Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-12-10

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authorizing s,areh to be made of vessels
on the high sess. Immediate remonstrance
was made against this, whereupon the
Captain General issued new proclama-
ton limiting the right Of search to vessels
of the United States, so far MS authorized
under the treaty of 1895. This procla-
nation, however, was Immediately with
drawn. / have always felt that the most
intimate relations should be cultivated
between the republic Of the United States
and all independent nations on this con-
tiuent. 1t may be we'll worth consider
ing whether lew treaties between the
United States and them may not be profit
ably entered INTO to secure more intimate
relations, friendly, commercial and 9TH
erwse. The subject Of an interoceanic
canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacit-
ic oceans through the Isthmus of DarieD
is one in which commerce is greatly in
terested. Instructions have been given
to our minister to the republic Of the
United States of Columbia to endeavor
to obtain authority for survey by the
government in order to determine the
practicability of such an undertaking,
ard chaHer for the right of way to
build, by private enterprise. such work
if the survey proves it to be practicable.
In order to comply with the agreement
of the United States as to a mixed com
mission at Lima for the adjustment Of
claims, it becpme necessary to send a
commissioner and secretary to Lima in
August last. No appropriation having
been made by Congress for this purpose,
it is now asked that one be made cover
ing the past and future expenses Of the
Commission. The good Offices of the
United Statesto bring about peace be-
tween Spain and the South American re-
publics with which she is at war having
been accepted by Spain, Peru and Chill,
a Congress has been invited to be held
in Washington during the present Win
ter. A grant las been given to Europe
ans of an exclusive right of transit over
the territory ofNicaragua, to which Cos,
ia Rica has given her assent, which it is
alleged conflicts with vested rights Of
citizens Of the United States. The State
department has now this subject under
consideration. The Minister of Peru
having made presentations that there
was state Of war between Peru and
Spain, and that Spain was constructing
in and near New York thirty gunboats
which might be used by Spain in such a
way as to relieve the naval force at Cuba
so as to operate against Peru, orders were
given to prevent their departure. No
further steps having been taken by the
representative of the Peruvian govern
ment to prevent the departure of these
vessels. and not feeling authorized to
detain property of nation with which
we are at peace on mere executive or
der. the matter has been referred TO the
Courts to decide. The conduct of the
war between the allies and the Republic
of Paraguay has made the intercourse
with that country so difficult that it has
been deemed advisable to withdraw our
representative from there. Towards the
close of the last administration, a con-
vention was signed at London for the
settlement of all outstanding claims be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States, which failed to receive the advice
and consent of the Senate to its ratifca.
ton. The tone and the circumstance
attending the negotiation of the treaty
were unfavorable to its acceptance by the
people of the United States, and its pro
visions were wholly inadequate for the
settlement of the grave wrongs that hat
been sustained by the government as VIZ
as by its citizens.
The injuries resulting to the United
States by reason of the course adopted
by Great Britain during our late civi
war, in the increased rates of insurance
in the diminution of exports and imports
and other Instructions to domestic indus
try and production, in its effect upon tn,
foreign commerce of the country. in tn,
decrease and transfer to Great Britain O
our commercial marine, in the prolonga
ton of the war and the increased cost
both in treasure and in life, of its sup
preston, could not be adjusted and salts
fed as ordinary commercial claims, which
continually arise between commercial ma
tions. And yet the convention treated
them simply as such ordinary claims.
from which they differ more widely, in
the gravity of their character, than in
the magnitude of their amount. Great
even as is that difference, not word wa:
found in the treaty and not an inference
could be drawn from it to remove the
sense of the unfriendliness of the course
OF Great Britain in our struggle for ex-
istanoa which b,J 60 IL