Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
THE STA ROUTE PROSECU TIONs,
A Reform Of the Civil Service-Postal
Statistics.
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The presidents
message and the report of the secretary of
the treasury were submitted to the cabinet
at yesterday afternoons session, and care
fully considered. The main features of
both documents had been discussed at for
mer meetings of the cabinet, so that yes
terday's work was mainly revisory. Last
night they were sent to the printer, who
will be held responsible for their safe
keeping until the time for their return for
regular transmission to congress on Mon
day next. This secrecy of preparation has
not altogether availed in serving its pur-
pose, however, and there is authority for
giving out
A SUMMARY OF THE MESSAGE,
which also includes the important features
OF the treasury report.
The message of last year covered thirty
two pages of printed pamphlet. The
message of the present year will not cover
more than twentyfour such pages, and it
is probably a column, if not more, less
in newspaper space. The president pre-
faces his message with review of the
more important matters which appertain
to our foreign and diplomatic intercourse.
He recites the fact of the passage of the
immigration treaty with China, and an
nouncess that under the direction of the
state department, arrangements have been
effected for carrying its provisions into
operation.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLES
are treated at length, and comprise
-succinct review of what has been
done by the government in the
direction OF an amicable adjustment of
the pending difficulties between the bellig-
erents. The mission of Mr.. Prescott and
Walker Blaine to Peru and Chill is re
called, and reference is made to the reports
submitted by them, which were the subject
of full discussion in congress and other
wise, officially, last spring. The apparent
prostration of the effort made by the gov
eminent at that time in the interest of
peace did not discourage further efforts in
the same direction, and the appointment
of Mr.. Logan as minister to the CHILEAN
government gave assurance that the gov
eminent of the United States was still
deslrous, so far as might be
proper and acceptable, to interpose
its good officers. The president ventures
to hope that the apparent obstacles which
have so far confronted our minister to Chilli
may eventually be overcome to the credit
of this government and the satisfaction of
the hostile powers.
On the subject of the movement for
an
INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS-,
to assemble in Washington city inaugural
ed under the administration of his 'prede
cessor, the president recites the fact of its
interruption by his own order, and states
as his reason for giving such an order,
that upon careful research and earnest re-
Election he had been unable to reconcile
the customs that have prevailed in the
diplomacy of this government
with proposition so PREACHING
in its scope and so doubtful in its effect
and that, since upon congress must de-
volve the development and ratification of
such proceeding, he had felt it incum-
bent upon himself, in the interest of pub
lie policy, to transmit all The correspond
ence which bore upon the subject as
well as the subject itself, to congress.
The president does not intimate an I'M
favorable attitude toward the assembling
of such peace congress, but prefers that
if it shall assemble its character and OBJ
ject shall have been first the
subject of thoughtful consideration.
and by the representatives of
the people rather than by the
executive head of the governments. In
this connection the president suggested the
ACCESSIBILITY of measures looking to a
settlement of international difficulties by
arbitration, which method, he recalls, has
been the subject of profitable discussion,
satisfying him that the object is well
worthy the attention of congress as
means of securing prolonged peace.
MEXICO.
The president notifies congress that
pursuant to the confirmation By the SON
ate Of the special commissioners nomi-
mated by him. arrangements hav, been
progressing for the commercial treaty with
Mexico, and the departure of the commits
sion will not be long delayed, Mention is
made ofseveral copyright and international
treaties, notably with Spain and Belgium.
AMERICANS IN BRITISH JA1Ls.
The president treats briefly the matter
of the arrest and imprisonment of Ameri-
can citizens in English jails, reciting the
fact OF the arrest and inquiry regarding
them on behalf of this government, of the
demands made through the state depart
ment and our minister to England for the
prompt trial of the suspects or their re-
lease, and acknowledges the reparation
subsequently accorded by the British gov
eminent. The statement ia supplemented
by the announcement of the Transmission
to COnOress With tho y,,osso,e - 49,.