Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-03-16

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forth in his paper of the 1st inst, the following
paragraph which leaves the whole subject in
most oracuar uncertainty:
This IS the third day on which the Senate
have gone into executive session on the pro-
posed treaty. 1t is not supposed that any de-
cisive question has yet been taken.
The city is full of rumors and speculations
on the result. They vary from day to dav. and
sometimes from hour to hour Sometimes it
is said that the treaty will be ratifed-and
then it is confidently said that it will be reject
ed. 1t is generally believed that it will not be
ratified without few NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
principally to Spanish grants of lands in Texas.
California, &c. The general belief and hope
are that the question will be decided in the
course OF the week.
|. The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE UPON THE TREA-
TY.-We copy the following from the Phila-
delphia North American of the 29th ult. The
statements made in regard to the nature of the
original instructions to Mr.. Trist is curious
and no doubt authentic
WAsHINGToN, Feb. 81, 1913.
The Presidents message to the Senate, com
municating the treaty and the accompanying
documents, is brief and pertinent. For once
he eschews elaboration and comes to the point
because the subject is tender one He tells
his constitutional advisers that he did not an
ticipate negotiation on the part of Mr.. Trist,
whose authority was revoked, but she has done
so,' and therefore he adopts it. This preface
and a recommendation that the Senate do not
ratify the tenth article of the treaty, with his
reasons for the same, make up the sum total
of the message.
/ no taO ri i,,a111 bo
ject of my last letter, but recur to it again
for sufficient reasons. 1t provides that all
empre8sdriO or coloniZing grants made by
Mexico In Texas prior to the I'd of March,
1886, shall be guaranteed and confirmed by
the United States, and that where the qualif-
cation of occupation exists, which was pre-
vented by the difficulties between Texas and
Mexico, the period assigned for the exchange
of Qualifications shall be allowed the grantees for
initiating settlement.
This provision extends also to grants made
in the coded territory anterior to the 18th of
May, 1916.
From the objections of the President, as
we'll as from the embarrassment of pledging
the Government to contract which it cannot
execute, / am inclined to believe this excep-
tionable article will be expunged, and the trea-
ty returned to Mexico thus amended. The
President declared in his message, that Mr..
Trist had no authority III any of his instructions
| for the insertion of such an article. and my
understanding of them fully warrants this de-
| Claration.
In his letter to Mr.. buchanan, communicat-
ing the treaty, Mr.. Trist does not seem to APP
prehend such a contingency the erasure of
any of its provisions. He merely expresses
belief that when the members are elected from
| Puebla and Vera Cruz, the treaty as it stands,
will be ratified by decided mar ority," of
the Mexican Congress
My approximations in regard to the mediation
of the British Embassy in such an event. are
sustained by high authority. The interests
of Mr. Macintosh the consol, are immediate
and monetary. His influence, therefore, which
is undoubtedly large, will be exerted to the full
lest extent, but whether it is powerful enough
to accomplish the object is quite another ques-
ton.
The original instructions to Mr. Slidell, and
included in those to Mr.. Trist, which, as have
remarked were varied from time to time, au-
thorized him to negotiate for the acquisition of
Upper and New Mexico, with the privilege Of
the right of way across the Isthmus of Tehuan
tepec for thirty millions of dollars; for Upper
California, New Mexico, and this vast right,
twenty-five millions; for Upper California and
i New Mexico; without the right. twenty mil
lions, the boundary of the Rio Grande being
was also instruction, if better could not be
+ done, to negotiate for the Rio Grande TO its
head waters, for consideration of five mil
Il lions.
/ In those days the Administration had great
!! anxiety for peace. much more so than their
policy of late has indicated; but Mr.. Trist was
authorized to contract with any sort Of gov
eminent that he could find. The frequency of
revolution is assigned as the cause ofthis course
Mr.. Buchanan instructed him, in so many
words, if the Constitution of 1924 is subverted
and the Government seized by military Die
tator, that he is authorized to receive and re-
i cognize his signature to treaty, as the act OF
the proper authority. This is Democracy with
vengeance. and it witnesses the sincerity of
the professed desire of this Administration to
cherish the institutions. and preserve the free
dom of our ''sister Republic"
1t appears from the papers, that after every
battle there was some new attempt made at
! negotiation.