The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-12-09

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upon this Captain General issued a new
proclamation, limit 'ng the right of search
of vessels belonging to the United States,
SO far as authorized under the treaty of
1895 This proclamation, however, was
Immediately withdrawn. l
| l have always felt that the most init
mate relations should be cultivated be-
tween the Republic of the United States
and all independent nations on this con-
tinent. It may be we'll worth consider
ing, whether treaties between the United
States and them may not be profitably en-
tered into, to secure more intimate rela.
tlous, friendly, commercial or otherwise.
| The subject of the inter-oceanic canal
to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
through the Isthmus of Darien, is one in
which commerce is greatly interested.
Instructions have been given to our Min
lister to the Republic of the United States
of Colombia, to endeavor to obtain au-
thority for survey by the government
in order to determine the probability
of such an undertaking. and charter for
right of way to build by private enter
prise such work, ifthe survey proves it TO
be practicable. i, noy.of{ lag, 49,. .,o., ~
In order to comply with the agreement
! VI Liic OulIGQ DLdCSS as 10 mlXeQ COM
mission at Lima for the adjustment of
claims, it became necessary to send q
Commissioner to Lima In August last No
appropriation having been made for this
purpose, it is now asked that one be made
covering the past and future expenses Of
the commission. .,,,,s..,. ~ 80,
The good offices of the United States to
bring about peace between Spain and
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which she is at war, having been accept.
ed by Spain, Peru and Chill, a congress
has been invited. to be held in Washing
ton during the present winter. A grant
has been given to Europeans of an exclu-
sive right of transit over the territory of
Nicarauga, to which Costa Rica has given
its assent, which, it is alleged conflicts
with the vested rights Of citizens Of the
United States The Department of State
has now this subject under consideration.
| The Minister of Peru having made rep
RESERVATIONS that there vas state of war
between Peru and Spain, and that Spain
was constructing in and near New York
thirty gunboats which might be used by
SpaiS. in such way as to relieve the ma
val force of Cuba so as to operate against
P cru, orders were given to prevent their
! departure No further steps having been
taken by the representative of the Peru
Wan Government to prevent the depart
ure of these vessels, and not feeling au-
thorized to retain the property ofoa ma.
ton with which we are at peace, on q
mere executive order, the matter has been
referred to the courts to decide. +oE
| The conduct of the war between the al
lies and the Republic of Paraguay has
Il A.,
so difficult that it has been deemed adj
visable to withdraw our representative
from there. 2aliaIe 9Al 5lIaH 2aiao5a"
Near the close of the last administra-
ton q convention was signed at London
for the settlement of all outstanding
claims between Great Britain and the
Unit ed States, which failed to receive the
advice and. consent of the Senate to its
ratification at the time The circumstan-
ces attending the negotiation of the trea-
ty were not favorable to its acceptance by
the people of the United States, and its
provisions were wholly inadequate for the
settlement of the grave wrongs that had
been sustained by, this government, as
we'll as by its citizens-injuries resulting
to the United States by reason of the
course adopted by Great Britain during
our late civil war, the increased rates of
insurance, the diminution of exports and
imports, and other distractions to domes-
tic industry and production, with its of.
iect upon the foreign commerce of the
country, in the decrease and transfer 10
Great Britain of our commercial marine,
and in the prolongation of the war and in
creased cost-both in treasure and in
lives in its suppression-could not be adj
Ijusted and satisfied as ordinary CONNER
cjal claims, which continually arise be-
tween commercial nations, and yet the
convention treated them simply as such
ordinary claims, from which they differ
more widely in the gravity of their char
acter than in the magnitude of their
i amount. Great even as is that difference,
not word was found In the treaty, and
not an inference could be drawn from il to
remove the sense of upfriendl;ness OF the
course of Great Britain in our struggle
for existence, which had SO deeply and
universally impressed itself upon the peo-
pie of this country. Believing that con-
vention, thus misconccived in its scope
and in provisions, would not have pro-
duced the hearty, cordial settlement Of
the pending questions which alone ls COB
sistent with the relations which, desire
to have established between the United
States and Great Britain regarded the
action of the Senate in rejecting the trea-
ty to have been wisely taken in the inter-
est Of peace, and as Q necessary step in
the direction of perfect and cordial
friendship between the two countries 3 A
sensitive people, conscious Of their pow
ers, are more at ease under great wrong
wholly unatoned, than underline restraint
Of settlement which satisfies neither their
ideas of justice nor their grave sense Of