The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-30
VERY WARM DEBATE.
The Senators Tackle the
Fisheries Question
IN OPEN EXECUTIVE SESSION
Frye Says the Treaty is Disgrace
fuIs COwardIY al Humiliating
Surrender
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-At LILO the
Senate went into executive session with
open doors, and proceeded with the
consideration of the fisheries treaty.
Senator Morgan asked leave to make
a motion, but Senator Frye, who was
speaking on tn f.hery bill, declined to
give way, and thereupon Morgan gave
notice that upon the conclusion of Mr..
Frve's remarks, he would move the
postponement of the bill till December.
FRYE spoke until Ito, when recess was
taken. One of his last remarks was that
the treaty was the most dlsgraceful,
humiliating and GOwardly surrender
that the American republic had ever
made in its whole history, not excepting
the treaty of 1913.
A message Was received from the
President, returning without his ap-
proval the bill appropr' atlng $4,000 Tor
q public building at Youngstown, Ohio.
Sherman said the people OF Youngs-
town and vicinity, and the people OF
Ohio, would be surprised at the cherac-
ter OF the message just read. The PEG
pie would like the President to be I'M
partial. Youngstown was one of the
most hourishing towns of the United
States, with probably 10000 inhabit-
ants. and with apostal revenue OF some
$4,000. The reasons given in the Presi-
dents message seemed to him paltry-
not a polite phrase, he admitted.
He understood that the President
was in favor of the bill reported
by the Senator from Missouri (Vest)
allowing the postotfiee buildings of the
town of 1000 or 5000 and of which he
(Sherman) intended to vote when it
was put in q proper form. He disap-
proved Of the way in which the veto
power was used IN small matters not
affecting the constitutional power nor
any question of discretionary powers.
Congress, he said, ought to raise above
such a level. With the utmost kind
ness to the President, for he liked him
in many respects, he asserted that II
the President was thus allowed to veto
measures that were spassed unani
mousIy and where the principal was
clear, Congress would be abnegatiGg its
power and surrendering its authority.
Shcrman's remarks were replied TO
by Vest and Call, and after consider
able debate, the message was referred
to the committee on public buildings
and grounds.
Henderson, from the committee on
military affairs, reported the bill to
revive the grade of the general OF the
United States army. He said that its
purpose was to revive during the life
time OF the present acknowledgement
the grade of the general army. Both
OF these grades were to cease with the
life of General Sheridan. He would
not take up the time of the committee
in referring to the occasion which made
the bill a proper one for immediate con.
sideration, and he therefore asked the
unanimous consent to have the bill
now considered.
Berry objected and the bill was placed
on the calendar.
Sherman moved that the Senate do
now proceed to the consideration of the
fisheries treaty, in open executive ses-
sion. The motion was agreed 10 and
the presiding officer declared the Senate
was now in open executive session for
the consideration of the fisheries treaty
that treaty was open to amendment
and that the Senator from Maine
(Frye) was entitled to the floor. Frye
said the question now before the Sen
ate involved the dignity and honor of
this Great Republic and the rights of
its citizens. 1t could not be obscured
by the President of the United States
intimating that in event of the
failure of the treaty, he would
resort to the law which Congress
had passed in such way as should put
in jeopardy and might destroy all the
business interests of the north. 1t
would not be beIittled by the interviews
furnished to the Boston Herald, nor by
letters written to the banqueting party
in New York, in which it was declared
that every man who opposed the ratiii-
cation treaty would either be controlled
by personal prejudice, by partizianship
or by profound ignorance, or by the
administration papers hippantly and
jeeringly suggesting that IL would be
better to buy up the Yankee fishermen
and their fleets. The question before
the Senate was: Should citizens of
the United States Fishermen, but
still citizens) be protected against
the injustice and wrong and out
RACES by neighboring nation en-
boIdeneI to it only because it
rested aIgis Of the mighty power
beyond the seasf" Our country had
not protected its fishermen, and so
CANADA com u6NCeU ny every COHC6lY-
able outrage, wrong and injustice to
drive our vessels away. He declared
the moduS vivendt only secured to US
upon payment of $3.50 per ton of
commercial privileges which we were
already fully entitled to. He said that
Canadians continued their outrages in
season and out of season, and the
Congress of the United States was just
on the point of passing retaliatory in
response to petition from the fisher
men of New England when diplomacy
was again resorted to, resulting in the
treaty OF 1871. We had just emerged
from terrible conflict during which
Great Britain clearly desired that this
country should be cut in two. She
wanted The southern market and
she had not the slightest hesitation in
regard to the right. If this country
had simply stood on its rights, this
thing would have ended. There would
have been peace, and we would have
had the rights we were entitled to once.
Secretary Bayard. however, had an
Itching palm for the diplomacy. and it