The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-07
An Extended Review OF Our Relations
with Other Nations. Showing us
at Peace with the
World.
Suggestions Cleaned from the Polity
Of Different GOvemmentS...A
String of "Gllttering
Generalities."
He Pays Feeling Tribute to James A.
Garfield and Shows Difference
Toward His Policy.
Exhaustive Summary OF Treasury Sta.
tisties-.-A Creditable Showing
Of Il Great Nation.
Interesting Extracts from Other De.
partmental Reports.
The Policy Of the Stalwart Administra.
tion Family Outlined.
Interesting Extracts from Other De.
partmental Reports.
The Policy Of the Stalwart Administra.
tion Family Outlined.
Forty-Seventh Congress.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, December 6.-Petitions
were presented by Senators Beck, Jones,
Sherman and Plumb to require railroads to
conduct their business on terms Just and
equitable to the public.
BY Mr.. Mills, of Ualifornia-For Terri
torial government for Southeastern Alaska.
Bills were introduced by Mr.. Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, for a public building for
courts and post-oflice at Erie, Pennsylvania.
BY Mr.. Saunders-For the admission OF
Dakota as a State.
At l2:l2p. M. report was made by the
Senate half of the Joint Committee to wait
ON the President and inform him of the re-
organization of Congress, that they had
been informed by the President that he
would communicate with the two Houses
in writing forthwith.
rnE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
An appalling calamity has beiallen the
American people since their chosen repre-.
sentatives last met in the halls where YOU
are now assembled We might else
recall with unallayed content tho
rare prosperity with which throughout the
year the nation has been blessed. Its har-
vests have been plenteous, its varied indus
tries have thriven,. the health of its people
has been preserved, it has maintained with
foreign governments the undisturbed
relations of amity and peace.
For these manifestations of His
favor we owe Him who holds our destiny in
His hand the tribute of our grateful devo-
ton. Ts that mysterious exercise of His
will which has taken from us the beloved
and industrious citizen who was but lately
the head of the nation, we bow in
sorrow and submission. The mem
ories of his exalted charac-
and of hispatriotic life will be treasured for
ever as a sacred possession of the whole pee
pie. The announcement of his death drew
from foreign governments and people tri-
butes of sympathy and sorrow which his
tory will record as a signal token of the
veneration of mankind.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIoYs-GREAT BRITAIN.
The feeling of good will between our own
government. and that of Great Britain was
never more marked than at present. In
recognition of this pleasing fact, directed
on the occasion of the Centennial celebra-
tion ut Yorktown that a salute be given to
the British flag. Save for the correspond
ence to which ! shall refer hereafter in rela-
tion to the proposed canal across the 18th.
mus OF Panama, little has occurred worthy
efmention in the diplomatic relations of the
two countries Early in the year the For
tune Bay claims were satisfactorily settled,
by the British Government paying in full
the sum of $4,000, most of which has been
already distributed. As the terms of the
settlement included compensations for in
iuries suffered by our fishermen at
Aspee Bay, there has been re-
tanned from the gross award
sum which is deemed adequate for those
claims. The participation OF Americans in
the exhibitions at Melbourne and Sydney
will be approvingly mentioned in the re-
ports of the exhibitors soon to be pre-
sented to Congress, They will disclose
the readiness of our countrymen to
make successful competition in distant
fields of enterprise. Negotiations for an
international Copyright Convention are in
hopeful progress.
The surrender of Sitting Bull and his
forces on the Canadian frontier has allayed
apprehension, although bodies of British
Indians still cross the border in quest of
sustenance, On this subject cor
promises an adequate understanding. Our
troops have orders to avoid, meanwhile, all
collisions with alien Indians.
The presence at the Yorktown
the French Republic, and decend-
ents of Lafayette and of his gallant
compatriots, who were our allies in the
Revolution, has served to strengthen the
spirit of good will which has always
existed between the two nations.
THE BI.METALLIC CONFERENCE.
You will be furnished with the proceed
ings of the Bi-metallic Conference held dur
ing the summer at the city of Paris. No
accord was reached, but a valuable inter
change of views was had, and the
Conference will next year be renewed
at the electrical exhibition and co. .gress
also to he held at Paris. This country was
creditably represented by eminent special
lists, who, in the absence of an appropra-
ton of generous magnitude lent their elf
State Department. While our ex-
hibtors in this almost distinctively
American field of achievement
have received several valuable awards, /
recommend Congress to provide for the re-
payment OF the personal expense incurred
III the public interest by the Honorary
Commission and delegates to the Confer
ence.
GERMANY.
New questions respecting the status of
our naturalized citizens In Germany have
arisen during the year, and the causes of
complaint, especially In Alsace and Lor-
raine, have practically ceased through the
liberal action of the Imperial government
in accepting our often repeated views on the
subject. The application ofthe treaty of1S0S
to the lately acquired Rhenish provinces
has received very earnest attention, and
definite and lasting agreement on this point
Is confidently expected. The participation
of the descendants Of Baron Won Steubon
in the Yorktown festivities, and
their subsequent reception by
their American kinsmen, strikingly
portrayed the ties of good will which unite
the German people and our own.
SPAIN.
Our intercourse with Spain has been