Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-11-29
Ten Foreign Questions
interesting Letter From Our
Washington Correspondent.

Ii is considered Significant oil the
wide change that has taken place III
the standing OF the u. S in the world
within the past few years that OF the
important questions now confronting
the government, as many as ten are al
most exclusively foreign. These are:
the Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty, the
reciprocity treaties; the qestlon oi
colonial tariffs and government; the
Alaskan boundary dispute, which IT
not yet settled; the proposition to abb
rogate the treaty forbidding the build
ing OF war ships on the Great Lakes;
the Cuban question; the purchase oil
the Danish West Indies; the Chinese
Exclusion Act the Pacific cable; and
the right OF European powers 10 ac-
auire coaling stations in American
waters. In fact, trusts are about the
only great matter now confronting Us
which is exclusively domestic Some
oil the questions named are for exc
cutiye determination, some for judicial
and some for legislative, and some for
all three all are OF much importance
The Danish negotiations have hung
fire for various reasons. probably the
chief OF which is the desire OF the ad-
minstration TO learn the opinion oil the
Supreme Court on Philippine matters
before entering into.a treaty Tor new
acquisitions Denmark wants. her cit
izens in the islands to become full AM
erican citizens by treaty; the Supreme
Court held in the case OF Porto Rico
that Congress had power to rule such
possessions with free hand; Just how
this right may be limited by the Phil
ippine decision is doubtful, and until il
is known, it seems policy TO keep our
hands free.
After years OF delay, followed by
years OF slow awakening the L. S has
at last taken up the forestry problem
in earnest and will hereafter conduct
it on scientific principles. As the pub
lie reserves now amount to some $4,000
acres. all OF which has TO be handled
with skill and care, on penalty OF de
creasing water supply, destructive
floods and protracted droughts. the
necessity for action is evident Ac-
cordingly. Secretary Hitchcock has re-
organized the forestry bureau OF the
Interior department, placing at its
head Mr.. Filibert Roth, who has been
the head OF the forestry division oil the
Agricultural Department Tor many
years. who has had practical expert
ence on the plains and who has been a
professor of forestry at Cornell be-
sides. His assistants are men SINH
larly qualified for their new duties A.
side from the strictly technical side of
the work, there must be considered the
constant efforts made by Western COM
to have these reservations
thrown open to settlement or. at least
10 resist their future increase. This
feeling was so strong some years ago
that il forced the revocation OF a part
oi an order made by President Cleye-
land withdrawing lands from settle
ment, a revocation which the Depart
ment has ever since bitterly deplored.
1t is hoped that an intelligent manage
ment of the reserves will do much to
reconcile those who oppose them. FL
aborate rules in regard to granting the
disposal of dead and down timber the
cutting OF mature trees, etc, which
have been or will be, speedily adopted
are expected to aid in this.
II it were not for the fact that il
would make itself ridiculous, the State
Department would at once direct the
recall OF Consul General Dickinson,
Tor his blunder in threatening to hold
Bulgaria responsible for any injury to
Miss Stone, consequent on any attempt
TO capture the brigands who hod here
prisoner. President Roosevelt, IS sale
on excellent authority, to have Ions
ago resolved that when Miss Ston'
shall have been rescued or put t'
death. he will deand a heavy indemnlt,
from either Tureky or Bulgaria as ma,
seem proper, for the wrong done her
While Mr. Dickinson's purpose was N
doubt commcndable, his dictum vii
undoubtedly embarass the President i
this design. Bulgaria will assert that
il not interfered with by the oihcia