Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-09-02

SOuSfess CouIu not ne ltuuCeu 10 concur
in the Presidents recommendation fer an
International Commission on the Fisheries,
and so the scheme for which Mr. Bayard
and Mr.. West had made such extraordinary
preparations came to naught. 1t would have
been strange indeed if any other result had
been reached. Congress had for several
years been diligently endeavoring to free
the country from the burden of the Treaty
provisions respecting the fisheries and it
could not be expected that they would will
llngly initiate measures for a new treaty
that would probably in the end be filed with
provisions as odious and burdensome to the
American fishing interest as those from
which they had just escaped.
As soon as it became evident that Con
gress would not accept the proposal for a
new Commission, the Government of the
Dominion of Canada, with the presumed
approval of the Imperial Government, began
series OF ou,rages upon American fishing
vessels and fishing crews seeking in every
way to destroy their business and to de-
prive them of their fishing rights That
course continues to this day and is adopted
by the Canadian Government with the delib-
crate intention and obvious expectation of
forcing concessions from this government.
\ few facts in the long controversy over the
fishery question may be pertinently recalled
as bearing on the present situation.
Let US frankly admit at the outse, that
We are governed in this matter BY the terms
OF the Treaty of 1918. OF the injustice of
which this country was made the victim
before that treaty was ratified, we need not
here and now speak. We accepted the
Treaty of 1918 in good faith, and though it
largely curallsd privileges which we're the
blrthright of American fishermen, those
hardy men went to work under it and tv
their enterprise largely expanded their busI-
meas increasing IN an amazing ratio the
number Of the vessels. their aggregate ton
mage, and the number It men engaged in
the hazardous calling. This rapid progress
alarmed the Canadians. and with the yles Of
REFRESHING rivalry and Gripping American
fishermen, new construction was applied
to the Treaty nearly quarter Of century
after It had been in peaceful operation.
From ISL to 1915 it was for the
first time contended by Great Britain that
the American right to fish within three miles
from shore meant three miles from the head
lands which marked the entrance to bays.
and on this new and strained construction Of
the Treaty they sought to exclude American
fishermen even from the Bay OF iundy.
which Is sixty miles wide at It's mouth. AZ
Ter a long diplomatic discussion, maintained
with signal ability by Edward Everett. our
Minister at London. Lord Abcrdeen-a
name identified with justice and magnnni-
nifty IN more than uur gcnrra'ion-theu at
the head of tie British Foreign Office.
cknowiedsed that the ground taken by
. Eng and III regard to the Bav Of Fundl was
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