St. Landry democrat., 1885-12-19

essarlly increase our interest in any trans.
1sthmian route which may be opened ana
employed for the ends of peace and traffic.
or in other contingencies for uses inimicai
to both.
TRANSPORTATION
is factor in the cost of commodities scarce
ly second to that of their production, and
weighs as heavily upon their consumer. Our
existence already has proven the great i'm
portance of having the competition between
land carriage and water carriage fully devel-
oped, each acting as protection to the public
against the tendencies of monopoly, which
Is inherent in the consolidation OF wealth
and power in the hands OF vast corpora.
GiOnS. These suggestions may serve 20 en-
phasiZe what I have already said on the
score of the necessity of naturalization OF
any inter oceanic transit, and this can only
be accomplished by making the uses of the
route open to all nations and subject to the
ambitions and warlike necessities of none.
The drawings and report OF a recent survey
of the Nicaragua Canal route male by Chief
Engineer Menocal will be communicated for
your information.
The claims of citizens OF the United States
for losses by reason of the late military OPP
erations of Chill in Perm and Bolivia are the
subject OF negotiation for claims conven-
ton with Cali providing for their submits
The harmony of our relations with China
is fully sustained in the application of the
acts lately passed to execute the treaty OF
1880. restrictive OF the Immigration OF Chi
nese laborers into the United States. Indi-
vidual cases OF hardship have occurred be-
yond the power of the Executive to remedy,
and calling for judicial determination, The
condition of
THE CHINESE QUESTION
in the Wcstcrns States and Territories is. de-
spite this restrictive legislation, far from be-
ing satisfactory. The recent outbreak in
Wyoming Territory. where numbers OF I'M
offending Cinnamon, indisputably within
the protection of the treaties and She law,
were murdered by mob. aud the still more
character in Washington Territory, are
fresh in the minds OF all, and there Is appre
hension lest the bitterness of feeling against
the Monaghan race on tho Pacific slope may
find vent In similar Iawles5 DEMONSTRATION
MI the power of this Government should be
exelted to maintain the nmpiest3 good
faith toward China in the treatment OF these
men, and the inffe xihle sternness of the
law in bringing the wrongdoers to justice
should be insisted on. Every effort has been
made by this Government TO prevent those
violent outbreaks and to aid the representa-
tives of China In their investigation OF these
ontrages, and it Is but Justice to say they are
traceahIe TO the lawiessness OF men not citi-
zenS OF the United States engaged in COM
petition with Chinese laborers. Race preju-
dice is the chief factor in originating these
disturbances, and it exists In large part of
our domain, jeopardizing our domestic
peace and the good relationship we strive to
maintain with China. The admitted right OF a
Government to prevent the influx OF elements
hostile to its internal peace and security
may not be questioned even where there Is
no treaty stipulation on the subject. That
the exclusion of Chinese labor is demanded
in other countries where like conditions pre-.
vail is strongly evidenced in the Dominion
of Canada, where Chinese Immigration is
now regulated b. laws more exclusive than
our own. IL existing laws are inadequate to
compass the end in view, l shall be prepared
to give my earnest consideration to any fur
ther RENE iial measures within the treaty
limits which the wisdom of Congress may
devise.
THE CONGO.
The indept nd9nt State of the Como hns
been organized ~ q government under the
sovereignty o. III Maze sty the King OF the
BeIgians, who ass mes It's Chief magistracy
in his personal Character only, without
making che new State n dependency on
Belgium. It Is un or unate that benighted
region, owing all il has OF quickening civili-
cation to the beneficsnce and phiIanthro-
pic spirit OF this mHna" Gh. should have the
advantage and security of his benevolent
supervision. The action by this Govern
ment last year in being the first to recog
nize the flag of the international ASCOT
alton of the Congo has been followed by
formal rec ognitfon of the new nation
powers conference of delegates
of the principal, commercial
nations was held at Berlin last winter to dis
.cuss methods whereby the Congo basin
might be kept open to the worlds trade.
Delegates attended OH behalf OF the Quilted
States on the understanding that their part
should be merely deliberatiye, without inn
so far as the United States were concerned.
This reserve was due to tho indisposltfon of
this Government to share in any disposal by
an international congress of jurisdictionat
questions in remote foreign territories. the
results of the conference was embodied in 81
formal act of this nature OF an international
convention, which laid down certain
obligations pIIrporting to be binding on
the signatories, subject to ratification within
one year. Notwithstanding the reservation
under which the delegates of the United
States attended, their signatures were at
tached to the general act in the same man
ner as those of the Plenipotentiares OF
other Governments, thus making the United
States appear without reserve or qunliiica.
ton as signatory to a joint international
engagement imposing on the signers the
conservation OF tho territorial integrity OF
distant regions where VIC have no es6ab-
lished interests or control. This Gov
ernment does not. however, regard
its reservation OF liberty of action
i'll the premises SIS at all impaired,
and holding that an engagement TO share in
the obligation of enforcing neutrality in the
remote valley of the Congo Would be an al
lance whose responsibilities we are not in a
position to assume. l abstain from ASKING
the sanction of the Senate t that general
act The correspondence will be laid before
you, and the Instructive and interesting re-
port of the agent sent by this Government
TO the Congo Country and his recommends
tions for the establishment of commercial
agencies on the African coast IRE also sub
mltted for YOUR consideration.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN COMMISSION.
Tie commission appointed by my prede-
cessor last winter to visit the Central and
South American countries and report on
the methods OF entarging the commercial
of the United states has submitted
reports which will BIO lail before YOU No
opportunity has been omitted to testify TO
the friGndiiness of this Government toward
Corea, whose entrance into the family of
powers the United States was
the first to recognize. l regard with favor
the application made by the Curean Gov
ernment to be allowed to employ American
officers as military instructors, to which the
assent of Congress became necessary; aud
am happy to say this request has the con-
current sanction of China and Japan
The arrest and imprisonment OF Julius II.
Santos, II citizen OF the United States, by the
of Ecuador gave rise to a conten-
ton with that Government in which his right
TO be released or to have asspeedy and i'm
partial trial on announced charges, and