| Show DEP OF STATE our lareign relations ioni while our for foreign ign relations have not at all times during annne tho the past pait pa it year been entirely freo free from perplexity no embarrass 1 ing situations rein ich that will not it ot yield to the spirit of fairness find and love of justice itrich joined with consistent fir firmness illness characterizes a truly Ame iiran foreign policy my predecessor having accepted tho the office 0 of arbitrator of tho the long ion stand standing inq mis missions gions tendered tend ored to tho the president by the argentine republic and brazil it lias has been roy iny agreeable duty to receive tho the special envoys commissioned by there states to jay before me evidence udd and arguments argument s in behalf of their respective governments the outbreak of domestic hostilities in tile the republic of brazil arnzil found the united states alert to watch tile Inter interest of 0 our aur citizens in that country interests estr which wo nye carry on import important ii it commerce several vessels of our new navy are now and for some time hive have been stationed at kio de janeiro the struggle being between tile the established government which controls the machinery of administration and with which we maintain friendly ic lations and cei gaiu officers of the navy davy employing the vessels of command in an attack upon the national capital and chief sea port and lucking as it does the elements elemen tn of divided tra t ration tion I 1 havo have tailed failed to see that tho the in sur gents can reasonably claim recognition as belligerents thus the position of our government has been that of an attentive but impartial cr of the conflict emphasizing our fixed policy of ol 01 impartial neutrality in such a condition of affairs as now exists I 1 deemed it necessary to disavow in a manner not to b bi misunderstood the unauthorized aati action n of our late uyval commander in those waters in saluting thu the revolted brazilian ajdrna ajl A rna I 1 bel being lud 1 to vu ite i if z lar the vexatious vexation us question quest iori of so called legation asylum tor for offenders against the etite ito and rill it laws was vas presented alewin anew in chile by thi unauthorized authorized ua action of the late united states tates minister in receive receiving in his official resi lenco two persons who nt had d tailed failed in nn an artemot at revolution and against whom charres charges wet a pending gro growing whig out af pf of ft a furtney abortive disturbance tur bance of a alum as ap ilta to t this his case is not sanctioned by tile tha best and alion allom allowed ved tends to encourage sedition awl and stife baler anler no circumstances call the e presenta tives of tills 0 v bo dermitt per mattil d under the dati ca ill iii I 1 1 fiction of extra rn tonality to interrupt the administration of criminal justice in the countries to they aro ar accredited A temperate derna d having licen been ladeby made by the chilean go conent fur fir the correction of tills conduct th was instructed no DO longer to ingbor barbor offenders I 1 chir eso lioa I 1 the legi dation tion of last year known uw the geary law 1 ic equi quiring ring the registration of c all chinese laoo reis entitled to residence in tile the Il united litAl states und and thede the du pOl tation of all not complying with the provision of the act within the time pre bed met with much opposition iou atom Chi nemen in this country jaing attina upon the advice of eminent counsel that the 1 law arv was unconstitutional the tha great mas inas s of chinese laborers pending pc judicial inquiry as to its validity in good faith declined to apply I 1 for alo cetti licate ites required by its erbeal provisions A test tesi upon P 11 1 proceedings 1 0 ceede n S by y hl u habeas corpus was bruu ja hc 1 b before eford tille thu supreme court and 0 on 11 aa may 15 a de dc chilon was made by that tribunal sustaining tile the law jew it is believed a I 1 that u under n der the recent amendment of the act extending the time for registration the chinese laborers thereto entitled who desire to reside in this country will now low avail themselves of the renewed privilege thus afforded of establishing by y lawful aw fill procedure their right to 10 remain remain and that thereby the necessity of enforced deportation may to a great degi debiec cc le it molded elded |
