Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-12-10

| ted anywhere by foreigner. penal In the
| place of its commission. and of which a
Mexican is the object, may, if the offender
| be found in Mexico, be there tried and
! punished in conformity with Mexican
, laws. Jurisdiction was sustained by the
courts of Mexico in the Cutting case and
| approved by the executive branch of that
! government, upon the authority of
Mexican statute. The appellant
/ court at releasing Mr.. Cutting de-
/ cided that the abandonment of the com
! plant by the Mexican citizens aggrieved
| by the alleged crime-a hbelous publica-
| tion-and removed the basis of further
| prosecution and also declared justice to
! have been satisfied by the enforcement
of small part of the original sentence.
| The admission of such pretension would
| be attended with the most serious re-
| suits in case of the invasion of the iurls
diction of this government, and the iuris
diction of this government Is highly
dangerous to our citiZins In foreign
| lands; therefore l have denied it and
protested against its attempted ex
ercise as unwarranted. By the principles
of law and international usages a sovereign
has jurisdiction of Offenses, which take
effect within his territory, although con-
certed or commenced outside of 1t, but
the right is denied of any foreign SOW
ereign to punish a citizen of the United
States for an offense consummated on our
own soil in violation of our laws, even
though the offense be against subject or
citizen of such sovereign. The Mexican
statute III question makes the claim
broadly, and the principle if conceded,
would create dual responsibility III the
citizens, and lead to confusion destruc
two of that certainty in the law which is
an essential of liberty. When citizens
of the United States voluntarily go into
a foreign country must abide by the
laws there in force and will not be pro
lected by their own government from the
consequences of an offense against those
laws committed in such foreign country
but the watchful care and interest of this
government over its citizens are not re-
linquished because they have gone abroad,
and if charged with crime committed in
the foreign land fair and open trial
conducted for them. With that this gov
ernment will not be content when the life
or liberty of its citizens are at stake,
whatsoever the degree to which extra
ditional criminal jurisdiction may have
been formerly allowed by the consent and
reciprocal agreement among certain or
the European states. No such doctrines of
practices was ever known to the laws of
this country or of that from which
our institutions have mainly been derived.
III the case of Mexico, there are reasons
especially strong for perfect harmony in
the mutual exercise of jurisdiction. Ma
ture has made US irrevocably neighbOrs,
and wisdom and kind feeling should make
us friends. The overflow of capital and
enterprise from the United States is
patent factor in assisting the develop
ment of the resources of Mexico, and in
building up the property of beth cOun-
tries. To assist this good work, all
grounds of apprehension for the security
of person and property should be
removed, and / trust that in the
interestof good neighbor hood, the
statute referred to will be SO modi-
fed, as to eliminate the present prob
ability of danger to the peace of the two
countries.
THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY.
exhibits in detail, the coalition of the
public finance, and of the several branch
es of the government related to his de-
partment. | especially direct the at
tention of congress to the recommended
tiOns contained in this and the last pre-
ceding report of the secretary, touching
the slmpllfcatiOn and amendment of the
laws relating to the collection of our rev
enues, and in the interest of economy and
justice to the government | hope they
may be adopted by appropriate legisla
ton. The ordinary receipts of the gov
ernment for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1886, were 1886, 439, ,727.O6. OF this
amount 1872, ,905, ,O23.4l was received from
customs, and Sl16,S05, ,936.4S from inter
nal revenue, with the total receipts as
here stated were $13, 749,O2O.S3 greater
than for the previous year, but the in
crease from customs was Sl1, ,434 ,0S4.lO
and from internal revenue S4,407,21O.94,
making gains in these items for tine last
year of S15,Sf ,275.04, a falling off in
other resources, reducing the total in
crease to the smaller amount mentioned.
The expense at the different custom
houses in collecting this increased Gus
tom revenue was less than the expense
ats nding the collection of such revenue
for the preceding year by S+9O,60S, and
the increased receipts of internal revenue
were collected at a cost to the internal
revenue bureaus of 1855, ,944.99, less than
the expense of such collection for the
previous year. The total ordinary ex-
penses of the government for the fiscal
year ended June 3Oth. 1886, were $2+2,
433, 1880, being less by Sl7,7SS,7 7S7 than
such expenditures for the year preceding,
and leaving a surplus in the
treasury at the close of the last
fiscal year of 1886, 1856,
as against S63,463, ,771.27 at the close of
the previous year, being an increase in
such surplus of $40, ,492, ,S17.29. The ex-
penditurcs are compared with those of
the preceding fiscal year, and classified
as follows: