The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-06
At PEACE WITH THE NATIONS.
LENGTHY REVIEW OF OUR FOR
EIGN RELATIONS.
Government Control of Nicaragua
Canal Favored-The Larimer Ri
ots-Paris Exposition.

With the exception Of the rupture
with Spain, the intercourse of the
United States with the great family of
nations has been marked with cordial
ity and the close of the eventful year
finds most of the issues that necessar-
lily arise in the complex relations Of
sovereign states adjusted or present.
ing no serious obstacles to q just and
honorable solution by amicable agree
ment
A long dispute as to the extended
boundary between the Argentine Re
public and Chilli, stretching along the
Andean crests to the southern border
OF the Atacama desert, the Magellan
Straits, nearly 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 oc-
casion to express the hope that the re
sort to arbitration, already contem-
plated by existing conventions between
the parties, might prevail, despite the
grave difficulties arising in its appi-
cation. l am happy to say that ar
rangements to this end have been per-
fecte6, the questions of fact upon Which
the respective commissioners We're IN
able to agree being in course of refer
ence to her Britannia majesty for de-
termination. A residual difference
touching the northern boundary line
across the AtacaIna desert. for which
existing treaties provided no adequate
adjustment, bids fair to be settled in
like manner by joint commission, upon
which the United States minister al
Buenos Ayres has been invited to serve
as umpire in the last resort.
have found occasion to approach the
Argentine government with a view &c
removing differences of rate charges
imposed upon the cables of an Ameri-
can corporation in the transmission be-
tween Buenos Ayres and the cities OF
Uruguay and Brazil Of through mes
sases passing from and TO the United
States Although the matter is compll-
Gated by. exclusive concessions by Uru-
quay and Brazil to foreign companies
there is 4 strong hope that a good IN
derstandtng Will be reached and thai
the important channels Of commercial
communication between the United
States and the Atlantic cities of Soutf
America may be freed from an almost
prOhibitOry discrimination.
In this relation, / may be permitted
to express my sense OF the fitness of al
international agreement whereby the
interchange of messages over connect
ing cables may be regulated on q fail
basis of uniformity.
The world has seen the postal system
developed from q. cOngeries of indepsn
dent and exclusive service into a wei
ordered union. of which all countrie.
found the manifold benefits. 1t would
be strange were the nations not in time
brought to realize that modern civil
cation, which owes so much Of its pro
gress to the annihilation of space b!
the electric force, demands that thi
all-important means Of communication
= heTitage Of all peoples, be admins
tered and regulated in their common
behalf. A step in this direction was
taken when the international conven
ton Of 1884 for the protection of sub
marine cables. was signed, and the dal
is, I trust not far distant when thi
medium fer the transmission Of though
from land to land may be brought with
n the domain Of International concer
as completely as in the material car
r.age Of commerce and correspondence
upon the face Of the waters that divid
them.
The claim OF Thomas Jefferson Pas
against Argentina. which has beel
pending for many years, has been ad
1usted. The sum awarded by the con
gress Of Argentina was S4,242.35
The sympathy OF the American peopI
has justly been offered to the ruler ant
the people of Austria Hungary by rea
son OF the affection that has lately be
fallen them IN the assassination of tn
empress-queen Of that historic realm.