Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-12-11
HAWAII GETS NOTICE
IN PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
At CONGRESS OPENING
Secretary of the Interior Has Hawai-
ian Irrigation Scheme---Foreign
Relations Of the
Union.

Washington, Dec. g. - President
Mckinley this morning sent his mes
sage to congress. The document is an
exhaustive review of the country's pro-
gress and II deals in liberal and intel
ligent way with the questions of ma
tional Importance now before the peo-
pie of the United States.
To the Senate and House of Rpresen-
taties with the outgoing of the old
anu the incoming OF the new century
you begin the last session of the Fifty
sixth congress with evidences on every
hand of individual and national pros
perity and with proof Of the growing
strength and increasing power for good
OF republican institutions. Your coun-
trymen will join with you in felicltation
that American liberty is more firmly es-
tablished than ever before and that love
for 1t and the determination to pre-
serve II 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, ex-
lists as It left the hands of its authors.
In our foreign intercourse the domi-
nant question has been the treatment
OF the Chinese problem. Apart from
this our relations with the powers have
been happy.
As has been said, "the policy of the
/ unt nj Of 40 TTnifa1 GtataG Ia
seek a solution which may bring abort
permanent safety and peace to China,
preserve Chinese territorial and admin
istrative entity. protect all rights guar
anteed to friendly powers by treaty and
| international law, and safeguard for
the world the principle of the equal and
impartial trade with all parts of the
Chinese empire"
! Good will prevails in our relations
with the German empire. An amicable
adjustment of the long pending question
Of the admission of our life insurance
/ companies TO do business in Prussia
has been reached.
The settlement of the Samoan prom
| lem, to which ! adverted in my last
message. has accomplished good re-
suits. Peace and contentment prevail
| in the islands. especially in Tutuill.
where convenient administrationthat
has won the confidence and esteem of
the kindly disposed natives has been
organized under the direction of the
commander of the United States naval
station at Page Page.
Our friendly relations with Great
| Britain continue. The war In Southern
Africa introduced important questions.
Vexatious questions arose through
Great Britain's action In respect to nell
trail cargoes. not contraband in their
own nature, shipped to Portuguese
| South Africa. on the.score of probable
or suspected ultimate destination to the
Boer states.
An 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 con-
tract OF the Maritime Canal Company,
which was terminated for alleged non
execution in October 1899, the govern
ment of Nicaragua has since supple
mented that action by declaring the So
styled Eyre-Cragin option void for nom
payment OF the stipulated advance. Pro-
tests In relation to these acts have been
| filed In the state department and are
under consideration. Deeming itself re-
lieved from existing engagements. the
| Nicaraguan government shows a dispo-
sition to deal freely with the canal
question either In the way of negotia-
lions with the United States or by TAX
ing measures to promote the waterway.
Overtures for convention to effect
the building OF canal under the au-
spices of the United States are under
consideration. In the meantime the
views of congress upon the subject in
the light of the report of the committee
appointed to examine the comparative
merits of the various transisthmiam
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 canal and to remove any objec-
ton which might arise out of the con-
vention commonly called the Clayton
Bulwer treaty.
II Is gratifying to be able to state
that the surplus revenues for the fiscal
year ended June 30. 1900, were $40 .527.-
060.1S. For the six preceding years we
had only deficits. the aggregate OF
which from 1894 to 1899, inclusive,
amounted to 1888 ,O22, 991.14.
Receipts for the year from all cources
exclusive of postal revenues aggregated
s567.2iO,S51.S9, and expenditures for all
purposes except for the administration
OF the postal department aggregated
$4SI7l3, I91.7l. The receipts from GUS
toms were 1898, 16i,S7l.16, an increase
over the preceding year of S27.03S,-