The San Francisco call., 1904-04-28
TRIUMPHs IN DIPLOMACY.
CulIom Reviews Achievements of Re-
publican Administrations.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-A fea-
ture of the Senate session to-day was
the speech by Cullom of Illinois on
the foreign relations of the United
States.
The speech Of Senator Cullom, who is
chairman Of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, was a careful review of the
diplomatic or international questions
which had been disposed of under the
Mckinley Roosevelt administrations
since 1897. He said that under these
administrations more important diplo-
matte questions had been brought to a
successful conclusion than under any
previous administration in the history
of the United States. He then dis
cussed in their order the acquisition of
the Hawaiian Islands, the war with
Spain and its results, the Philippines,
Cuba, the Alaskan boundary interna-
tional arbitration, the Panama canal,
our relations with the Orient, the Rus
sia-Japanese war, reciprocity and the
consular service, concluding with a
glowing tribute TO President Roosevelt
and Secretary Hay.
The acquisition of the Hawaiian ISL
ands, he said, was the first important
achievement in the conduct of our for
eign relations after Mckinley became
President. They gave to the United
States a foothold in the Pacific and
We're the beginning of our great ex-
pansion under the Mckinley admins
tration.
The war with Spain awoke US to a
realization of the fact that more than a
century Of remarkable internal indus
trial developments rendered us an i'm
portant factor in the worlds system.
Under the administrations of Mckinley
and Roosevelt the United States had
obtained a position among the nations
of the world which it never occupied
in any former period of our national
life.
The Senator discussed the Philip
pines mainly from a business stand
point and said that under American
rule their exports had increased nearly
$12, 100000 in the last year. The re-
sources Of the islands were boundless,
he said, and it was not unsafe to say
the total value of the trade would
eventually amount to several hundred
millions annually. Manila, in no far
distant day, would become the great
commercial center of the Orient.
Discussing international arbitration.
the Senator declared that no previous
administration and no country have
done more toward the settlement by
peaceful methods. rather than by war.
Of the differences which arise among
nations, than had the administrations
of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Regarding the disposition of the dip-
lomatic complications which had stood
in the way of an interoceanic canal he
said:
This is only another illustration of
the Guccess of the Roosevelt admins
tration in bringing to successful ter
minatlon question which other Presi-
dents had failed to settle. During the
three years of the Roosevelt admins
tration more progress has been made
toward the construction of an inter-
oceanic canal than in the three-ouar-
ters Of a century of our previous his
tory"
Bearing on our relations with the
Orient, the Senator said the United
States had stood for the open door in
China, and in our dealings with that
country we had pursued a disinterested
policy of disavowal Of territorial ae-
grandizement-a disposition to protect
its rights and confine our interests to
the peaceful development of trade We
had not hesitated on all proper occa-
sions to exert our influence to preserve
the independence of China and prevent
its ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Secretary Hay
very recently had gained a diplomatic
triumph in obtaining the consent of
Russia and Japan that the neutrality
of China and her administrative entity
shall be protected by both parties
Cullom said that thirty important
treaties had been proclaimed in the pc
riod under consideration, and that the
reciprocity arrangements entered into
under the Dingley act had in every in
stance materially increased our com
merce with the countries affected with
out in the least interfering with any
American industry. He paid high
compliment to the consular service,
saying that one officer alone had in
creased the receipts from customs by
preventing frauds nearly s1,0OO00O a
year since 1898. The Senator concluded
substantially as follows:
Under the beneficent administration
OF Republican Presidents the Union be-
came consolidated into one nation, and
in the recent crisis through which our
own nation and the nations of the
world have been passing the party of
Lincoln and Grant and Blaine and Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt is. still faithful
TO duty and manifests the wisdom and
craftsmanship necessary to meet every