St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09

established interests or control This govern
ment does not, however, regard the reServa-
ton OF liberty OF action in the premises as at
all impaired, and holding that an engagement
10 share i'll the obligation of enforced neutral
ity in the remote valley of the Congo would be
an aiHance whose responsibility we are not i'll
position to assume, | abstain from asking
the sanction of the senate to that general act.
The correspondence will be laid before you
and the instructive and interesting report of
the agent sent by this government to the
Congo country, and his recommendations for
the establishment of commercial agencies on
the African coast are also submitted for your
consideration.
The commission appointed by my pre-
decesscr last winter to visit the Central
and South American countries and report
! on the methods of eDlarging the commercial
relations of the United States Herewith has
submitted reports which will be laid before
! you.
No opportunity has been omitted to testify
the frlendllnesS OF this government toward
Corea, whose entrance into the family of
treaty powers the United States was the first
| to recognize.
| After elaborate correspondence. repeated
| and earnest representations on our part Mr..
| Santons was, after an alleged trial and con-
| victiOn, eventually included in a general de-
| cree of amnesty and pardoned by the Ecudor-
| ian executive and released, leaving the Ques-
ton of his American citizenship denied by
| the Ecuadorlan government but insisted
! upon by our own.
FRENCH CLAIMS.
The amount adjudged by the late French
and American claims commission to be due
| from the United States to French claimants
! on account of injuries suffered by them dur
ing the war of secession having been appro-
| priated by the last congress, has been duly
paid the French government. The act of
| Feb. 20, 1855, provided for preliminary
| search of the records of the French prize
court for evidence bearing on the claims of
| American citizens against France for spolia-
| tions committed prior to 1901. The duty has
| been performed, and the report of the agent
! will ne laid before you.
! The Interpretation of our existing treaties
of naturalization by Germany during the
! past year has attracted attention by reason
of an apparent tendency ON the part of the
imperial government to extend the scope of
| the residential restrictions to which return
| ing naturaiized citizens of German origin are
asserted to be liable under the laws of the
empire. The temperate and just attitude
| taken by this government with regard to this
| class of questions will doubtless lead to a
! satisfactory understanding. The dispute of
| Germany and Spain relating to the denOmina-
| ton of
THE CAROLINE ISLANDS
| has attracted the attention of the govern
ment by reason of extensive interests OF
| American citizens having grown up in these
| parts during the past thirty years, and be-
cause the question of ownership involves
| jurisdiction of matters affecting the status of
our citizens under civil and criminal law
| Whilst standing wholly aloof from the pro-
| prietary issues raised between the powers, to
| both Of which the United States is friendly,
this government expects that nothing in the
present contention shall unfavorably affect
our citizens carrying on peaceful commerce
or there domiciled, and has SO Informed
the governments of Spain and Ger
many. Marked good will prevailed
between the United States and
| Great Britain during the past year. The
| termination of the fishing clauses of the
treaty of Washington, in pursuance of the
| joint resolution of March 8, 1888, must have
resulted in the abrupt CESSATION oa the lst OF
| July of this year, in the midst of their ven
lures, of the operations of citizens of the
| United States engaged in
| FISHING IN BRITIsH-AMERICAN WATERS
| but for the diplomatic understanding reached
| with her majesty's government in June last,
whereby assurance was obtained that no in
| terruption of those operations should take
| place during the current fishing season. In
| the interest Of good neighborhood, of the COM
mercial intercourse of adjacent communities,
| the question of North American fisheries is
| one of much importance. Following out the
| intimation given by me when the eXtensOry
| arrang cement above described was negotiated,
recommend lQaC congress provide LOT
| the appointment of commission, in which
the governments of the United States and
| Great Britain shall be respectively repre-
| scented. charged with the consideration and
| settlement upon just, equitable and honor
able basis Of the entire question of the fish
! ing rights of the two governments and their
respective citizens off the coasts of the
United States and British North America
THE FISHING INTERESTS
being intimately related to other general
questions dependent upon contiguity and in
tercourse, consideration thereof in all their
equities might also properly come within the
view of such commission, and the fullest lat
itude of expression on both sizes should be
permitted. The correspondence in relation
to the fishing rights will be submitted.
The inadequacy of the exciting engagements
| for extradition between the United States
and Great Britain has been long apparent
| The tenth article of the treaty of 1912, one of
| the earliest compacts in this regard entered
| into by the United States, stipulated for sur
render in respect of limited number of Of
lenses. Other crimes no less inimical to the
social welfare should be embraced and the
procedure of extradition brought in har-
mony with the present international prac-
| tees. Negotiations with her majesty's gov
eminent for an enlarged treaty of extradition
have been pending since 1870, and l entertain
strong hopes that satisfactory result may
be soon attained.
Inc ArcUlc exploring steamer Alert, Wnlc0
was generously given by her majesty's gov
eminent to aid in the relief of the Greedy ex-
petition. was after the successful attainment
of that humane purpose, returned to Great
Britain, in pursuance of the authority con-
ferred by the act of March 3, 1885. The from
tier line between
ALASKA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA,
as defined by the treaty of cession with Rus
STA, follows the demarkation assigned in a
nriOr treaty DarwnaD Great RPjtoiD and Rms
STA. Modern exploration discloses that this
ancient boundary is impracticable as ge-
ographical factor in the unsettled condition
of the region. The question has lacked
Importance, but the discovery of mineral
wealth in the territory the line is supposed to
traverse admonishes that the time has come
when an accurate knowledge of the boundary
is ueedful to avert jurisdictiOnal complica-
| tons. l recommend, therefore, that provision
be made for preliminary reconnaissance by
officers of the United States to the end of ac-
quiring more precise information on the sub
ject. l have invited her majesty's govern
meut to consider with US the adoption of q
more convenient line to be established by
meridian observ4 lions or by known geo.
graphic features without the necessity of an
expensive survey of the whole. The late
RESURRECTION MOVEMENTS IN HAYTI
having been quelled, the government of that
republic has made prompt provision for adju-
dicating the losses suffered by foreigners be-
cause of hostilities there, and the
claims of certain citizens of the
United States will be in this manner
determined. A question arose with
Hayti during the past year, by
reason of the exceptional treatment
of an American citizen, MIR. Van
Bokkeen, a resident of Port au Prince
who on suit by creditors residing in the Uni
ted States was sentenced to imprisonment
and under the option of a Haytian statute
was denied relief secured to native Hay tian
This government asserted its treaty right to
equal treatment with the natives of Hayti in
all suits at law. Our contention was denied
by the Haytian government which. however.
while still processing to maintain the ground
against Mr.. Van Bokkeleu's right terminated
the controversy by setting him at liberty