The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-06

stitute, for our countrymen resortnl to Paris for study.
 I am informed by our oommssionel
 general that We shall have in th'
 American sections at Paris over zoo,
 exhibitors, from every state in oul
 country, number ten times as grea1
 as those which were represented al
 Vienna in 1873, six times as many as
 those in Paris in 1878, and four times
 as many as those who exhibited ir
 Paris in 1889. This statement does not
 include the exhibits from either Cuba,
 Porto Rico or Hawaii, for which ar-
 engagements have been made.
 A number of important international
 congresses on special topics affecting
 public interest are proposed to be held
 in Paris next summer in connection
 with the exposition. Efforts will be
 made to have the several technical
 branches of our administration eff
 ciently represented at those confer
 ences each in its special line, and to
 procure the largest possible concourse
 of state representatives, particularly at the congresses of public charity and of
 medicine.
 Our relations with Germany con-
 tinues to be most cordial. The in-
 creasing intimacy of direct association
 has been marked during the year by
 the granting permission in April for
 the landing on our shores of a cable
 from Borkum Emden, on the north sea, by way of the Azores and also by the conclusion on Semptember 2, of a
 ,or xxfth ha man empire.
 of intercourse and commerce and a better understanding between two races having so many traits in common, Germany can be assured of the most cordial CO., operation of this government and peo- pie. We may be rivals in many ma terial paths, but our rivalry should be generous and open, ever aiming to- ward the attainment of larger results and the mutually beneficial advance ment of each in the line of it's especial adaptabilities.
 The several governments of the en- pire seem reluctant to admit the na- tural excellence of our food products
  stantly tender of the care with which their purity is guarded by rigid inspec- tions from the farm, through the slaughter house and the packing estab- to the port of shipment. Our system of control over exported food staples invites examination from any quarter and challenges respect by it's efficient thoroughness.
 It is to be hoped that in time the two governments will act in common &C., cord toward the realization of their common purpose to safeguard the pub lie health and to insure the purity and wholesomeness of all food products im- ported by either country from the other. Were the congress to author lze an invitation to Germany, in con nection with the pending reciprocity ] for the constitution of a joint commission of scientific experts and practical men of affairs to conduct | 3 searching investigation of food pro- luction and exportation in both coun -ries and report to their respective leg stature for the adoption of such ren1e- dial measures as they might recom- mend for either, the way might be open 'or the desirable result indicated.
 Efforts to obtain for American life insurance companies full hearing as % their business operations in Prussia nave, after several years of patient happily succeeded, and ,ne of the most important American has been granted a conces- ion to continue business in that king lom.
 I am also glad to announce that the Herman insurance companies have ,een re-admitted by the superintend- mt of insurance to do business in the tate of New York.
 Subsequent to the exchange of our ,eace treaty with Spain, Germany ac- uired the Caroline. Islands by purch- se, paying therefore s5,0O0,000. Assur- lncss have been received from the ( ierman government that the rights of American missionaries and traders here will be considerably observed. Tn my last annual message I referred ( 0 the pending negotiations with Great 'ritain in respect to the Dominion of 'anada. By means of an executive ( greement joint high commission had t cen created for the purpose of ad- lsting all unsettled questions between g he United States and Canada, embrac- ! lg twelve subjects, among which were I he questions of the fur seals, the fish, ries of the coast and contiguous in- J and waters, the Alaskan boundary, q ne transit of merchandise in bond, the t lien labor laws, mining rights, recip- a petty in trade, revision of the agree lent respecting naval vessels in the V reat lakes, a more complete marking ( parts of the boundary, provision for V le conveyance of criminals, for wreck c lg and salvage. o Much progress had been made by the t toward the adjustment of s lany of these questions, when it be- S anne apparent that an irreconcilable | fference of views was entertained n sspecting the delimitation of the t, laskan boundary. In the failure of an u yreement as to the meaning of arti- t es 3 and of the treaty of 1925, be- lt veen Russia and Great Britain, which t sfined the boundary between Alaska V Id Canada, the American commission a s proposed that the subject of the lt ,undary be laid aside and that the re- D aiming questions of difference be pro- ,eded with, some of which were so nj 1T advanced as to assure the prob- r. ,ility of settlement. This being de- a, ined by the British commissioners, an fl l 1t...