The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

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United States conceded the modification of
existing treaties should secure careful re-
gard for the interests and susceptibilities of
that Government in the enactment
of any laws relating to Chinese immigration.
Those clauses of the treaties which forbid
the participation of citizens on vessels of
the United States in the opium trade Will
doubtless receive your approval. They
will attest the sincere interest which our
people and Government feel in the COM
mendsble efforts of the Chinese Govern
ment to put stop TO this demoraliZing and
destructive traffic. In relation both to
China and Japan, some changes are desira-
BILE in our present system of jurisdiction,
and hope at some future time to lay be-
fore you 4 scheme for its improvement.
CHILL, BOLIVIA AND PERU.
This Government sees with great concern
the continuance of the hostile relations be-
tween Chill, Bolivia and Peru. An early
peace between these Republics Is much to
be desired, not only thatthey may be spared
further misery and bloodshed, but because
| their continued antagonism threatens con-
sequences which are, IN my Judgment dam
gerous 70 the interests of Republican Gov
eminent, and calculatedto destroy civilization.
As in the present condition of popular
feeling in these countries there has been Sc
rious misapprehensions of the position of
the United States, and IS separate. diplo-
matte intercourse with each through indie
pendent ministers is sometimes subject,
owing to the want of prompt
reciprocal communication, to bring
on misunderstanding, have
deemed it iudicious at the present time to
send a special envoy, accredited to all and
each of them, and furnished with general
instructions which will, l trust, enable him
to bring these powers into friendly relations.
THE GOVERNMENT OF VENEZUELA
maintains its attitude, with great regularity,
to the payment of the monthly quota of the
| diplomatic debt. Without suggesting the
direction in which Congress could set, ask
attention to the pending questions affecting
the distribution of the sums thus far re-
ceived. The relations between VenZqela
and France, growing out of the same debt,
have been for some time past in an unsatis-
factory condition, and this Government, as
the neighbor and one of the largest credit
ors of Venzuela, has interposed itself since
with the French Government with the view
of producing friendly and honorable ad-
justment.
THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
The intimacy between our country and
Japan, the most advanced of the Eastern
nations, continues to be cordial. / am
advised that the Emperor contemplates the
establishment of q constitutional Govern
ment, and that he has already summoned
parliamentary congress for the purpose of
| eHecting change. Such q remarkable
step toward the complete assimilation of the
Western system cannot fail to bring Japan
into closer and more beneficial relationship
with ourselves as the chief Pacific power.
A question has arisen in relation to the exer-
else, in that country, of the judicial func-
tions conferred upon our Ministers and Con-
suls. The Indictment, trial and conviction
in the consular court at Yokohama of John
| Ross q merchant seaman on board an Amer
| lean vessel, has made it necessary for the
/ Government to institute a careful examina-
ton into the nature and methods of this
jurisdiction. 1t appeared that Ross was reg
ularly shipped under the flag of the United
States, but was by birth a British subject.
Ny predecessor felt it his duty to
maintain the position that. during service
/ as regularly shipped seaman on board an
American merchant vessel, Ross was subject
/ to the laws of that service and to the juris-
diction of the United States consul and au-
thorities.
THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.
l repeat the recommendation which has
been heretofore urged by the Executive upon
the attention of Congress- that after the re-
duction of such amount as may be found due
American citizens, the balance of the indem-
nifty fund heretofore obtained from China
and Japan, and which is now in the hands
of the State Department, be returned to the
Governments of those countries.
THE KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS.
The King of Hawaii, in the course of his
homeward return after journey round the
world, has lately visited this country. While
our relations with that Kingdom are friend
" this Government has viewed with concern
the efforts to seek the replenishment of the
diminishing population of the island from
an outward source to degree which may
impair native sovereignty and independence,
in which the United States was among the
first to testify a lively interest.
/ EVERYTHING CORDIAL WITH THEN.
Relations of unimpaired amity have been
maintained throughout the year with the
respective governments of Austria, Hun
, gary, Belgium, Denmark, Hayti, Paraguay
f and Uruguay, Portugal and Sweden and
Norway. This may also may be said of
I Greece and Ecuador, although our relations
with those states have for some years been
! severed by the withdrawal of appropriations
| for diplomatic representatives at Athens
5 and Quito. 1t seems expedient to restore
these missions, even on a reduced scale, and
decidedly recommend such course with
r respect to Ecuador which, likely within the
: near future, will play an important pari
/ among the nations of the Southern Pacific
THE GENEVA CONFERENCE.
e At its last extra session the Senate called
V for the text of the Geneva conference fol
e the relief of the wounded in the war.
), trust this action foreshadows such interes
/ in the subject a. will result in the adher
n sion of the United States to that human,
r and commendable engagement.
IS COLLISIONS on THE HIGH SEAS
e invite your attention to the propriety o
d adopting the new code of internationa
d rules for the prevention of collisions on tn
n high seas, and of conforming tn
10 domestic legislation of the Unite,
States thereto SO that no confusion ma,
arise from the. application Of conflict
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