The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-15

What the President Says
to Congress.
A Long and Exhaustive State Paper
Urges an Early Settlement
for Hawaii.

! sage appears IN Ln9 san FT3nclSc
Chronicle of December s:
The third annual message of Presi
dent Mckinley was transmitted to Con
gress yesterday. 1t is exceedingly lopg
and for the benefit of those who ar;
| unable % read the entire document We
present the gist of the statements anC
recommendation in the order in which
tAey are treated in the message.
After a proper allusion to the death
OF Vice-President Hobart the message
passes to matters Of finance. The Pres
ident points out that our foreign trade
for the fiscal year 1899 exceeded by
more than billion dollars that of 1870.
and that for the current fiscal wear
while carrying on war on the other
side Of the globe, the reteip.s Of the
Treasury viii exceed the expenditures
by 100000 900, thus enabling us to re-
sumo the reduction of the public debt.
which was suspended eight years since.
With regard to the national bank act
the President makes no positive recon-
mendation, except that national banks
De allowed TO organize with a capital
OF $4,000. He recommends the segre-
CATION, in the Treasury, of a gold fund
for the redemption of greenbacks; that
greenbacks once redeemed shall only
be paid out in exchange for gold, and
that the Secretary of the Treasury have
wider discretion in issuing bonds
should that ever again become neces-
sary, for ,he maintenance Of the gold
reserve. Il is pointed out that last
year American ships carried a smaller
share than ever before of our foreign
o.,,1o Cd ha+
aid be given TO American shipping. The
subject of trusts is discussed and the
hope expressed that Congress will dis
cover a way TO effectively deal with
Item. A few unimportant incidents of
our negotiations with various minor
foreign nations are referred to.
In respect to the interOceanic canal
the President refers to MS message Of
q year ago. in which its construction
was strongly recommended, and states
that the reasons then presented are
now even stronger. He anticipates,
however, that the report of the new
Isthmian" Commission will necessari-
y be delayed for some time. The state
nent is made that our trade with
China continues TO grow, and that our
commercial rights under existing
treaties have been everywhere main
tanned during the past year, as they
will be in the future He renews a
'ormer recommendation for the forma-
ion of a commission to study the in
lustrial and commercial opportunities
in the Chinese empire. Appropriate |
reference is made to the Paris EXPOSE
ion, at which more than 1000 Amer |
can citizens will exhibit, representing |
III states of the Union. Germany re-
nj &c on n
he hope expressed that international |
will be made whereby |
,ur food products may have less trouble |
n getting into that country. The state |
nent is made that our negotiations |
With Great Britain touching various
questions between this country and
Canada have been suspended pending |
/ permanent settlement and delimfta- |
ion of the boundary between Canada |
md Alaska. negotiations for which are
now pending. Our neutrality in the
Transvaal war is emphasized. Refer
ring to the fact that for the fourth
Tine in ten years the United States is
now called upon to deal with a claim
Of the Italian Government for the
lynching of Italian subjects, the Presi-
lent strongly recomm that Offens-
as against the treaty rights of aliens
be placed within the jurisdiction Of the
United States courts. Claims Of Amer
lean citizens against Russia, growing
out of the seizure of American sealers,
are TO be arbitrated. The reasons for
the partition Of the Samoan group oil
islands are explained, with the state
ment that the convention for that pur-
pose will be submitted to the Senate.
In regard to Cuba the statement is
made that as the Spanish residents OIL
that island have until April II, 1900,
20 determine whether they will become
of Cuba, therefore it is not pos
sibie, before that time, to determine
who are entitled to participate in an
election. but that Immediately there
a. Ter elections will be held which will
the municipal government of
the island by the people thereof. Sol
long as the island is controlled by the
United States and its political future
the President recon-
nends that its people be given such adj
yantages in the United States markets |
Is are given to those Of any other West
India island by virtue Of any recip4o-
.ity treaty. Our relations with Spain |
Ire stated to be agreeable, CONNER
,ial treaty being about to be negoti- |
ated which the President hopes will in |
-luQe RECIPROCITY IedtuIeS. OuI It. |
atoms with Turkey are said to bel
'ather unsatisfactory, the trouble ari- |
sing from the refusal of that Govern |
nent to recognize the American citi-l
.enship of Turks naturalized in the |
United States, and veXatiouS discrimi- |
nations against some of our products
notably fiour-when exported to that
The treaty with Japan and |
)ur friendly relations with Mexico are
and the necessity for a |
Pacific cable system is reiterated. The |
is congratulated on the final /
settlement of the old Venezuela trou-
DE. and reference is made to the re-
,iprocity treaties concluded. The |
apid Improvement in our consular ser
ice is noted. and the fact stated that
LII the nations of the two American |
continents are now members OF theI
American International Union, whose
continuance is now assured for the en-
uing ten years. Reference is made to |
he export exposition just closed in |
and TO the Buffalo eXpO-l