The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
QUESTIONS THAT WILL NOT down.

me samoan aud ggsheries Matters ID
usanding National Attention.
Washington special: The Washington
correspondent CT the Baltimore Sun
Secretary Bayard's organ, sends the fol
lowing dispatch to his paper: There ar,
other d~eplorable questions which threat
EN- more serious consequences than ths
Samoan imbroglio in the near future
thanks TO the action OF the senate in re
jecting the fisheries treaty and two
houses of congress in passing the Chi
nese exclusion act. Secretary Bayart
stated to representative OF the Sun that
he had been informed by our consuls in
Canada that the Canadian government
intends to issue no more licenses under
the .modus vivendi," and will fall back
upon its narrow Interpretation of the
treaty of 1918, thus opening the old quar-
rel between the two countries which the
rejected treaty would have permanently
settled. The Chinese are growing
FESTIVE abont the exclusion act; they are
slow IN diplomatic measures, but they
have at last awakened to the fact that
their treaty rights are violated by the
exclusion bill. The Chinese minister
has accepted from Secretary Bayard the
indemnity for the Chinese outrages in a
graceful and amicable spirit, but he
asked, "What about our treaty rights?'
1t is not at all likely that Mr.. Bayard
was able to give much information on
the subject.
1t is understood that the governor
general of Canada in his speech at the
opening of parliament to-day will call
attention to the refusal of the United
States senate to ratify the fisheries
treaty, and announce that Canada's duty
will be to continue to maintain her rights
as prescribed by the convention of 1918
until some satisfactory arrangement has
been made by treaty between the two
nations.
Secretary Bayard was this evening
shown the dispatch from Auckland stat
ing that Germany had given notice that
all vessels arriving at Samoa should be
search for c~ontraband goods. He said
the department had to-day received a
dispatch from Consul Blackjack stating
that war had been declared against
Mataafa and martial law proclaimed by
the German consul at Apia. He did
know whether the state of martial law
referred to included all of Samoa or
Only Apia.
Reference was made to the criticism
OF the department of state and the Sec
rotary snid:
Il would like the gentlemen who have
been criticizing everything done by the
state department to show one instance
in which L have broken the law or per-
united it to be violated. / have not
known of such an instance. There has
been n great deal of Misrepresentation
and In time my countrymen will see
that the state department has done
everything that could be done. I have
yet to learn that any American has been
injured or any of their rights as defined
by the Inv and the treaty taken away.
One policy has been fixed and steady
IN the direction of the preservation of
American rights. The German govern
ment has constantly given assurances
that Germany would not violate Ameri-
can rights and Prince Bismarck in his
last letter to Count Arco Valley renews
the assurance that Germany will scrupu-
lousy respect their rights
"The department" said the secretary,
''cannot stop the fighting in Samoa. We
cannot prevent rival commercial COM
panies from quarreling and fighting. 1t
rs not for us to try and give every conn
try a stable government"
A gentleman well acquainted with
Samoan affairs said to night that mat
ters had reached q very serious state
and he wonld not be surprised to hear
that n conflict had taken place between
the Germans and Americans. The ma
tons had beaten the Germans repeat
eddy, and according to the Auckland
dispatch Germany now proposes to
whip them by preventing arms being
sent in.
A newspaper read by Americans had
been suppressed and the Germans had
taken open control OF the policy of Apia.
The American residents had contributed
to a fund for the support of the munich
pal policy. He said it might appear an
unusual and bold thing for us to say we
would protect the independence of a
country SO far away, but our national
honor and our obligations required that
we should come to it.
A Berlin dispatch says: A white book
on the Samoan question will shortly be
presented to the reichstag. The Ma
tional Zeitung announces that q friendly
settlement with America may be ex-
pected, based upon Bismarck's proposal
for a joint discussion. 1t is not ex-
pected German military operations in
Samoa will commence until sufficient re-
Inducements are sent to the islands. At
present there are at Samoa three Ger
man warships, with an available landing
force of 500 men.