Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-12-06
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

We take the following comprehensive synop-
sis of the Presidents Message from that useful
paper the Baltimore SIN:
Not only has the past year, according to the
Presidents message, been without any start
ling event, and with the exception of the Bos-
ton hire, without any marked calamity 10 cloud
the general record of peace and prosperity AT
home and abroad, but the President has abso-
lniely no special recommendations or sugges-
tons to make beyond what have been fore
Swallowed in previous messages for the imme-
date future. 1t is an echo in effect of the wish
recently expressed by Prince Bismarck for the
German Emperor and people, that history
with them for awhile might stand still. The
tone of the message itself is dignifed and Off
cial, offering no contrast in this respect to 9TH
er sinliar State papers of late years. Nothing
OF personal character is obtruded, no allusion
even beng made TO the fact that " presidential
eiecHon has taken place within the past year.
After the usual expressions ofgratiiude 10 the
Divine Author of all our blessings, national MS
well as individual, the message proceeds d.
fectly TO review, equally gratifying and sue
cinct, OF the state OF our foreign relations.
Appropriate congratulations are addressed
to the national legislature upon the results OF
the " aShinglon treaty-the award in favor OF
the United States pronounced by the Geneva
tribunal and that of the Emperor of Germany
in the matter of the San Juan boundary. Here
again there 10 not syllable to show that the
award OF SIS, 500, 900 in satisfaction of the AL
ALBANIA claims is not up to the full measure OF
the demands and pretensions of our govern
ment, but, equally with the decision of the
German Emperor, 1t is accepted as entirely sat
isfactory. Thanks are awarded to the several
powers and their representatives concerned in
these acts of arbitration, and also to the coun-
sci and agents of the United States for the
spirit and manner in which they have dis
charged the several trusts and duties conhded
to them. Immediate provision by law for the
prompt distribution ofthe proceeds of the &C.
neva award among the parties entitled thereto
is urged. The hearts Of the two great nations
VIII re-echo the hope expressed by the Presi-
dent that the governments of Great Britain
and the United States may remain as at pres
emit without shadow to cloud their friendly
relations.
Congress is urged to the passage of the sup
Elementary legislation required to give effect
to other provisions of the treaty relating 10
the fisheries, &c, the parliaments of Great
Britain and Canada having already passed
laws 10 carry those provisions into effect The
appointment of joint commission to deter
mine the boundary between Alaska and the
cotcrminous possessions of Great Britain, as
also an increased appropriation in aid of the
similar commission now engaged in running
the boundary between the United States and
the British possessions, from the Lake of the
Woods TO the Rocky Mountains, are also re-
commended.
The suggestion is made that the Information
al Statistical Congress should be invited to
hold its next session, three years hence, in this
country, and that the centennial celebration in
1876 would furnish an appropriate occasion
Tor such meeting. The subject Of the centen-
NAL itself comes in for appropriate mention in
another portion of the message An appro-
priation in aid of American exhibitors at the
fielna Exposition, TO be held next year, is re-
commended, also that two vessels of war be
commissioned to transport to Trieste and back,
articles sent from this country for exhibition
Sympathy is expressed with Mexico in its
eHorts 10 maintain a stable republican gov
eminent. aad the revival of the commission
heretofore appointed 10 inquire into depreda-
tons along the Mexican frontier is deemed de-