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


was reached for. The time being, til
kingship being abolished and a pre-
visional government established. Rec
commission for a permanent adjust
hent of The Samoan question were tax
concentrations unanimously made by tn
en- under consideration by the thre
powers parties TO the general act. Blu
the more they were examined the NOR
evident 1t became that RADICAL chang
was necessary in the relations of TIL
powers TO Samoa.
The inconvenience and possible per
lis OF the tripartite scheme of super
vision and control in the Samoan grouI
by powers having little interest in com
mon in that quarter beyond CONNER.
clal rivalry, had been once more en-
phasized by the recent events. The
| suggested remedy of the joint commits
sion, Ike the scheme it aimed to re-
| place, amounted to What has been
| styled "tridominium," being the ex-
! ercise OF the functions of sovereignty
powers. The situation had become far
more intricate and embarrassing from
every point of view than it was when
my predecessor in 1894 summed up its
perpleXities and condemned the par
tlcipation in il of the United States
The arrangement under which Samoa
was administered had proved imprac
f'97N'e ard upaccentable to all the
powers concerned. To withdraw from
the agreement and abandon the islands
TO Germany and Great Britain would
not be compatible with our interests in
the archipelago. To relinquish our
rights in the harbor of Page Page, the
~-,.- anchorage in the Pacific, the oc-
cupancy of which had been leased to
the United States in 1878 by the first
foreign treaty ever concluded by
Samoa, was not to be thought, of eth
err as regards the needs of our navy
or the interests of our growing conn
merce with the East. We could not
have considered any proposition for the
abrogation of the tripartite control
which did noe confirm us in all rights
and safeguard all our national interests
in the islands.
Our views commended themselves to
the other powers. A satisfactory ar
rangement was concluded between the
governments of Germany and of Eng
land, by virtue of which England re-
tired from Samoa in view of compen-
sations in other directions, and both !
powers renowned in favor of the |
United States all their rights and |
claim over and in respect to that por-
ton of the group lying to the east Of |
he one hundred and seventy first de-
gree of west longitude embracing the
Stands of Tutuila, Ofoo, Olosenga, and
Manua, | transmit to the senate, for
is constitutional action thereon, a con-
which besides the provisions
lbove mentioned also guarantees lis
aspect co commerce and commercial
-essels in all of the islands of Samoa
s those possessed by Germany.
Claims have been preferred by white
esidents of Samoa on account of in
uries alleged to have been suffered
through the acts of the treaty gov
in putting down the late dis
urbances. A convention has been be-
ween the three powers for the inves-
cation and settlement of these claims
y a neutral arbitrator, TO which the
ttention of the senate will be invited.
My annual message of last year was
ecessarily devoted in great part to a
of the Spanish war and
T the results it wrought and the con-
itIons it imposed for the future. /
m gratified to announced that the
'eaty of peace has restored friendly
lations between the two powers. Eff
ct has been given to its most impor |
INT provisions. The evacuation of
orto Rico having already been ac-
on the 18th OF October, 1898,
othing remained necessary there but
continue the provisional military
ntrol of the island until che congress
lould enact a suitable government
# the coded territory. or the char
ter and scope of the measure, to that
id, shall treat in another part of this U
essage. [
The withdrawal of the authority of
,ain from the island of Cuba was eff o
cted by the LIST of January. so that X
e full establishment of peace c
und the relinquished territory held u
us in trust for the inhabitants
under the direction of the
ecutive, such government and con- g
IL therein as should conserve public II
der, restore the productive conditions
peace, so long disturbed by the in is
ability and disorder which prevailed ii
r the greater part of the preceding W
rec. decades, and build up that tran a
il development of the domestic state, Il
hereby alone can be realized the high S
rpose as proclaimed in the joint res
ltion adopted by the congress on the q,
n OIL April, 1882 ny whlcn the United fo
ates disclaimed any disposition or in n
ltion to exercise sovereignty juris- A
,tion or control over Cuba, except &C
the pacification thereof, and assert r.
it's determination that when that G,
Is accomplished to leave the govern 9,
mt and control of the islands to it's NJ
ople The pledge contained in this
is of the highest honorable ! ~,
legation and must be sacredly kept. n,
believe that substantial progress =.
$ been made in this direction. All A.,
administrative measures adopted 20
Cuba have aimed to fit it for a re- 80
nerated existence by enforcing the ~
of law and justice, by plac- ~,
thereover practically the machinery 81,
administration in the hands of the ~,
abitants; by instituting needed sam ~.
ry reforms, by spreading education, ~,
fostering industry and trade, by in a. ~.
eating public morality and, in short ~
taking, every rational step to aid
Cuban people to attain to that ~