Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-21
UPPER ON THE FISHERY.
THE CANADIAN CONFERRED TALKS
OF AMERICAN POLITICS.

His View of the Relation OF Parties to
the Treaty-The House Does Some Real
| Business-An Incident In the Debate
| Irish Object to PheIps-Anderson's Rail
way BiII-Tarin Vote Speculation.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 21.-The de
partment of state is in receipt Of the record
of the debate in the Canadian parliament on
the fisheries treaty. The speech of Sir Charles
Upper Is the most interesting of the record
| 10 Americans. Its full text would make fif-
teen columns but the following extracts con-
tain the most significant part of it; After
tracing the preliminaries that led to the late
conference Sir Charles said:
81 must say a single word with reference to
my colleague representing the government OF
the United States. No person in the govern
ment of that country commands more uni
formy or more deservedly the respect and
confidence of the United States than
the Hon. T. F, Bayard, the secretary of
state. | do not believe, sir, that it would be
possible for any government in the United
States 10 select three gentlemen more emil
nently patriotic, more heartily devoted to the
interests of their country than the three
gentlemen who negotiated this treaty, Secre-
tary Bayard, Hon w. l.. Putnam and Mr..
Angel; and after sitting face to face with
them three months in keen and sharp contro-
versy, the only result Of our communication
has been to leave upon my mind the very
highest respect for the character standing
and ability of those gentlemen.
After an exhaustive analysis of the treaty
in all its bearings, Sir Charles, in concluding,
said:
LET the United States senate reject the
treaty tomorrow and | ask what is the
changed position of Canada! Yesterday we
stood face to face with non-intercourse bill,
sustained by the united action of the senate
and house of representatives; sustained by
almost the whole press, Republican and Dem
ocratic, of the United States; sustained with
few exceptions by Il prejudiced, irritated,
and eXasperated people of 6O,OOO,OOO lying on
our borders What is our position to-dayf
If that treaty were rejected by the senate to-
morrow, we have gained this vantage
ground: that we stand in the position of
having declared by the secretary of state and
by the president, that Canada has been ready
to make treaty that is fair, just and
equitable and that leaves that country no
possible cause of complaint Let fisherman
complain tomorrow of the enforcement of
our most extreme construction of the treaty ,
and the answer to him is this: Nobody is to
blame for the Inconvenience you suffer ex-
cept the senate of the United States, Your
president, the executive of your country; the
Democratic party, from end to end of the
United States, declared it was fair settle
ment. They represent an undoubted major
ity in my judgment, of the people of the
United States to-day, and l believe they will
represent it tomorrow
"Mr. Bayard told us-the American pleni-
potentiaries told us-that there was but one
way of obtaining what we wished: You
want greater freedom of commercial inter
course You want relaxation in our tariff
arrangements with respect to natural
products in which you are SO rich and
abundant There is but one way to obtain
it. Let us, by common concession, be able to
meet on common ground and remove this If
ritating cause of difficulty between the two
countries out of the way, and you will find
that the policy of this government, the policy
of the president and of the house of represent
atives, the policy of the great Democratic
party of the United States, will at once take
an onward march in the direction you pro-
pose, and accomplish steadily that which you
would desire"
"Already we have action by the financial
exponent of the administration of the
United States--I mean MIR. Mills-the gen
tleman who in the United States congress
represents the government of the day.
The ink is barely dry upon this treaty
before he, as the representative of the gov
eminent and chairman of the committee on
ways and means, brings forward Il measure
to do whatf Why to make free articles that
Canada sends into the United States, and
upon which last year 81, 100000 of duty was
paid Modified it may be, but am
inclined to think the amendments will be still
more in the interests of Canada than as the
bill stands to-day. If this is the case, l
think we may congratulate ourselves upon
securing the free admission of our lumber,
upon which was paid during the last year no
less than 1915, 450"