Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-01-30
TUE SPECIAL MESSAGE"

|, THE SPECIAL. MESSAGE"
% Y.s, AGE IRON THE PRESIDENT TO BOTH
HOUSES or CONGRESS.
! Received, and read, and referred to
the committee Oh Foreign Relations
IN both Houses.
49, MoNDAY, JAN. 18.
nd House Of Representatives..
Il GENTLEMEN: In my message at the
sopening Of your session, ! informed
i ron that our Charge d'Afiairs at Par
= !, had been instructed to ask for the
3 6naIdeterninatiOn ofthe FrcnchG Gov
1ernment, in relation to the payment
&of The indemDiiication secured by the
traty Of the 4th Of July, 1881, and
!. that, when advices Of the result should
! he received, it would be made the sub
: iect OF special communication.
IN execution Of tin, design, ! now
Transmit to you the papers numbered
from ! to I 8, inclusive. containing, a
Imosc other things, the cOrrespon-
kdence on this subject between our
= Charge d'Affairs and the French Min
lister Of Foreign Affairs, from which
Nj will be seen that France requires,
les condition precedent to the exc
4 cution Of a treaty Internationally rat
4 fled, and to the payment ola debt ac-
! kno~ledged by all the branches Of her
Government to be due, that certain
explanations shall be made, Of which
I she dictates the terms. These terms
are such as the Government has al
ready been officially informed cannot
be complied with; and, if persisted
in, they must be considered as a DELHI
crate refusal on the part of Franco tn
fulfil engagements binding by the
laws If nations, and held sacred by
the whole civilized world. The ma
ture Of the act which France requires
from this government is clearly set
forth in the letter of the French Min
ister, marked No. 4. We will pay
the money, says he, when ''the Gov
.ernment Of the United States is
. ready on its part to declare to us,by
:. addressing it's claim to us officially
= in writing, that it regrets the mis-
understanding which has arisen be-
"tween the two countries; that this
misunderstanding is founded on q
mistake; that it never entered into
!" its intention to call in question the
.goOd faith Of the French Govern
"ment, nor to take menacing atti-
.tude towards France" and he adds,
eff the Government of the United
Estates does not give this assurance,
1--WE shall he obliged to think that
"this misunderstanding is not the
"result Of an error
in the letter marked No. 6. the
French Minister also remarks that,
1.-THE Government of the u. :. knows
that upon itself depends hencefor-
forward the execution Of the Trca-
~ty ofJu'y 4. 1884,"
Obliged by the precise language
thus used by the French Minister, TO
view IT as a peremptory refusal to ex-
ecute the Treaty, except on terms
incompatible with the honor and in
dependence Of the United States. and
persuaded that, on considering the
correspondence now submitted TO
you. You can regard it in no other
light. It becomes my duty To ca. your
attention to Sucl. measures as the en-
igencv OF the case demands. If the
CLAIM Of interfering in til commune
cations between the di,ieren, branch
6 OF our Governments shall be per-
sisted IN. This pretention is render
ed the more unrca sonablc by the fact
mat the substance Of the required ex-
Fanation has been repeatedly and
."iuntarily given before It was insis-
led on as Il condition. condition
The more humiliatinc because is ii de-
manied As the equivalent ola pecunia-
Reconsideration. Does France de-
SIRE only decls ration that we had no
mention to obtain our rights by an
address to her fears rather than to
ner Justices She has already had it
,rankiy and explicitly given BY our
MINISTER, accredited to her Govern
ment. his act ratified by me. and nv
Nonnrn'atlon vt it officially communi-
Sssed by him. and his letter TO the
!. french minister Of foreign affairs Of
~ So'n Of April. 1885. and repeated
my published approval Of that let
- aater the passage Of the bill Of in
osnoihcation. Does France want 4