Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-09
PRESIDENT CLEVELANDS
Last Message to the Forty-Ninth
Congress.
interesting Synopsis of a Lengthy and
Carefully Prepared Document-Tbe
Various Public Interests
Passed in Review.

elgn relations, and one third of the document is
nero.ea 70 discussion and review of this i'm
mas consistently maintained its relations of
Irlendship toward all other powers, and a
nelgnnorfy interest toward those whose posses
sions are contiguous to our own Few cues
uons have arisen during the past year with
otner governments and none Of those are be-
council.
The cruel treatment of inoffensive Chinese in
-. ess Is atooed 70, and IN speaking OF
tanning public order and defending the interests
OF cur own people may require the adoption of
ciai race.
Discussing the fisheries question, so long a
subject OF anxious difference between the
United States and Great Britain, the President
says the questions Involved are of great
consequence, and from time to time,
Tor nearly three-Quarters of a century, have
given rise to earnest international discussions,
not unaccompanied by irritation. Temporary
arrangements by treaties have served to allay
friction which, however, has revived each
treaty was terminated While DESTROYS that
friendly relations should exist between the
people of the United States and Canada, the
action of Canadian officials during the past
season towards fishermen has been
such, the President thinks, to threaten
their continuance; and although disappointed
IN his efforts TO secure satisfactory settlement
OF the question, negotiations are still penang
with reasonable hope that before the close OF
the present session of Congress the announce
ment may be made that an acceptable conclu-
sion has been reached
Abiding to our relations with Hawaii, the
President recommends an extension for seven
years of the reciprocity treaty of 1873: He ur-
gently renews his recommendation of legisla-
ton to carry into effect the American recipro-
city treaty of January, 1888, and proposes to
initiate negotiations with Mexico for new and
enlarged treaty of commerce and legislation
Referring to the Cutting case. he says the in
cident has disclosed a claim of jurisdiction by
Mexico novel in our history, whereby an OffenSe
committed any where by foreign penal In the
place of its commission, and of which a Next
in Mexico, be there tried and punished in con-
forrnity with Mexican laws. This jurisdiction
was sustained by the courts of Mexico and ap-
proved by the executive branch of that Govern
ment upon the authority of Mexican statute.
The Appellate Court in releasing Mr.. Cutting,
decided that abandonment of the complaint by
the Mexican citizen aggrieved by the alleged
crime Ga libelous publication), removed the
basis of further prosecution, and also declared
Justice to have been satisfied by the enforce
ment of a small part of the original sentence.
The admission of such a pretenSe, the President
argues, would be attended with serious results,
invasive of the jurisdiction of this Government,
and highly dangerous to our citizens in for
eign lands; therefore, he has denied it, and
protested against its attempted exercise as
unwarranted by the principles of law and inter-
national uSageS. sovereign has jurisdiction
of offenscs, which take effect in his territory,
although concocted or commenced outside Of it,
but the right is denied of any foreign sovereign
to punish citizen of the United States for an
offense consummated on our soil in violation of
our laws, even though the offenSe be against
a subject or citizen of such foreign sovereign.
The Mexican statute in question makes the
would make dual responsibility in the citizen
and lead to inextricable discussion destructive
of that certainty in the law which is an es-
sential of liberty.
When citizens of the United States volun-
tarily go to a foreign country they must abide
tected by their own government from the conse-
Quence Of an ofense against those laws COM
lnitted IN such foreign country, but watchful
care and interest OF this Government over its
citizens not relinQuiShed because they have
gone abroad, and, if charged with crime COM
mitted in the foreign land a fair and open trial.
conducted with decent regard for justice and
humanity, will be demanded for them. With
less than that the Government will not be con-
stake
What other degree to which extra territorial
criminal jurisdiction may have been formerly
among certain of the European States, no
such doctrine or practice was ever known to
tho laws of this country, nor to that from
In The case of Mexico, there are reasons espe-
exercise of Jurisdiction. Nature has made US
irrcvocably neighbors, and wisdom and kind
feeling should make US friends. The overflow
of capital and. enterprise from the United
States is O potent factor in assisting the devel-
'opment of the recources of Mexico and in
countries. To assist this good work all
grounds Of apprehension for the security of
person and property should be removed, and
the President trusts that in the interests of
good neghborhood the statute referred to will
be so modified as to eliminate the present pos
SibilitieS of danger to the peace of the two coun
tries.
The President recommends the placing of the
consular system on a better footing, and reiter-
ates the necessity of some mode Of inspection
and report OF the manner in which the con-
sulates are conducted.
He trusts the subject of an International
copyright will receive the attention it deserves
ne recommends that provision be made for
10 mn discharge from custody
sons committed for extradition where the
President is of opinion mic d that "a a sur
news his recommendation of last year
that legislation concerning citization and
naturalization be revised. we have he says
ANNEXATION of citization by naturalzed aliens,
but no statute is found to give effect to such
engagements, nor any which provides needed
control or a bureau for registration of natural
Reaching domestic affairs, the first subject
discussed is the tariff, and TO this the President
devotes great deal of space. arguing that the
necessity for reduction of the tariff is more
ment," he says, Shy it's increased volume and
thorough economies in its collection, is now
more than ever in excess OF the public neces-
public debt as is now at our ption
subject to extinguishment if continued at the
rate which has lately prevailed, would retire
that class of indebtedness within less than one
year from this date. Thus acontinuance of our
present revenue system would soon result in the
receipt of an annual income much greater than
necessary to meet Government expenses,
could be applied we should be
then confronted with vast quantity of money,
the circulating medium of the people, boarded
in the treasury when it should be in their hands,
or we should be drawn into waSteful public ex-
travagance, with all the corrupting National
decentralization which follows in its track
But it is not the simple existence of this sur
plus and it's threatened attendant evils which
furnish the strongest argument against our
present scale of Federal taxations: its worst
pha Sc is the exaction of such surplus through
a perversion of the relations between the peo-
pie and their government, and a dangerous de-
right of Federal taxation. Good gov
sernment. and especially the govern
ment of which every American citizen
every person within its care in the greatest
liberty consistent with the good order of So
ciety and his perfect security in a the enjoy,
diminution for public needs. When more of
the peoples substance is exacted through the
forms of taxation than is necessary to
meet the Just obligations of the Government
and the expense of its economical administra-
ton such exaction becomes ruthless extortion
and a violation OF the fundemental principtes OF
a free Government.
THE indirect manner in which these exactions
are made has q tendency to conceal their true
character and extent, but We have arrived at a
sGage of supef1uous revenue which has aroused
the people to realization of the fact
for the support of the Government is paid by
them as absolutely, if added to the price of
things which supply their daily wants, as II 1t
paid at fixed periods into the hand OF the
1axgatherer.
those who toll for daily wages are beginning
tc understand that capital, though sometimes
vaunting its Importance and clamoring for the
protection and favor of the Government is dull
and sluggish till, touched by the magical hand OF
labor it springs into activity, furnishing an &C.
casion for Federal taxation and gaining the
value which enables it to bear its burden. and
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