermented liquors $39,- ‘515.421, We exported merchandise during = the year amounting to $1,231,482,330, an in- | crease of $150,458,774 from the preceding year. It is estimated upon the basis of present revenue laws that the receipts of the Gov- ernment for the year ending June 30, 1899, will be $577,874,607, and its expenditures 689,874,647, resulting in a deficiency of 000,000, On the Ist of December, 1868, there was held in the Treasury go.d coin amounting 8,441,547; gold bullion amounting to silver _bullion amounting to 39 and other forms of money amounting to $451,962,981. On the same date tne amount of money of all kinds in circuiation or not included in Treasury holdings was $1.836.879,504, an increase for the year of $165,794," Estimating our population at 75,104,000 at the time mentioned, the per capita circu- lation was $25 09. On the same date there was in the VERTISEMENTS. AD - ~ Some people in the world persist in clinging to old methods. There are men who still use a forked stick in place of a modern plow. There are also men, who, when they are troubled with a disordered stomach or liver, resort to the old-fashioned violent remedies that rack and rend the whole body, and while they give temporary relief, in the long run do the entire system a great amount of harm, . Modern science has discovered remedies infinitely superior to these old-fashioned drugs, that do their work by _promoting the natural dprocesses of excretion and secre- tion and gently correcting all circulatory disturbances. 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