The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-06
State Of the Country.
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Annual Executive Budget
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THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
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Important Propositions to
Congress.
THE DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.
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by Telegraph from washington This
Afternoon.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Fcgotc. CHi,cns ofthe Senase and House Of Repre-
SeHtd'irCS -
Again the blessings Of health and m abundant
harvest claim our proioundest gratitude to Al
mighty God.
The condition of our foreign affairs Is reason
ably satisfactory.
Mexico continues to be theatre Of civil war
while our political relations with that country
have undergone no change, we have at the same
time strictly maintained a neutrality between the
belligerents.
At the request of the States of Costa Rica and
Nicarngua, competent Engineer has been
authorized TO make survey OF the river San
Juan, and the port Of San Juan.
Ii Is a source of much satisfaction that the dif1-
culties which for a moment excited some politi-
| cal apprehensions, and caused a closing of the
| inter. oceanic transit route, have been amicably
| adjusted and that there is good prospect that
| the rOute will soon be Teopened with an increase
/ OF capacity and adaptation. We could not exag-
gerate either the commercial or the political i'm
| pOrtanCe of that great improvement.
It would be doing injustice to an important
South American State not 10 acknowledge the
direCtuess, fraukness, and cordially with which
the United States of Columbia have entered into
intimate relations with this Government.
Claims Convention has been constituted to COM
plete the unfinished work of the one which closed
its session in 1861.
The new liberal constitution of Venezuela
having gone into effect with the universal acqui-
escence Of the people, the Government under it
has been recognized and diplomatic intercourse
has been opened with 1t In q cordial and friendly
spirit.
The loug-deferred Arrests land claim has been
satisfactorily paid and discharged. Mutual pay
ments have been made of the claims awarded by
the lac joint commission for the settlement OF
claims between the United States and Peru.
An earnest and cordial friendship continues to
exist between the two countries, and such efforts
| as were in my power have been used to remove
misundGrstaDdings and avert threatened wa.
between Peru and Spain. Our relations are of
the most friendly nature with Chill, the Argen-
tine Republic, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay,
San Salvador, and Hayu.
During IT, past year no differences of any kind
have arisen with any of those Republics, and on
the other hand their sympathes with the United
States are constantly expressed with cordially
and earnestness.
The claims arising from the seizure of the
cargo of the brig Macedonia, in 1921, have been
paid in full by the Government of Chill.
Civil war continues in the Spanish part Of San
| Domingo, apparently without prospect OF an
| early close. Official correspondence has been
| freely opened with Liberia, and It gives us
pleasing view of social and political progress in
that Republic.
1t may be expected to derive new vigor from
American influence, improved by the rapid dis
appearance of slavery in the United States
solicit your authority to furnish TO the Republic
a gunbOat OF moderate cost, to be reimbursed
to the United States by instalments. Such
a vessel is needed for the safety of that
State against the native African races, and
in Libelian hands it would be more effective in
Rlresting the African slave trade than q SQUADRON
in our own hands. The possession of the least
organized naval force would stimulate gene
TOus ambition in the Republic, and the conf
dcnCe wbich we should manifest by furnishing
il would win forbeaTanCe and favor towards the
Cp1nuy fron all civilized nations
The proposed Overland Telegraph between
America and Europe, by the way of Behring's
Straits and Asiatic Russia, which was sanctioned
by Congress at the last session, has been under
token under very favorable circumstances by an
association Of American citizens, with the cordial
goodwill and support as well of this Government
as Of those of Great Britain and Russia.
Assurances have been received from most Of the
! South American States of their appreciation of
the enterprise and their readiness TO cooperate in
constructing lines tributary 70 that world enCir-
cling communicating. lleam with much salts
faction that the noble design ofa teegraphic COM
munication between the eastern coast of America
and Great Britain has been renewed, with full ex-
| pectatiOn OF its accomplishment
Thus il is hoped that with the return Of dOmes-
tic peace the country will be able 20 resume with
energy and advantage tts former high career OF
commerce ane civilization.
Our very popular and estimable representative
| in Egypt died in April last An unpleasant
| alteration which arose between the temporary
I incumbent OF Tue OlllGG anu NhO NONNIhiiSllt vi
| the PAcha resulted in a suspension Of inter-
| course. The evil was promptly corrected on the
arrival Of the successor in the consulate, andOur
relations with Egypt, as well as our relations
with the BarbRry powers, are entirely salts
factory.
The rebellion which has been so long raging
in China has been suppressed with the co-opera-
tion and offices of this Government, and Of the
other Western commercial States.
The judicial consular establishment there has
become very difficult and onerous, and it will
need legislative revision 10 adapt il to the extern
sion Of our commerce, and to the moreIintimate
intercourse which has been instituted with the
Government and people Of that vast empire
China seems 10 be accepting with hearty good
will the conventional laws which regulate COM
mercal and social intercourse among the western
nations.
Owing to the peculiar situation Of Japan, and
the anomalous form of its government, the action
Of that Empire in performing treaty stpulatons
is inconstant and capricous. Nevertheless good
progress has been effected by the Western Powers
moving with enlightened concert.
Our own pecuniary claims bave been allowed
or put in course of settlement, and the inland sea
has been reOpened to commerce There Is reason
10 believe that these proceedings have increased
rather than diminished the friendship Of Japan
towards the United States.
(Contnased in the Re5i edni0n.)