Probably never before in the history of the country has an administration been obliged to face upon its assumption of wer So many important questions affect. ing its foreign relations as confront President McKinley and Secretary Sherman.
First in interest in this country comes the Cuban question. The insurgents have carried on the war for two years. McKinley is disposed to be very cautious in the matter and not to depart from the position of strict neutrality which his predecessor, Cleveland, maintained.
The subject of the annexation of Hawaii will be pressed to the front very soon and the citizens of the little island republic have already begun agitation in this country. An attempt to negotiate a treaty of annexation will be made as soon as possible.
Subjects at issue with Great Britain are the settlement of the Alaskan boundary, the regulation of the Bering Sea seal fisheries, and the ce-operative government of Samoa, The German prohibition of importation of American meat and refusal to allow American insurance companies to do business in the Empire are matters that call for action.
New York, 16th March,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.