Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

To the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives:
With the outgoing of the old and the
beginning of the new century, you begin
the last session of the Fifty-s sixth con-
gress with evidences on every hand Of
individual and national prosperity and
with proof of the growing strength and
increasing power for good to republican
institutions. Your countrymen will join
with you in felicitation that American
liberty is more firmly established than
ever before and that love for it and the
determination to preserve it are more
universal than at any former period of
our history.
The republic was never so strong, be-
cause never so strongly entrenched in
the hearts of the people as now. The
constitution with few amendments exist
as it left the hands of it's authors. The
additions which have been made to it
proclaim larger freedom and more ex-
tended citizenship. Popular government
has demonstrated in it's one hundred and
twenty-four years of trial here it's sta
bility and security and it's efficiency a
the best safeguard to human rights.
wv men the SlXtn congress assembled IN
November 1900, the population of the
United States was 5,30S,4S3 1t is now
76,3O4 199 Then we had sixteen states.
Now we have forty-five. Then our ter
ritory consisted of 800, $50 square miles. 1t
is now 3,s46,595 square miles. Education,
religion and morality have kept pace
with our advancement in other directions
and While extending it's power the gov
ernment has adhered to it's foundation
principles and abated none of them in
dealing with our new peoples and possess
sions. A nation so preserved nnd blessed
gives reverent thanks to God ana invokes
his guirance and the continuance of his
care ad favor.
The president in discussing the for
e.gn intercourse of the country goes
quite fully into the Chinese problem
saying that it is the dominant question
under this head. The relations of the
United States with China and the de-
velopment of the Boxer movement are
treated in clear and complete man-
ner. Then the siege of the legations is
taken up. by June the legations We're
cut off, says the message. "A note from
the yamen ordered each minister to leave
Pekin, under promised escort, Within
"a hours. To gain time, they replied
asking prolongation of the time, which
was afterward granted. and requesting
an interview With the tsung Ii yamen on
the following day. No reply being re-
ceived on the evening of the goth, the
German minister, Baron Won Ketteler,
set out for the yamen to obtain a re-
sponse, and on the way was murdered.
An attempt to recover his body was
foiled by the Chinese" The manner of
the defense of the British legation,
where the foreigners gathered, is then
described. The way the forces reached
the capital and saved the legations is
graphically set forth. The president says
the powers agree that the Celestial em>
pire shall not be dismembered, and in
sists that the question of indemnity is
an important matter
The message discusses our relation
ships with other foreign countries, and
lays special stress on the Importance OF
the Paris exposition.
The president condemns lynching in
the United States.
1T is gratifying to be able to state
that the surplus revenues for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1900, were S79,527,-
O6O1S," says the report. Recommended
tions are made by the president for VAR
ious improvements and special attention
is given to the shipping trade.
This Us said on trusts:
"In my la st annual message to the con-
gress called attention to the necessity
for early action to remedy such evils IS
might be found to exist In connection
with combinations of capital organized
into trusts and again invite attention to