The resolution "requests the President of the United States to negotiate with the Government of Mexico for the creation of an international commission to adjust all questions affecting the interests of both countries requiring settlement." The report of the committee accompanying the joint resolution specifies the chief objects of negotiation. They are commercial and friendly and relate to a definite fixing of boundary lines. to irrigation of arid lands in the valley of the Rio Grande River. so that people on the Mexican side of said river. where it forms an international boundary. shall not be deprived of the use of the water of said river for the irrigation of their lands. The resolution also specifies that a certain claqs of alien immigration excluded by the laws of the United States from coming into its territory shall not be permitted to gain access to our country by being smuggled across the border from Mexico. that the laws of both countries for the collection of import duties upon foreign goods shall not be evaded by an abuse of the Mexican Free Zone law. that there shallbe a fair administration of the customs laws of both countries at points of interchange on the boundary. and that there shall not be established and enforced by either party any unfair or burdensome customs regulations to encumber free commercial intercourse between the two countries or theircitizens. that provision shall be made for the settlement of all equitable and valid existing claims of either countryand itscitizens against the other. that there shall be protection from enforced loans and contributions on the citizens of one country residing temporarily or located in the other country. and that there shall be a fair adjustment of any or all other questions affecting the interest of either or both countries or that may be deemed necessary to promote the welfare of either. The early and definite adjustment of the Rio Grande boundary line and theregulation of the use of its water for irrigation purposes on both sides of the river. the prevention of smuggling. now extensively carried on under cover of the Zona Libre law of Mexico. in contravention of legitimate trade. and the suppression of illicit Chinese immigration into the United States through Mexico. as well as the adjustment and settlement of claims of our citizens against the International Company of Mexico. are matters of pressing importance. requiring the consideration of a joint commission as contemplated by the resolution submitted.
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