Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-15
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

D In method and spirit, and espec- ially in its careful study of the de- partment reports, on which it is largely based, MT. Cleveland's sec ond general message resembles the one sent to Congress a year ago.
 It opens, according to custom, with review of international at- fairs. Here the two great sub jects of importance are the fishery dispute and the Cutting case. The former is still unsettled, and the President, while desiring friendly relations with the Dominion, finds such relations threatened by the action of it's officials toward our fishermen. fIe makes no mention of the authority gwen to hlm last summer to check this action by a retaliatorv proclamation. The iyear's negotiations at London have thus far resulted in nothing, but hopes are. held out of reaching an acceptable conclusion before the end of the session. Meanwhile the correspondence on the sab- ject is to be laid before Congress.
 As to the Cutting case, the Presi- dent contents himself with protest ing against the doctrine that al- though Mir. Cuttings offence was committed on our soil. yet he be- came subject to punnishment by Mexican laws, when found ln that country, as the offence had been committed against a Mexican citi- zen. He hopes that Mexico will abandon her position, because the two republics should be good friends, and American capital and enterprise, flowing into Mexico, ask security ofperson aud proper ty. He recommends legislation to so carry out the Reciprocity Con vention 1863 with Mexico, and is going to open negotiations from an enlarged treaty of commerce.
 With Hawaii, as an outpost of American commerce, our relations says the President, ought to be strengthened The treaty, now terminable on years notice ought to be extended, toI a further term of seven years, while an autonomy of the islands should be maintained and telegraph communication es- tablished between them and us.
 The President regrets the ill 1 treatment of the Chinese on the Pacific coast, and says that China will meet us half way iii limiting the emigration of her subjects, while protecting those who are now here. Good results are hoped from the recent changes in organ. ic law bringing Panama directly under the administrator of Bogota. Chill has not yet provided for the payment of the claims of our coun. try men. Liberia the President re. gards as an offshoot of our politi- cal system, entitled to our sup port in maintaining her ipdepen dence, although formal protecto- rate would be against our policy. He proposed to give her some ''small vessel, no longer found adequate to our needs,p for pro- tecting her coastwise revenues. Consul Greeuebaum has been re- called for his "overzealous" stroke @ in declaring protectorate oyer Samoa and King Haiieton. The Netherlands complain that our tariff specially discriminates against the tobacco of the Dutch East lnaics. Spain has relinqulsh- ed her discrimination against our merchant vessels in the Antilles, and now displays d friendly com mercial spirit. Mir. Cox will be glad to hear that the improved treatment of American miSsiona- ries in Turkey is due to his eXer- tions. Venezuela still withholds her ratification of the Claims Con yenti0n of 1885.
 z A reversion of legislation on citizenship and extraditlon Is ask ed, with a bureau for the registra- ton of natnralized citizens, and q law for the immediate discharge from custody of persons commit ted for eXtradition where the Pres ident thinks the surrender should not be made. The copyright question is commended to Con. gross and also the abolition of the discrimination HOW made by the tori 1T in faVnt nf tho works nI