The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-09
THE MESSAGE.
President Cleveland's First
Address to Congress.
AN EXHAUSTIVE DOCUMENT.
Recommendations and Suggestions
for the misunderstanding
Ofthe Utah Situation.
THE MESSAGE.
AN EXHAUSTIVE DOCUMENT.
To the CONGRESS Of the United States /:

To the Congress Of the United States:
Your assembling is clouded by a
sense of public bereavement, caused
by the recent sudden death of Thomas
A. Hendricks, Vice President of the
United States. His distinguished pub
lie services, his complete integrity and
devotion to every duty, and mis- per-
SOnal virtues will find honorable rec
ord in his country's history. Ample
and repeated proofs of the esteem and
confidence in which he was held by his
fellow countrymen were manifested by
his election to offices of the most i'm
portant trust and highest dignity, and
at length, full of years and honorS, he
has been laid at rest amidst general
sorrow and benediction.
THE MESSAGE.
The Constitution which requires
those chosen to legiSlate for the people
TO annually meet in the discharge of
their solemn trust also requires the
President to give CONGRESS informa-
ton of the state of the Union and rec
ommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall deem necessary to
expedite at the threshold compliance
with these Constitutional directions.
1t is well for US 10 bear in mind that
our usefulness to the peoples interests
will be promoted by constant appre-
citation of the scope and character of
our respective duties as they relate to
federal legislation. While the Ex-
ecutive may recommend such measures
as he shall deem eXpedient, the re-
SponSibility fer legislative action must
and should rest upon those selected by
the people to make their laws.
Contemplation of the grave and re-
spOnsible functions assigned to the
executive branches OF the government
under the constitution will dis
close the partitions of power
between our respective depart
ments and their necessary indie
pendence and also the need for the
exercise of all the power entrusted to
each in that spirit or comfy and CO.
operation which is essential TO the
proper fulfilIment of the patriotic OBJ
legations which rest upon US as faithful
servants of the people. The jealous
WatchfulneSS of our constituencies,
great and small, supplements their
suffrage and therefore by the tribunal
they establish every public servant
should be judged.
OUR. FOREIGN RELATIONS.
It is gratifying to announce that the
relations of the United States with ali
foreign powers continue to be friendly.
Our position after nearly century of
successful constitutional government,
the maintenance of good faith in all of
our engagements, the avoidance of
complications with other nations and
the consistent and amicable atti-
tuGe toward the strong and
weak alike, furnish proof of
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professions of good will unnecessary.
There are no questions of difficulty
pending with any foreign government.
ARGENTINE CLAIMS.
The Argentine government has. re-
viYed the long dormant question of the
Falkland Islands by Claiming from the
United States indemnify for their loss,
attributed to the action of the COM
mander of the slOOp of war Lexington,
in breaking up a piratical colony on
these islands in 1881, and their suisse
quent occupation by Great Britain. In
view of the ample justification for the
acI of the Lexington and the dire con-
dition of the Islands before and after
their alleged occupation by the Argen-
tine colonistS, this government deems
their claim as wholly groundleSS.
KEIL6'S REJECTION.
AquestiOn has arlsenwith the govern
ment of Austro-Hungary touching the
representation Of the United States at
Vienna. having under my constitu-
tional prerOgative appointed an estim-
able citizen of unimpeached probity
and competence as minister at that
court, the government of Austro-
Hungary invited this government TO
S,I-
based upon allegations against the
appointed envoy, asking that IN view
thereof the appointment Should be
Withdrawn.
The reasons advanced were such as
could not be acquiesced in without a
violation of my oath of Office and the
preCeptS of the constitution, since
they necessarily involved a limitation,
in favor of foreign government, up
on the right of selection by the eXecu-
tive, and required such an application
of q religious test as qualification Tor
Office under the United States as would
have resulted in the practical dis
reimbursement of large class of our
citizens and the abandonment OF vital
principle of our government The
AustrO- Hungarian government finally
envoy of the United States and that
gentleman has since resigned his COM
mission, eaving the post vacant.
| have made new nominations and
the interests of this goyerDm snt at Vi
emma are now in the care Of the Secre-
tary of Legation as charge d'affaires
Qd interim.
Early in March last var broke out
in Central Ame RIGA, caused by the at
tempt of Guatemala to consolidate the
several states into q single govern
ment. In these contests between our
neighboring states the United States
forDore to interfere actively, but lent
the aid of their friendly offices in de-
probation of war and to promote
peace and concord among tue belilger-
ents, and by such counsel contribute
Importantly TO the restoration OF tran
guilty in that locality.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Emergencies growing out of civil
war 10 the United States of Colombia,
demanded Of the government at the bs-
ginning of this administration, the