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the payment of the stipulated mofety

OF the expenses.
A question arose with Hayti durin.
the past year by reason Of the exoep.
Itional treatment of an American citi
zen, Mr.. Won Bokel, resident of Por
j-au Prince, who. on. suit of creditor:
residing in the United States, was sen.
fenced to imprisonment, and under
the operation of a Haytian statute was
denied the relief secured to a native
Haytian. This government asserted
his treaty right to equal treatment
with natives of Hayti iii all-suits at law
Our confession was denied by the
Haytian government, which, however,
while still protesting to maintain the
lground given against Mr. Won Bokers
right, put an end to the controversy by
setting him at liberty without expla-
Ination. -. E.
An international conference to con-
slider the means of arresting the spread
Of cholera and other epidemic diseases
was held at Rome, May last, and ad-
journed to meet OH further notice. An
expert delegate on behalf of the United
States has attended its sessions and will
submit a report.
Our relations with Mexico continue
to. be most cordial as BELTS those of
neigfibors between whom the strongest
ties of friendship and commercial inter-
ests exist, natural and growing in con-
tsequence of our similarity of institu-
tons and geographical propinquity.
! The relocation OF the boundary line
between the United States and Mexico
convention of July 20, 1882, has been
unavoidably delayed, but apprehend
no difficulty in securing a prolongation
Of the period for its accomplishment.
| The lately concluded commercial
treaty with Mexico still awaits stipu-
lated legislation to carry its provisions
into effect, for which one years more
time has been secured by a supplement
tary article signed in February last
and since ratified on both sides. As
this convention, so important to the
commercial welfare of the two adjoin-
ing countries, has been constiuttionally
considered by the treaty making
branch. | express the hope that the
Legislation needed to make it effective
may not be long delayed
The large influx of capital and enter
prise to Mexico from the United
States continues to aid in the develop.
ment OF the resources and in augment
ing the material well being of our sis
ter republic. Lines of railway pene.
trating to the heart and capital OF the
country bring the two people into
mutually beneficial intercourse and
enlarged facilities of transit, add to
profitable commerce, create new
markets and furnish avenues to other
wise isolated communities. | have
already adverted to the suggestion OF
the construction OF ship railway
across the narrow formation of the
territory of Mexico at Tehuantepec.
With the gradual recovery of Peru
from the effects of her late disastrous
conflict with Chill, and with the restor.
alton of.civil authority in that distract
ed country, it is hoped that the pend
ing war claims of our citizens will be
adjusted. In conformity with the no.
LITIGATION given by the government of
| Peru, the existing treaties of commerce
and eXtradition between the United
States and that country will terminate
March 81, 1886.
spain and Turkey.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN REGARD TO
/ TREATIES WITH BOTH COUNTRIES.
Our good relationship with Russia
| continues. An officer of the navy, de-
tailed tor the purpose, is now on his
way to Siberia, bearing the testimoni-
| ais voted by congress to those who gen-
| erously succOred the survivors of the
unfortunate Jeanette expedition.
1t is gratifying to advert to the cordi
ality OF our intercourse with Spain.
The long pending claim of the owners
of the ship Masonic, for loss suffered
through the admitted dereliction of the
Spanish authorities in the Philippine
islands has been adjusted by arbitra-
ton and an indemnity awarded. The
principle of arbitration in such cases,
to which the United States have long
and consistently adhered, is thus given
fresh and gratifying confirmation.
Other questions with Spain have been
disposed of or are under diplomatic
consideration with view to a lust and
honorable settlement. The operation
of the commercial agreement with
Spain, January 2, and February ID,
1854. have been found Inadequate to
the commercial needs Of the United
States and the Spanish Antilles, and
the terms of the agreement are sub
jected to conflicting interrogations in
those islands. Negotiations have been
instituted at Madrid for full treaty,
not open to these objections and in the
line of the general policy touching the
neighborly intercourse of proximate
communities, to which elsewhere ad-
vert, and aiming, moreover, at removal
of existing burdens and annoying re-
strictlons and although Il satisfactory
termination is promised | am COM
PEELED to delay its announcement.
An international copyright confer
ence was held at Berne in September,
on the invitation of the Swiss govern.
mcnt. The envoy of the United States
attended as a delegate, but refrained
from committing this government to
the result even by signing the recon-
mandatory protocol adopted. The in
teresting and important subject of in
ternational copyright has been before
you several years. Action is certainly
desirable to effect the object in view.
and while there may be questions as to
the relative advantage of treating it by
legislation or by specific treaty, the
matured views of the Berne conference
can not fail to aid your consideration OF
the subject. s1
The termination of the commercial
treaty of 1862 between the United
states and Turkey has been sought by
that government While there is
question as to the sutficiency of the
notice of termination given, yet, as the
rights of our citizens in
Turkey come under the favored national
guarantees of the prior treaty of 1880,
and as. equal treatment is admitted |
by the porte, no Inconvenience can |
result from the assent of this govern. |
ment to the revision of the Ottoman
tariffs, in which the treaty powers have
been invited to join. Questions con-
cerning our citizens in Turkey NAV be
affected by the porte's non -acquiescence
i'll the right Of expatriation and by the
Of religious tests as to a
of residence, in which this
government cannot concur. The
United States must hold in their inter-
course with every power. that the
status of their citizens is to be respected
and equal civil privileges accorded to
them without regard to creed. and
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