The examiner., 1881-12-10

through the cO-OperatlOn O1 the COmInlS- sioners of emigration at New York, have been sent back by the steamers which brought them. A continuance ot this course may prove more etectuaI remedy than diplomatic remOnstrance.
 Treaties of commerce and navigation and for the regulation of consular privileges, have been concluded with Roumania and Servia since their admis- sion into the family of European states.
 As is natural with contiguous States having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained. This government has lost no occasion of encouraging the Mexican government to beneficial realization of the mutual advantages which will result from more intimate commercial intercourse, and from the opening of the rich interior of Mexico to railway enterprise. I deem it important that means be provided to re- strain the lawlessness unfortunately so common on the frontier, and to SUD- press the fOrays of the reservation h. dians on either side of the Rio Grande. 1 The neighboring states of Central America have preserved internal peace, and their outward relations toward us has been those of intimate friendship. There are encouraging signs of their growing disposition to subordinate their local interests to those which are cot11- mon to them by reason of their geo. graphical relations. The boundary dispute between Guatemala and Mexico has afforded this govern ment I an opportunity to exer- else it's good offices for preventing 8 rupture between those states and for procuring a peaceable solution of the question. cherish strong hope that in view of our relations of amity with both countries our friendly counsels may prevail. A special envoy of Guatemala has brought to me the condolences of death of President Garfield.
 The Costa Rican government lately framed an engagement with Colombia settling by arbitration the boundary question between those countries, pro- lYiding that the post of arbitrator should be offered successively to the king of the Belgians, the king of Spain, and the president of the. Argentine Confeder- ! ation. The king of the Belgians has de- clined to act, but am not as yet advised of the action of the king of Spain. As we have certain interests in the dis puted territory which are protected by our treaty engagements with one of the parties, it is important that the arbitra- ltien should not, without our consent, affect OUT rights, and this government has accordingly thought proper to make its views known to the parties to the agreement, as we'll as to intimate them to the Belgian and Spanish govern ments.
 l THE PANAMA CANAL.
 ! @P 1,a proposed interoceanic waterway across the Isthmus of Panama are of grave na- |ctional importance. This government has not been unmindful of the solemn obligations imposed upon it by it's compact of 1846 with Colom- bia, as the Independent and sov- ereign mistress of the territory l crossed by the canal, and has, sought to render them effective by fresh engagements with the Colombian repub- lie looking to their practical execution. The negotiations to this end, after they ] have reached what appeared to be a mutually satisfactory solution here were met in Colombia by a disavowal of the powers which it's envoy had assumed, 1 and by a proposal for renewed nego- tiation on a modified basis. Mean while this government learned that Colombia had proposed to the Euro pean powers to join in 8 guarantee of neutrality of the proposed Panama canal, guarantee which would be in direct contravention of our obligation as the sole guarantor of the integrity of Colombian territory, and of the neu- trality of the canal itself. My lamented predecessor felt it his duty to place be- fore the European powers the reasons which make the prior guarantee of the United States Indispensable and for which the interjectien of any foreign guarantee might be regarded as super tiuous and unffientlly act. Foreseeing the probable reliance of the British gov ernment on the provisions of the Clayton Buiwer treaty of 1850, as affording room for share in the guarantees which the United States covenanted with Colombia four yours before, I have not hesitated to supplement the action ot my predecessor by proposing to her maJesty's government the modification of that instrument and the abrogation Of such clauses thereof as do not eom- port with the obligations of the United l States toward Colombia, or with the vital needs of the two friendly parties to the compact.
 This government sees with great con- cern the continuance of the hostile re- la'ions between Chilli, Bolivia and | Peru. An early peace between these republics is much to be desired, not only that they themselves be spared further misery and bloodshed, but because their continued antagonismt threatens sconse- quences which are, in myjudgment, dan- l gerous to the interest of republican gov ernment on this continent, and calcu- lated to destroy the best elements of our free and peaceful civilization. l As in the present excited condition of popular feeling in these countries there has been serious misapprehension of the position of the United States and as ] separate diplomatic intercourse with l each through independent ministers is sometimes subject owing to the want of prompt reciprocal communication to Temporary misunderstanding have deemed it judicious at the present time to send special envoy, accredited to | all and each of them, and furnished with general instructions, which will, I trust, enable him to bring these powers into friendly relations.
 | THE FINANCES.
 The report of the secretary of the treasury represents in detail highly satisfactory exhibit of the state of the finances and the condition of the various branches of the public service administered by that de-