Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-06
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

This Government On Good Terms With All
the Nations of the Earth--A Word About
China.
Concerning foreign affairs, the Pre-
sident details at length many matters,
now history, wherein this government
has had passing interest.
Concerning China, the President
says:
The interests of our citizens in that
vast empire have not been neglected
during the past year. Adequate pro
lection has been secured for our mis-
sionaries and some injuries to their
property have been redressed.
American capital has sought and
found various opportunities Of COM
petlng to carry out the internal irl-
provements which the imperial gov
eminent is wisely encouraging, ami to
develop the natural resources Of the
empire. Our trade with China has
continued to grow, and our commercial
rights under existing treaties have
been everywhere maintained during
the past year, as they will be II the
future.
The extension of the area open to
/
Shanghai and the opening of the ports
of Marking, TsingTao (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.
In my message to Congress of Deem
Der 5, 1898, l urged that the recon-
mendation which had been made TO the
Speaker of the House Of Representa-
tives by the Secretary of the Treas
ury on the 14th of June, 1898, for an
! appropriation for commission to
| study the commercial and industrial
conditions in
THE CHINESE EMPIRE
and report as to the opportunities fo,,
and obstacles to, the enlargement of
markets in China for the raw products
and manufactures of the United States,
| should receive at your hands the con-
sideration which it's Importance and
timeliness merited, but the Congress
failed to take action.
l now renew this recomm en- atio1
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 and enterprise.
! Preparations for the representation
of the industries, arts and products of
the United States at the Worlds Ex-
position to be held in Paris next year
continue on an elaborate and compre-
| hensive scale, thanks to the generous
appropriation provided by Congress,
and to the friendly interest the French
! government has shown in furJhering a
typical exhibit of American progress.
| A number of important interaation-
al congresses on special topics affect
! ing public interests are proposed to be
held in Paris next summer il 'onnec-
ton with the exposition. Effort will
| be made to have the several technical
branches of our administration efEic-
iently represented at those conferences,
| each in it's special line. and to procure
the largest possible concourse OF State
representatives, particularly ut the
congresses of public charity and of
medicine.
Our relations with Germany continue
| to be most cordial.
The several governments of the en-
pire seem reluctant to admit the ma
| tural 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 INSPECTION
from the farm, through the slaughter
house and the packing establishments,
| 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
| thcroughness.
, It is to be hoped that in time the
two governments will act in common
| accord toward the realization Of their
common purpose to safeguard me pub
| lie health and to the insuring Of the
purity and wholesomeness of all food
products imported by either country
| from the other
| In my last annual message | re-
fered to the pending negotiations with
Great Britain in respect to the domin-
| ion of Canada. By means of an exc
cutive agreement, joint high COM
mission had been created for the pur-
pose of adjusting all unsettled CUES
| TONS
| Much progress had been made b. the
commission when it became apparent
that an irreconciliable difference of
views was entertained respecting the
| ILLUMINATION of the Alaskan boundary.
Apart from these questions growing
out of our relationship with our
| northern neighbor. the most friendly
| disposition and ready agreement have
marked the discussion of numerous
matters arising in the vast and intim-
ate intercourse of the United States
with Great Britain.
THIS GOVERNMENT
| has maintained an attitude of nea
| trality in the unfortunate contest be-
tween Great Britain and the Iloer
states of Africa. We have remained
| faithful to the precept of avoiding en-
| tangling alliances as 70 affairs not of
our direct concern. Had circumstances
suggested that the parties to the quar-
rel would have welcomed any kindly
expression of the hope OF he american
people that war might be averted, good
Offices would have been gladly tender
ed The United States representative
at Pretoria was early instructed to see
that all neutral American interests be
respected by the combatants This has
been an EASY task in EiaE Of the posi-