Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-07

Following are the principal parts of the Presidents message, which was sent to Co gress yesterday:
 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 violence against the people beyond the power of the local constituted authori- ties,to prevent, and difficult to punish, are re- ported even in distant Alaska. Much of this violence can be traced to race prejudice and 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 opening our vast domain to alien ele- ments the purpose of our law-givers was to invite assimilation, and not to provide an arena for endless antagonisms. The para mount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of re- striction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race am not without assurance that the govern ment of China, whose friendly disposition towards us am most happy to recognize, will meet us half way in devising compre- hensive remedy by which effective limita- tion of Chinese emigration joined to protection of those Chinese subjects who re- main in this country may be secured.
 THE CUTTING CASE.
 In compliance with a resolution of the Sen ate communicated to that body on August 2d last, and also to the House of Representa- tives, the correspondence in the case of A. K. Cutting, an American citizen, then imprison- ed in Mexico, charged with the commission of penal ofense in Texas, of which Me1i- can citizen was the object.
 After demand had been made for his re- lease the charge against him was amended so as to include violation of Mexican law with in Mexican territory.
 This joinder of alleged offenses, one with in and the other exterior to Mexico, induced me to order special investigation of the case-pending which MT. Cutting was re- leased.
 The incident has, however, disclosed claim of jurisdiction by Mexico, novel in our history, whereby any offense, committed anywhere by foreigner, penal in the place of it's commission, aud of which a Mexican is the object. may, if the offender be in Mex ico, be there tried and punished in conformi- ty with Mexican laws.
 This jurisdiction sustained by the courts of Mexico in the Cutting case, and ap- proved by the executive branch of the gov ernment, upon the authority of a Mexican statute. The appellate court, in releasing MT. Cutting, decided that the abandonment of the complaint by the Mexican citizen ag- grieved by the alleged crime (a ibelous pub 1ication), removed the basis of further prose eution, and also declared justice to have been satisfied by the enforcement of small part of the original sentence.
 The admission of such pretension would be attended with serious results, invasive of the jurisdiction of the government, ,and high ly dangerous to our citizens in foreign lands; therefore I have denied it, and protested against it's attempted exercise, unwarrant- ed by the principles of laws and international usages.