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

pdreQ WIN OCher countries whose DIP
| preparations are on a more generous
scale and whose preparations are in a
state of much greater forwardnesS than
our own.
Where our artisans have the admit
! ted capacity to excel, where our invent
i've genius has initiated many of the
grandest discoveries of the later days
OF the century, and where the native
! resources of our land are as l1mitleSS
as they are valuable to supply the
worlds needs, it is our province, as 1t
| should be our earnest care, to lead in
| the march of human progress, and not
rest content with any secondary place.
| Moreover, if this be due to ourselves.
it is no less due to the great French
nation, whose guests we become, and
which has in so many ways testified it's
wishes and hope that our participation
! shall befit the place the two peoples.
have won in the field of universal de-
velopment.
RECIPROCITY TREATIES.
The commercial arrangement made
with France on May %, 1898, under the
provisions of section s, of the tariff act
of 1897, went into effect on June 1, fol-
lowing. 1t has relieved a portion of
our export trade from serious embar-
rassment. Further negotiations are
now pending under section 4, of the
same act, with a. view to the increase
of trade between the two countries to
their mutual advantage. Negotiations
with other governments, in part inter
rupted by the war with Spain, are in
progress under both sections of the tar
| if act. [ hope to be able to announce
some of the results of these negotia-
lions during the present session of
congress.
Negotiations to the same end with
| n J, col
while, mo effort has been relaxed to
convince the imperial government of
| the thoroughneSS of our inspection of
pork products for expectation and it is
! trusted that the efficient administration
of this measure by the department of
agriculture will be recognized as a
guarantee of the healthfulness of the
food staples we send abroad to coun
tries where their use is large and nee
essary.
1 transmitted to the senate, on Feb.
10 last, information touching the pro-
hibition against the importation of
fresh fruits from this country, which
had been recently decreed by Germany
on the ground OF danger of disseminat-
ing the San Jose scale insect. This pre-
cautionary measure was justified by
Germany on the score Of the drastic
steps taken in several states of the
Union against the spread of the pest,
and the elaborate reports of the dam
age to German fruit growing interests
should. the scale obtain a Judgment in
that country. Temporary relief was
afforded in the case of large consign-
ments of fruits then on the way, by
inspection and admission when found
non-infected. Later the prohibition was
extended to dried fruits of every kind,
but was relaxed so as to apply only to
unpeeled fruit and fruit waste. AS was
to be expected, the alarm reached to
other countries. and Switzerland has
adopted a similar inhibition. Efforts
are in progress to induce the German
and Swiss governments to relax the
prohibition in favor of dried fruits
shown to have been cured under cir
cumstances rendering the existence of
animal life impossible.
RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.
Our relations with Great Britain have
continued ON the most friendly footing.
Asserting to our request the protection
of Americans and their interests in
Spanish jurisdiction was assumed by
the diplomatic and consular representa-
tives of Great Britain, who fulfilled
their delicate and arduous trust with
tact and zeal eliciting high common
dation. I may be allowed to make fit
ting allusion to the instance of Mr..
Ramsden, her majesty's consul at San
tiago de Cuba, whose untimely death
after distinguished service and untiring
efforts during the siege of that city was
sincerely lamented.
In the early part of April last, pur-
suant to a request made at the instance
of the secretary of state to the British
ambassador at this capitol, the Cana
dian government granted facilities for
the passage for United States revenue
cutters from the great lakes to the At
lantic coast by way of the Canadiao
canal and the st. Lawrence river. The
vessels had reached Lake Ontario and
were there awaiting the opening of
navigation when war was declared be-
tween the United States and Spain.
Her majesty'sf government thereupon,
by a communication of the latter part
of April, stated that the permission
granted before the outbreak of hostili-
ties would not be Withdrawn, provided
the United States government gave as
surance that the vessel in question
would proceed direct to United States
port without engaging in any hostile
operation. This government promptly
agreed to the stipulated condition, it be-
ing understood that the vessel would
not be prohibited from resenting any
hostile attack
1t will give me special satisfaction if
; I shall be authorized to communicate
10 you u lGNOTdDIe COUCluS1Ou Ol the
pending negotiations with Great Brit
ain in respect to the Dominion of Con-
ada It is the earnest wish of this gov
eminent to remove all sources Of dis
cord and irritation in our relations with
the neighboring dominion. The trade
between the two countries is constantly
!. increasing, and it is important to both
countries that all reasonable facilities
should be granted for its development
PROTEST From GREECE.
, The government of Greece strongly
urges the nervousness of the duty here
imposed upon the currants of that coun-
try, amounting to 100 per cent or more
, of their market value. This fruit is
stated to be exclusively a Greek pro-
duct, not coming into competition with
any domestic product. The question
of reciprocal commercial relations with
; Greece, Including the restoration OF
currants to the free list is under con-
sideration.
The long-standing claim of BeranC
: Campbell for damages for injuries sus-
{ tanned from a violent assault committed
} against him by military authorities il
: the island of Hayti has been settled
: by the agreement of that republic t.
pay him $4,000 in American gold. o.
this sum $4,000 has already been paid
i. 1t is hoped that other pending claims o.
American citizens against that republic
: may be amicably adjusted.
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.