Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-12-06

tial trade with all parts of the Chinese
empire" We fOregO no jOt of our I'M
doubted right to exact exemplary and de-
terrent punishment Of the responsible au-
thors and abettors Of the criminal acts
whereby we and other nations have suf-
fered grievous injury. For the real cul-
prits, the evil counselors who have mis-
led the imperial Judgment and diverted
! the sovereign authority to their own
guilty ends, full expiation becomes inn
perative within the rational limits of ret
ributive justice.
General bases of negotiations formulat-
ed by the government of the French Re
| public have been accepted with certain
reservations as to details, made necessary
| by our own circumstances, but, like sim
| liar reservations by other powers, open to
| discussion in the progress Of the negotia-
| tons. The disposition of the emperor's
| government to admit liability for wrongs
| done to foreign governments and to act
| upon such additional designation Of the
| guilty persons as the foreign ministers at
| Pekin may be in position to make, gives
| hope Of complete settlement of all queS-
tons involved, assuring foreign rights
of residence and intercourse on terms of
equality for all the world.
| America at Paris Fair.
The year Of the exposition has been
fruitful in occasions for displaying the
| good will that exists between this coun-
| try and France. This great competition
! brought together from every nation the
best in natural productions, industry, sci
ence and the arts, submitted in generous
rivalry to judgment made all the more
searching because Of that rivalry. The
| extraordinary increase and the activity
| with which our inventors and wares had
| invaded new markets caused much in
| terest to center upon the American ex-
hibit, and every encouragement was Of
| fered in the way Of space and facilities
| to permit Of its being comprehensive as
whole and complete in every part.
Despite the drawbacks the contribu-
ton of the United States was not only
the largest foreign display, but was
among the earliest in place and the most
orderly in arrangement.
Am:cable Foreign Relations.
Good will prevails in our relations with
the German empire. The settlement of
the Samoan problem, to which / adverted
in my last message, has accomplished
good results. Peace and contentment
prevail in the islands. An imperial meat
inspection law has been enacted for Ger
many. While it may simplify the In
spections, it prohibits certain products
! heretofore admitted. There is still great
extinguished German trade in meat pro
ducts can revive under it's new burdens
The work of making certain provis-
ional boundary points for convenience of
administration around the head of Lynn
canal, in accordance with the temporary
1 arrangement of October, 1899, was COM
pleted by joint survey in July last. But,
however necessary such an expedient
may have been to tide over the grave
| naiac Of hn fra iS of hnc
| but an unsatisfactory makeshift, which
| should not be suffered to delay the speedy
| and complete establishment of the from
tier line to which we are entitled under
the Russo-American treaty for the ces-
! sion of Alaska.
For Transisthmian Canal.
The all-important matter Of an inter
| oceanic canal has assumed new phase. Ad-
| herring to it's refusal to reopen the question
| of the forfeiture of the contract of the
Maritime Canal Company, which was termi-
mated for alleged nonexecution in October,
| 1889, the government of Nicaragua has since
| supplemented that action by declaring the
so-styled Eyre-Cragin option void for non
| payment of the stipulated advance. Pro
] tests i'll relation to these acts have been
| filed in the State Department and are under
consideration.
/ .Oyertures for convention to effect the
| building of a canal under the auspices of
the United States are under consideration
| commend to the early attention of the
! Senate the convention with Great Britain
to facilitate~the construction of such canal
and to remove any objection which might
arise out of the convention commonly called
| the Clay ton- Bulwer treaty.
| The long standing contention with portu-
| gal growing out of the seizure of the Della
| goa Bay Railway has been at last deter
mined by favorable award of the tribunal
| of arbitration at Berne, to which it was
submitted.
! Another illustration of the policy of this
government to refer international disputes
to impartial arbitration is seen in the agree
ment reached with Russia to submit the
sells seized in Boring Sea to determination
| by T. NJ. C. Asser a distinguished states
man and jurist Of the Netherlands.
Large Revenue Surplus.
| 1t is gratifying to be able to state that the
| surplus revenues for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, were 1882, O6O.1S. For the
six preceding years we had only deficits, the
| aggregate of which from 1894 to 1899 in
| elusive amounted to $3.50, or, 991 IA. The re-
ceipts for the year from all sources, ex-
elusive of postal revenues, aggregated $751;
240,S51.S9, and expenditures for all pur-
| poses, except for the administration of the
Postal Department, aggregated $487, 49,
$3.50, 164, S71. IS, an Increase over the preced-
| ing year of $27, 036, 3s9.41. The receipts
| from internal revenue were S295, 1927, 926 76
| an Increase of SCI 800, 1925 over 1890. The
receipts from miscellaneous sources were
$3S, 74S ,O5397, as against $50, 1874, 1862 for
| the previous year.
! 1t is gratifying also to note that during the
| year a considerable reduction is shown in
the expenditures of the government The
War Department expenditures for the fiscal
year 1900 were $134 TIA, 767.78, a reduction
of 500, 066, 4S6. 90 over those of 1899. In the
Navy Department the expenditures were
$50, 953, 07772 for the year 1900, as against
$50, 942, 104.25 for the preceding year, a de-
crease of $7,9S9 026. 3d. In the expenditures
on account of Indians there was q decrease
in 1900 1899 of 50, $50, CO.. SO, and in the
civil and miscellaneous expenses for 1900
there was reduction of $13, 1895 IA
Because of the excess OF revenues over ex-
penditures the Secretary of the Treasury was
enabled to apply bonds and other securities
to the sinking fund to the amount of $780,
ed, 556.06 The Secretary of the Treasury
estimates that the receipts for the current
fiscal year will aggregate $3.50, 100000 and
the expenditures $500000,00 leaving an ex-
cess of revenues over expenditures of $50
100000. The present condition of the Treas
ury is one of undoubted strength The avail
able cash balance Nov. 80 was S139. 3O3.-
I94.0O. The cash balance Including the
present gold reserve of S15O, O00, 900, is $780,
300, 1874. so.
1t will be the duty as / am sure 1t will be
the disposition of the Congress to provide,
whatever further legislation is needed to in
sure the continued parity undar all cnndi