The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-06

ty of American missionaries resident in
that country during the Armenian trou-
bles of 1895. as well as for the recogni-
ton of older claims OF equal iustness-
He is also instructed to seek adjust
ment of the dispute growing out of the
refusal of Turkey to recognize the &C
CURED citizenship of Ottoman-Borne-i
SLAMS naturalized in the United States
since 1883 without prior imperial con-
sent, and in the same general relation,
he is directed to endeavOr to bring
about solution of the question which
has more or less acutely existed since
1859 concerning the jurisdiction and,
rights OF the United States in matters
of criminal procedure and punishment.
under article ~ of the treaty of 1sSok
This latter difficulty grows out of a W.
bal difference, claimed by Turkey tol De
essential between the original Turkish
text and the promulgated translation
After more than two years from the
appointment of a consul of this coun-
try to ErZeroum, he has received his
exeQuatOr.
VENEZUELAN DISPUTE.
The arbitral tribunal appointed under
the treaty of February. 1897 between
Great Britain and Venezuela to deter
mine the boundary between the latter
and the colony of British Guiana is to
convene at Paris during the present
month 1t is a source of much gratifi-
cation to this government to see the
| friendly resort of arbitration applied to
! the settlement of this controversy, not
alone because of the earnest part We
have had in bringing about the result.
but also because the two members
named on behalf of Venezuela, Mr..
Chief Justice Fuller and Mr.. Justice
Brewer, chosen from our highest court,
inn Inn
terest we feel in the definite adjustment
of the question according to the strict
est rules of justice The British MEM
bers, Lord Herschel and Sir Richard
Collins, are jurists of no less exalted re-
| pute, while the fifth member and presi-
| dent of the tribunal, NJ. F. De Martens,
| has earned q worldwide reputation as
an authority upon international law.
/ The claim Of Felipe Scandella against
| Venezuela for arbitrary expulsion and
/ injury to his business. has been adj
| justed by the revocation of the order
| of expulsion and by the payment Of
the sum of $4,000.
BUREAU OF REPUBLICS.
| I have the satisfaction of being able
| to state that the bureau of American
/ republics created in 1890 as the organ
/ for promoting commercial intercourse
and fraternal relations among the
countries of the western hemisphere,
has become a more efficient instrumepts
of the wise purpose of its founders, an4
1 is receiving the cordial support of th&
contributing members of the Internal
| tional union which are actually repre-
/ scented in it's board of management. A
| commercial directory. in two volumes,
/ containing a mass Of statistical mat
ter descriptive of the industrial and
| commercial interests of the various
countries, has been printed in English,
Spanish, Portuguese and German,
monthly bulletin published in these
four languages and distributed in the
Latin-American countries, as well as
| in the United States. has proved to be
a. valuable med ium for disseminating in
formation and furthering the varied in
terests of the international union
CONSULAR REPORTS.
During the past year the important
work of collecting information of prac-
teal benefit to American industries
and trade, through the agency of dip
| lomatic and consular officers, has been
steadily advanced, and in order to lay
such data before the public with the
least delay. the practice was begin in
January, 1898, of issuing the commercial
reports from day to day as they are
received by the department of state.
| 1t is believed that for prOmptitude, as
we'll as fullness of information, the
service thus supplied to our merchants
and manufacturers viii be found to
show sensible improvement and to
merit the liberal support of congress.
PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA.
The experiences of the last year
bring fOrcibly home to US a sense Of
the burdens and the waste of war. We
desire, in common with most civilized
nations, to reduce to the lowest possible
point the damage sustained in time OF
war by peaceable trade and commerce.
1t is true, we may suffer in such cases
less than other communities, but all
nations are damaged more or less by
the state of uneasiness and apprehefa7
sion into which an outbreak of hosting
ties throws the entire commercial
world. 1t should be our object, there
fore, to minimize, so far as practicable,
this inevitable loss and disturbance.
This purpose can probably be best ac-
complished by an international agree
ment to regard all private property at
sea as exempt from capture or destruc-
ton by the forces Of belligerent powers
The United States government has for
many years advocated this humane
and beneficent principle, and is now in
a position to recommend it to other
powers, without the imputatiOn of self
ism motives. I, therefore, suggest for
your consideration that the executive
be authorized to correspond with the
governments of principal maritime
powers, with a view of incorporating
into the permanent law Of civilized ma
t.tions the principle of the exemption Of
all private property at sea, not contra
band of war, from capture or deStruc-
ton by belligerent powers.