The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-12-08
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Our Foreign Relations.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Our Foreign Relations.
While our foreign relations have not at
all times during the past year been en-
tlrely free from perpleXfty, no embarrass-
ms situations remain that will not yield to
the spirit of fairness and love of justice
which, Joined with consistent firmness,
characterizes a truly American foreign
policy.
My predecessor having accepted the of
flee of arbitrator of the long standing
missions boundary dispute, rendered to the
president by the Argentine Republic and
Brazil, 1T has been my agreeable duty to
receive the special ENJOYS commissioned
by these states to lay before me evidence
and arguments in behalf of their respec-
tive governments. The outbreak of do
nestle hostilities in the republic of Brazil
found the United States alert to watch
the interests of our citizens in that coun-
try, with which we carry on important
commerce. Several vessels of our new
navy are now, and for some time have
been stationed at Rio de Janeiro. The
struggle being between the established
government. which controls the machinery
OF administration and with which we main
tain friendly relations, and certain officers
OF the navy employing the vessels of their
command in an attack upon the national
capital and chief sea port and lacking as
it does the elements of divided admins
tratlon, l have failed to see that the in
surgents can reasonably claim recognition
as belligerents. Thus the position of our
government has been that of an attentive
but Impartial observer of the unfortunate
conflict. Emphasizing our fixed policy of
impartial neutrality in such a condition
OF affairs as now exists l deemed it neces-
sary to disavow in a manner not to be
misunderstood, the unauthorized action
of our late naval commander in those
waters in saluting the revolted Brazilian
admiral, being indisposed to countenance
an act calculated to give gratuitous sane
ton to the local Instruction.
The veXatlous question of so-called le-
CATION asylum for offenders against the
state and It's laws was presented anew in
Chile by the unauthorized action of the
late United States minister in receiving in
his official residence two persons who had
failed in an attempt at revolution and
against whom criminal charges were pend
ing, growing out of a former abortive dis
t~urbance. Thu doctrine of asylum as APP
piled to this case is not sanctioned by the
best precedent, and when allowed, tends to
encourage sedition and strife. Tn Ter no
circumstances can the representatives of
this government be permitted under the
nl-dehned fiction of eXtraterritoriality to
interrupt the administration of criminal
justice in the countries to which they are
accredited. A temperate demand having
been made by the Chilean government for
the correction of this conduct, the minis
ter was instructed no longer to harbor
offenders.
Chinese Registration.
The legislation of last year known as
the Geary law, requiring the registration
of all Chinese laborers entitled to resi-
dence in the United States, and the de-
portation of all not complying with the
provision OF the act within the time pre-
scribed. 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
Chinese laborers, pending judicial inquiry
as to its validity, in good faith declined to
apply Tor the certificates required by its
provisions. A test upon proceedings by
habeas corpus was brought before the SUI
preme court, and OF May Is, 1893, a de-
clslon was a by that tribunal sustain
ing the law. 1t is believed that under the
recent endme of the act extending
the time for registration, the Chinese la
borers thereto entitled who desire to re-
SIDE IN this country, will now avail them
selves of the renewed privilege thus af-
forded of establishing by lawful pro-
cedure their right to remain, and that
thereby the necessity of enforced deporta-
ton may to a great degree be avoided.
The Amalapa Incident.
Upon receiving authentic information
OF the nrlng upon an American mail
steamer touching at the port of Amalapa
because her captain refused to deliver up
q passenger in transit from Nicaragua to
Guatemala upon demand of the military
authorities OIL Honduras, our minister to
that country, under instructions, pro-
tested against the wanton act and de-
manded satisfaction. The government of
Honduras, actuated by a sense of justice
and In a spirit of the utmost friendship,
promptly dlsavowed the illegal conduct of
its officers and expressed sincere regret
for the occurrence.
The reproduced car&vel, Santa Maria,
built by Spain and sent to the Columbian
exposition, has been presented to the
United States in token of amity and in
commemoration of the event it was de-
signed to celebrate. recommend, that in
accepting this gift, congress make CRATE
full recognition of the sincere friendship
which prompted it. Important matters
have demanded attention in our relations
with the Ottoman porte.
The firing and partial destruction. by an
unrestrained mob. of one of the school
buildings of Anatoly college, established
by citiZ n of the United States at Marso-
wan, and the apparent indifference of the
Turkish government to the outrage, not
'w~ithStanding the completely of some of it's
officials, called for earnest remonstrance,
which was followed by promises of repara-
ton and punishment of the offenders. In
demnity for the injury and permission to
rebuild was given, registration of the
school property in the name of the Amer
lean owners was secured, and efficient pro-
ton guaranteed.
Information received of maltreatment
suffered by an inoffensive American
woman engaged in missionary work in
Turkish Koordictan was followed by such
approximations to the porte as resulted in
the issuance of orders for the punishment
OF her assailants, the removal of a delin-
quent official, and the adoption of meas
ures for the protection of our citizens en-