Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-17


endations for legislative consideration as APP
pear necessary and expedient.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
CLAIMS AGAINST CHILL.
Oar government has consistently maint aine,
its relations of friendship toward all other pow
ers and of neighborly interest toward thos
whose possessions are contiguous to our own
Few questions have arisen during the past yea
with other governments. and none of these art
beyond the reach of settlement in friendly coun
eel. We are yet without provision for the set
Element Of the claims of citizens of the United
States against Chill for injuries during the late
war with Peru and Bolivia. The mixed commls
sions organized under the claims convention,
concluded by the CHILEAN government with Ger
tain European states have developed IN amount
of friction which we trust can be avoided in the
convention which our representative at Santiago
is authorized to negotiate.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
The cruel treatment of inoffensive Chinese has
! regret to say. been repeated in some of the
far western states and territories and acts of vi
olence against those people beyond the power OF
ne ne local constituted authorities to prevent and
assba 70 ob 81 are reported even in distant
race prejudice and competition of labor, which
cannot however, Justify the oppression of
treat, with China equally With the most favored RED
nnt1, us. In the opening of our vast domain to
amen clements, the purpose of our law-givers
was to invite assimilation, and not to provide an
arena of endless antagonism. The paramount
90 y OF maintaining public order and defending
the interests of our own people may require the
should not tolerate the oppression of individu-
ais OF special race. l am not without assul-
since tna5 the government of China, whose
friendly disposition toward US am most happy
pu
henSl6le remedy by which an effective limitation
OF iinese Immigration, Joined to the protection
country, may be secured. Legislation is needed
TO execute the provisions of our Chinese conyen-
ton OF 1850 touching the opium traffic.
THE 1srHMus OF PANAMA.
While the good will of the Colombian govern
ment toward our country is manifest, the situa-
Ilon OF American interests in the lsthmus of
ianama has at times excited concern and invited
friendly action looking to the performance of the
engagements OF the two nations concerning the
territory embraced in the inter-oceanic transit
Until the substance of the isthmus disturbances
ana the erection of the state of Panama into a
federal district under the direct government of
the CONSTITUTIONAL administration at Bogota n
new order of things has been inaugurated which
alIhough us yet somewhat experimental. and
hnordding scope for arbitrary exercises of power
D! the delegate of the national authority
promises much improvement.
BARTHOLDI STATUE.
The sympathy between the people of the
United States and France, born during our col,
onlal struggle for Independence, and continuing
cessiul comp letion and dedication of the col
ossaI statue Of Liberty enlightening the world''
IN New York harbor, the gift of Frenchmen to
Americans
MARINE CABLES
convention between tho United States and
certain othec powers for the protection of sub
marine MAJ cables was signed at Paris on March H.
meDt. = hat 4 o
hlgn contracting parties this convention is to 20
M? :l effect the LIST of January next but the leg
States has not yet been adopted. earnestly rec
ommend its enactment
GERMANY
Gases have continued to occur in Germany
giving rise to much correspondence in relation
70 the privilege of soiourn of our naturalized
cin2ens OF German origin visiting the land of
their birth, yet am happy to state that our re-
latlons with that country have lost none of their
acnstomed cordially. Tho claims for interest
upon the amount of tonnage dues illegally ex-
acted from certain German steamship lines were
favorsbly reported in both houses of congress at
the last session, and trust will receive final and
favorable action Mt anv earlv day
THE CANADIAN FISHERIES
The recommendation contained in my last an
nnai message in relation to mode of settlement
OF the fishery rights in the waters of British
North America, SO long subject of anxioue diff
Apri! IL last, and thereupon negotiations were
instituted to obtain an agreement with her Brit
ton OF such Joint Interpretation aud definition of
the article Of the convention of l8l8 relating to
the territorial waters and inshore fisheries of the
rights from encroschment by United States fish
ermen, and at the same time insure the enjoy
ment by the latter of the privileges guaranteed
to them by sach convention. The questions in
yolved are OF long standing, of grave conse-
Quence, ana from time to time for nearly three
quarters OF q century have given rise to earnest
les have served to allay the friction which how
eyer g has revived as each trenty was terminated.
vas abrogated after due notice by the
United States June SO. 1885, but l
s1.6sd to obtain Ss for
OF the privileges accorded by the terminating
treaty. The joint commission by whom the treaty
had been negotiated, although invested with
were content with temporary arraneements
after the termination of which the question was
las TO tho first article of which no CONSTRUCTION
satisfactory to both countries has ever been
sEneed 1gon; The progress Of civilization and
which the fisheries in question are contiguous
aud the expansion of commercial intercourse be-
tween them and the United States, present to-day
date OF the negotiations of the treaty of 1878.
New and vast interests have been brought into
existence, new modes of intercourse between the
respective countries have been invented and
multiplied, the methods of conducting the fish
erias nave been wholly changed. and all this is
necessarily entitled to candid and careful con
sideration in the adjustment of the terms and
nondItions OF intercourse and commerce between
frontier Of over $500 miles. This propinoaifty'
community of language and occupation
and similarity, of political and social institu
tions Indicate the practicability and the obvious
wisdom Of maintaining mutually. benetcialiy
and friendly relations. Whilst am unfeignedly
desirous that such relations should exist be-
tween us and the inhabitants of Canada, vet the
action OF their officials during the past season
toward our fishermen has been such as to seri-
ous]y threaten their continuance. Although dis,
appointed in my efforts to secure satisfactory
settlem emit Of the fishery question, negotiations
are still pending with reasonable hope that be-
fore the close of the present session Of congress
an advancement may have been made and an &C.
peptable conclusion reached. At an early day
there may be laid before congress the CORE
,ponfence of the department of state in relation
20 THIS important subject. so that the history OF