Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-05

specious preteXts to discrimination COM
pared with the like products of another
country mis- government will use its
earnest efforts to secure fair and eo1a!
treatment for it's citizens and their goods,
Failing in this, it will not hesitate to APP
ply whatever corrective may be provided
by the statutes.
THE VENEZUELA AWARD.
The international commission of
aro n appointed under the
r Arg.o-y ene anS treaty Of Of. 1897;
last, whereby the boundary between
Venezuela and British Guiana is deter
mined, thus ending a controversy which
has existed for the greater part of the
century. The award, as to which the ar
Ditrators were unanimous, while not
meeting the extreme contention of Ell
Their party. gives to Great Britain a large
share of the interior territory in dispute
and to Venezuela the entire mouth of the
Oronlco river. including Barimo point.
and the Caribbean Littoral for some
distance to the eastward. The decision
appears to be equally satisfactory to both
parties. Venezuela has once more un-
dergone a revolution. The insurgents
under Gen. Castro, after a sanguinary
Z engagement, by which they suffered
much loss, advanced toward the capital.
The bulk of the army having sided with
the movement President Andrade quit
ted Caracas. where Gen. Castro set up q
prov SlOiidl SbN tlIlt1ieilI WlLn Willcl our
minister and the representatives of the
other powers entered into diplomatic re-
lations on the goth of November, 1899.
The fourth section of the tariff act aD-
proved july "A, 1897, appears to provide
only for Commercial relations. Owing to
delays inevitable in negotiations of this
nature no treaties negotiated under that
section could be concluded in time for
ratification by the senate ON the 4th of
March last. SONS pending negotiations.
however. were near conclusion at that
time and the resulting conventions have
since been signed by the plenipoten-
tiaries. Others within both the third and
fourth sections of the act are still un-
der consideration. Acting under the
/ constitutional power of the executives in
respect to treaties. T have deemed it my
duty while observing the limitation of
concession provided by the fourth section
to bring to a conclusion all pending ne
gotiations and submit them to the senate
for it's advice and consent. Conventions
of reciprocity have been signed during
the congressional recess with Great Brit
ain for the respective colonies of British
Guiana. Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica
and Caicos and Turks island and with
the republic of Nicaragua.
RECIPROCITY NEGOTIATIONS.
Important reciprocal conventions have
also been concluded witt France and
the Argentine republic. In my last an
. ldl ii6SSdSt Qilc piOSIVSS llOlcu III HE
= work of the diplomatic and consular Of
fees in collection of Information as to
industries and m of other coun-
tries. and in the care and p~romptitude
with which the reports are printed and
distributed has been deducted the past
year, with increasingly valuable results
in suggestion of new sources of demand
for American products and in pointing
out the obstacles still to be overcome
in facilitating the remarkable expansion
of our foreign trade. 1t will doubtless be
gratifying to congress to learn that the
various agencies of the department of
state are cooperating in these endeav-
ors with zeal and effectiveness which are
not only receiving the cordial recognition
of our business interests. but are receiv-
ing the emulation of other governments.
In any arrangement of the great and
complicated work of obtaining official
data of an economic character which
congress may undertake it is most i'm
pOrtant in my judgment that the results
already secured by the efforts of the de-
partment of state should be considered
with a view of judicious development and
increased utility to our export trade.
THE INTERNATIONAL UNION.
The interest taken by the various states
forming the international union of Amer
lean republics IN the work of its organ
bureau is evidenced by the fact hat for
the first time since it's creation in 1890 all
the republics in Central and South AM
erica are now represented in it.. The
unanimous recommendation of the inter-
national American conference providing
for the nternationa union of the Ameri-
can republics stated that it should con-
tinue in force during a term of 10 years
from the date of its organization and no
country becoming Il member of the union
should cease to be a member until the
Apl of cold pprinl cf IN nc, o,n1 ~,
II months before the expiration of said
period a majority of the members of the
union had given to the secretary of state
of the United States official notice of
their wish to terminate the union at the
end of it's first period that the union
should continue to be maintained for an
other period of 10 years and thereafter
under the same conditions for successive
periods of 10 years each.
The period for notification expired on
July IA, 1889, without any of the men,
bers having given the necessary notice
of withdrawal. Its maintenance is there
fore assured for the next 10 years. In
view of this fact and of the numerous
questions of general interest and common
benefit to all of the representatives of
America. some of which were considered
by the first International conference but
not finally settled and others of which
have since then grown to Importance. it
""'o ShPSeiSil liza lit various feDuDlcS
constituting the union should be invited
to hold at an early date another confer
ence in the capital of one of the countries
other than the United States, which has
already enjoyed this honor. The purely
international character of the work be-
ing lone by the bureau and the apprecia-
ton of its value are further emphasized
by the active cooperation which the
various governments of the Latin-Ameri-
can republics and their diplomatic rep-