The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-12
THE FISHERY TREATY.
It is Under Consideration in
1h9 Senate.
4HE PRESIDENT DEFENDED.
she DOings IN tho HOuse-Liyely
spa5 BetWeen Representatives
WOodburn and Cox.



WAsH1NaroN, June 1.-THE creden-
dals OF Senator Gibson (Louisiana)
we're pres snted and iaId on the taole.
On motion of Sherman. the Senate
proces led to the consideration of the
fisheries treaty in open executive SEES
sion, and was addressed by Gray in
support of its ratification, with
citatious from various general pension
hills that have ben reported on by
commitrees or intro iuced in the
House. The announcement themselves
In favor of LIBERAL pensions, but un.
fortunately in recent utteranceS OF the
Democratic party al Ss LOUIS. there
WAS no suggestion tGat the Democratic
party in the future proposed 60 carry
Quits promises TO the Union soldiers OF
the country.
Uanuoa, one of the minority mem
hers of the c0mmi tee on rules, said that
80 far as he kueW, there mad been no
meeting of the COMMITTEES for some
weeks. The other min ority memb rs,
Reed aud him elf, had asked that a
meeting be called IN order that they
might properly voics the sentiments OF
Republican members of the House, but
th5y had heary nothing OF 1t.
6r1svenor then said that petition
had been prese tied to tn com mittee
on rules, signed oy all the & REPUBLICANS
present in the House, asking for the
assignment of time TO the committee on
Invalid pensions, aud respectfully call
ing attention 10 the demand there was
in the country for pension leglsla ION.
The petition had been presented about
q month ago, but up to this time the
committee on rules had not assigned
any time for the consideration of pen
Siou bills, while it had given days TO
other committees. 1t had stu oborny
refused 20 let the committee on Invalid
pensions have a DAY. He wanted the
soldiers of the country to understand
that the minori ~ was utterly poweriess
to cali up the pension bill, except with
the consent and through the will of the
majority, as expressed by the committee
on ruleSs kEfE
The s nate was bound to presume
that this treaty. was the outcome Oh all
honest endeav0r and earnest and patti
otto dsS rs on the part of the Executl7e
% which il related and that the Presl-
dent was correct until TIE contrary has
q appeared1, when he said that it had
been male on basis honorable and
lust to both parties. He greatly MIS-
took the temper and sense of the Amor
icsn people if they would tolerate any
discussion of Jhe pending treaty, but
j one which appealed to then. judgm snt
and not to their prejud &c or passions
and not to a class or section, or If they
countenance the rel sction OF it tor any
yeason which did not concern
he interests aud welfare OF
.he whole country, or honor,
prestige. or dignity of the Republic.
Some slurs, he said had bern cast by the
Senator from Maine (Frye) towards the
Secretary OF State, but thSre never
came from a State department any
thing like surrender of the American
tights in the treaty of 1871, uuder Presi-
dent Grants administration, and yet
that tresty was one of the triumphs of
General Grants administration. al
though for the privilege of an in-s 1ore
fishery WuIcu Gn5 American fishermen
aad jGsf 40 ndoned as not worth the
Iiceuss of 81 q ton, it gave the American
m arket to tn Canadian fishermen and
five and one-haif millions besides.
N )tice had been given by Congress Of
the abrogation OF that lreaty at the ex-
piratiou of its term, and the United
States has been again RENTED TO the
privileges on the conditions and restric.
tious prescribed By the convention OF
1918. Was it surprising, therefore, he
asked, that the old conditions OF dispute
of the diff .ring interpretations should
again recur? The treaties of 1854 and
1871 had not attempted TO settle these
questions. they had only postponed
them. The United States. he said.
could not, in view OF the valuable
fisheries of Behring's Sea, afford to
establish any narrow or restrictive
doctrine of the Territorial waters, such
lad not b ca, the doctrine of American
ApubIiciSts ana statesmen. He went on
70 argue that the pending treaty was
practicable, sensible. aud statesman
would like the way of dealing with the
question. The Democrat; party to-
day was on the American side of this
negotiations of treaty were on the
American side of the question those
who defended it in the Senate were on
the American side. The President gas
on the American eide and the
Amerioln people wonld recognize
the couraee and self sacrificing
devotion TO their highest interests with
that brave, houest. straighttor ward and
sagacious man, it had ought to save
them. =.
Al the close of Fray's speech. Hoar
obtained the floor, and further con-
sideration of the fisheries treaty was. Oh
mo lou of Shermen, postponed until
Monday, the % of June. I'VE ,
The Senate then adjourned.
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