The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-06

was submitted % the chief Justice o.
Canada as sole arbitrator. His award
sets the indemnity due TO The claimant
OF $40. 900.
The government. OF Peru has given
the prescribed notification OF its In
tention to abrogate the treaty Of friend
snip. mmerce and NAVIGATION. con-
cluded with this country Aug. II. 1871.
As that treaty contains many impor-
tant provisions necessary 20 the main
tenance OF commerce and good relations
which could with dificulty be replaced
by the nomination OF renewed provis-
ions within the brief II MOI tins inter-
vening before the treaty terminates. I
have invited suggestions by Peru a. TO
the particular provisions IL 10 desired
to annul. In the hope of reaching an
arrangement whereby the remaining
articles may be professionally saved.
The Cxsr's Pesce Proposal.
His majesty the car. having an
nounced his purpose 20 raise the I'M
perial mission at this capital to the
rank Of an embassy. ! responded under
the authority conferred by the act OF
March 3. 1893. by commissioning n
a~ccrediting the actual representative At
81. Petersburg in - capacity Of am
bassador extraordinary and pienipoten-
tiary. The Russian ambassador to this
country has since presented his creden-
tials. The proposal of the czar for a
general reduction Of h vast military
establishments that weigh 50 heavily
upon many peoples in time OF peace
was communicated to his government.
with an earnest invitation to be repre-
scented in the conference which II In
contemplated TO assemble with a view
10 discussing the means of accomplish
ing so desirable a result. His majesty
was at once informed OF the cordial
sympathy Of this government with the
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posal, and Of the readiness OF the
United States to take part In the con-
erence. The active military force of
the United States as measured by our
population. territorial area and taxable
wealth Is. and. under any conceivable
prospective conditions. must continue
to be in time of peace so ccnspicuously
less than that OF the armed powers TO
whom the cars appeal II especially
addressed. that the uestion can have
for US no practical Importance. save AZ
marking ar suspicious step toward the
betterment Of the condition ~ the mod
ern peoples. and the cultivation Of
peace and good will among them. but
In this view II behooves US as a nation
to lend co~untenance and aid to the ben
eficent project.
The claims OF owners OF American
sailing vessels for seizure by Russian
cruisers in Boring sea are being pressed
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cases justly the expectation that a
measure OF ~reparation would even
tually be accorded in harmony with
precedent inc in the light OF the pro-
vision OF the acts. The recommended
ton made in my special message Of
April % last. Ia renewed. that an
preparation be made to reimburse the
master and owners OF the Russian bark
Hans for wrongful arrest Of the master
and detention Of the vessel In February.
1896. by officers Of the United States
district court for the southern district
Of Mississippi. The papers accompany
ing my message make out a most mer-
itorious claim and justify the urgency
with which IL has been presented by
the government Of Russia
In samoa
Malietoa Laupepa. king OF Samoa.
died on Aug. % last. According to ar
ticle I of the general act OF Berlin.
his successor shall be duly elected ac-
cording TO the laws and customs OF Sa-
moa." Arrangements had been agreed
upon between the signatories of the
general act. for the return OF Mataafa
and the other exiled Samoan chiefs.
they were brought from Jaluit by a
German war vessel. n landed at Apia
on Sep. Is last.
whether the death OF Malietoa and
the return OF his old time rival Mataafs
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which the execution of the tripartite
general act has heretofore developed.
remains to be seen. The efforts of this
government will. as heretofore. be adj
dressed towards a harmonious and
exact fulhllment of the terms Of the
international agreement to which the
United States became a party In 1889.
The Cheek claim against Siam. after
some five years OF controversy. has
been adjusted by arbitration under an
agreement signed July s. 1897. an award
of 706. 721 ticals (about sls1 $50 with thu
release OF the Cheek estate from mort
gage claims. had been rendered March
81. 1898. in favor OF the claimant by the
arbitrator. Sir Nicholas John Hannah.
British chief justice for China and
Japan.
An envoy from Siam has been ac-
credited to this government n a
presented his credentials.
switzerisnd'- Request.
Immediately upon the outbreak Of the
war with Spain the Swiss government.
fulfilling the high mission IL has de-
servedly assumed as the patron of the
International Red Cross. proposed to
the United States and Spain that they
should ~severally recognize and carry In
TO execution as a modus vivendi dur
ing the continuance OF hostilities. the
additional articles proposed by the in
ternational conference at Geneva. Oct.
6. 1865. extending the effects of the ex-
listing Red Cross convention OF 1864 to
the conduct OF naval war. Following
the example set by franz and Ger
many I'm 1870 in adopting uch a modus
vivendi. and in view of the accession
OF the United States to those additional
articles in 1852. although the exchange
or ratification thereof stu remained un-
effected. the Swiss proposal was
promptly and cordially accepted by us
and simultaneously by Spain.
This government feels a keen salts
faction in having thus been enabled
10 testify its adherence to the broad
principle OF humanity even amidst the
clash Of war. and IL Is to be hoped
that the extension OF the Red Cross
compact to hostilities by sea- as well
as on land. may soon become an ac-
complished fact through the general
PRONUNCIATION Of additional naval Red
Cross articles by III maritime pow
arg nnN narfiAS TO the convention OF