The sun., 1900-12-04

chief. DEGREES encouraging The boxers,
organizing them under prominent impe.
rial officers, provisioning them, and even
granting them large sums in the name OF
the empress dowager are known to exist.
Members of the tsung-li-yamen who coun
seled protection of the foreigners were
beheaded. Even in the distant provinces
men suspected of foreign sympathy were
put to death, prominent among these be
ing Chang Yen-hoop, formerly Chinese
minister in Washington.
Our Policy.
The president then tells in brief the
story of the rescue of the legations and
proceeds:
The policy of the United States through
all this trying period was clearly ANNOUNCE
ed and scrupulously carried out A cir
cular note to the powers dated July 5
proclaimed our attitude. Treating the
condition in the north as one of virtual
! anarchy, in which the great provinces of
the south and southeast had no share,
we regarded the local authorities in the
latter quarters as representing the Chi
nese people with whom we sought to re-
main in peace and friendship. Our de-
clured aims involved no war against the
Chinese nation. We adhered to the legit-
innate Office of rescuing the imperiled le
CATION, obtaining redress for wrongs al
ready suffered, securing wherever possi-
bic the safety of American life and prop
erty in China and preventing spread of
the disorders or their recurrence.
As was then said, 'The policy of the
government of the United States is to
seek solution which may bring about
permanent safety and peace to China
preserve Chinese territorial and adminis-
tratiye entity. protect all rights guaran-
teed TO friendly powers by treaty and in
ternational law and safeguard for the
world the principle of equal and impair
tial trade with all parts of the Chinese
empire"
Faithful to those professions which, as
| it proved, reflected the views and pur-
poses of the other cooperating govern
ments, all our efforts have been directed
toward ending the anomalous situation i'll
| China by negotiations for settlement at
| the earliest possible moment. AS soon as
| the sacred duty of relieving our legation
and its dependents was accomplished we
withdrew from active hostilites, leaving
our legation under an adequate guard in
| Picking as u channel of negotiation and
settlement course adopted by others
| the empowered representatives of the
Chinese emperor have been considerably
entertained.
| The president recapitulates the atti-
| tude of the administration to the Rus
| sian and French notes and concludes that
| part of his message relating to China as
| follows:
| The government of Russia has put for
ward suggestion that in the event of
| protracted divergence of views in regard
| to indemnities the matter may be rele-
gated to the court of arbitration at The
| Hague. | favorably incline to this, be-
| lieving that high tribunal could not fail
to reach solution no less conducive to
| the stability and enlarged prosperity of
| China itself than Immediately beneficial
boundary Questions.
| The work of marking certain provision
al boundary points for convenience of
administration around the head of Lynn
canal, i'll accordance with the temporary
arrangement of October, 1899, was com
| pleted by joint survey in July last. The
| m0dus vivendi has so far worked without
| friction, and the Dominion government
| has provided rules and regulations for
securing to our citizens the benefit of
| the reciprocal stipulation that the citi-
zens or subjects of either power found by
that arrangement within the temporary
| jurisdiction of the other shall suffer no
| diminution of the rights and privileges
they have hitherto enjoyed but, however
necessary such an eXpedient may have
been to tide over the grave emergencies
of the situation, it is at best but an un-
| satisfactory makeshift, which should not
be suffered to delay the speedy and COM
plete establishment of the frontier line to
which we are entitled under the Russo
American treaty for the cession of Alas
ka.
In this relation may refer again to
the need of definitely marking the Alas
kan boundary where it follows the one
hundred and forty-frst meridian 4 con
vention TO that end has been before the
senate for some two years, but as no ac.
tion has been taken | contemplate nego-
tiating new convention for a joint de-
termination of the meridian by tele-
graphic observations. These, it is believ-
ed, will give more accurate and unques-
tionable results than the sidereal methods
heretofore independently followed which,
as is shown. proved discrepant at several
points on the line, although not varying
at any place more than 700 feet.
The assassination of King Humbert
called forth sincere expressions of sorrow
from this government and people, and oc-
casion was fifty taken to testify to the
Italian nation the high regard here felt
for the memory of the lamcnted ruler.
The Isthmian Canal.
The growth of Japan is next referred
to. The president says our commercial
intercourse with Mexico continues to
thrive. The movement for international
arbitration is the subject of another par
agraph, and the president then turns to
the interoceanic canal. He says:
The all important matter of an inter-
oceanic canal has assumed a new phase.
Adhering to its refusal to reopen the
question of the forfeiture of the contract
of the Maritime Canal company, which
was terminated for alleged nonexecution
in October, 1899, the government of Nj
caragua has since supplemented that ac-
tion by declaring the so styled Eyre
Cragin option void for nonpayment of the
stipulated advance. Protests in relation
to these acts have been filed in the state
department and are under consideration.
Deeming itself relieved from existing en-
gagements, the Nicaraguan government
chows dicpnSitinn to 6ao1 fraa1v with