Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08

in due season to Paris, they there met
on the LIST of October five commissioners
similarly appointed by Span. Inc neso-
tiations have made hopeful progress, SO
that 7 trust soon to be able to lay del
mite treaty of peace before the Senate,
with n review Of the steps leading to It's
signature.
I do not discuss at this time the govern
ment or the future of the new posses
sions which will come to us as the result
of the war with Spain. Until the Con
gress has legislated otherwise, it Will DE
nv duty to continue the military govern
ments which have existed since our occu-
patton and government of the people, Sc
curity in life and property, and encOur-
agement under just and benehcent rule:
AS soon as we are in possession 81
Cuba and have pacifed the island, 1t VIII
be necessary to give aid ana dlrectlon 10
its DeoD!e to form a government Tor tnem-
selves. This should be undertaken at the
earliest moment consistent with safety
and assured success Until there is COM
plete tranquillity.in the island and sta
Bile government inaugurated military oc-
cupation will be continued.
Relations with Other Countries.
With the exception Of the rupture with
Spain, the intercourse of the. United
States with the great family OF natlons
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-
iusted or presenting no serious obstacle
to a lust and honorable solution by ami
cable agreement.
A long unsettled dispute as to the ex-
tended boundary between the Argentine
Republic and Chill assumed an acute
stage in the early part of the year, and
afforded to this government occasion to
EXPRESS the hope that the resort to arbl-
tration, already contemplated by existing
conventions between the parties, might
prevail despite the grave difficulties arls-
ing in it's application. am happy to say
that arrangements to this end have been
perfected.
I have found occasion to approach the
Argentine Government with a view to
removing differences of rate charges i'm
posed upon the cables of an American
corporation in the transmission between
Buenos Ayres and the cities of Uruguay
and Brazil of through messages passlngg
from and to the United States Although
the matter is complicated by exclusive
concessions by Uruguay and Brazil to
foreign companies, there is strong hope
that good understanding will be reached.
In this relation [ may be permitted to
express my sense of the fitness of an in
ternational agreement whereby the inter
change of messages over connecting ca
bles may be regulated on fair basis OF
uniformity.
The sympathy of the American people
has justly been offered to the ruler and
the people of Austria Hungary by reason
of the aff1iction that has lately befallen
them in the assassination of the En-
press-Queen Of that historic realm.
The Lattimer Affair.
On the 10th of September, 1897, com
f1ict took place at Lattimer, Pa, between
body of striking miners and the sheriff
of Luzerne County and his deputies, in
which twenty-five miners were killed and
forty-four wounded, of whom ten of the
killed and twelve of the wounded were
Austrian and Hungarian subjects. This
deplorable event naturally aroused the so
licitude of the Austro Hungarian Govern
ment, which, on the assumption that the
killing and wounding involved the unjus-
tifable misuse of authority, claimed rep
aration for the sufferers. Apart from the
searching investigation and the peremp-
tory action of the authorities of Pennsyl-
vania, the Federal Executive took appro-
pirate steps to learn the merits of the
case, in order to be in a position to meet
the urgent complaint Of friendly pow
er. The sheriff and his deputies having
been indicted for murder were tried and
acquitted after protracted proceedings.
A representative of the department of
justice attended the trials and reported
us COURSE lully. w I'LL itIl Tie IdClS III IT'S
possession, this Government expects to
reach a harmonious understanding ON the
subject with that of Austria Hungary.
Despite the brief time allotted for prep
aration, the exhibits of this country at
the Universal Exposition at Brussels in
1897 enjoyed the singular distinction of
larger proportion OF awards, having re-
gard to the number and classes of articles
entered, than those of other countries.
Hardly a year passes that this Gov
eminent is not invited to national partici-
patton 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 predecessors
have suggested the ACCESSIBILITY Of pro-
viding by a general enactment and a
standing appropriat ton for accepting such
invitations and for representation of .his
country by commission. This plan has
my cordial approval.
importations of cattle from the United
States, originally adopted as sanitary
precaution, will at an early date be salts
fed as to their present and future of
hardship and discrimination so as to adj
nit live cattle under due regulation of
their slaughter after landing I am hope
full, too, of favorable change in the
Belgian treatment of our preserved and
sailed meats.
The years events in Central America
deserve more than passing mention. A
menacing rupture between Costa Rica
and Nicaragua was happily composed by
the signature of convention between
the parties, with the concurrence of the
Guatemalan representative as a media
tor, the act being negotiated and signed
on board the United States steamer
Alert, then lying in Central American
waters.
United States Of Central .smerica:
In my last annual message the Situation
was presented with respect to the diplo-
matte representation of this Government in
Central America, created by the association
Of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador under
the title of the Greater Republic of Central
America, and the delegation of their inter-
nal functions to the diet thereof While the
representative character of the diet was