The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-19
The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Pearl Harbor Recommended as a
Naval Station.
Other Interesting Matters Pre-.
scented to Congress.

On December 9th, President Har-
rison presented his Message to the
United States Congress. The fol-
lowing is a brief outline of the mes
sage:
In opening his address the Presi-
dent recommends a careful study of
the reports of the various executive
departments.
On the subject of foreign relations
he reports the cOnsummatiOn of re-
ciprocal trade arrangements with
Brazil, the Spanish West Indies and
law, and announces that other similar
treaties are under negotiation.
The death of King Kalakaua in the
United States afforded occasion to
testify our friendship for Hawaii by
conveying the Kings body to his own
land in an available vessel with all
successor, Queen LiliuOkalani, is
relations with the United States.
Surveys for the much-needed sub
marine cable from our Pacific Coast
W 11O1OIulU INIC III anu lIIIo
enterprise should have the suitable
promotion of the two Governments.
I strongly recommend that provis-
ion be made for improving the har
Dor of Pearl river and equipping it as
q naval station.
The history of the Behring sea
agreement with Great Britain is Civ
ell, and the boundary line cOmplica-
with Canada in for a man
ton and also the unaVailing effort to
arbitrate the boundary dispute be-
tween Great Britain and Venezuela.
Attention is then called to the fact
that success crowned the efforts of the
State Department to have the prohi-
bitiOn on the import of American
pork removed by Germany,
Denmark, Italy, Austria and France.
After a review of the revolt in Bra
I'll; the New Orleans lynching is TAX
en- up. The demands of Italy, it is
claimed, were made in manner not
calculated to promote diplomatic dis
cussiOn, and were of an untenable
character owing to the peculiar re-
strictiOn of Federal power under the
circumstances. A recommendation
is made in this connection for the en-
actment of laws to cover similar eases
in the future.
On the subject of Chile's civil war
many interesting features are dis
cussed. The Itata incident receives
considerable attention, and the action
of the United States in her seizure
and subsequent pursuit and recapture
is defended and justified. Minister
Egan's course in granting Balmace-
dan refugees an asylum in the Amer
lean Legation is fully upheld.
By far the most important portion
of the message deals with the attack
of the Chilean insurgents at Valpa-
raise on the men of the United States
warship Baltimore, in which two
men were killed and six or seven
wounded. Of this affair the Presi-
dent says: $50 far as I have vet
been able to learn, no other explana-
ton of this bloody work has been sug-
gested than that it had it's origin in
the hostility to these men as sailors
of the United States, wearing the uni
form of their Government, and not in
any individual act or personal ami
mostly"
He then adds that the attention of
the Chilean Government was at once
called to the affair and advised that
if qualifying facts did not exist this
Government would confidently ex-
pect full and prompt reparation. Con-
tinuing, he says: at is to be regret
ted that the reply of the Secretary of
Foreign Affairs of the Provisional
Government was cOuched in an Often
sive tone. To this no reply has been
made. This Government is now
awaiting the result of an inVestiga-
ton which has been conducted by
the Criminal Court at Valparaiso
The most significant utterance is
comprised in the sentence: "If these
just expectations should be disap-
pointed, or needless delay intervene,
I viii by a special message bring this
mat again to the attention of Con-
gress Tor such action as may be neces-
sary.n
Protection to the interests of Ameri-
cans in China is promised during the
present outbreaks in that country, land
the cable projected to Honolulu from
the Pacific Coast is warmly approved.
Reference is made to the remon-
STRANGE made by this Government to
that of the Gear in the matter of the
cruel treatment of the Hebrews and
expulsion from Russia.
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national copyright convention secured
with Belgium, France, Great Britain
and the British possessions and Swift
zerland.
With the results of the new tariff
legislation the President processes the
greatest satisfaction, and says in con-
Guiding the discussion of the subject,
that he thinks there are conclusive
evidences that the new tariff has
created several great industries which
will within few years give employ
ment to several hundred thousand
American working men and women.
Extracts from the report of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury are then pre-
scented, and the recent silver Iegisla-
ton is discussed. The President begs
for a further trial of the existing silver
coinage enactment, and says that he is
still of the opinion that the free coin
age of silver under existing conditions
would disastrously affect our business
interests at home and abroad. To place
business upon silver basis would
mean sudden and severe contrac-
ton of the currency by the withdrawal
OF gold and gold notes and such an
unsettling of all values as would pro-
duce commercial panic.
"I believe it is the earnest desire of
a great majority of the people, as it is
mine, that a full coin use shall be
made of silver just as soon as the CO.