Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-02
He Makes Various Recommends
tions and Urges Reform
in Many Things
fhe PabHe Debt-Labor and Capital
-TarfR Reform Civil Serviee--
Rensions-The Army and
Navy.
The Message.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Con the opening of
Congress to-day the President sent the fol-
lowing
MESSAGE:
To the Congress of the United States: In
discharge of Constitutional duty and follow
ing well established precedent in tie EXecu-
tive Office, herewith transmit TO the Congress
at its reass embling, certain information con
corning the state Of the Union, together with
such recommendations for legislative consid-
Grafton as appear necessary and eXpedient
AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD.
Our government has consistently maintain
ed its relations of friendship toward all other
powers and OF neig hbOrly interest toward those
whose possessions are cont ,nuouS to our own.
Few questions have arisen during the past
year with other governments and none of
those are beyond the reach of settlement in
friendly counsel. We are as yet without pro-
vision or the settlement of ella inns of citizens
OF the United States against China fer iniur-
les during the late war with Peru aud Bolivia.
The mixed commissions, organized under
claims conventions concluded by the Chill
government with certain European States have
developed an amount of friction, which, We
trust, can be avoided in the convention which
our representative at Santiago is authorized to
negotiate.
PROTECTION FOR THE CHINESE.
The cruel treatment of inofrensive Chinese
has, regret TO say, been repeated in some of
the far western States and territories and acts
Of violence against those people beyond the
power of the locally constituted author
tiles to prevent, and the Difficulty to punish,
are reported in the district of Alaska. Much
of the violence can be traced 10 race prejudice
and the competition of labor, which cannot,
however, justify the oppression OF strangers
whose safety Is guaranteed by our treaty with
China equally with the most favored nations.
In open ng our vast domain to alien elements
the pur, ose of our law giVers was to invite as
similatiOn and not to provide an arena for
endless an agOnsmS. The paramount duty
of maintaining public order and defending the
interests of our own people may require the
adoption OF measures of restrict on, but they
should not tolerate the oppression of indiVid-
ualS OF a special race l am not without as
surance that the government of China, whose
friendly dspo' on toward us ] am most hap
py to recognize, will meet us half way in de-
vising comprehensive remedy by which an
effective limitation of Chinese emigration
joined to the protection Of those Chinese sub
iects who remain in this country may be Sc
cured. Legislation Is needed to execute the
provisions of our Chinese conventions of 1890
touching the opium traffic, while the good will
ofthe Columb an government toward our cOun-
try Is manifest.
SOUTH AMERICAN RELATIONS.
The situation Of American interests on
the isthmus of Panama haS at times excited
concern and irvited friendly action look NJ
to the performance of the engagem nts of the
two nations concerning the territory embraced
in the inter oceanic transit. With the sub
sidence of the Isthmus disturbances and the
erection of the State of Panama into a fed
eral district under the direct government of
the constitutional administration At BagOta
Q new order of things has been inaugurated
which, although as yet somewhat experiment
tai and affording scope for arbitrary exercise
of power by the delegates of the national au-
thority, promises much Improvement
THE BARTHoLDI STATUE.
The sympathy between the people Of the
United States and France, born during our
colonial struggle for Independence and con-
tinung to-day, has received fresh impulse
in the successful completion and dedication
of the colossal statute Of Liberty enhghten-
ing the word' in New York harbor, the
gift OF Frenchmen to Americans.
A convention between the United States
and certain other powers for the protection of
submarine cables was signed at Paris on
March IA, 1884, and has been duly ratified
and proclaimed by this government. By agree
ment between the high contracting par
ties this convention is TO 60 into effect
the first of January next. But the legislation
required for its execution in the United States
has not yet been adopted. earnestly recon-
mend its enactment.
GERMAN AMERICANS IN THE MOTHER COUNTRY.
Cases have continued to occur in Germany,
giving rise to much correspondence, in re-
latiOn to the privl ge of the sojOurn OF our
naturaize citizens Of German origin revisit
ing the land of their birth, yet 1 am happy to
state our relations with that country have
lost none of their accustomed cordially
The claims for interest upon the amount OF
tonnage dues illegally eXacted from certain
German steamship lines were favorabIy re-
ported in both Houses of Congress at the last
session, and trust Will receive final and IA
vorable action at an early day.
CANADIAN FISHERIES.
ha In last
annual message In relation to a mode OF set
tlement of the fishery rights of the waters Of
British North America, so long subject OF
anxious difference between the United States
vote Of the Senate April 18th last, and there
upon negotiations were instituted to obtain
an agreement with her Britanic Majesty's gov
eminent for the PRONUNCIATION Of such 10 mt
Interpretation and definition OF the articles
of the convention Of 1851, rela-
ting to the territorial waters and inshore fish
cries of the British provinces as should secure
the Canad an rights from the encroachment
BY United States fishermen, and at the same
time insure the endowment Of the latter OF the
privileges guaranteed TO them by such conven.
ton. The questi ms involved are oflOng stand
ing, OF grave consequence and from time to
time for nearly tbree-quarters Of century,
have given rise TO earnest international dis
putes, not unaccompanied by irritatiOns. The
temporary arrangements bv treaties have serv-
ed TO nllay the friction, which, however. has
revived as such treaty was terminated. The
last arrangement under the treaty OF 1871 was
abrogated after due notice BY the United
States on June 30, 1885, but | was enabled to
obtain FOR our fishermen for the remainder Of
that season, enjoyment of the full privileges
accorded by the terminating treaty The joint
commissioners, by whom the treaty had been
negotiated although invested with plenary
power to make q permanent settlement, were
content with temporary arrangement, after
the termination OF which, the question was
relegated to the stipulations OF the treaty of
1878, as to the first article Of which no
construction satisfactory to both conn
tries has even been agreed upon The
progress of civilization and growti Of popula-
ton in the British Provinces to which the fish
cries In question are contiguous and the ex-
pansion of commercial in terests between them
and the United States, presents Today con-
ditiOn OF affairs scarcely rcalZable at the date
Of the negotiations of 1918. New and vast in