The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

OF neutrars right to send goods not
contraband per Sc to a neutral port adj
jacent to a belligerent area.
Relations with Italy.
The lynching of the Italians in LOUISE
ana is the one question standing between
this government and Italy. That coun-
try Is still waiting for the punishment of
the parties guilty of that crime. The pres-
dent says that successive grand juries
have failed to find indictments and says:
Setting the principle at issue high above
Identification, such as this government
made in the three previous cases, Italy
has solemnly invoked the pledges of .ex-
isting treaty and asked that the justice
to which she Is entitled shall be meted
in regard to her unfortunate countrymen
IN nre oa she Would give to any
ican were his reciprocal treaty rights con-
temned.
renew the urgent recommendations
priately confer upon the federal courts
jurisdiction In this class of international
cases where the ultimate responsibility of
and invite action upon the bills to accom-
plish this which were introduced in the
to remedy the statutory omission which
has led, and may again lead. to such un-
toward results i have pointed out the
pie measure of previsory justice toward the
nations with which we as a sovereign equal
make treaties requiring reciprocal observ-
ance.
While the italian government naturally
regards such action as the primary and,
indeed, the most essential element in the
disposal of the Tallulah incident, 1 ad-
wise that. in accordance with precedent,
and in view of the improbability of that
particular case being reached by the bill
provision pro for indemnity Ad to the itsiisn
sufferers in the same form and propor-
Lynching.
In my inaugural address 1 referred to
the general subject of iynching in these
"Lynching must not be tolerated in a
great and civilized country like the
United States; courts. not mobs, must
execute the penalties of the law; The
discussion. the integrity of courts, and
the orderly ad administration of justice
must continue forever the rock Of safety
rests"
This I most urgently reiterate. and
again invite the attention of my coun-
trymen to this reproach upon our civiliza-
ton
Ratification of Hague Convention.
The ratification OF The Hague peace
convention Is referred to as follows:
announce the formal notification at The
Hague. on September 4, of the deposit of
ratiications Of the convention for the pa
cine settlement Of nterEational disputes by
Is powers, namely: the United States, Aus
tria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France,
Germany, Italy. Persia, Portugal, Rou..
Norway, and the Netherlands. japan also
has since ratified the convention.
The Nicarauguan Canal.
He advocates the speedy building Of
the ratification of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty. On this subject he says:
The all-important matter OF an Inter-
oceanic canal has assumed new phase.
| Adhering to its refusal to reopen the ques-
tion of the forfeiture of the contract of
the Maritime Canal company, which vas
terminated for alleged non-exeeution in
qua has since supplemented that action
by declaring the so-styled Eyre-Cramin
| option void for nonpayment of its stipu-
| lated advance. Protests in relation to
| these acts have been hled in the state de-
| partment and are unoer consideration.
Deeming itself relieved from existing en-
| gagements, the Nicaraguan government
| shows a disposition to deal freely with the
canal question either in the way of ne
! gotiations with the United states or by
! taking measures to promote the waterway.
Overtures tor a convention 10 effect the
building, OF canal under the auspices
| of the United states are under Considera-
| ton. In the meantime the views of the
| congress upon the general subject in the
| light OF the report OF the commission APP
| pointed to examine the comparative merits
OF the various trans -isthmian ship-canal
projects, may be awaited.
| commend to the early attention of the
| senate the convention with Great Britain
to facilitate the construction OF such a
canal ard to remove any objection which
might arise out of the convention COM
| monty called the Clayton -Bulwer treaty.
New Treaty with spain.
OF our relations with Spain he says q
new convention of e;;tradition is ap.
preaching completion and trusts that 9
| Snain'S number
/ lands in the Philippine group not covered
by the Paris treaty he says: says:
the line bounding the ceded Philippine
group in the southwest failed to include
several small Islands islam. lying vest of the
nized as under Spanish control. The oc
cupation of Sibutu and Cagayan Sulu b!
our. naval forces elected claim on the
part of Spain, the essential equity o.
which could not be gainsaid. In order t
cure the defect of the treaty by remov
respeetng Ii the iqnter nterprets s
tion of its third article, l directed tn,
negotiation of a supplementary treaty
senate, whereby Spain quits all title ant
claim to the islands named as well as t,
any and all islands belonging to the Phil
lines ascribed in said third article, anC
agrees that all such Islands shall be com
pretended in the cession Of the archi
pressy included within those lines. II
consideration of this cession the Unite,
states Ste 6a, is to pay to Spain the sum o
stNI Waiting on the Sultan.
OF the claims against Turkey he says
We await the fulfillment of the prom
Use of the sultan to make reparation fo
izens in Armenia and e. elsewhere in tn
Turkish empire. His majesty's good dis
tho resara of n ade
ing the American college at Harpoot.