The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
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Washington dispatch: The president
to-day sent the following message K
congress:
] As supplementary to ms previous
message ON the subject, / have now tht
honor to transmit q report from the sec.
rotary of state relating to affairs in Sa,
moa. GROVER CLEVELAND.
Bayard to the president: Gas the
question of German action and Ameri.
can rights is under consideration by
congress, I beg leave to transmit here.
with, with q view Of their being laid be-
fore congress, copies of correspondence
touching affairs in Samoa which have
taken place since January 80, the date
of your last message to congress on the
subject. This consists of a telegram to
this department from Mr.. Blackjack,
vice consul of the United States at Apia,
dated January 81, and q paraphrase OF
my telegraphic instruction of the same
date to our minister at Berlin, of which
O copy was also sent to the charge daft
fairs ut London, and my note of the
same day to Count Arco-Valley. To-
day l was waited upon by the German
minister at this capital, who read me a
note from his government, which / tran
scribed from his d~ictation, and now en-
close a copy of its text"
The enclosed telegram from Black
lock reads:
AUCKLAND, Jan. 31.-The German
consul declares that Germany is at war
| with Samoa under martial law"
A paraphrase of the note to Minister
Pendleton is as follows:
'.Bayard instructs the minister of the
United States at Berlin to inform the
German government that advices form
Apia state that the German consul had
declared Germany to be at war with
Mataafa, and Samoa to be under martial
law. Bayard informs minister Pendle-
ton that the German minister at this
capital, under instructions from Prince
Bismarck, has already acquainted this
government of the declaration of war
by Germany against Mataafa, and &C.
companied the notification with a state
ment that Germany would of course
abide by the agreements with America
and England touching Samoa, and pre-
serve under all circumstances the rights
of this government established by treaty.
But i'll view of advices from Apia, Ba-
yard i%nstructs Pendleton to say that this
government has assumed that German
officials in Samoa would be instructed
carefully to refrain from interference
with American citizens and property
there; hence no declaration of martial
law could extend German jurisdiction
so as to include control of Americans in
Samoa. Such q p~retensiOn could not be
recognized by this government"
The remainder of the correspondence
as transmitted by the president, reads
as follows:
DEPARTMENT DE STATE, Jan. 31.-Ba-
yard to Count Arco Valley-lInforms
him of the receipt of a telegram from
Blackjack, and says]: "Not knowing
what construction might be given to his
authority by the German consul at
Samoa in said proclamation of martial
law, I deemed it expedient at once to
communicate to our minister at Berlin,
informing him of the precise language
of the telegram from Blackjack and
stating that the declaration of a state of
war by the German empire
against Mataafa and his party
in Samoa had been previously commu-
nicated through you, and that Prince
Bismarck, in his instruction to you, also
stated that the German government
would, of course, abide by the agree
ment with America and England with
respect to Samoa and pay due regard in
all Instructions to the rights of those
powers established by treaty. Our min
lister at Berlin WAS therefore instructed
to make it known Mt the German foreign
Office that the United States trusts that
the German officials in Samoa would be
instructed scrupulously to abstain from
all interference with American citizens
and their property in Samoa, and that
no increase of German Jurisdiction over
American citizens or their property
void be caused by the German declara-
ton of martial law; nor would such
jurisdiction be conceded by the United
States"
Count Arco-V Valley to Bayard-[Under
Instructions from the prince chancellor
February 1st]: GAS a state of war was
declared against M~ataafa, the command
er of the German squadron issued a pro-
clamation by which the foreigners estab-
Iished in Samoa were subjected to mar
tial law. International law would, to a
certain extent, not prevent such q meas
ure, but as Prince Bismarck is of the
opinion that our military authorities
have gone too far in this instance, the
military commander has received tele-
graphic orders to Withdraw that part of
the proclamation concerning foreigners.
In negotiating with Mataafa our consul
at Samoa has asked that the administra-
ton of the island of Samoa might be
temporarily handed over to him, which
demand, not being in conformity to our
previous promise regarding the neutral
lty and independence of Samoa, Knappe
has been ordered by telegraph to with
draw immediately"
The Report Of Commissioner Wright.
Commissioner Wright, of the depart
ment of labor, has submitted his report,
which relates entirely to the subject:
working women in great cities"
Three hundred and forty-two distinct
industries in twenty-five representative
cities have been investigated. The re.
port shows that working women in great
cities are practically girls. The average
ages in all cities comprehended, is %
years and Z months, the average per cent
during which women have been engaged
in their present occupations is shown to
be four years and nine months, and of
16, 427 M involved, 9,54O are en-
gagged in a first trial at earning their
own living. Of the whole number, A.
100 are native born. In foreign born
ireland is most largely represented and
Germany next. The great majority Of
the women comprehended in the report
are single. They are not only support
ing themselves but are giving their earn
ings largely to support others at home.
The report shows that of 17,426 who
reported their health condition at the
time they commenced work, 16, 900 were
in good health, SS3 we're in fair health,