The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-10

prompt and reSpecJIul atenlfOn 10 In'
matter brought under negotiation, ane
the conference proceeded with such "a,
pidity and success that on the 18th Of
November, last, two treaties We're signed
at Pekin. relating 10 the Introduction o
Chinese into this country. and one re-
lating TO commerce. Mr.. Trescol, one o
the commissioners, is now on his way
home, bringing the treaties, and il Is
expected that they will be received in
season 10 be laid before the senate early
in January
In my last annual message expressed
i the hope that the prevalence of qulei
on the border between this country and
Mexico would soon become so assured
as TO justify the modification OF
| the orders then II force TO our military
commanders IN regard to crossing the
| frontier without encouraging such dis
turbances as would endanger the peace
of the two countries. Events moved in
accordance with these expectations and
the orders were accordingly withdrawn,
| 10 the entire satisfaction OF our own cit
liens and the Mexican government.
Subsequently the peace of the border
was again disturbed by savages, COM
manded by Chief Victoria, but by the
i
military forces of both countries, his
band has been broken up and snbstan-
TALLY DESTROYED There is reason TO be-
lieye that the obstacles which have so
long prevented rapid and convenient
communication between the United
States and Mexico by railways are on
the point of disappearing, and that sew
eral important enterprises of this char
acter will soon be set on foot, which can
not fail to contribute largely to the pros
ity of both countries
TRADE AND COMMERCE..
The efforts of the department OF state
to enlarge the trade and commerce of
the United States through the active
agency of consular officers and through
the dissemination OF information OBJ
tanned from them, have been unrelaxed.
The interest in these efforts, as developed
in our commercial communities and the
value of the information secured by
this means to the trade and manufac-
turtles of the country, were recognized
by congress at its last session, and pro-
vision was made for the more frequent
publication. of the consular and other
reports by the department of the state.
The first issue of this publication is
now prepared, and subsequent issues
n.dy regularly be expected. The i'm
portance and interest attached 10 the re-
ports Of consular officers arr witnessed
by the general demand for them by al
classes of merchants and manu-
facturers engaged in our foreign
trade. 1t is believed that
the system OF such publications is de-
serving of the approval of congress, and
that the necessary appropriations for its
continuance and enlargement will COM
mend itself to your consideration. The
prosperous energies OF our domestic in
dustries and their immense production
OF the subjects of foreign commerce in
vite and even require an active devel-
opment of the wishes and interests of
our people in that direction. Especially
important is it that our commercial re-
lations with the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of South America, with the West
Indies and the Gulf OF Mexico, should
be direct, and not through the circuit of
European systems, and should be car
ried on in our bottoms. The full APP
probation of the opportunities which
our front ON the Pacific ocean
gives to- commerce with Japan,
China and the East Indies. with Austria
liza and the island groups which lie along
these routes of navigation, should in
spire efforts TO appropriate to our own
shipping, and to administer by our own
capital, q due proportion of this trade.
Whatever notifications of our regula-
tions of trade and navigation may be
necessary or useful to meet and direct
these impulses to the enlargement of our
exchanges and of our crying trade,
am sure the wisdom of congress will be
ready TO supply. One initial measure,
however, seems to me so clearly useful
and efficient that | venture to press it
upon your earnest attention 1t seems
to be very evident that the pro-
visions of regular steam postal
government has been the fore
runner of the commercial predominance
of Great Britain on all these coasts and
seas, greater share in whose trade is
now the desire and the interest of our
people. 1t is also manifest that the eff
forts of other European nations to con-
test with Great Britain for share of
this commerce have been successful in
proportion with their adoption of regu-
lar steam postal COMMUNICATIONS with
the market whose trade they sought
Mexico and the states of South America
are anxious to receive such postal COM
munications with this country, and to
aid in their development. Similar CO.
operation may be looked for in due time
from the eastern nations and from Aus
tralia. 1t is difficult to see how the lead
in this movement can be expected from
private interests In respect to foreign
commerce, quiet as much as in interna-
tional trade, postal communication
seems necessarily matter of common
and public administration, and thus per-
tanning to government. | respectfully
recommend to your prompt attention
such just and efficient measures as may
conduce to the development of our for
eign commercial exchanges and the
building up of our carrying trade. In
this connection desire, also to suggest
the very great service which might be
expected in enlarging and facilitating
our commerce in the Pacific ocean, were
trans-marinc cable laid from San Fran
cisco TO the Sandwich Islands, AMI
thence to Japan AT the north, and Aus
tralia at the south, and the great influ-
ence of such means of communication
on these routes of navigation in devel-
oping and securing the due share of en-
torcement, and it may be that such an
enterprise, useful and in the end profita-
able as it would prove TO private invest
ments, may need TO be accelerated by