Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-10
Recommendation that the Rev.
enue Laws be Modified
and Amended.
The Work Of FOrJ1fying Certain
Of Our Large Cities Should
Be Begun at Once.
The Navy in a Most Lamentable
Condition-Congr Must
Act Promptly.
A Government Penitentiary
Needed for Incarcerat1ng
United States Prisoners
The Subjects Of Indian Treatment
and Education Bxhaustively
Considered.
The following Is President Cleveland's
message to congress-:

Inc 1OllOWluS Is IItSIuou1 NAoS01oAAu
message to congress-:
To the Congress of the United States:
. In discharge of . constitutional duty and
following we'll established precedent In the
executive Office, herewith transmit to con-
gress at the reassemblisg, certain information
concerning the state OF the union together
with such recommendations for legislative
consideration az appear necessary and exped-
ient Our government has consistently main
tanned its relations Of friendship toward all
other powers and of neighborly interest
, toward those whose possessions are conting-
uous to our own. Few questions have arisen
during the past year with other governments,
and none Of these are beyond
the reach of settlement in friendly
counsel. We are as yet without provision for
the settlement Of claims of citizens OF the
United States against Chill for injuries during
the late war with Peru and Bolivia. The
mixed commissions, organized under claims
conventions. conceded by the Chill govern
ment with certain European states. have de-
,yeloped an amount of friction which we trust
can be avoided in the convention in which our
representative at Santiago is authorized to
negotiate. The cruel treatment Of inotfens1ve
Chinese, has, l regret to cay, been repeated In
some Of the far western states and
, territories, and acts Of violence against the
power of the local constituted authorities to
prevent and difficult to punish, are reported
even in distant Alaska. Much Of this violence
can be traced to race prejudice and compet1-
ton 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
opening our vast domain to alien elements the
purpose of our law givers was to invite asslinl-
lation and not to provide an arena for endless
antagonisms. The paramount duty OF main
tanning public order and defending the inter-
ests Of our people may require the adoption
of measures Of restriction, but they should
not tolerate the oppression OF individuals OF
a special race am not without assurance
that the government of China, whose friendly
disposition towards US l am most happy to
recopujze, will meet Ms half way in devising
comur.herslhle remedy by which an effective
limitation of Chinese emigratiHs,, Joined to
protection OF those Chinese subjects who re-
main in this country, may be secured. Legls-
lation is needed to execute the provisions Of
onr Chinese convention Of 1880 touching the
opium traffic. While the good will OF the
Columbian government towards our country
Is manifest, the situation OF American inter
ests on the Isthmus OF Panama has at times
elected concern, and invited friendly action
looking to the performance OF the engage
ments Of the two nations, ctncern1nS the
territory embraced in the
INTEK-OGEAN TRANSIT.
With the subsistence OF the Isthmian dis
turbapces and the erection of the state OF
Panama into federal district, uni Ter the d.
rect government Of the constitutional admins
tration c, Bogota, a new order Of things has
, been ipauwurated which, although as yet
somewhat experimental and atfording scope
for arbitrary exercise of power, by the dele.
gates of the national authority, PROMISES much,
Improvement Tue sympathy between the
people of the United States aud France, born
during our colonial struggle for Independence
and continuing today, has received fr sh i'm
pulse III the successful completion and dedi-
cation of the colossal sta'ue of ''Liberty En-
tightening the World in New York hnrbor,
the gift OF Frcnrhmcn to Americans. con-
yention between the United States and GER
tain other powers for the protection OF sub
marine cables was signed at Paris on March
IA, 1884, and has been duly ratified and pro-
claimed by this government. BY agree
ment between the high contracting
parties this convention Is to 60 into effect
the first Of January next but the legislation re
quired for lis execution in the United States
has not yet been adopted. l earnestly recon-
mend its enactment Cases have continued
to occur in Germany giving rise to much cor
: respopdencc in relation to the privilege Of So
journ 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 CoRD1ALIrT.
The claims for interest upon the amount OF
tonnage dues Illegally exacted from certain
German steamship lines were favorably re-
ported in both houses Of congress at the last
session. and trust will receive final and favor
able action at an early Wv.