The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-17

time and mode in which 1t ought to be paid. This gTeement is long sfep toward putting an end to that and disordered countries. which relies for the enforcement of exorbitant and fraudulent claims upon the bullying
 Following the action of Tbe Hague Convention In providing greater facil- ities for the use of the Permanent tSs 1 tnted H statss Sas put ieseif fSsss apon Int 9ssis a GGfsSssS GspS.ss
 S@sna FsS5s S p resrstSn wss tss Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden. Nor way, Switzeriand. Italy. Mexico, and Japan, while many other treaties are
 Under the general treaty with Great Britain. the two countries have agreed to arbitrate before The Hague Trib- unal the difficult and vexing ques- tions which. for more than a century, have caused so much i'll will and com troversy, regarding the rights of our of Newfoundland and the maritime provinces of Canada. Congress. at its last session, made the necessary ap- propriations to defray the expense of
 Boundary Disputes.
 ''The great growth in population and wealth of our Canadian neighbor has produced a continually increasing ac- emulation of difficult and irritating controversies arising all along the 5000 miles of boundary between Canada and the United States. In 1898, so press- ing had these questions become, that a Joint High Commission was created for the purpose of settling them, but the Commission dissolved without an agreement. Negotiations for the set- tlement of these questions have been renewed and great progress has bssp ssI
 '"The surveyors appointed by the two countries have nearly completed the marking of the Alaska boundary In ac@ cordance with the decision of the tri- bunal of 1903; a new treaty has been made for the adjustment of ali other questions relating. to the determination of the boundary from the Atlantic to the Pacific; the northeastern fisheries question is about to. be disposed of by an agreement for arbitration under the general treaty; a new treaty has been made for the making and enforcement ton of the food fish supply in all the boundary waters, Including both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic and Pa
 .srhe questions between Japan and the United States. which caused so much public excitement in the year 1907, have been disposed of to the sat- tsfaetion of the 9is5pSsS pSsSSple S oo.n 1opn between the two governments have now been signaliZed by the general treaty of arbitration concluded between them, by the invitation and acceptance of the invitation for the visit of our fleet to Tokyo, and by the response of the United States to the invitation of Ja- pan to participate in the great exposl- tion which is to be held at Tokyo in the year 1912 for which Congress has authorized the expenditure of one mil- lion and a half dollars, the greatest sum ever appropriated for foreign
 "The unfriendly feelings among the people of China which grew out of the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law and led to the boycott of American goods have disappeared. and American trade in China has been restored to its natural course. The United States has secured the assent of all the na- tions having possession n Gs the Orient an end to the curse of opium In the Orient, and an international confer ence, under the leadership of the United at Shanghai on the 1St of next Jsnu- aFl for the purpose of deVising and formulating an international agree ment to prevent it's production, sale.
 SThreaten tarin wars between the United States and Germany, and be- tween the United States and France, agreements between the United States and each of those countries, made un- der the authority given to the Presi- dent In the third section of the Dingley tariff act.
 Roosevelt, the Great.
 But the crowning act in this drama self took the initiative, halted the ar mics of Russia and Japan. bringing about an honorable. and 1t Is to hs
 "Yet nothing has added so much to his just fame as his persistent and IT. Esvoeabla rafaaal ia hraal< shA HA~uusia-