Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-12-11


upon sEeh additional designation of the
| guilty persons as the foreign ministers at
| Pekin may be in a position to make, gives
hope of complete settlement of all ques-
ticas involved, assuring foreign rights
of residence and intercourse on terms of
equality for all the world.
/ regard as one of the essential factors
of durable adjustment the securing of
| adequate guarantees for liberty of faith,
since Insecurity of those natives who may
embrace alien creeds is scarcely less
effectual assault upon the rights of for
eign worship and teaching than would be
the direct invasion thereof.
The matter Of indemnity for our wrong
ed citizens is a question of grave concern.
! Measured in money alone. a sufficient
reparation may prove TO be beyond the
ability Of China to meet. All the powers
concur in emphatic disclaimers of any
purpose Of aggrandizement through the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the empire. / am dis
/ posed to think that due compensation
may be made in part by increased guar
antees of security for foreign rights and
immunities, and, most important of all,
by the opening of China to the equal COM
merce of 81 the world. These views have
been and will be earnestly advocated by
! 5ot representatives
] AhCAANa dl airs dlTs
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 a 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
a 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.
Amicable Foreign Relations.
Good will prevails in our relations with
! the German empire. The settlement of
/ the Samoan problem, to which | adyerted
| 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
! sDections, it prohibits certain products
! heretofore admitted There is still great
uncertainty as to vi, ther our well nigh
4 extinguished German trade in meat pro-
4 ducts can revive under its new burdens.
| Our friendly relations with Great Brit
| ain continue. The war in southern AT
| RIGA introduced important questions. A
! condition unusual in international wars
/ was presented in that, while one belliger-
! ent had control of the seas, the other
/ had no ports, shipping or direct trade
! but was only accessible through the ter
| ritory of a Neutral Vexatious questions
arose through Great Britains action in
respect to neutral cargoes, not contra
! band in their own nature, shipped to Por-
| tuguese South Africa on the score of
| probable or suspected ultimate destina-
ton to the Boer states.
Such c5nsignments in British ships. by
| which alone direct trade is kept up be-
tween our ports and southern Africa,
were seized in application of munich
pal law prohibiting British vessels from
! trading with the enemy without regard to
any contraband character of the goods,
while cargoes shipped TO Delagoa Bay in
neutral bottoms were arrested on the
ground OF alleged destination to enemys
country. Appropriate representations on
our part resulted in the British govern
ment agreeing to purchase outright all
such goods shown to be the actual prop
erty of American citizens, thus closing
the incident to the satisfaction of the
Immediately interested parties, although,
unfortunately, without broad settlement
of the question of a neutraFs right to
send goods not contraband per Sc to a
neutral port adjacent to belligerent
area.
g3'he work of making certain provis-
ional boundary points for convenience of
administration around the head of Lynn
canal, in accordance with the temporary
arrangement of October 1899, was COM
pleted by a joint survey in July last But.
however necessary such an eXpedient
may have been to tide over the grave
emergencies of the situation, it is at best
but ala unsatisfactory makeshift, which
should not be suffered to delay the speedy
and complete establishment of the from
tier line 70 which we are entiti,l under
the Russo-American treaty for the ces-
sion of Alaska.
Lynch Law as Reproach.
In my Inst message | referred at consider
able length to this lynching Of five Italians at
Iailulah. Notwithstanding the efforts Of the
Federal Government, the production of eVi-
dence tending TO iHrulpate the authors Of
this grieyous offense aeainst our civilization,
and the repeated inqS~stS set on foot by
the authorities of the State of Louisiana, no
punishments have followed. Successive
grand juries have failed TO .2dict. The rep
| resentatives Of the Italian government in
the face of this miscarriage haze been most
temperate and just. Italy has selemnly in
yoEed the pledges of existing treaty and
asked that the justice to which she is en-
titled shall be melted IN regard to her g0for-
tunate countrymen in cur territory. 5 re-
new the urgent recommendations I ma;se
last year that the Congress appropriately
confer upon the Federal courts Jurisdiction
l in this class Of international eases whore the
ultimate Responsibility of The Federal Gov
Z ~ involved an I ~
tion upon the bills to accomplish this which
were Introduced in the Senate and House
The closing year has witnessed q decided
Strengthening eff J,pans relations to other
states In the Treatment of the difficult
I Chinese problems, Japan has acted In har-
moni0uS concert with the other powers, and
her generous cooperation materially aided
I in the joint relief Of the beleaguered lega-
tions in PeSin and in bringing about an I'M
I Outstanding preliminary 10 a settlement of
4 the issues between the powers and China.
/ Court of Arbitration.
( Ii Is with satisfaction that | am able to
announce the formal notification at The
Hague, on Sept. A. of the deposit of ratifca-
/ lions of the convention for the pacific settle
ment of international disputes by sixteen
/ powers namely. the United States. Austria,
1 Belgium, Denmark, England, France. Ger
/ many. Italy. Persia, Portugal, Roumania
/ Russia, Siam. Spain. Sweden and Norway
and the Netherlands Japan also has since
ratified the convention. The administrative
council of the permanent court of arbitra-
tion has been organized and has adopted
/ rules of order and a, constitution for the In
! ternatlonal arbitration bureau.
In accordance with article XXIII. of the
convention, providing for the appointment
I BY each signatory power of persons of
I Known competency in questions Of lnterna-
/ tional law as arbltrntors. l have appointed
as members of this court Benjamin Harrison
of Indiana. ex-President OF the United
States: Melville W Fsller of Illinois Chief
Justice of the e ited States: John w. Griggs
of New Jersey, Attorney General of the
/ United States. and, George Gray of Della
ware, judge Gle Circuit Court of the
United States.
For Transisthmiau Canal.
The ailImportant matter Of an inter
( oceanic canal has assumed new phase. Adj
herring TO It's refusal To reopen the question
I Of the forfeiture Of the contract of the
I Maritime Canal Company. which was termi-
+ mated for alleged nonexecuti0n in October.
+ 1859. the government Of Nicaragua has since
i supplemented thst action By declaring the
so-styied Eyre-Cragiu option void for non
payment Of the stipulated advance. Pro
tests In relation 70 these acts have been
/ alea in the State Department and are under
( consideration
overtures for s conVeation to eject the
( building Il canal under the auspices Of