Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-08
VERY BAD TREATY.
rE1ca GIVES oANADA GREAT
ose ,yTaGE OYER 1HIs COUNTRY.

"rIyTIGE OYER IHIS COUNTRY.
- Made with the British Govern
' ~ which is working Great Harm
the American Carrying Trade
!. ,.,oss the Co ntryA Specimen of
e.publiCan Administration and Legis-
ntion.
w,sHcNroN, August 3.-Cullom offered a
.outiou instructing the COMMITTEES on
~. atate Commerce to ascertain and re-
wbetber there are any United States
Pa.,od lines owned, operated and con-
aoIed BY the Grand Trunk or the Canadian
n'.sc or any other Canadian railway
ananies also, whether commerce origi-
,;rc in the United States, is diverted
I'm American to Canadian lines. and to
"Sat extent and in what manner; also,
rhs,ber any discrimination is practiced In
.horoes for tolls against American vessels
!. wellaud and St. Lawrence canals; also,
- inquire into the question OF regulating
,mmerce carried on by railroad or water
laws between the United States and
canada. The committee is to report what
,.rislation is necessary for the protection
"ffbe commercial interests OF the United
states. and to promote the enforcement OF
tbs interstate commerce act. Cullom said
10 had. some days ago, offered q resolution
= the sa neline, but since then had con-
~pdei the investigation should have q
SiJer scope. He would not undertake to
rl,aA Al Ia
tiy but he had investigated the subject
Srauah to satisfy him that the commercial
irterests OF the United States, and he might
almost say, it's honor, demanded that
.omething should be done to protect Ameri.
,on interests against the encroachments of
canadian corporations. The Canadian
Pacific railway was
REACHING INTO THE UNITED STATES
hpurchase or by building railroads into
IL country; for instance, the lines from
bdt Ste Maire to Duluth and Minneapolis,
I'D were to be feeders to the Canadian
hfc.
haddition to all that, the British Gov
ssment or Canadian Government recently |
n absidized line of steamers to China and
hpan for the purpose of securing the COM
nace between those countries and the
United States and Europe. Whatever might |
Be the exact facts in these matters, all the |
Senators would agree that whatever could |
bedone consistently with the relations be-
sEeen the two governments and under the
constitution Of the United States, ought to |
be done SO that the commerce between
China and Japan and the United States
. shall be carried on American instead OF
Canadian roads.
The purpose of the recent subsidy OF |
t60 900 year to o. line OF three steam |
4 ghips on the Pacific from the western termi- |
\ nails OF the Canadian Pacific, was to give |
4 the Canadian Pacific the business which |
sould naturally come to the Union Pacific,
NOrthern Pacific or Southern Pacific, and |
theresult SO far, has been that az per cent.
Mthstea consumed in this country is
aRRIED BY THE CANADIAN PACIFIC
1 Huar enquired as to the fact as to the
subsidized steamers being convertible into
ships Of war.
Edmunds- "The British government al
Says required that"
Mitchell-"I can give another item. This
subsidy line Of steamers is bringing in Chi
nese at the rate OF LOCO a month, aud /,
they are flowing down in stream into
the United States through British Coium.
ba."
Cuom referred to the disadvantage OF
American roads under the Interstate regu- !
hton, and closed as follows: "The Ameri- /
can people will not only demand that Con-
gesS shall regulate commerce within the
1 United States, but that Congress and the
Government will take such steps as will
prOtect them in the conduct oil their COM
merCia connections with any other Govern
ment. Ii the treaty of 1871 is weak. we
have the power to get rid OF it. In any leg
station necessary, tits the duty OF Congress
To enact it,"
German said that in 1885, when the first
bridge at Niagara was reconstructed, the
Grand Trunk road was permitted to come !
inand
SHARE OUR CLARIFYING TRADE. q
In '66 Congress passed an act permitting
goods to pass in bond through the Ameri- {
can territory without paying duty, in I
other words, opening absolute free trade
Oh that class of merchandise, and that
stood to-day unrepealed. In I'll, when
the treaty OF Washington was made, the @
American commission were out.generaleo
in permitting the insertion OF two or
three words which gave the Canadian
roads the right to this transit until that i,
treaty should be entirely abrogated. In
"a the late Secretary Manning, who un-
dertOok to investigate the question, said
L
The trouble between the British Govern c
nent and ourselves, and that was to s
STRIKE OUT IHIaTLaAs PvoNsnoN ACT. s
That done, Manning said: 1--WE should get e
all the rights demanded for our fishermen, =
and all required for the interests OF the .
United States" and he absolutely by order e
prohibited the transit of goods; but when
the law officers came to examine the Ques- a
ton, they advised him that he had no right
Il toprevent this transit. t
H German read q table OF distances, show q
n ing the route from Yokohama to Liverpool p
4 via the Canadian Pacific and the new lines /
hprocess OF building through the states TO I
bel 100 miles shorter than by the Amerl'
can lines. The temptation offered by +
these subsidies has been too great
nr our American citizens. In Pools c
manual would be found the names OF t
Americans who boldly proclaimed them v
selves in this enterprise, as, OF course, they
had perfect right to do; among them q
being some of the most distinguished men g
IN the United States, some of whom are
candidates for high offices. Indeed, the d
second Office of the government might go to
1e director OF the Canadian Pacific rali-
TOAD. German here read list OF officers
aud directors OF the road, among the direct
Onappearing the names OF
LEUP. MORTON AND WILLIAM L. SCOTT
S0rman submitted it is time for the
american Congress-, without regard TO
party, to recognize this condition OF affairs. l
Mitchell, interrupting, said il the Senator r
nom Maryland had taken the trouble TO
Md read the names OF the directors OF the b
western road which had lately fallen into Z
@e hands OF the Canadian Pacific, he
would have seen the name of the chairman
81 81 the Democratic National Executive
Committee. Id
,Gorman said he had no doubt OF it. But a
nat gentleman is not a candidate. he dlu
SOt believe there ought to be any partisan
mp ID this question, but, as the Senator
u1m Oregon had brought it out SO point r
Mly he desired to express the belief that fl
10 man who is candidate for high of1cc, Z,
Nnether be be Democrat or Republican, 4
sao, IL elected, might become the Presl- 6
aent oil the United States, could properly i,
SCeept the Office until he purged himself 0I 4
VERY Interest in British enterprise. ~ /
ass "ss no question II politics, and he had /
w brought it in for political purposes. t