Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
DAILY ARIZONA SILVER BELT

the means of building up the colossal inter-continental commerce of the flu ture.
 Meeting with Diaz
 My meeting with President Diaz and the greeting exchanged on both Amer. ican and Mexican soil served, l hope, to signalize the close cordial wishes which 50 well bind together this repub. lie and the great republic immediately vast network of material interests. vast network of material interests.
 ] am happy to say that all but one of the cases which for so long vexed our relations with Venezuela have been settled within the last few months and that, under the enlightened regime now directing the government of Venezuela, provision has been made for arbitration of the remaining case before the Hague tribunal.
 On July 30. 1909, the government of Panama agreed, after considerable ne. gotiation to indemnify the relatives of the American officers and sailors who were brutally treated one of IutIl HdNiHkj luuCtu, DeSu hiicu ug tue Panama police this year.
 The sincere desire of the Panaman government to do away with situation where such an accident could occur is manifest in the recent request in compliance with which this government has lent the services of an officer of the army to be employed by the gov ernment of Panama as instructor of police.
 The sanitary improvements and pub lie works undertaken in Cuba prior to the present administration of that gov ernment in the success of which the United States is interested under the treaty are reported to be making enorm- ous progress and since the congress pro- vided for the continuance of the re- ciprocal commercial arrangement be- tween Cuba and the United States as- suranee has been received that no ne- gotiations injuriously affecting the sit uation will be undertaken without con sultation.
 The Dominican Debt
 The collection of customs of the Dominican republic through the general receiver of customs appointed by the president of the United States in &C., cordanee with the convention of Febru- ary s, 1907, has proceeded in an m eventful and satisfactory manner. The customs receipts have increased owing to disturbed political and eco. homie conditions and to a very natur- al curtailment of imports in view of the anticipated revision of the Domi. nican tariff schedule. The payments to the fiscal agency fund for the service of the bonded debt of the republic, as provided by the convention, have been regularly and promptly made, and sat isfactory progress has been made in carrying out the provisions of the con. vention looking towards the compile. tion of the adjustment of the debt and the requirement by the Dominican gov. ernment of certain concessions and monopolies which have been a burden to the commerce of the country. In short, the receivership has demon strated it's ability, even under unfavor able economic and political conditions to do the work for which it was in tended.
 This government was obliged to in tervene automatically to bring about arbitration or settlement of the clain of the Emery company against Mica ragua, which it had been long before agreed should be arbitrated. A settle ment of this troublesome case wal reached by the signature of protoco on September IS, 1909.
 The Alsop Claims
 Many years ago diplomatic interven tion became necessary for the protec tion of the interests in the American claim of Alsop & Go. against tn, government of Chile. The government of Chile frequently had admitted obi l gation in the case and had promised this government to settle it. There hat been two abortive attempts to do s, through arbitral commissions whiel failed through lack of jurisdiction. Nov happily, as the result of the recent dip lomatic negotiations, the governments o the United States and of Chile, actu
 ated by the sincere desire to free iron any strain those cordial and friendly re lations upon which both set much store
 have agreed by protocol to sabmit tn
 controversy to defnitive settlement b.
 His Rrittanic Majesty. King Edwar | VII.
 fl Zelaya Disturbing Factor
 Since the Washington conventions O
 1907 were communicated to the gov
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 sulting and advising party, this govern ! ment has been almost continuously cal ed upon by one or another, and in tur by all of the five Central American r, , publics to assert itself for the mainter ance of the conventions. Nearly ever complaint has been against the Zelay government of Nicaragua, which ha kept Central America in constant ter : sion or turmoil. The responses made r the representations of Central America republics, as due from the Unite States, on account of it's relation to tf ? Washington conventions, have been { all times conservative and have avoi' : ed, so far as possible. any semblance ( | interference, although it is very appa r ent that the considerations of geograpl e ic proximity to the canal zone and ( t the very substantial American interes Q in Central Amerca give to the Unite 3 States special position in the zone . these republics and the Caribbean sea. a I need not rehearse here the patti v efforts of this government to promo