The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-08
TO CONGRESS-.
The President Sends in His Regular
December Message.
Work and Recommendation Appertainine
to the Departments-Necessit of Re.
trenchment-Treasury Condi-
tion and Tariff Changes

trenchment-Treasury Condi-
tion and Tariff Changes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-The presidents
message to congress was not so long as
expected. The Hawaiian matter was
not extensively referred to, advices
being awaited. The views of the presi-
dent on foreign and domestic affairs
are as follows:
Message to the congress Of the United States:
The constitutional duty which requires the
president from time to time to give to the con-
Rress information of the state of the union and
recommend to their consideration such meas.
ures as he shall Judge necessary and expedient,
Is dttingly entered upon by commencing to the
congress careful examination Of the detailed
statement and well supported recommenda-
tons contained in the reports of the heads Of
departments who are chiefly charged with the
executive work of the government In an ef
Tort to abridge this communication as much
as Is consistent with its purpose, I shall
supplement brief reference TO the contents of
these departmental reports by the mention of
such executive business and incidents are not
embraced there and by such recommends tfons
as appear to be at this particular time appro-
PIRATE While our foreign relations have not at
all times during the past year been entirely
free from perplexity no embarrassing situation
remains that will not yield to the spirit of fair
ness and love OF justice. which joined with con =.
sistent fairness characterizes a truly American
foreign policy.
Foreign Affairs.
My predecessor having accepted the office
OF arbitrator of the long standing bound
ary disputes, rendered to the president
by the Argentine republic and Brazil, it has
been my agreeable duty to receive the special
ENJOYS commissioned BY those states to lay be-
fore me evidence and arguments in behalf Of
their reSDectiye The outbreak
OF domestic hostilities in the republic of
Brazil found tn United States alert to watch
the interest Of our citizens in that country with
which we carry on important commerce Sew
eral vessels OF our new navy are now, and for
some time have been stationed at Rio de
Janeiro. The struggle being between the es-
tablfshed government, which controls the
machinery OF administration, and with
which We maintain friendly relations and
certain officers of the navy employing
the vessels Of their command in attack
upon the national capital and chic: seaport,
and lacking, as IL does, the elements Of divided
administration, I have failed to see that the
Insurgents can reasonably claim recognition as
belligerants. This far the position of our gov
ernnuent has been that of an attentive but an
impartial observer Of the unfortunate conflict
In passing, our fixed policy ofimpartial neutral
ity in such a condition of affairs now exists,
I deem it necessary to disallow in q
manner not to be misunderstood tho unau-
thorized action OF our late naval commander in
those waters in saluting the revolutionist Bra
lillian admiral being indisposed to countenance
an act calculated to give gratuitous sanction
to the local Instructions
The convention between our governmen
and Chilli, having for its object the
settlement and adju tment Of the de-
other has been made effective by the organiza.
tion OF the claims commission provided for
The two governments failing to agree
upon the third member of tbs commission
republic were invoked, as provided in the
treaty, and the selection of the Swiss repre-
sentative to this country was gratifying alike
to the United States and Chilli and the vexa-
tious questio of so-called legation ASYLUM for
Offenders against the state and its laws was
presented anew in Chill by the unauthorized
action Of the late United States minister in
receiving into his official residence two persons
who had just failed in an attempt at
revolution and against whom criminal
charges we're pend ng, growing out Of
former abortive disturbance. and
the doctrine Of asylum as applied to this
case is not sanctioned by the best precedents.
and, when allowed, tends to encourage sedition
and strife Under no circumstances can the
representative. Of this government be per
mitted under the il-defined fiction of ira ter
ritorial jurisdiction to attempt the administra-
tion of criminal just ce In the countries to
which they are accredited A temperate de-
mand having been made by the Gillian govern
ment for the correction Of this conduct in the
instance mentioned, the minister was instruct.
ed no longer to harbor the offenders.
The legislation of last year known as the Geary
law, requiring the registration of all Chinese
laborers entitled to residence In the United
States and the deportation Of oil not comply
Ing with the provisions of the act within the
time prescribed, met with much opposition
from Cinnamon in this country Acting upon
the advice OF eminent counsel that the law was
unconstitutional, the great mass of the Chinese
laborers, pending judicial inquiry as to its va
lidity, in good faith declined to apply for the
certificates required by its provisions A test
case upon proceeding by habeas corpus was
brought before the supreme court and on May
Is. is9a decision was made by that tribunal
sustaining the law.
1t is believed that under the recent amend
ment of the act extending the time Of registra-
ton. the Chinese laborers thereto entitled. who
desire to reside in this country will now avail
themselves Of the renewed privilege thus af.
forded Of establishing by lawful procedure
their right to remain and that thereby the ne
cessity of enforced deportation may be to o
great degree avoided
1t is devolved upon the United States min
lister at Pekin dean Of the diplomatic body
and in the absence of q representative OF
Sweden and Norway to press upon the Chinese
government reparation for the recent murder OF
Swedish missionaries at Tong, but this Ques-
tion is OF vital interest to all countries whose
citizens engage in missionary work in the in
terror
Our relations with the French republic con-
tinue to be intimate and cordial sincerely
hope that the extra ition treaty with that
country, rs amended by the senate, will soon be
operative
While occasional questions affecting our
naturalized citizens returning to the land
of their birth have arisen in our inter.
course with Germany our relations with that
co ntry continue satisfactory.
The questions affecting our relations with
Great Britain have been treated in spirit OF
friendliness Ne citations are in progress be-
tween The two governments with q view to
such concurrent action as will make the award
and regulations agreed upon by the Behrin2
sea tribu al of arbitration practically effective,
and it is not doubted that Great Britain will
cooperate freely with this country for the &C
complishment Of that purpose The dispute
growing out OF the discrimination tolls imposed
in the Welland canal upon cargoes
of cereals bound to and from the
lnke ports OF the United States, was adjusted
by the substitution of q more equitable sched-
ule Of charges and my predecessor thereupon
suspeade his proclamation imposing efscrfmt
mating tolls upon British transit tn ough our
canals equest for additions to the list oi
extraditable offenses covered by the existing
treaty between the two countries Is under con
siderationL
During the past year an American ciii
rem employed in Q subordinate commercial
imprisonment on an unfounded charge of SNUG
Cling was finally liberated on judicial examine
tion.
Upon receiving authentic Information Of the
firing upon an American mail steam touchine
q the port OF Amapalpa because her captain
from Nicaragua to Guatemala aFon demand o
the military authorities Of Honduras. our min
tster to that county under instruc Ions. pro
tested against the wsnton act and demanded