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Page xxiii
... action upon this question . The present situation of our mail communication with Australia illustrates the importance of early action by Congress . The Oce- anic Steamship Company maintains a line of steamers between San Francisco ...
... action upon this question . The present situation of our mail communication with Australia illustrates the importance of early action by Congress . The Oce- anic Steamship Company maintains a line of steamers between San Francisco ...
Page xxv
... action should be taken in this matter , in order that any appropriations for better communication with these countries , and any agreements that may be made for re- ciprocal trade , may not be hindered by the inconvenience of making ...
... action should be taken in this matter , in order that any appropriations for better communication with these countries , and any agreements that may be made for re- ciprocal trade , may not be hindered by the inconvenience of making ...
Page xxxvii
... action may be suspended . War between Salvador and Guatemala : Ac- knowledges telegram of 25th instant . As the bases of peace have been signed , action with re- gard to arbitration is unnecessary . Same to same ( telegram ) ... Aug. 28 ...
... action may be suspended . War between Salvador and Guatemala : Ac- knowledges telegram of 25th instant . As the bases of peace have been signed , action with re- gard to arbitration is unnecessary . Same to same ( telegram ) ... Aug. 28 ...
Page lviii
... action of the United States Government in Behring Sea in 1886 , 1887 , and 1889 be forthwith referred to arbitration ; that pending the award all interference with British sealing vessels shall absolutely cease ; and that the United ...
... action of the United States Government in Behring Sea in 1886 , 1887 , and 1889 be forthwith referred to arbitration ; that pending the award all interference with British sealing vessels shall absolutely cease ; and that the United ...
Page lxv
... action of the Italian authorities will be disavowed . Discusses the points involved . The action of the Italian authorities calls now , as on previous occasions , for earnest dissent and protest . Re- grets that Italy stands aloof from ...
... action of the Italian authorities will be disavowed . Discusses the points involved . The action of the Italian authorities calls now , as on previous occasions , for earnest dissent and protest . Re- grets that Italy stands aloof from ...
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Page 438 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 438 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 222 - If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill-treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection, and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treatv.
Page 496 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States?
Page 440 - Art. 3.—The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting parties upon the coast of the Continent, and the islands of America to the north-west...
Page 342 - Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries and other properties -which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Page 298 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject...
Page 539 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 485 - Meridian); and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the said Meridian Line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British Possessions on the Continent of America to the North-West.
Page 479 - ... present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim, which either of the two high contracting parties may have 'to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country ; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.