Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-08


over US and his safe guidance, for
which the nation makes reverent ac-
acknowledgement and offers humble pray
er for the continuance of his favor.
The message continues by detailing
the steps taken in the formation of the
protocol, the issuance of the proclama-
ton suspending hostilities and the mus
fering out of the volunteers. the forma-
tion of the evacuation commissions in
Porto Rico and Cuba and the appoint
ment of the peace commission The
president then says:
do not discuss at this time the gov
erniiieht or the future OF the new pos
,es,,,t es,1ipis "illcn WIN come 70 US as the
d;so,,s..;S.. .s,, M "al Win SPAN: ouch
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eAls.eo SINCE OUT &c
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naonlo sbou ~ - 80 -. sL.-.,N - s,ris
character a,,5 o,,,. ,,.,s.s;ss,
close and recinrooaI ~ sho,,,d - 80, e,-s
duty to assist in avarv nrona,. ,,,sv -
build nm the waste nIaces ~ tto isio,,d
encourage the industry of tba naonle
and assist them to form a government
which shall be free and indenendent
thus realizing the best aspirations Of
the Cuban people,
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suss penevoienl anu humane govern
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y, 80
itime Canal company under its existing
concessions from Nicaragua and Costa
Riea, so that to this extent those grants
necessarily hold as essential a part in
the deliberations and conclusions of the
canal commission as they have held
and must needs hold in the discussion
of the matter by the congress. Under
these circumstances and in view of
overtures made to the governments of
Nicaragua and Costa Rica by other
parties for a new canal concession pred
icated on the assumed approaching
lapse of the contracts of the Maritime
Canal company with those states, 1
have not hesitated to express my con-
viction that considerations of expedi
ency and international policy as be-
tween the several governments inter-
ested in the construction and control of
an interoceanic canal by this route re-
Quire the maintenance of the status quo
until the canal commission shall have
reported and the United States congress
shall have had the opportunity to pass
finally upon the whole matter during
the present session without prejudice
by reason of any change in the exist
ing conditions.
Nevertheless 1t appears tnat the gov
ernment OF Nicaragua, as one OF lts
last sovereign acts before merging its
powers in those or the newly formed
United States of Central America, has
granted an optional concession to an
other association, to become effective
on the expiration of the present grant.
1t does not appear what surveys have
been made or what route is proposed
under this contingent grant. so that an
examination of the feasibility of it's
nlans is necessarily not embraced in the
report Of the canal commission. All
these circumstances suggest the urgen-
ey of some definite action by the con-
gress at this session if the labors of the
past are to be utilized and the linking
of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by
practical waterway is to be realized.
That the construction of such mari
time highway is now more than ever in
dispensable to that Intimate and ready
Accommodation between our east
ern and western seaboards demanded
lands and the prospective expansion of
our influence and commerce in the Pa
eific and that our national policy now
more imperatively than ever calls for
its control by this government are
propositions ~hich doubt not the con-
gress will 6Aly appreciate and wisely
act uDon