Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-17
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THE SAMOAN TROUBLE
Reviewed by President Cleveland in
a Message to Congress.
GERMANY's Discomfort.
II La lstensihle In Her Every Action
GERMANY's Discomfort.
1t Ia ostensible in Her Every Action
That III President Considers Sit
uation Delicate and Critical Is APP
parent-As Viewed In England.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.-The president
sent to congress a message accompanied
with a mass of documents giving the
state and progress of affairs in Samoa.
The correspondence enclosed is that
since December, 1888. The president
says:
s"'The information thus laid before
congress is of much importance, since it
has relation to the preservation of
American interests and the protection of
American citizens and their property in
a distant locality and under unsuitable
and unsatisfactory government. In the
midst of the disturbances which have
arisen at Samoa such powers have been
exercised as seem to be within executive
control, under the constitution and laws,
which appear to accord with our ma
tional policy and condition, to restore
tranquility and secure the safety of our
citizens through negotiation with Great
Britain and Germany, which with our
own government constitute the treaty
powers interested in Samoan peace. The
attempt has BEEN made to define more
clearly the part which these powers
shall assume in the government of that
country, while at the same time it's
authority has been insisted upon. These
negotiations were at one time inter-
rupted by such action on the part of the
German government as appeared to be
inconsistent with their future c%ontinu-
ance. Germany, however, still insists,
as from the first, that she has no desire
or intention to overturn the native
Samoan government or to ignore our
treaty rights, and she still invites our
government to join her proposition on
this subject, and seems to lead to such q
preponderance of German power
in Samoa as was never con-
%tenplated by us and is incon-
sistent with every prior agreement
Or every understanding, while her re-
cent conduct as between native warning
factions gives rise to the suspicion that
she is not content with a neutral posi-
ton. Acting under the restraints which
u constitution and laws have placed
upon tho executive power, / have in
sisted that the autonomy and independ-
ence of Samoa should be s%crupulously
observed. according to the treaty made
with Samoa by the powers named, and
other agreements and understandings
with each other. / say ] have protested
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the opposite direction, showing the ex-
istence of internal disturbances. One or
more vessels of var have been kept in
Samoan waters to protect American citi-
zeils and property. These things will
a~bundantly appear from the correspond
nee and papers which have been sub
mItted to the congress.
recent eallisians le.=sssif the The furtes
from a German man-of-war. stationed
III the Samoan waters, and a body of
natives, rendered the situation so deli
cate and critical that the war-ship Tren-
ton, under the immediate command of
Admiral Kimberly, was ordered to join
tho Leipsic. already Mt Samoa, for the
better protection of person and prop
erty Of u citizens, and in furtherance
ct efforts to restore order and safety.
THE attention of Il is espe-
cially called to the instructions given
Admiral Kimberly, dated Jan.@1f, and
the letter of the secretary of state to the
German minister, dated Jan. 10, which
will be found among the papers here
with submitted. BY means of the papers
and documents heretofore submitted,
and those accompanying this commune
cation, the precise situation OF affairs in
Samoa is laid before congress-, and such
executive action as has been taken is
fully exhibited. The view of the execu-
tive prospect to the just policy tt be
pursued with regard to this group of ISL
ands, which lie in the direct highway Of
the growing and important ommerc
between Australia n the United States,
have found expression in the correspond
G and documents which have thus
been fully communicated to congress,
and the subject in its present stage is
submitted to the wider discussion con-
ferred by the constitution upon tho legis,
latipe branch of the government"
The correspondence alluded to by the
president was not laid before the house
or senate.
LONDON, Jan. 16.--The belief has be-
come general in diplomatic circles that
the troubles in Samoa must lead to seri .
Gus friction between the United States
and Germany, out of which will proba-
bly, grow a better understanding between
England and America, beginning with
the RELOCATION of the Sackville incident
to oblivion.
IL is asserted that Secretary Bayard
informed Lord Salisbury of the recent
happenings in Samoa forty EIGHT hours
previous to the publication of the first
account of the trouble, and it is further
stated that this is almost the only com
munication that has passed between the
American and English governments
since the Sackyille correspondence.
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