Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-08-18
D1scUssros IN THE SENATE



The Fisheries treaty Overia'ded BY Senator
Sherman.
WASHINGTON, Aug. THE resolution
offered yesterday instructing the committee
on finance TO make investigation Of the
cotton-bagging pool, was taken mp and
adopted.
After q number Of bills Of minor import
ance had been passed, Sherman took the
floor in opposition 10 the fisheries treaty.
He said he regarded the controversy with
Great Britain as infinitely more important
and more injurious than controversy with
any other nation, for of all people who in
habit the globe the people OF the United
States and tine people Of Great Britain
were most intimately allied by every tie %
consanguinity. of history, Of faith, OF in
situations, of similarity of character and
disposition, of ancestry and OF everything
which tended TO make ties between sep
arate nations. Therefore he would
have been glad TO zee in the pend
ing treaty q settlement OF the controversy,
and he had approached its consideration
| with desire TO find in it such asettle-
ment. But the more he had examined II
| the more he had become satisfied that the
treaty of ratification. would open new
avenues Of controversy, lead to new irrita-
/ ton, and therefore not accomplish its pur-
pose. Anything that tended to promote
4 free commercially intercourse, anything that
tended TO produce q union of Canada with
the United States would meet his hearty
support In his judgment the Dominion
of Canada would be within ten years
either in the imperial parliament of Great
| Britain or in the congres OF the United
States. He therefore found the policy OF
bringing about international exchange
with Canada OF the ireest character posi-
Bile. perhaps something in the nature of o
zolYerein He did not regard the treaty az
+ a party question. nor as a sectional ques'
ton. Neither was IL an Irish question,
nor was The opposition to it fishing fol
Irish votes" He believed there was q
general sympathy with the Irish people
not only in the senate, but among all tbs
people OF the United States. He hoped I'M
: people Of Ireland would gain the right Il
pass their local laws, but the people Of thu
, United States were not going 10 involve
. themselves in a controversy with Grea
! Britain in respect 10 matter over which
: they had no control. He had DO sympath.
with Anglophobia, or with abuse Of tn
Z British government. Whatever might b
! 1 EAl0 Oh AUhA pDnNAr ~ Re@S
est element Of civilization in mod
ern history. In all the great eie
! ments Of the progress Of the human race
English power had always the lead. ii
would treat Great Britain as a friendly ma
: tion, without reviving any Of the animos
I ties Of the past.
sherman then proceeded to discuss til
details of the pending treaty. He regard
' ed the section Of the treaty allowing IL
: free transportation Of Canadian fish an
fish oil as the surrender of the right Of Il
United States to levy taxes on importe
. goods. as an insult TO the United State
o There was not in the history Of diplomac
y 80 one-sided treaty between two gre
o nations. Such q treaty seemed disgrsceil
. 10 American diplomacy. he ridicuied Z
4 idea that the two great countries were goir
q 20 war about this matter. II the presidei
would, with moderation, exercise the pov
J. ers conferred ON him by the law, authorl
}. ing retaliation, there would be no troubl
u Adjourned.