Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-08
FlETIETH CONGRESS.
Senate.

WASHINGTON, August TN the senate q
resolution offered yesterday instructing the
committee on finance to make an investiga-
tion of the cotton bagging pool was taken up
and adopted.
After a number of bills of minor import
ancc had been passed, Mr.. Sherman took the
floor in opposition to the fisheries treaty.
He said that he regarded the controversy
with Great Britain as infinitely more impor-
tant and more injurious than controversy
with any other nation, for of all the people
who inhablt the globe the people of the
United States and the people of Great
Britain were the most intimately allied by
every tie of consanguinity of history of
faith, OF institutions, of similarity of charac-
ter and disposition, of ancestry and of every
thing which tended to make ties between
separate nations. Therefore, he would
have been glad to see in the pending
treaty a settlement of the controversy, and he
had approached its consideration with desire
to find in 1t sucn settlement. But the more
he had examined it the more he had become
satisfied that the treaty, if ratified, wound
open new avenues of controversy, lead to
new irritations, and therefore not accomplish
its purpose. Anything that tended to pro-
mote free commercial intercourse; anything
that tended to produce union of Canada
with the United States, would meet his
hearty support. In his judgment the Do
OF Sduaua would De WlUIlH Jeu SeulS
either in the imperial parliament of Great
Britain or in the congress of the United
States. He therefore favored the policy of
bringing about international exchanges with
Canada OF the freest character possible
perhaps something in the nature of a zol-
verein. He didn't regard the treaty as a
party question nor as a sectional question.
Neither was 1t an Irish question, nor was
opposition to it Fishing for Irish votes" He
believed that there was general sympathy
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but among all the people Of the United
States He hoped that the people of Ireland
would gain the right to pass their local
laws, but the people of the United States
were not going to involve themselves in
controversy with Great Britain in respect to
| matter over which they had no control.
He had no sympathy with anglophobia, Tor
with the abuse of the British government.
Whatever might be said of that power, it was
| the greatest element Of civilization in modern
history. In all the great elements of the
| progress of the human race the English
power had always led. He would treat
Great Britain as friendly nation without
| reviving any of the animosities OF the past.
Mr. Sherman then proceeded to discuss the
| details of the pending treaty. He regarded
| the section OF the treaty allowing free i'm
| portaticn of Canadian fish and fish
! oil as surrender of the rights
| of the United States to levy taxes on
imported goods and Us an insult to the United
| States. There was not in the history of di-
| plomacy so one-sded a treaty between two
| great nations. Such treaty seemed dis
| graceful to American diplomacy. He ridi-
| culed the idea that two countries were going
| to war about this matter. If the president
! would with moderation exercise the powers
! conferred on him by the law authorizing re-
| taliaton there would be no trouble.
The senate them resumed consideration of
| the bill to prohibit the coming of Chinese Ia
| borers to the United States. Mr. Stewart
| spoke in favor of the bill, and when he closed
the senate adjourned.
| WASHINGTON, August I'm the house to-
day Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio, called up for
| consideration the senate bill making an ap-
| preparation to enable the several executive
| departments Of the government to participate
in the Ohio centennial exposition in Septem-
| ber next.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, said that the rea-
son why the committee on appropriations had
not reported this bill was that congress had
| already passed bill to enable the depart
| meuts to make an exhibit at Cincinnati,
! which was in the same state as Columbus,
| and within five hours ride of that city, and
where the exposition was to held at the same
| time as that at Columbus.
| MIR. Henderson offered an amendment
| appropriating $3.50 900 to aid the exposition
| to be held by the colored race in Atlanta,
Georgia, in 1889 and $780, under the auspices
| of the Colored Workers Fair association of
| America.
Mr.. Warner offered an amendment appro-
| priating $40 600 to enable the departments to
| be represented at the Kansas City exposi-
ton, to be held in September and October.
| Adopted.
Amendments offered by Messrs. Wise and
| Henderson were adopted.
The question then recurred on the reading
nf tIsAi 1nI nfNl aud
| were ordered and resulted-yeas g. nays 81.
There being no quorum the house then ad-
adjourned.