Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-12-07

this great enterprise, as an american
national institute, for our oountrymen |
resorting to Paris for study.
am informed by our commissioner
general that We shall have il the |
American sections ~ Paris over I,0oo
exhibitors, from every State IN cur
| country, number 10 times as great as |
those which were represented Vienna
| in 1873, six times as many as those in |
Paris IN 1878, and four times as many |
as those WHO exhibited in Paris in
1889. This statement does not include |
tho exhibits from either Cuba, Porto |
Rico, or Hawaii, for which arrange-
ments have been made
A number of important international
congresses on special topics affecting
public interest are proposed to be hold
| In Paris next summer in connection
with the exposition. Effort will be
made to have the several technical
branches OF ouI administration effi-
oieutly represented at those con.
ferences. each In its special line, and
to procure the largest possible con-
course of State representatives, par
ticularly at the congresses OF public
charity and of medicine.
Our relations with Germany continue
| to be most cordial. The increasing in
timacy of direct association has been
J. marked during the year by the grant
ing permission in April for the landing
on our shores of cable from Borkum
Emden, on the Nor tn Sea, by way
of the Azores, and also by the COP
olusion on September I'd, OF parcels
post convention with the German
Empire In all that promises closer
relations of intercourse and commerce
and better understanding between
two races having SO many traits in
common, Germany can be assured of
the most cordial corporation OF this
government ana people. We may he
rivals in many material paths, but our
rivalry should be generous and open,
ever aiming toward tho attainment of
larger results aud the mutually bene-
fical advancement of each in the line
of its especial adaptabiities.
The several governments of the en-
piIe seem reluctant to admit the
natural excellence of our food pro
ductions and to accept the evidence
We constantly tender Of the caro- with
which their purity is guarded by rigid
inspection from the farm, through the
slaughterhouse and the packing estab-
lshments, to the port of shipment.
Our system OF control over exported
food STAPLES invites examination from
any quarter and challenges respect by
its efficient thoioughness.
1t is to be hoped that in time the
two governments will act in common
accord toward the realization of their
common purpose to safeguard the
public health and to insure the purity
and Wholesoueness OF all food products
imported by either country from the
other. Were the Congress to authorize
an invitation to Germany, in con-
nection with the pending reciprocity
negotiations, for the constitution Of o
Joint commission of scientific experts
/; and practical men CT affairs to conduct
a searching investigation of food pro-
duction and expectation ia both
countries and report to their respective
Legislatures for the adoption of such
remedial measures as rhey might
recommend for either, the way might
be open for the desirable result in
dictated.
EKorts to obtain for american life
, insurance companies full hearing as
TO their business operations in Prussia
have, after several years Of Eatient
representation, happily succeeded, and
one of the most important American
com panies has been gianted con
cession to continue business in that
kingdom.
) am also glad to announce that the
German insurance companies have
been readmitJed by the superin ntendent
of insurance to do business in the
State Of New York.
. Subsequent to the exchange of our
peace treaty with Spain Germany
acquired the Caroline Islands by pur-
, chase, paying therefor $1,000, 900
Assurances have been received from
, the German Cover nment that the rights
of American missionaries and traders
, there will be considerably obsei ved
In my last annual message | referred
to the pending negotiations with Great
, Britain in respect to the dominion uf
Canada. BY means of an executive
agreement a joint high commission
} had been created fol the purpose of
adjusting all unsettled questions be-
+ tween the United States and Canada,
{ embracing II subjects, amung which
were the questions of the fur seals, the
fisheries of the coast and contiguous
| inland waters, the Alaskan boundary,
, the transit of merchandise in bond. the
, alien labor laws, mining rights, reci
{ proclty in trade, revision of the agree
, ment respecting naval vessels in the
great lakes, more complete marking
of parts of the boundary, provision for
i the conveyance of criminals, and for
. wrecking and salvage.
, Much progress had bcen made by
3 the commission toward the adjustment
Y of many Of these questions, when il
became apparent that an irreconcilable
] difference of views was entertained re.
spectine the delimitation of the
t Alaskan boundary. In the failure OF
] an agreement as to tho meaning of
al ticles 3 and Of the treaty Of 1926
. between Russia and Great Britain,
which defined the boundary between
, Alaska and Canada, the American
> commissioners proposed that the sub
I iect of the boundary be laid aside and
: that the remaining questions OF
' difference be proceeded with, some Of
: which were SO far advanced as to assure
9 the probability OF u settlement This
, being declined by the British Com.
r missioners, an adjournment was taken
until the boundary should be adjusted
4 by the two governments. The subiec,
1 has been receiving the careful attention
. which its Importance demands, with
$ the result that II modus yiyendi for
o provisional demarcations in the region
about the head of Lynn Canal has
y been agreed upon; and it Is hoped that
l tho negotiations now in progress be.
j tween the two governments will end in
' an agreement for the establishment
o and deiimitation of permanent
@ boundary.
Q Apart from these questions growing