The San Francisco call., 1898-12-06

earliest moment consistent with safety ana assured success. It is important that our relations with these people shall be of the most friendly character and our commercial relations close and reciprocal. It should be our duty to assist in every proper way to build up the waste places of the island, encourage the industry ot the people and assist them to form a government which shall be free and in- dependent, thus realizing the best aspira- tions of the Cuban people.
 .,,ST spanish ha1 rule rule must be replaced by a ment, created by the people of Cuba, capable of performing all international obligations and which shall encourage thrift, industry and prosperity and pro mote peace and good will among all of the inha abitantS whatever may have be-n their relations in the past Neither re- the new Government. Until there is com plete tranquility on the island and a stable government inaugurated, military occupation will be continued.
 With the exception of lne rupture with Spain, the intercourse of the United States with the great family of nations has been marked with cordiality and the close of the eventful year finds most of the issues that necessarily arise in the complex relations of sovereign States ad- 5usted or presenting no serious obstacles to a just and honorable solution by ami cable agreement.
 A long-unsettled dispute as to the ex- tended boundary between the Argentine
 Republic and Chile
 Boundary Of stretching along the
 Andean crests 10 the
 Chile southern border of the and Argentine. Mageiiaa MSsi straits. he nearIy I
 a third of the length of the South American continent, assumed an acute stage in the early part of the year and afforded this Government occa- sion to express the hope that the resort to arbitration already contemplated by might prevail, despite the grave difficult ties arising in its application. am happy to say that arrangements to this end have been perfected, the questions or tact upon which the respective commissioners were unable to agree being in course Of refer ence to her Britannia Majesty for deter imitation. A residual dlnerence, touchlng the northern boundary line across the At acama Desert, for which existing trea- ties provided no adequate adjustment, bids fair to be settled VI like manner by joint commission, upon which the united States Minister at Buenos Ayres has been invited to serve as umpire III the last re- | have found occasion to approach the Argentine Government with view to re- moving differences of rate charges lmpoS- ed upon the cables of an American corpo- ration in the transmission between BuenoS AyreS and the cities of Uruguay ana Bra- gil of through messages passing from and to the United States. Although the mat ter is complicated by exclusive conceS- sions by Uruguay and Brazil to foreign companies, there is strong hope that good understanding will be reached and that the important channels Of commer- CaI communication between the United States and the Atlantic cities of South America may be freed from an almost prOhihitOTy discrimination
 In this relation l may be permitted to express my sense of the fitness of an in- ternatiOnal agreement whereby the inter- change or message over connecting cables may be regulated on a fair basis of uni formity. The world has seen the postal system developed from congeries of ln- dependent and exclusive service into a well-Ordered union, of which all countries found the manifold benefit. It would be strange were the nations not In time brought to realize that modern civiliza- 1iOn which owes so' much of it's progress to the annihilatiOn of space by the electric force, demands that this all-impOrtant means of communication, a heritage of all peoples, to be administered and regulated in their common behalf A step in this direction was taken when the interna- uOnal convention of 1884, for the prOtec- ton of submarine cables was signed, and the day is, 1 trust, not far distant when this medium for the transmission of thought from land to land may be brought within the domain of international concert as completely as in the material carriage and correspondence upon the face of the waters that divide them.
 The claim of Thomas Jefferson Page agalnst Argentina which has been pend Ing many wears, has been adjusted. The sum awarded by the Congress of Argen- tina was S4 PAP 8.
 The sympathy of the American people has justly been offered to the ruler and
 the people of Austria Sympathy and Hungary by reason of
 the affiiction that has
 Satisfaction lately befallen them in
 for Ars+,;o the assassination of the
 AN- A 'A-0'' EmpreSs-Queen of that
 historic realm. On Sep tember 10 1897, conflict took place at Latimer, Pennsylvania, between a body of striking miners and the Sheriff of Luzerne County and his deputies, in which twenty two miners were killed and forty-four wounded, of which ten of the killed and twelve of the wounded were Austrian and Hungarian subjects. This deplorab ble event naturally aroused the solicftude of the AuStro-Hungarian Government which on the assumption that the killing and Woundlng involved the unjustifiabe mis- use of authority, claimed reparation for the sufferers. Apart from the searching lhVeStlSatlon and the peremptory action or the authorities of PennSylvania the Federal executive took appropriate steps to learn the merits of the case in order tO De m position to meet the urgent com pIalnt or friendly power. The Sheriff ana his deputies, having been indicted for murder, were tried and acquitted after Prctracted proceedings and the hearing of tb iuliII Tqs oI witnesses on the ground that the Killing was in the line of their official outy to uphold law and preserve public order in the State. A representative of tne Depalrtnent Sl of Justice attended the tIialS ana reported its course fully With all the facts in it's possession, this Gov eInAlenl expects To reach a harminious tIIueI SldIuIHS on the subject with that of Austrla-Hungary, notwithstanding the re- neWed claim of the latter after learnin> the result of the trial, for indemnity for its injured subjects. AOi Despite the brief time allotted for nren- aration the exhibit of this country af tba Universal Exposition at Brussels in iSa7 enjoyed the singular distinction of a lars. CT proportion of awards, having regard f1 the number and classes of articles e~ tered, than those of other countries The worth of such result in making known our national capacity to supply inc worlds markets is obvious. ExhibItjons of this international character are becom ing more frequent as the exchanges 1f commercial countries grow more intimate and varied. Hardly a year passes thar this Government is not invited to national participation at some important foreign center, but often on too short notice to permit of recourse to Congress for the power and means to do so. My predeces- sors have suggested the advisability of providing by a general enactment stand ing appropriation for accepting such invi- tations and for representation of this my cordial approval
 trust the Belgian restriction on the i'm portations of cattle from the United States,
 originally adopted as a
 Restrictions sanitary precaution, will
 z, at an early date be mod
 on CdCCIe ihed as to their present Importations. and and discrn'in Gr fiarashP fion sP