The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-04

the citizen and constituting the prime
factor in the prosperity and progress of
our nation. If legislation can reach this
tempted.
/ Japan has furnished abundant evidence
of her vast gain in every trait and char
acteriStic that constitutes nations great
ness. We have reason for cOngratulatiOn
IN the fact that the government of the
/ United States by the exchange of liberal
+ treaty stipulations with the new Japan.
/ was the FIRST to recognize her wonderful
advance and to extend to her the consid-
Grafton and confidence due to her ma
tlonal enlightenment and progressive
character.
The boundary dispute which lately
threatened TO embron Guatemala and
Mexico has happily yielded to pacific coun-
sells, and its determination has. by the
Jolht agreement ut the parties, been sub
mitted to the sole arbitration of the
United States minister to Mexico.
The commission appointed under the
+ convention of February Is, 1889. to set
nvw monuments along the boundary be-
tween the United States and Mexico has
completed its task
! for the coionization IN Mexico of negroes,
mostly emigrants from Alabama under
+ contract, great number OF these help
less and suffering people, starving and
smitten with contagious disease, made
I incu way or We're assisted to the frontier,
where in wretched plight they were quar-
antined by the Texas authorities. Learn
ing of their destitute condition. / directed
rations to be temporarily furnished them
4.
expiration of their quarantine they were
conveyed by the railway companies at
I comparatively nominal rates to their
( home in Alabama, upon my assurance,
Z IN the absence OF any iund available for
( the cost of their transportation that l
would recommend to congress an apprO-
/ prlaion tor its payment l now strong
/ ~ urge upon congress the propriety of
making such an appropriation. 1t should
6 be remembered TaEn6 that ,,i the meas
only by sympathy and humanity. but by
conviction that il was incompatible
with the dignity of this government that
! should be thrown for relief upon the
charity of neighboring state.
In last years message, l narrated at
some length the jurisdictiOnal questions
then freshly arisen in the Mosquito In
dian strip of Nicaragua. Since that time,
ny the voluntary act OF the Mosquito Ma
ton, the territory reserved to them has
been Incorporated with Nicaragua, the In
dians formally subjecting themselves to
be governed by the general laws and reg
ulations OF the republic, instead of by
their own customs and regulations, and
thus availing themselves of a privilege
secured to them by the treaty between
! Nicaragua and Great Britain of January
rs 1860. After this extension of uniform
Nicaraguan administration to the Mos
/ quito strip, the case of the British vice
consul, Mr.. Hatch, and of several of his
countrymen who had been summarily eX-
( PEELED from Nicaragua and treated with
f6V y pea yf iniGgn d RToyoked claim
I
cuniary indemnity, which. upon Nicara-
qua refusal to admit liability, was en-
| forced by Great Britain. While the SOW
ereignty and jurisdiction of Nicaragua
/ was in no way questioned by Great
! britain, the formers arbitrary conduct
in regard to British subjects furnished
/ the ground for the proceeding.
/ A British naval force occupied without
! resistance the Pacific seaport of Corinto,
/ but was soon after Withdrawn upon the
/ promise that the sum demanded would be
/ paid. Throughout this incident the kind
/ ~ offices of the United States were inVok-
| ed and were employed in favor of as
! peaceful a settlement and as much con-
| sideration and indulgence toward Near
aqua as were consistent with the nature
/ or the case. Our efforts nave since been
| made the subject of appreciative and
| greatfui recognition by Nicaragua
/ The coronation of the Car of Russia
/ at MOSCOW in May next invites the cere-
monial participation of the United States
! and in accordance with usage and dip
lomatic propriety our minister to the
imperial court has been directed to rep
| resent our government on the occasion.
Correspondence is on foot touching the
! practice of Russian consuls within the
! jurisdiction of the United States to in
| terrogate citizens as to their race and
| religious faith, and upon ascertainment
thereof to deny to Jews Authorization
| OF passports or legal documents for use
/ in Russia. Inasmuch as such a proceed
| ing imposes a desirability, which i'm the
/ case or succession to property in Russia
may be found to infringe the treaty rights
/ of our citizens and which is an obnoxious
| invasion of our territorial Jurisdiction. if
| has elected fitting remonstrance, the re-
| suit of which, it is hoped, will remove the
| course of complaint.
The pending claims of sealing vessels
OF the United States seized in Russian
| waters remain unadjusted. Our recent
| convention with Russia establishing a
| modus Vivendi as to imperial jurisdiction
IN such cases has prevented further diff
| hculty OF this nature.
The Russian government has weIcom-
ed IN principle our suggestion for a mo-
aus viVendl, to embrace Great Britain and,
Japan, looking to the better preservation
of seal life in the North Pacific and
Boring Sea. and the extension of the
PIotectea area defined by the
OF the thirty-fifth parallel 1t is espec-
tally noticeable that Russia fayors nro-
hibition OF the use OF firearms in seal
hunting without the proposed area and a
longer closed season for pelagic sealing
In my last two annual messages cali
ed the attention of the congress to the
position we occupied as one of the par
ties to treaty or agreement by which
we become jointly bound with England
and Germany to so Interfere with tbe
government and control of Samoa as in
effect to assume the management Of lis
affairs. On the 9th day of May 1885, |
transmitted to the Senate a sDacial mos
sage, with accompanying documents
giving information on the subject and
emphasizing the opinion / have at an
times entertained, that our situation in
this matter was Inconsistent with the
mission and trad lions of our govern
ment, in violation of the principles we
profess, and in all its phases mischievous
and vexatious. l again press this sub
ject upon the attention of the conarass
and ask for such legislative action or
expression as viii lead the way 10 our
relief from obligations both irksome and
unnatural.
Cuba is again gravely disturbed. An
instruction, in, some respects more act
i've than the Last preceding revolt which
continued from 1868 to 1873 now exists
in large part of the eastern interior Of
the island, rnenacing even some poplIa-
ton on the coast, besides deranging the
commercial exchanges of the islanl. If
which our country takes the pradonf-
| nant share. This fragrant condition Of
hostilities by arousing sentimental SYM
pathy and melting adventurous support
among orr people, has entailed earnest
effort on the part of this government to
enforce obedience to our neutrality laws
and to prevent the territory of the United
States from being abused as a vantage
ground from which to aid those in arms
against Spanish sovereignty, Whatever
may he the traditional sympathy Of our
countrymen as individuals with a people
who seem to be struggling for larger
autonomy and greater freedom, deeDened
as : uch sympathy naturally must he in
beh If of our neighbors. yet the pain