Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-07
THE PRESIDENT,
What He Says to the Country
on the Issues Of the Day,
Mexico Cuttng-Or Foreign Relations,
Treaties, Etc.
TAKE OFF UEWARRANTED ARTAXES
Such An Arrangement of Revenue is Urged
As Shall Reduce the Expense OfLly-
ing While 1t Does
NOT CURTAIL THE CHANCE FOR WORK
Nor Reduce the Compensation of American
LabOr---Ths Farmer and High
Protection.
THE COUNTRY BEFORE THE FEW.
The Suspension Of Silver Coinage Urged
Abundance on Hanl For ALI,
Our Needs.
THE COUNTRY BEFORE THE FEW.
The Suspension Of Silver Coinage Urged
Abundance on Hanl For ALI
Our Needs.
FORTIFICATION OF OUR PORTS.
The Army---The NaVy---The Postal Ser
vice---Prison Reform---RemarkS
On Convict Labor.

W AShlNGlON, bcScmOSI U. NC Sha
leries of the Senate chamber were, in spite
of the inclemency of the weather, filled
with spectators when, at II o'clock, noon,
the second session of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress was opened. In his prayer the Chap
lain, Rev. J. G.. Butler, feelingly alluded
to the mourning draperies with which the
chamber was hung, in memory of the late
Senator Pike, of New Hampshire.
The presiding officer, Mr.. Sherman, laid
before the Senate several of the annual re-
ports of the. heads of the departments,
which were ordered printed.
Resolutions were adopted fixing the daily
hour of meeting at noon; informing the
House that the Senate was ready TO pro-
ceed to business; and for the appointment
of = committee to wait on the President
for the like purpose. Messrs. Edmunds
and salisbury were appointed such COM
mittee. -
The credentials of Senator Williams, of
California, were presented and the oath OF
office was administered to him.
The House was called to order promptly
at II o'clock, and after the usual prelim-
inaries, and adjournment was had until .
o'clock, when the Presidents message was
received and read. Following is the docu-
ment:
| To the Congress Of the United States:
In discharge OF a constitutional duty and
following q well established precedent IN the
executive office, herewith present to the
Congress at reaSsembling certain infOrma-
tion concerning the States of, the Union
together with such recommendations for
legislative consideration aS appear neces-
S:lry and expedient Our Government has
consistently maintained its relations of
friendship toward all other powers and
neighborly interest toward those whose
possessions are contiguous 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 rs yet without provis-
ion for the settlement of claims of citi-
zens of the United States against Chilli for
injuries during the late war with Peru
and Bolivia. The mixed commission, or
ganized underelaims conventions, conclud-
ed by the Chilian Government, with certain
European States, have developed an
amount of friction which we trust can be
avoided in the convention which or rep
resentative at Santiago is authorized to
negotiate. The cruel treatment of inof-
tensiye 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 local constituted authorities
to prevent and difficult to punish are re-
ported even in distant Alaska. Much OF
this violence can be traced to race preju-
dice and competition of labor which can
not, however, justify the oppression of
strangers whose safety is guaranteed by
our treaty with China equally with most
nations.
ALIENS WITH Us.
In opening our vast domain to alien
elements, the purpose of our law givers
was to invite assimilation, and not tOpro-
vide an arena for endless antagofism.
The paramount duty of maintaining pub
lie order and defending interests of our
| own people may require the adoption
| of measures of restriction, but they should
not tolerate the impression of individuals
of a special race. am not without assur-
anee that the Governor of China, whose
| friendly disposition towards US l am most
happy to recognize, will meet us half way
/ in devising a comprehensive remedy by
which effective limitation of Chinese emil
grafton, Joined to protection of those Chi
nese subjects who remain in this country
NAV be secured Legislation is needed to
execute the provisions Of our Chinese con-
yentiOn of 1880 touching opium trafhc.
| While the good will OF the Co
/ lumbian Government toward our country
is manifest, the situation of American IN
terests on the isthmuS of Panama has at
times excited concern and invited friendly
action looking to the performances of the
engagements Of the two nations concerning
the territory embraced in the inter-Oceanic
transit. With the subsistence of the 18th
mian disturbances and the erection Of the
State of Panama into federal district
under the direct government OF the Con-
stitutional Administration at Bogota, .
new order Of things has been inaugurated
which. although as yet somewhat expert
mental and affording scope for arbitrary
exercise of power by the delegates of
the National authority, promises much
improvement. The sympathy between
the people of the United States and France,
born during our struggle for independence
and continuing to-day has received fresh
impulse in the successful completion and
dedication of the Colossal statue of 'Liber-
ty eniightening the world" in New York
6arbor, the gift OfFrenehmen to Ameri-
cans. 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 gov