The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-12-09

REDUCTION OF TAXATION
Z Lengthy Document 81 Which Onc- -Thisd
is Devoted to Our Foreign Relations.
Terif-other Features of tEa Message,


relations. Our government, lie slys, has con
sistently maintained its relations of friend
ship toward oil other powers, ari OF neigh
borly interest toward tnoss whose posses
sions are contiguous to or own. FeS qTes
tions have arisen during the past year wit:
other governments and none of those are be
yord the reach of settlement In friendly
council. The crue, treatment Of ilofensiyt
Chinese in tie far west Is alluded to ani ii
speaking OF remedy, 10 says the para
mount duty Of Eiaintaining public order and
defending tie interests OF our own people
may require the adoption CT measures OF re
str:ctioas, but they should not tolerate the
OPPRESSION OF invividuals of special raca.
Discussing the fisheries question, SO long @
subject OF anxious difference between the
United States and Great Britain, the prosi-
.ent says the questions involved are o. grave
consequence, and from time to tina, for
nearly three quarters OF century, have
given rise to earnest international discus
sions, not unaccompaniel by invitation.
Temporary arrangements by treaties have
served to sllay friction which, however, has
revived as each treaty was terminated.
While desirous that friendly relations should
exist between the people os the United States
during the past season toward our fishermen
has been such, ths president thinks, as to
threaten their continuance, and although
disappointed in his efforts to secure a salts
factory settlement of the question, negotia-
lions are still pending with reasonable hope
that before the close of tho present session
Of congress, announcement mads be made
that an acceptable conclusion has been
reached
Alluding to our relations with Hawaii tho
president recommends IN extension for seven
! years of the reciprocity treaty Of 1873. He
urgently renaws his recommendations Of
legislation to carry into effect The Mexican
reciprocity treaty of january, 1888, and pro-
poses TO initiate negotiations with Mexico
for new and enlarged treaty Of commerce
and legislation.
Referring to the Cutting case, he says the
Incident has disclosed claim of jurisdiction
5y Mexico, novel in one history, whereby
any offense, committed anywhere by a
roreignar, penal in the place Of its commits
zion. ard Of which Mexican is tho object,
may, il the offender be found in Mexico, bs
| there tried ami punished ir conformity with
Mexican laws. This jurisdiction was st,s-
| taincj by the courts of Msxico, and approved
rient, upon tho authority of Mexican
| statute. The appellate court, in releasing
Mr. Cutting, decided that the abandonment
Of the complaint by the Mexican citizen ag-
grievei ty the allied crime "a libelous publ
ceticn), removed the bases of further prose-
lion, and also declared justice to have been
satisfied by the enforcement of small part
cf the original sentence.
,l, IF II, fr,a
president argues, would be attended with
serious results, invasive o. ths jurisdiction
of tie government, and highly dangerous to
cur citizens in foreign lanis; therefore he has
denied It and protested against its attempted
exercise, as urwarrantsd by the principles Of
law and International usage 4 sovereign
t2s jurisdiction OF ofauses which take effect
within lis territory, although concocted or
commenced outside Of it; but the right is de-
MED Of any foreign sovereign to punish cit
izsn OF tie United States for an otfense con-
animated oil our soil, in violation Of our
laws, even though the offense be against a
subject or citizen of such sovereign. The
Mexican statute in question makes the claim
broa1ly, and the principle, if conceded,
wcGli make DIAL responsibility in ths citi-
Eer, a:id lead to inextricabis confusion, de-
Is IN essential Of liberty.
When citizens of the United States volun-
tsri,y go Into foreign country, they must
abids by the laws therein in force, and will
not DO protected By their own government
frcr the consequence Of an oiTense against
those laws committed il such foreign coun-
try; but wetchful care and interest of this
government over its citizens are not re;in-
Guisi.ed because they have gono abroad; and
II charged with crime committed in the for
eien land fair and open trial, conducted
with decent regard for justice and humanity,
will be demanded for them. With less than
that tie government viii not be content when
the lie or liberty of its citizens is at stake.
Whatever the degree to which extra terri
torial criminal jurisdiction may have been
formerly aiiowed by consent and reciprocal
ngrcenieut among certain Of the European
states, no such doctrine or practics was ever
known TO the laws of this country, or OF that
from which cur institutions have mainly
becn derived
In tl.a caso o. MeIico, there ere reasons es-
peciGliy strong for perfect harmony in the
mutual exercise of jurisdiction Nature he's
made Us irrevoca5ly neighbors and wisdom
and kind feeling should make US friends.
the United S ates is potent factor is assist
Ing the development OF tbs resources of Mex
leo and in building up ths prosperity of both
countries. To assist this good work, ell
grounds of apprehension fer tho security of
person AMI property should 30 removed;
sion an arrangement was, however, speed
il, reached, and upon notification from the
government OF Spain sha5 al difs-ential
- AMI fEaf,
from the United States or from sry foreign
country. lad been Com p.e.e!y ami absolutely
re,inuaished, 1 avaiIei myse,f OF the lis
cretioG conferred by iaw, ara issued, on the
27t, OF October, my proclamation declaring
recip: ocai suspension in the Un..si States.
1t is most gratifying to Lear testimony to
the earnest spirit in which The government
CT iha queen Tezen: has net Ctr efforts to
avert the initiation OF commercial 6;scriri-
nations aad reprisals, which gre evsr disas-
trors TO the material interests and the poiiti-
&C.! good Will of the countries they may af-
feet. TIE profitable development of this
iurge commercial exchanges between United
States and tie Spanish Antilles is naturally
sr object of solicitude. Lying close ct ous
and the president trusts that IN tiis interests
of good neiehhorhood the statute referred 10
viii be SO rIoiiici as to eliminate the present
possibilities OF danger to the peace OF the two
countries.
Ii appearing Inst the government OF Spain
i.i not extend TO the flag OF the United
Stetes in the Antilles the full measure OF
reciprocity requisite under our stiituto FOR
lie continuance OF the suspension OF dis
examinations against tie Spanish flags in our
Ports l YVES constrained, IN October last, to
rescind ny predecessors proclamation OF
February r: 1881, permitting such suspen-
doors ari Gn ling here rhs:r main markets OF
supply and dem and, the welfare os Cdba and
P;nto I:io GEd their production and trade
ere scarcely les important to Us than to
Spain.
The president recommends placing the
coasuiar sarvice on hettor footing and re-
:ts;..tes the necessity of some n!ode os i:spec-
;icn G:il rcr5r3 CT tie manner II which the
ccas;listcS sia co;i;iGcteL
10 trusts international copyright viii re-
coi7a TIE attention it deserves by congress.
lie recommends that rror;sion iso n.a.2s
for the immediate discharge f:oa, c::seoiy OF
persons committed for cytraditiou where the
president is of opinion that surrender should
,.ot lie i.ls.ie and renews his recommendation
oi last year that existing legislation concern
i.g ciizansiip and naturalization bercyissi.
We !lave, he says, treaties wiki many states
prcvi,iins for the remuneration Of cit.ze,:sl;io
i:y rat1raiized aliens, hut TO statuss is found
10 give eject 20 such engagements, nor any
which provides nceiej central bureau tcf
tie registration os natura!.zed citizens.
ReGcbirg domestic affairs, the first sui,iscs
discussed is lie :ariif, and 20 this the p:csi-
,ie.,. t,vatey G great deal ct slicc, crGu;n,