Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-12-11

often or too strongly pressed upon the
attention of the congress"
China.
After declaring that American CAPT
tai is conspicuous in Chinese develop
ment the president says
"The extension Of the area open to
international foreign settlement at
Shanghai and the opening Of the ports
of Marking, Tsing-Tao (kiao Chao)
and Ta-Lien-Wan to foreign trade and
settlement will doubtless afford Ameri-
can enterprise additional facilities and
new fields, of which it will not be slow
to take advantage" An appropriation
for a commission to study the CONNER
cial and industrial conditions in the
Chinese empire is recommended.
President Faure's death is alluded to
and support of the Paris exposition is
recommended at much length. Speak
ing of Germany the president says
that our relations continue to be most
cordial. The increasing intimacy OF
direct association has been marked
during the year by the granting per-
mission in April for the landing on our
shores of cable from Borkum Emden,
on the North sea, by way of the Azores,
ana also by the conclusion on Septem-
Der I'd of parcels post convention
with the German empire. In all that
promises closer relations of intercourse
and commerce and better understand
ing between two races having so many
traits in common, Germany can be as
sured of the most cordial cooperation
Of this government and people. We
may be rivals IN many material paths
but our rivalry should be generous and
open, ever aiming toward the attain
ment of larger results and the mutual
ly beneficial advancement OF each in
the line of it's especial adaptability
The several governments of the en-
pire seem reluctant to admit the nat
ural excellence of our food products
and to accept the evidence we con-
stantly tender Of the care with which
their purity is guarded by rigid in
spection from the farm, through the
slaughterhouse and the packing es-
adjustments, to the port of shipment.
Our system of control over exported
food staples invites examination from
any quarter and challenges respect by
it's efficient thoroughness. It is to be
hnnnd fhot n fir10 Tho +yxyn
ments will act in common accord to-
ward the realization of their common
purpose to safeguard the public health
and to the insuring of the purity and
wholesomenesS of all food products i'm
ported by either country from the
other. Were the congress to author
ize an invitation to Germany, in con-
nection with the pending reciprocity
negotiations, for the constitution Of a
joint commission of scientific experts
and practical men of affairs to conduct
a searching investigation of food pro-
duction and expectation in both coun-
tries and report to their respective
legislatures for the adoption of such
remedial measures as they might recon-
mend for either, the way might be
opened for the desirable result indi-
Gated. Efforts to obtain for American
life insurance companies full hearing
as to their business operations in
Prussia have after several years of pa
tient representation, happily succeeded
and one of the most important Amer
lean companies has been granted a
concession to continue business in that
kingdom. I am also glad to announce
that the German insurance companies
have been readmitted by the superin-
tendent of insurance to do business in
the state of New York"
Alaskan Boundary.
By means Of an executive agreement,
a Joint high commission had been
created for the purpose of adjusting
all unsettled questions between the
United States and Canada, embracing
twelve subjects, among 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,
reciprocity in trade, revision of the
agreement respecting naval vessels
in the Great Lakes, a more complete
marking of parts of the boundary, pro-
vision for the conveyance of criminals.
and for wrecking and salvage. Much
progress had been made by the COM
mission toward the adjustment of
many of these questions where it be-
came apparent that an irreconciliable
difference of views was entertained
respecting the delimitation of the
Alaskan boundary. In the failure of an
agreement as to the meaning of
articles 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
ject of the boundary be laid aside and
that the remaining questions of diff