America and England.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 134, 5 December 1895, Page 2

America and England.

I • i A WARNING FROM THE AMERICAN I PRESIDENT. LORD SALISBURY DEFIANT. > [Per Press Association] Washington, December 8. __ The President's message at the open- " ing of the Congress suggests, as a Bern* - ' , edy for the financial troubles, the retirement of the greenback Treasury notes, amounting to 400,000,000 dollars, and ' the substitution of bonds bearing ___■ low rate of interest ; the Treasury to be as* signed the authority to dispose of th e bonds abroad. Regarding Venezuela, President Cleveland said he would inform England that" the United States would firmly oppose any European power increasing its territory in America. He had protested "against the enlargement of British Guiana. Arbitration on the entire question was the only way to obtain a settlement. A reply was ex* nected from the Imperial Government shortly, - _ December 4, The President's message urges" that the finances are in a dangerous position, and require an heroio remedy. He de* preoates a blind plunge' headlong into the free coinage of silver in fhe : name of bimettalism. He hopes thai the powers will not delay to take prompt and effective action in Turkey. '-With < reference to the award of the Behring Sea Commission in favour of England, he points out that tho honor of the nation dc^nands prompt J payment. .The President invites Congress to relieve the country of the irksome and unnatural Treaty obligations in Samoa, and ' concludes by insisting on a neutral atti- ' tudetowaids the Cuban rebellion. -, Lord .Salialinry has forwarded a atfong *• protest, in answer to. the American pro- * posalto arbitrate on' the .^Venezuelan frontier question.