The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-06
RESIDENTS MESSAGE
[CoIltlnued from Seventh Page.)

"uhiiHis tfdtlon, cOaStlnS trade, and
other domestic functions of govern
ment and foreign extra territorl;
rights being renowned.
Comprehensive codes of civil an
criminal procedure according to wes
ern methods, public instruction. pal
ents and copyrights, municipal admir-
lstratlon, including jurisdiction owe
the former foreign settlements, Gus
toms tariffs and procedure, publ
health and other administrative meas
ures nave been proclaimed. The work
ing or the new system has given rise II
no material complaints on the part o
the American citizens or interests,
circumstance which attests the rip
consideration with which the chang
has been prepared
valuable assistance was rendered by
the japanese authorities to the United
states transport ship Morgan City
while stranded at Kobe Permission
has been granted to land and pasture
army horses at japanese ports Of cal
on the way to the Philippine Islands
These gindly evidences of good will are
highly appreciated.
IN oetE'AIlCoe government IluS SHOWN
hvely interest in the proposition of
the Pacific Gable Co. to add to its pro
Jected cable lines TO Hawaii, Guam
and the Philippines a branch connec-
ton with the coast of Japan. 1t would
be a gratifying contamination We're
the utility of the contemplated scheme
enhanced by bringing Japan and the
T. = into direct telegraphic relation.
Without repeating the observations
OF my special message of February 10,
lS99, concerning the necessity of a cable
to Manila, I respectfully invite atten-
ton to it,
| recommend that in case the con-
gress should not take measures TO bring
about this result by direct action of the
government, the postmaster general be
authorized to invite competitive bids
for the establishment of a cable: the
company making the best responsible
bid to be awarded the contract; the
successful company to give ample bonds
TO insure the completion of the work
within reasonable time,
The year has been marked by con-
slant increase in the intimacy of our
relations with Mexico and in the mag
nitude of mutually advantageous inter-
changes This government has omitted
no opportunity to show it's strong de-
sire to develop and perpetuate the ties
of cordiality now so long happily un-
broken.
Following the termination, on Jan
uary 20, 1899, by Mexico. of the conven-
ton of extradition of December IL. 1861,
ty mn in do, Mi
the ascertained needs of both countries,
was signed February %, 1889. and ex-
changed in the City of Mexico, on the
I'D of April last. It's operation this far
has been effective and satisfactory A
recent case has served to test the APP
DlicafiOn of it's WITH article, which pro-
vides that neither party shall be bound
10 deliver up it's own citizens, but that
the executive authority OF each shall
nave the power to deliver them up if in
is discretion it be deemed proper to do
10.
The extradition of Mrs. Matte Rich,
/ citizen of the United States, charged
With homicide committed in Mexico,
vas after mature consideration direct
d by me in the conviction that ends
# justice would be thereby subserved.
similar action, on appropriate OCCASION,
y the Mexican executive will not only
end to accomplish the desire of both
governments that grave crimes go not
Unpublished, but also to repress lawless-
ess along the border of the two cour-
ries. The new treaty stipulates that
either government shall assume
in the punish
lent of crimes committed exclusively {
'ithin the territory of the other. This
I'LL obviate, In future, the embarrass-
1g controversies which have hereto d
ore arisen through Mexicos assertion {
claim to try and punish am Ameri-
an citizen for an offense committed
7ithin the jurisdiction of the United :
tates. |
The international water boundary !
organized by the conven-
on of March 1, 1899, for the adjust c
tent of questions affecting the Rio n
rande frontier has not yet completed e
S labors. A further extension of its t
.rm for one year, until December "a, o
99, was affected by convention, o
gned December 2, 1885, and exchanged $
Id proclaimed in February last. T.
An invitation extended to the presl- -
INT of Mexico to visit Chicago in y
,tober, on the occasion of laying the "
rner stone of the United States gov =
nment building in that city, was cor ,s
ally accepted by him, with the nee G.
sary consent of the Mexican con- =
ess, but the Unless of a member of his !,
mily prevented his attendance. The -
mister of foreign relations, however, ~
me as the personal representative Of :,
resident DiaZ, end in that high char :.
ter was duely honored. =,
Claims, growing out of the seizure -
American sealing vessels In Behring :,
a, have been under discussion with
e government of Russia for several =.
ars, with the recent happy result of :,
agreement to submit them to the -,
cision of single arbitrator. By this =.
/ Russia affords proof of her adher- ..
ce to the beneficent principle of ar -
ration which her plenpotentiary -
nspiclously favored at The Hague j..
conference when it was 49,
vocated by the representative of the ~, ~
ited States. ~,
\ suggestion for permanent EXPOSE h,
n of our products and manufactures th
Russia, although not yet fully MI
aped has been so cordially welcomed re-
the imperial government that it 90
" not inaptly take a fitting place IFS
whatever legislation the congress fl