Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-22
IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH.

l Senator Frye,s Bill te Provide For a l Congress of American Republics. l WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Senator Frye will
 introduce in the Senate on Tuesday bill
 proposing to call @ congress of delegates from the republics of Central and South | America, including Mexico and San Domin- 1 go to meet in Washington in October, 1886, with delegates from the United States, to l consider and decide upon commercial and f. nancial questions of mutual interest and for the common welfare of the American people The principal provisions of the proposed bill provide: That the President in forwarding the invitations shall set forth that the con- gress is called to consider:
 First-Measures that shall tend to preserve the peace and promote the prosperity of the American nation and to present united re- sistance against the encroachments of Euro pean powers, and to preserve the integrity and present territorial condition of each against forcible dismemberment.
 Second-Measures toward the formation of an American customs union under which the trade of the American nations shall, as far as practicable, be confined to American waters
 Third-The establishment of direct regular and frequent lines of steamship communica- tion between the ports of the American con- tinent.
 Fourth-The establishment of a uniform system of customs regulations in each of the independent American States to govern the exportation and importation of merchan- disc.
 Fifth-The adoption of common silver issue by each government in such amounts as shall be proportionate to the population of each, the same to Ee legal ten der in commercial transactions be- tween citizens of the American nations
 The bill also provides that the delegates shall be the guests of the government and appropriates $100,000 to entertain them. It provides for the appointment by the Presi- dent of twenty-four delegates selected equal ly from the two political parties to represent the home government in the congress, who to serve without compensation.
 In an interview with a representative of the United Press Senator Frye said the ob ject of this bill as shown in it's several sec tions was to bring the nations of the Ameri- can hemisphere into closer relations; that while he did not advocate any political com pact which might involve the United States in complications with our sister republics he believed that a convention could be entered into under which the good offices of this government could be exercised so as to pre- serve the peace ana encourage the ceVelop- nent of the nations that have been formed upon the model of our own and are to initiate US in all of the features of. our national greatness. Said the Senator: eff twenty or more of the leading men of each of the Spanish American States could be brought to the United States as the guests of this government and made familiar with the advanced civilization of our country, po- Htical progress and the economic conditions of our people, it would be to their adyan tage and to ours. One great obstacle to the extension of our trade among the Spanish American nations was their ignorance of us and our ignorance of them. I believe an in- creased commerce would naturally follow a more intimate acquaintance A closer inti- macy is natural result of these friendly re- latlons, and the extension of our markets up- on this hemisphere is the most important problem now confronting the American peo- ple''