Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-12-16

recent request. in compliance with which this
Government has lent the services OF an off
GER of the Army TO be employed by the gov
ernment OF Panama as instructor OF police
! The sanitary improvements and public WORK.
undertaken in Cuba prior TO the present ad
mnistration Of that government, In the sue.
cess of which the United States Is interestec
under the treaty, are reported TO be max
ing good progress and, since the Congress
provided for the continuance Of the reciproca
the United States, assurance has been received
that no negotiations iRturiously aHecting the
situation Will be undertaken without consul
Many years age. diplomatic intervention be- be,
came Necessary for the projection S.,St of tht tht
Chile has frequently admitted obligation In
settle 1t. There had been two abortive at
tempts to do 50 through arbitration, which
failed through lack OF jurisdiction. Now, hap
PLY, as the result of the recent diplomatic
.egotiations the government Of the United TED
sire to free from any strain those cordial anS
friendly relations upon which both set such
controversy @ to defnitive settlement by His
Britannia Majesty Edward vi: o
serves Unchanged its policy Of supporting
the principle Of equality OF opportunity
and serupulous respect for the integrity OF OF
pledged the interested powers of both East
and West. BY the treaty of 1908 China
has undertaken the abolition of the likin,
with a moderate and proportionate raising
of the customs tariff, along with currency
reforms These reforms being Of manifest ,dIi t
to the interests OF China, this Government
Is endeavoring to facilitate these measures
and the needful acquiescence OF the treaty
powers.
When 1t appeared that China's likin reve-
nues were to be hypothecated to foreign
bankers in connection with a great railway
project it was obvious that the governments
whose bankers hold this loan would have a
certain direct interest in the question OF the
carrying out by China Of the reforms in
question. Because this railroad loan repre-.
sented a practical and real application of Of
with China by interested powers, as well as
because of its relations to the reforms re,
American participation to be of great Ma
tional interest. Happily, when 1t was as
matter Of d broad policy urged ina that 1ds ep
sable instrumentality presented itself when
group of American bankers of interna-
tional reputation and great resources agreed
at once to share in the loan upon precisely
such terms as this Government should ap-
prove: The chief of those terms was that
an exact equality with that of the other
nations joining in the loan ssui in the placing
After months of negotiation. the equal
participation of America seems at last as,
thus take its share in this extension of
these great highways of trade and to be-
lleNe that such activities Will give a real
impetus to our commerce, and will prove
the Far East.
The Imperial Chinese government, in pur-
suance of its decision to devote funds from
the portion of the indemnity remitted to
them to sending students to this country.
has already completed arrangements for
carrying out this purpose and consider
able body OF students have arrived to take
up their work in our schools and universi-
ties. No one can doubt the happy effect
the associations formed by these representa-
to take up their work in the progressive
development of their country. The results
last Spring, at the invitation of the United
States, have been laid before the Govern
ment.
The. report shows that China is making
remarkable progress and admirable efforts
toward the eradication OF the opium evil.
not allowed their commercial interests to
interfere with a helpful cooperation in this
opium question in this country lead me to
recommend that the manufacture, sale and
use of opium and its derivatives in the
Vigorously controlled by legislation
In one OF the Chinese-Japanese conven-
0 saued
lion. in that upon it's face 1t was believed
n some quarters to seek to establish a
south Manchurian and Antung Mukden
alroads, and thus to exclude Americans
n which they were entitled by the treaty |
With China. After a thorough examina-
4on Of the conventions Of the several CON
cached the conclusion that no such monop-
ly was intended or accomplished How
# this question. to confirm the view it had
cached, this Government made inquiry of
nents, and received from each of them as
urance that the provision had no purpose
Inconsistent With the policy Of equality Of
ommon with the United States, are
ledged.
Under a provision of the. act of August
+, 1909. I have appointed three officials to
ssist the officers of the Government in
9llecting information ey necessary to wise
/. 1909. AS to questions of customs ad
ninistration, they are cooperating with the
0 matters of the needs and the exigencies
+ our manufacturers and exporters with the
elation to the domestic aspect of the sub
ect of foreign commerce. In the study of
oreign tariff treatment they will assist the
nent OF State. 1t is thus hoped to co-ordi-
ate and bring. to bear upon this most i'm
ortant subject all the agencies of the
o its efficient handling
AS a consequence Of section two OF the
uty OF the Secretary of State TO conduct
iplomatic business necessary to him in a
ar country unduly discrlminates against the
'nited states in the statute referred to- The
reat scope and complexity of this work,
s we'll as the obligation to lend all proper
i'd to our expanding commerce, it may ac-
omplish by the expansion of the Bureau of .
rade Relations. set forth in the esti-
lates for the Department of State.
I regret to refer to the fact of the dis
overy of extensive frauds in the collection
the customs revenue at New York City,
which number of subordinate employees
the weighing and other departments were &
irectly concerned. and in which the bene- :
Charles We're the American Sugar Refining
ompany and others The fraud consisted !
lgar. The Government has recovered from ,
he American Sugar Refining Company all !
nat II is known to have been defrauded 3
!. The sum was received in full of the o
red by civil suit against the benefciaries .
the fraud, but there was an express res
walton in the contract Of settlement by :
hich the settlement should not interfere
every one who was found to be subject f.
the same. =
Criminal prosecutions are now proceeding Il
gainst number Of the Government officers o
he Treasury Department and the Depart Il
ent OF Justice are exerting every effort b
e officers and employees Of the companies o
ho may have been privy to the frauds
would seem to me that an investigation n
the frauds by Congress at present, pend n
I'd the Department OF Justice as proposed, c
light, by giving immunity and otherwise, m
owe an embarrassment in securing con- n
ction Of the guilty parties. v
Perhaps the most important question pre- T
nted to this Administration is that OF g
venue. The deficit OF the last fiscal year VI
ID the certain deficit of the current year al
ompted Congress to throw a greater re- In
onsibility upon the Executive and the m