Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-12-16
The MESSAGE IN BRIEF
Regards the Currency Question as the Next
Important National Question Pressing
for Consideration.

Following is a brief synopsis of
President McKinley's message to
Congress, with the exception of
that portion relating to Hawaiian
Affairs, which is given iu full in
another column:
The message of President Nc.
Kinley to Congress assumes pro-
perly that the extra session settled
the tariff question, and takes up
the currency as the next import
ant national matter to he disposed
Of. The President recommends
the estoppal of the endless chain
by which the gold reserve is de-
pleted by holding treasury notes
paid into the treasury for gold
until gold is paid for them by in
tending purchasers He ap-
proves, also, the plan Of Secretary
Gage that national banks be al
lowed to issue circulating notes to
the face value of the bonds which
they have deposited, and that the
tax on circulating notes be re-
duced to one half Of l per cent
per annum.
The President believes Spain lie
in earnest in the desire to pscify
Cuba without further resort 70 the
methods of the dark ages, and
would withhold recognition of
belligerency until the new Spanish
Ministry can be proven. The
larger part of the message is de
voted to the discussion of the
Cuban affair.
He touches upon existing com
plicatious in Central America in
their bearing on the Nicaragua
Canal.
While he regrets the partial
failure of the Walcott commission
in the interest of international
bimetallism, yet he sees reason for
felicitation in tue friendly atti-
tude toward silver assumed by
France.
He would foster trade with all
nations by reciprocal agreement,
and urge upon Congress the ne
cessi'y for earnest work in the
rehabilitation of the Amer lean
| merchant marine.
The preservation OF the herd Of
fur bearing seals is NEST earn
estly advocated.
Arbitration as a means for the
settlement of disputes between
nations finds the same strong
favor as under the Cleveland ad
ministration.
The importance Of a proper
showing at the Paris Exposition
of 1900 is set forth at some length.
The President is an earnest adj
vocate of q strong naval program,
and would build large dry docks,
in addition to those already in ex
isteDce, on both the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, and construct an
additional battle-ship at once on
the Western seabosrd.
Tue necessity for more strict
governmental supervision of Alas.
Ia is pointed out. The President
urges, also, the duty of the natio n
to extend help, should help be
needed, to the miners in Yukon
Valley.
II is deemed wise, for the ma
tons good, to make land holding
citizens of the five civilized tribes
in the Indian Territory.
The peed for better system of
quarantine, emphasized by the
late yellow-fever epidemic, is
pointed out.
The President asserts the pur-
pose of the Government to buy
the Kansas Pacific in case nc
bidder shsll cover its lien, and
asks express authority from Con-
gress to take such action.
The fact of the completion OF
the new National Library is re
corded.
The success of civil service re
form is said to be assured, and
the purpose of the administration
to adhere to the merit system il
most emphatically asserted.