Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE. [ARTICLE]

THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE.

The Voeeische Zeitung says that the American commissioners to the Samoan conference are instructed by their government to demarfd the neutrality of the island and the administration of Samoan affairs by Samoans, and to urge the claims of the United States to the right to establish a coaling station at Pago Pago. The demands of the United States, however, are not intended to prevent the other powers from exercising their influence in accordance with their interests. A Berlin correspondent says the Samoan conference has agreed upon the land commisaion question, and its side issqe is also agreed upon—the matter of placing restrictions npon the sale of fire-arms and liquor to the natives. The conference has also decided that the election of a king shall be left to themselves.