The morning news., 1898-12-06

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Spao.sb ,,iIa lnu~t bs repl9ccJ bv a lust
benavolant and humane government, ere
a.aa Inv Inc ueoplo of cuba. capable Of
,,rf,,Io.ra all international OBLIGATIONS
ana wbic5 shall encourage thrift. industry
and nrosperity and promote peace and
good will among an of the inhabitants
Vh8taver may have been their relations in
,ba mast %.,ther revenge. nor Dassion
s5o,'d have place in the new govern
roent
I-ntu there is conpjete TRANQUILITY in the
Island and y stabe government inaugural
"a military ocrunatior win be continued
Foreign Relations.
with the one exception of the rupture
nith Spaip. the Intercourse of the United
States with the great family Of nations
bos bean marked v,f.b cordiaIitv and The
close OF the eventfui year finds most of
The issues thai necessarily arise in the
complex relations of sovereign states 1d-
justed OF presenting no serious obstacle
10 a Just ana honorable solution Dy ami
cable agreement
long unsettled dispute as to the eX-
tended boundary between the Argentine
republic and Chic. stretching along The
Andean crests from the southern border
% the Atacama desert TO Magellan straits
nearly third of the length of the South
American continent. 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 arbitra-
ton, already contemplated by existing
LIVE, Sp.iVsi,''o'ls 9. between me parues' might
ipe'di. ueSpIe 'ne grave dlnlcuitles ails'
ms III 10 aPPHcaton' ! am happy 10 say
.~at az "a, senlehts 10 tnls eno nave been
-, - 'Iie pueS'io"s OF Iact upon
- ',e We otlluisslohers were
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;t. -i4o"ii,S 'ndyeStS toi ueterin-
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St,,os -.i.ls. Tt'ou WIZ" 'ne Culted
in,,itaa -. -. - <ey'S9 "a7 peeu
sort N'i'F''e :" '"s l"7' re-
nave Iound occasion TO approach the
Argehupe government with a view 10 re-
moving dtiIerences of rate charges impos-
eu upon the caoies or an American corpOr-
a'ioh IN the transmission between Buenos
ASles ana the cues OF Uruguay and Bra
IN OF lhtough messages passing from and
70 me United States. Although the mat
~ coIlpncated oy exclusive conces-
hious oy Uruguay ana Brazil TO foreign
companies there IS strong hope that a
soou understanding viii be reached and
ulal the important channels of commercial
Noihiii unicaCioh between the United States
anu tne A'Ahllc cues OF south America
may De freed from an almost prohibitory
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IN TINS relation ! may be permitted TO
express my sense of the fitness of an in
ternatona4 agreement whereby the inter-
change OF messages over connecting ca
Dles may be regulated on a fair basis of
uniformity. The world has seen the postal
system developed from congeries of inde-
pendent and exclusive services into a wen
otdesed un on, of which all countries en-
Joy tne manifold benefits. Il is would be
slrahse We're the ma ions not In time
brought to realize that modern civilization.
which owes so much of its progress TO the /
anmhiiation OF space by the electric force.
de'nanas that this all-importaut means of
communication being heritage of II peo-
PES 10 De administered and regulated in
tner common behoof. step in this d.
rection was taken when the international
convention of 1884 for the protection of
submarine cables, was signed and the day
IS trust, not far distant when this me.
dium for the transmission of thought from
land TO land may be brought within the
CONAN OF international concert as com
pietely as if the material carriages of
commerce and correspondence upon the
lace Of the waters that divide them.
The claim of Thomas Jefferson Pase
against Argentina, which has been pend
Ing many years, has been adjusted The
sum awarded by the Congress of Argen-
tina was S4,2i2.S5.
The sympathy of The American Deonia
has justly been offered TO the r,,ier ana
the people of Austria Hungary hI, reason
of the affl!cUon that has latelv befaIlo,