The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-12-09
Recommendations that tho Rev
enue Laws be Modified
and Amended.
Tho Work Of Fortlfying Certain
Of Our Large Cities Should
Be Begun at Once.
The Navy In q Most Lamentable
Condition-Congrees Must
Act Promptly.
A Government Penitenttary
Needed for Incarcerating
United States Prisoners.
The Subjects Of Indian Treatment
and Education Extensively
Considered.
The following Is PRESIDENT Cleveland's
,meSaa00 tn congress:

The following Is President Cleveland's
message to congress:
To the Congress Of the United States:
In discharge OF . constitutional duty and
following well-established precedent In the
executive office, herewith transmit to con.
grees at the reaesemblipg, certain Information
concerning the state Ut the union together
with such recommendations for legislative
consideration % appear necessary and exped-
lent. Our government has consistently main
tanned ito relations Of friendship toward all
other powers and Of neighborly interest
toward those whose possessions are conting-
nous to our own. Few questions have arisen
during the past year with other governmental.
and mono OF these are beyond
tho reach Of settlement in friendly
counsel. We are - yet without provision for
the settlement Of claims Of citizens OF the
United states agaiast Chill for injuries during
the late war with Peru and Bolivia. The
mixed commissions. organized under elaine
conventions. conceded BY the Chilli govern
ment with certain European states. have de.
yeloped an amount Of friction which We trust
can be avoided In the convention IN which orr
representative ct Santiago Is authorized to
negotiate. The cruel treatment Of inoffensive
Chinese, has, regret to ssy. been repeated In
some Of the far western states and
territories. and acts Of violence against the
prevent and difficult to punish, are reported
even In distant Alaska. Mach Of this violence
can be traced to race prejudice and competi.
ton Of labor. which cannot, however, justify
the oppression OF strangers whose safety 10
guaranteed by
OUR TREATY WITH CHINA
equally with the most favored nations. In
opening our vast domain to alien elements the
purpose Of our Law gvers was to invite assimi
lation and not to provide m arena for endlcss
antagoniems. The paramount duty Of main
tanning public order and defending the inter
ests of our people may require the adoption
u measures Of restriction, but they should
not tolerate the oppression Of individuals Of
O special race ] am not without assurance
that the government OF China, whose friendly
disposition towards rs I An most happy to
recognize, will meet Ms half way in devising
comprehensible remedy By which an effective
limitation of Chinese emigration, Joined to
protection Of those Chinese subjects who re-
main In this country. may be secured. Legis.
lation 10 needed to execute the provisions Of
our Chinese convention Of 1880 touching the
opium tsafRc. While the good will OF the
Columbian government towards our country
10 manifest, the situation Of American inter
ests on the Isthmus Of Panama has ct times
elected concern, and invited friendly action
looking to the performance Of the engage
ments Of the two nations, Concerning the
territory embraced In the
IxTER-ocEAN TRANSIT.
with the subsistence Of the Isthmian dis
turbances and the erection of the state Of
Panama into federal district. un Ter the d.
rect government Of the constitutional admins
tration IT Bogota. new order OF things has
been inaugurated which, although % yet
some what experimental and afordiDg scope
for arbitrary exercise OF power, BY the dele.
gates or the national authority, pron.ises much,
Improvement The sympathy between the
people Of the United States aud France. born
during our colonial struggle tor independepce
and continuing today. has received fre sh I'm
pulse 10 the tuccessful completion aud dedi-
cation OF the colossal sta.ue OF 'sLiberty En-
tightening the World In New York harb0r,
the rift OF Frenchmen to Americans. A con-
vention between the United States and Ger.
tain other powers for the protection Of sub
marine cables was signed at Paris on March
Il, 1884, and has been duly ratified and pro-
claimed By this government; By agree.
ment between the high contracting
parties this convention 10 to 60 into effect
the first Of January next but the legislation re-
uuired for ito execution In the United States
has not yet beeL adopted. earnestly recon-
mend liza enactment. Cases have continued
TO occur in Germany giving rice to much cor
respopdence In relation to the privilege OF So
iouru OF our naturalized citizens OF German
origin revisiting the land OF their birth. yet /
am happy to state that our relations with that
country have lost none Of their
ACCUSTOMED CoRDIALITY.
Tho claims for interest upon the amount OF
German steamship lines were fav0rAbly re-
ported In both houses of congress II the last
eeesion, and trust will receive final and favor
able action 1t an earfy d.v