The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
,servance of the salutary rules to which I

,servance or the salutary rules to which
have referred.
The whole question is so important and
fGr-reaching that am sure no part of 1t
Will be lightly considered, but every phase
the congress, resulting in wise and judi
cious action.
Our Foreign Relations.
Our. foreign relations are treated ex-
haustively and a general state of tran
quillity is shown with all countries. In
this connection he notes that the contract
between the Maritime Canal company and
the Nicaraguan government has been de-
eiared forfeited by the latter, and then re;
commission and dwells on the Importance
or the undertaking to this country, and
renews his recommendations of year ago,
OF which he says the reasons then present
ed for early action are even stronger now.
The showing this country will make at
the Paris exposition of next year is treated
OF at length, and says that we will have
1000 exhibitors from this country.
Attention is called to the fact that Ger
many declines to recognize the excellence
isfactory settlement of the question. OF
The several governments of the empire
cellence of our food products and to ac-
cept the evidence we constantly tender of
the care with which their purity, is guard
ed by rigid inspection from the farm,
through the slaughter house and the pack
ing establishments, to the port of ship
ment Our system of control over ex-
ported food staples invites examination
from any quarter and challenges respect
by it's efficient thoroughness.
Efforts to obtain for American life insur-
ance companies full hearing as to their
business operations in Prussia have, after
several years of patient representation,
happily succeeded and one of the most i'm
portant American companies has been
granted a concession to continue business
in that kingdom.
1 am also glad to announce that the Ger
man insurance companies have been read
mitted by the superintendent of insurance
to do business in the state of New York.
work Of the Alaskan boundary commits 5:
progress will end in satisfactory agree
ment. B
The necessity of Pacific cable to Manila
is alluded to, and he recommends that in
munication the postmaster general be en-
powered to call for competitive bids for the
establishment of the cable.
The Samoan Question.
The entire history of the Samoan question
is gone over exhaustively, and of the recent
conference between Great Britain and Ger
many he says:
The arrangement under which Samoa
was administered had proved imprac-
ers concerned. To withdraw from the
agreement and abandon the islands to Ger
many and Great Britain would not be
pelago To relinquish our rights in the
harbor of Page Page. the best anchorage
in the Pacific, the occupancy of which had
been leased to the United States in 1873
by the first foreign treaty ever concluded
by Samoa, was not to be thought of either
as regards the needs of our navy or the
interests of our growing commerce with
the east. We could not have considered
any proposition for the abrogation of the
tripartite control which did not confirm
us in all our rights and safeguard all our
n q int in hn eli dc
Our views commended themselves to the
other powers. A satisfactory arrangement
was concluded between the governments
of Germany and of England, by virtue of
which England retired from Samoa, in
view of compensations in other directions,
and both powers renounced in favor of the
United States all their rights and claims
over and IN respect TO that, portion Of the
group lying to the east Of the one hun
dred and seventy.f1rst degree of west
longitude, embracing the Islands OF Tu-
tuila, Ofoo. Olosenga and Manua. I
transmit to the senate, for it's constitutional
action thereon, convention which, be-
guarantees us the same privileges and con-
ditions in respect to commerce and COM
mercial vessels in all of the islands of
Samoa as those possessed by Germany.
Relations to Cuba
OF our relations to Cuba during the year
garrisons and the establishment of Ameri-
can military government until such time
as the people were capable of caring for
OWN. He says that our pledge to e Cuba ae to
establish an Independent government is of
the highest honorable obligation and must
be sacredly kept. OF the progress being
made in the island he says:
1 believe that substantial progress has
been made in this direction. All the admin
istratiVe measures adopted in Cuba have
aimed to fit it for regenerated existence
by enforcing the supremacy of law and
justice; by placing wherever practicable
the machinery of administration in the
hands of the inhabitants, by instituting
needed sanitary reforms; by spreading ed
ucation; by fostering industry and trade;
by intoxicating public morality, and, in
short, by taking every rational step to aid
the Cuban people to attain to that plane of
self-conscious respect and self-reliant
unity which fits an enlightened community
for f-government within it's own
sphere, while enabling it to fulfill all out
ward obligations.
This nation has assumed before the world
a grave responsibility for the future good
government of Cuba. We have accepted
trust the fulfillment of which calls for the
sternest integrity of purpose and the eX-
ercise of the highest wisdom. The new
Cuba yet to arise from the ashes of the
past, must needs be bound to us by ties of
singular intimacy and strength if it's en-
during welfare is to be assured. Whether
those ties shall be organic or conventional,
form and manner irrevocably linked with
our own, but how and how far is for the flu
ture to determine in the ripeneSS of events.
Whatever be the outcome, we must see to
it that free Cuba be reality, not a name,
perfect entity, not hasty experiment
bearing within itself the elements of fail
ure. Our mission, to accomplish which we
took up the wages of battle, is not to be
fulfilled by turning adrift any loosely
framed commonwealth to face the. Vicissi-
tudes which too often attend weaker states
whose natural wealth and abundant re-
sources are offset by the incongruitieS of
their political organization and the re-
curing occasions for internal rivalries to
sap their strength and dissipate their en-
ergies. The greatest blessing which can
come to Cuba is the restoration of her agri-
cultural and industrial prosperity, which
will give employment to idle men and re-
establish the pursuits of peace. This is her
chief and immediate need.
Census of Cub, Being Taken.
On the 18th of August last an order was
made for the taking of the census in the
island, to be completed on the Goth of No
vember. BY the treaty of peace the Span
ish people on the island have until April II,
1900, to elect whether they will remain cit-
zens of Spain or become citizens of Cuba.
Until then it cannot be definitely ascer-
tanned who shall be entitled to participate
in the formation of the government of
Cuba. By that time the results of the CEN
sus will have been tabulated and we shall
proceed to provide for elections which will
commit the municipal governments of the
The experience thus acquired will prove of
great value in the formation of a represen-
tative convention of the people to draft
constitution and establish general