El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-05

6rnm0nG 10 wisely encouraging, ana u
develop the natural resources of the EN-
pire. Our trade with China has con
tinued to grow and our commercis
rights under existing treaty have beer
every where maintained during the
past year, as they will be in the future
The extension of the area open TO in
ternational foreign settlement at
Shanghai and the opening of the porlt
of Marking. Ssing-Tai (Kico-chia)
land Ta-Lien-Wan to foreign trade and
settlement, will doubtless afford Amer
lean enterprise additional facilities
ard nav fields, of which it will not be
slow to take advantage.
A GREAT FIELD OF TRADE
lnmy message to congress Dec. 5,
1898, 1 urged that the recommendation
which had been made to the spe aker OF
the house of representatives by the
| secretary OF the treasury on the 18th
June, 1898, for the appoin tmeut of a
committee to study the commercial
and Industrial conditions il the Chi
| nese empire and report as to the oppor-
tunities for, and obstacles to, the en-
largement of markets in China for the
raw products and manufactures of the
| United States, should receive at their
| hands the consideration which its i'm
| portance and timeliness merited, but
the congress failed to take action.
now renew this recommendation. as
| the Importance OF the subject has
steadily grown since it was first sub
mitted to you, and no time should be
lost in studying for ourselves the re-
sources of this great field for American
trade aud enterprise.
After describing the splendid exhibit
of the United States at the Paris ex-
position, the president says:
GERMANY.
Our relations with Germany con-
tinue to be most cordial.
The increasing intimacy Of direct as
soctations has been marked during the
year by the granting of permission in
April for the lsndine on our shores of
cable from the port of Emden on the
North Sea, by the way of the Azores,
and also by the conclusion on Septem-
Der of q parcels post convention with
the German empire. In all that prom
ises closer relations of Intercourse and
| commerce and better understanding
between two races having go many
! traits in common, Germany can be as
sured of the 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 attainment of
/ larger results and the mutually bene-
ficent advancement of each in the
line of its especial adaptabilities.
The several governments of the
| empire seem reluctant to admit the
natural excellence of our food produc-
tions and to accept the evidence which
we constantly tender of the care with
rigid inspection from the
farm, through the slaughter
house and the packing establishment
to the port of shipment. Our system
OF control over exported food staples
invites investigation from any quarter
and challenges respect by efficient
thoroughness.
WHOLESOME FOOD.
1t is to be hoped that in time, the
two governments will act in common
accord toward the realization of their
lie health and to insure the purity and
wholesomeness of all food products i'm
the other. Were the con
gress to authorize an in
vitation to Germany in connection
with the pending reciprocity negotia-
tions for the constitution OF
experts and practical men of affairs to
conduct series of Investigations Of
food production and expectation In
both countries aud report to their
respective legislatures for the adoption
of such 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 foil hearing as
to their business operations in Prussia
have, after several years of patient
representation, happily succeeded, and
one of the most important American
companies has been granted q couces-
sion to continue business in that king
dom. am also glad to announce that
the German insurance companies have
been resdmitt ed by the superb ntendent
of insurance to do business in the state
of New York.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The president speaks of
The ''irreconcilable difference"
that arose between the Ca
madam and United States members of
the joint high commission, and says:
The subject has been receiving the
careful attention which it's importance
demands with the result that q modus
vivendi for provisional demarcations |
in the region about the head of Lynn |
canal, has been agreed upon; and it is
hoped that negotiations now in pro- |
yress between the two governments
II Cuu III du dSreemeDG IOr tQe eS-
and delimitation of a per- |
boundary.
Apart from these questions growing |
out of our relationship with our north
ern neighbor, the most friendly dis |
position and ready agreement have
mar ed the discussion of numerous
arising In the vast and inti-
nate intercourse of the U. S. with
Great Britain.
LOUISIANA LYNCHING.
For the fourth time in the present
decade questions have arisen with