The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-06
WARNING THE CANUCK.
FRYE GETS RATHER WARM ABOUT
CANADIAN FISH.

Only Waiting His Opportunity to Sit
Down on Our Arctic Neighbors--Plup,h'
Mexican Pensions-East Indian Wheat.
WASHINGTON CRY, April after
routine business Monday in the senate.
Cameron offered resolution, which was
agreed to, appointing Sherman chairman oil
the committee on foreign relations and Har-
rison member OF the same committee; a sc
Spooner a member of the committee on Dis
trict of Columbia, Stanford a member of the
civil service reform committee and Mitchell
of Oregon a member of the committee or
additional accommodation for the library.
The army efficiency bill was then placed
before the senate, and Plumb took the floor
continuing his remarks in opposition to the
bill
Plumb hoped the bill of the senator from
Illinois for the equalization OF bounties
would be passed before the salaries and
emoluments of the regular army Were piled
so high that there should be no more money
in the treasury. The senator from Illinois
would not need to make insulting refer
SlSSo w hio Il tuiiip d ia oiuOi "
secure his support of bill to do JUS
tice to the volunteer army, of which
Logan thought so much. Referring sto the
expense Of the proposed increase of the
army, Plumb cited figures to show that it
would call for S6,0O0,0o0 annually. AS to
personalities Plumb said they had been in,
reduced into the debate by the senator
rom Illinois himself.
Frye inter jected some remarks respecting
hk resolution about the fisheries He ton ght
it very important that the question should be
discussed and settled. 1t involved a matter
that looked TO war. He understood that the
Canadian government had fitted their cruisers
to prevent Anne an fishing vessels from
entering Canada waters Reviewing the
treaties and laws bearing on this question,
Frye claimed that American vessels had a
perfect right to enter Canadian waters for
any OF the usual purposes of trade and com
merce. Frye was only waiting for a single
vessel to be seized when he would introduce
a bill of less than ten lines closing the ports
OF the United States against all British
colonial fishing, freighting aad passenger
essels all alon5 tine shores of the great
lakes and the Atlantic coasts and would then
scheme that she has now entered upon.
Morgan expressed surprise that discus
sion of the fisheries should be inter iected
into discussion of the army bill. The fish
! cries question involved grave questions of
International law. His views on the general
| topic conceded with those OF Frye, bus
what was needed was serious consideration
after full information, which we did not
| now have
Chaplain Milburn, in his prayer in the
horse Monday morning, referred TO the
| depiorable degeneracy of the times as evil
denced by the rnasse d. fitting further and
further from the churches, :. when educated
men We're asking is life worth living" and
preaching the doctrines of despair, pessim-
ism and atheism; when leaders in great
| cities were putting up their votes for sale to
| thu highest bidder and bartsring the
franchises of the people and when our
boosted civilization was stained with blots
| as dark as death
Under the call of S ates bills and reso,u-
| tons We're introduced as follows: Fer the
appointment of a special committee of three
senator's and five representatives to consider
| the subject of celebration in 1859 at Wash
| ington of a centennial anniversary of tie
| formation of the government under the con,
stitution; to reduce letter postage to 10
cents and the price of postal cards to "a
| cent; preamble and resolution reciting tbs
alleged refusal of Canadian affairs
| to permit the entry of United States fishing
| vessels to Canadian ports for the purpose Of
purchasing supplies or landing fish caught
in deep water for shipment in bond to tn.
United States, and directing the pres dent
to furnish the house with any insorma
ton IN his possession relative to exclu
sion of American fishing vessels from til,
right to enter AMI trade in Canadian ports
| as Canadian and other British vessels ar,
freely permitted to do in ports of the United
States; also, to inform the house what step.
have been taken to bring these unwarranta
Bile acts to the attention of tie British gov
ernment.