The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1856-01-03
The Presidents Message.

/. of the LIST inst, we condense the fol
lowing.
f The message was submitted on tn,
: 9th ulto., that day, on ballot TO
speaker Banks, came within tire,
votes of being elected, yet there is nc
organization.
j The President prefaccs his message
with the remark that he had delayed
sending it until this time in conse
quence of the non-organiza,ion of the
House of Representatives, but that bis
convictions of his duty to the country
would not permit him any longer to
defer laying before Congress informa.
ton which he had to communicate
on the-state of the Union, and recon-
mending the adoption of such mea-
sures as he judges to be necessary and
expedient for its welfare.
The message commences by express
ing satisfaction at being able to an
nounce that relations of amity happily
continue to exist between the United
States and all foreign powers; but
proceeds to observe that with some of
the latter there are very grave ques-
tons depending, in reference to which
the early and energetic action of Con.
gress may be required.
The most important of these cues
tons are represented to be those aris-
ing out of affairs connected with Cen
trail America. The message recounts
a history ofthe Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
and argues our well-known construc-
ton Of that document entirely in accor-
dance with the views of both Mr.. Cass
and Mr.. Clayton. England is charg-
ed with having directly violated the
treaty by her maintenance of the Mos.
quito protectorate, and the government
Of the Ruatau Colonies.
In reference to the question of the
boundary between Washington Terri
tory and the adjacent British territor-
les in North America, the message re-
commends that provisions be made for
the appointment of commissioner in
connection with one to be appointed
by Great Britain for the purpose of
establishing the line.
In reference to the question of the
Danish Sound dues the President re-
mains ofopinion that the United States,
ought not to continue to tolerate them.
He declined participating in the pro-
posed convention at Copenhagen on
several grounds.
The Difficulty with Mr.. Dillon, the
French Consul, is announced ito have
been settled, as also is that with Mr..
King, at Athens.
In reference to the relation of our
Government with the Spanish authori-
ties in Cuba the President says: The
indemnity claimed in the Black War
rior case has been paid.
Spain has also agreed, the message
states, to pay indemnity to American
citizens for the losses sustained, in
Of the sudden repeating
of the decree of 1854, permitting the
free importation of building materials
and provisions into the island for six
The message proceeds to state that
the President does not abandon the
hope of being able to conclude with
Spain some general arrangement,
which, if it do not wholly prevent the
recurrence of similar difficulties to
those just referred to, in Cuba will
yet have the effect of rendering them
less frequent, and of facilitating their
more speedy adjustment whenever
hey may occur.
The message enters in to a long ac-
count of our relations with Mexico,
md Central America.
Treaties of amity. commerce and
are announced to have been {
with the Two Sicilies and l
Nicaragua upon the principles of COM
nercial reciprocity. I
The president insists that it was the t
understanding of the United States, in +
making the Clayton Bulwer treaty, G
hat the present States formerly com |
losing the Republic of Central Ameri- I
ashould thenceforth enjoy complete, b
Independence of action, and that both v
f the contracting parties engaged f
dually for the present and the future: Q