The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-05

may be brought within the domain of
in the material carriage of commerce
and correspondence upon the face of
waters that divide them.
The claim of Thomas Jefferson Page
against Argentina which has been
pending many years. has been adjust
ed. The sum awarded by the congress
of Argentina was 81, 242.35.
The sympathy of the American people
has justly been offered to the ruler and
the people of Austro-H Hungary by rea-
son of the afflication that has lately be-
fallen in the assassination of the en-
preSS-Queen of that historic realm.
On the 10th of September, 1897, a con-
hict took place at Latimer, Pa, be-
tween a body of striking miners and
the sheriff of Luzerne county and his
deputies in which q miners were killed
and A wounded, of which 10 of the
killed and u of the wounded were Aus
trian and Hungarian subjects This de-
plorable event naturally aroused the
SOlicitude of the Austro- Hungarian
government. which, on the assumption
that the killing and wounding involved
the unjuStifable misuse of authority
claimed reparation for the sufferers
Apart from the searching investigation
and the peremptory action of the auth
critics of Pennsylvania, the federal ex-
ecutlVe took appropriate steps to learn
the merits of the case, in order to be in
a position to meet the urgent complaint
of a friendly power. The sheriff and
murder were tried and acquitted, after
protracted proceedings and the hearing
of hundreds of witnesses on the ground
that the killing was in the line of their
official duty to uphold law and preserve
public order in the state. A represent
tatiVe of the department of justice at
tended the trial and reported it's course
fully. With all the facts in its posses
sion this government expects to reach
a harmonious understanding on the
subject with that of Austro- Hungary,
Notwithstanding the renewed claim of
the latter after learning the result of
the trial for indemnity for its injured
subjects.
Despite the brief time allotted for
preparation the exhibits of this country
at the universal exposition at Brussels
in 1897 enjoyed the sigular distinction
&C a larger proportion of awards, hav-
ing regard to the number and classes
of articles entered than those of other
countries. The worth of such a result
in making known our national capacity
to supply the worlds markets is OBJ
vious.
Exhibitions of this international char
acter are becoming more frequent as
the changes of commercial countries
grow more intimate and varied. Hard
-ly a year passes that this government
is not invited to national precipitation
at some foreign port, but often with too
short notice to permit of recourse to
congress for the power and means to
do so.
advisability of providing by a general
enactment a standing appropriation for
accepting such invitations and for rep
resentation of this country by a COM
mission. This plan has my cordial ap-
prevail
I trust the Belgian restriction on the
impOrtatiOns of cattle from the United
States, originally adopted as a sanitary
precaution, will at an early date be
modified as to their present and future
hardship and discrimination, so as to
admit live cattle under due regulation
of their slaughter after landing. I am
hopeful too, of a favorable change in
the Belgian treatment of our preserved
and sailed meats. The growth of direct
trade between the two countries not
alone for Belgian consumption and Bel
gian products, but by way of transit
from and to other continental states, has
been both encouraging and beneficial
No effort will be spared to enlarge its
advantages by seeking the removal of
needless impeachment and by arrange
ments for increased commercial eX-
change.