New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-06
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.

OUTLINE OF THE PROPOSED IhEAIi.
FuLL SUMMARY OF THE FEATURES IN THE DRAFT VOW
BEFORE THE SENATE WHAT THE CANADIANS
OFFER AND ASK.
lyRom SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBusE'i
WASHINGTON. June 5-An outline Of the
proposed reciprocity treaty between this coun-
try and Canada has been for some days
before the Senate. 1t is submitted, not as
perfected instrument for ratification, but as sug-
geston of what If proposed for preliminary advice
The treaty now in the hands of the Senate IL the
work of Secretary Fish, on the part of the United
States and of Sir Edward Thornton and the Hon.
George Brown on the part of Great
Britain. Mr.. Brown, who Is well known
In the United States as the leading editor and pro-
prietor of The Toronto Globe. well as member OF
the Upper House of the Canadian Parliament, mas
long taken special interest in this work, and mas
represented the Canadian Government IN 1t with
great zeal and discretion. The propositions which
have been submitted to the Senate understood to
be substantially as follows:
l. Abandonment on the part of Great Britain and
of Canada of all claim for compensation on account
of the concession the United States by the Treaty
of Washington of the privilege of the "lnshore
fisheries
On It's face this may seem an unlmportant matter;
yet II far from being and that 1t Is justly as
signed the first place in the negotiations VIII appear
from the following considerations: The nsherles
within marine league OF the coasts, within the
capes and headlands aud in the great bays and estu
arles of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland. Labrador
ETC.. are unquestionably the most valuable of all
within the Northern waters. The night to partlci-
pate in them was sought by our Government IN the
negotiations which closed the wars of the
Revolution and of 1872, and also
at the time the Northeastern Boundary
dispute was settled by Mr. Webster and Lord Ashbur
ton, but was not obtained. The privilege was, how
ever granted 20 the United States under the old
reciprocity treaty in s57and lapsed with the terml-
nation of the treaty in 1866 BY the Treaty of ash
ingtOn in 1912, the privilege was again renewed
on condition that the United States should pay TO
Canada, in money, the value Of the concession; II
the representatives of the United states and OF
Canada should not be able TO mutually agree as to
this money value, the question was TO be
left TO the determination of the Emperor
OF Austria acting as umpire. 1t is thus
evident that the ! United States has bound
itself to the payment OF a sum which possibly may
exceed the fifteen millions paid by Great Britain
for the settlement of the Alabama damages. The
amount talked Of on the part of the Provinces, and
supported by evidence not a little formidable, Is
from thirty 10 fifty millions. The negotiation OF a
new treaty will in the first instance, and as pre-
liminary forever put at rest an ugly and vexatous
question: aud secure to the fishery interest of the
United States what is beyond doubt most valuable
privilege.
.. The free admission and interchange OF all
natural products of the United States and the
British Provinces.
Under this head the concessions of either party
are merely nominal, the aggregate of exports from
the United States exceeding the aggregate OF I'm
ports from the Dominion, ~ will appear from the
following table, showing the import and export OF