The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-06

~ wherever occurring, W1letl America
o products may be subjected in fogeis
: country, upon speclous preteXts to al
u elimination compared With the iii
: products of another country, this go
= eminent will use its earnest efforts
= secure fair and equal treatment for i
p citizens and their goods. Failing thi
: IL Will not hesitate to apply WhatevS
corrective may be provided by IL
e statutes
= The International commission on al
:, btratlon appointed under the Anglo
I Venezuelan treaty of 1897, rendered a
award on October last, whereby tn
boundary line between Venezuela an
British Guiana is determined, thus end
: ing controversy which has exlste,
for the greater part OF the century
The award, as to which the arbitrator
were unanimous, while not meeting tn
extreme contention of either party
gives to Great Britain large share 0
the interior territory in dispute and t
Venezula the entire mouth OF the Grin
oco, including Barina point and tn
Caribbean Littoral for some distance tt
the eastward The decision appears t,
be equally satisfactory to both parties
Venezuela has once more undergone
a revision. The revolution. The insur
gents, under Gen. Castro, after a san
culinary engagement in which they suf
| fered much loss, rallied in the noun
talnous Interior and advanced toward
the capital. The bulk of the army hav-
Ing sided with the movement.
President Andrade quilted Caracas,
where Gen. Cairo set up provisional
government With which our mlnister
and the representatives Of other powers
catered into diplomatic relations on the
goth OF November, 1899
The fourth section ~ the tariff act
approved July 24th, 1897, appears to
provide only for commercial treaties
which should be entered into by the
President and also ratified by the SEN
ate within two years from its passage.
Owing to delays inevitable in negotia-
tons of this nature, none of the treat
les Initiated under that section could be
concluded in time for ratification by the
senate prior to it's adjournment on the
4th Of March last Some of the pending
clusion thar time, and the resulting
conventions have since been signed by
the plenipotentiary Others, within
both the third and fourth sections Of the
act, are still under consideration. Act
Ing under the executonal
power of the executive In
respect to treaties, I have deemd 1t my
duty, While observing the limitations OF
concession provided by the fourth sec
ton, TO bring to conclusion all pend
Ing negotiations, and submit them to
the senate for its advice and consent |
Conventions of reciprocity have been |
signed during the congressional recess
with Great Britain FOR the respective |
colonies of British Guiana, Barbados,
Bermuda, Jamaica, and Turks and Cal |
cos islands, and with the republican OF |
Important reciprocal conventions
have also been concluded with France
and with the Argentine republic.
In my last annual message the prog
'ess noted in the work OF the diplomatic
and consular officers IN collecting in
ormatlon as to the industries and
commerce of other countries, and in the
are and promptltude with which their
eports are printed ana distributed,
las continued during the past year
With increasingly valuable results In
new sources of demand Cor
american products and In pointing out
he obstacles still to be overcome in
acilitating the remarkable expansion
t our foreign trade. It Will doubtless
e gratifying to congress to learn that
he various agencies or the department
{ state are cooperating in these en-
eaVors with zeal and effectiveness
ihich are not only receiving the cordial
acogniton OF our business interests,
ut are exciting the emulation of other
oyefnments. In any re-arrangemebt
the great and complicated work of
btalulng official data OF an economic
haracter, which congress may under-
ike it is most important, in my judg- !
lent, that the results already secured :
the efforts Of the department of state
ave been carefully considered with a
Jew to judiclous development and In
leased utility to our export trade .
The interest taken by the various :
ates forming the international union .
American republics in the work of :
S organic bureau is evidenced by the :,
let that for the first time since it's
'eation In 1890 all the republics OF :
outh and Central America are now :
presented in it. =
The unanimous recommendation ar +
lie International American conference, S
DIVIDING Cor the international union
American republics, stated that it C
lould continue In force during a term L
ten years from the date of its organ o
alton, and no country, becoming a W
ember OF the union, should cease TO c
member until the end of said o
'rlod OK ten years, and unless twelve CT
onths before the expiration OF said S
riod a majority of the members of e
e union had given to the secretary A
state OF the United States official no. tt
,e Of their wish to terminate the union tt
the end of it's first period, that the te
ION should continue to be maintained r
another period of ten years, and "
GREATER, under the same conditions. p
successive periods of ten years each. m
Inc period Of notification expired July 81
1879, Without any OF the members bi
wing given the necessary notice of
thdrawal. &c
dalneenance is therefore assured for vi
next ten years. In view of this VI
e ana OF the numerous questions of ri
neral interest and common benefit m