Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-12-11
And Touches Upon the Usual Sub
jects Treated in Like Doc
uments.
William H. Vanderbilt Called Before
the Bar Of the Great
Exchange.
The Presidents Message.

WASHINGTON, December 8.-The presi-
DENTS message, after paying a tribute to
the late vice president, and detailing the
peaceful relations of the United States
with foreign powers, says: "a question
has arisen with the government of Austria
Hungary touching the representation of
the United States at Vienna. Having un-
der my constitutional prerogative ap-
pointed our estimable citizen of umim-
peached probity and competence as minis
ter at that court, the government of Aus
tria-Hungary invited this government to
take cognizance of certain exceptions
based upon allegations against the person
al acceptibility of Mr.. Kelley, appointed en-
vOy, asking that, in view thereof the ap-
pointment should be withdrawn. The rea-
sons advanced were such as could not be
acquiesed in without violation Of my oath
Of office and precepts of the constitution,
since they necessarily involved limitation
in favor of foreign government upon the
right OF selection by the executive, and re-
quired such application of religious test or
States, as would have resulted in practi-
cal disfranchisement Of a large class of
citizens and the abandonment of a vital prin-
ciple in our government. The Austro-H Hun-
garian government finally decided not to
receive Mr.. Kelley as envoy Of the United
States, and that gentleman. has since re-
signed his commission, leaving the seat va
cant. have made no new nominations,
and the interests of this government at
Vienna are now in the care of the secre-
tary of the legation, acting as charge de
affairs ad interim.
THE UNITED STATES LARGE ENOUGH.
Maintaining as l do the tenor of the line
ofpresidents from Washington's day, which
prescribe entangling alliances with for
eign governments, do not favor the policy
of the acquisition of new and distant terri
tory or the incorporation of remote inter-
ests. Our own laws of progress, are vital and
organic, and we must be conscious of that
irresistible tide of commercial expansion,
which, as concomitant ofour active civili-
Zation, day by day is being urged onward
by increasing facilities of production,
which steam and electricity have given
birth. But our duty in the present in
Structs us to address ourselves mainly to
the development of the vast resources of
the great area committed to our charge,
and cultivation of the arts of peace
alert in preventing the American hemis-
phere from being involved in the political
problems and complications of distant gov
ernments thereon. l am unable to recon-
mend propositions involving the perma-
nent privileges of ownership or the right
outside of our own territory when coupled
with absolute and unlimited engagements
to defend the territorial integrity of state
where such interests lie. While the gen.
erai prospect of connecting the two oceans
by means of canal is to be encouraged,
am of the opinion that any scheme to that
end to be considered with favor, should be
free from the features alluded to. The Te-
hauntepec route is declared by engineers of
the highest repute, and by competent scien-
tific men, to afford practicable transit for
vessels and cargoes by means of ship
railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
There is obvious advantages Of such a
route. if feasible, over others more re-
mote from the axial lines of traffic be-
tween Europe and the Pacific, and partic
ularly between the valley of the Missis-
sippi and the western coast of North and
South America, which are deserving of
consideration. Whatever highway may
be built across the barrier dividing the two
greatest maritime areas Of the world must
be bdiIt for the worlds benefit; and / trust,
for mankind, to be removed from a chance
of domination by any single power; nor
should it become a point of invitation for
hostilities, or a prize for warlike ambition.
An engagement combining the construc.
ton, ownership and operation of such work
by this government, with offensive and de-
fensive alliance for its protection, with a
foreign state whose responsibilities and
rights we would have, is, in my Judgment
inconsistent with such dedication to uni
versal and neutral use, and would, more
over, entail measure for it's realization
beyond the scope of our national
policy or present means. The construction
of three Manscontinentai lines of railway,
all in successful operation. wholly within
Pacific oceans, has been accompanied by
results of the most interesting and impress
sive nature, and has created new condi-
tions, not in the routes of commerce only,
but the political geography, which power
fully affects our nation toward and neces-
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