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THE TREATY CRITICISED
FISHERMEN DECLARE 1T A DIS
GRACE TO AMERICANS.

The President and Secretary Bayard
Handled Severely at Gloucester
The Last Right of American Fisher
men Destroyed.
TORONTO, Feb. 22.-The Mail Gndepend-
en6, commenting on the fishery tseaty,
says: Substantially tho Americans have
won their case. Mr.. Bayard fell heir to the
question, the solution of which had baflled
several generations of British and Amari-
can statesmen. Under his direction it has
at length been brought to Il termination
which must be satisfactory to every Amerl-
can, since it secures 10 the United States
substantially all that tho United States has
over asked. The Canadian fishermen re-
ceive no sort of equivalent for the conces-
sion made TO the Americans except the
barren privilege of fishing in American
bays. In his message transmitting the
treaty to the Senate, President Cleveland
appears to talk almost directly in favor OF
the establishment Of closer trade relations
between the two countries.
Tho Empire government organ says:
The grumblor will find fault with the de-
tails, but reasonable men on both sides Of
the limo will rejoice that the question giving
rise 10 so much international feeling bids
fair to be removed from the area Of contro-
Versy, and that the neighborly feeling and
good will which ought TO prevail between
people having such intimate relations will
again hold sway"
ANOTHER OPINION
MONTREAL, Feb q. Accommodating upon
the fishery treaty, the Gazette, tho govcrn-
ment organ, says: ut Is a step toward that
reciprocity which the Canadian government
has long been anxious to obtain, and have
often been blamed by their opponents for
not obtaining. The whole treaty, we think,
can be regarded with satisfaction, both as a
definition of Canada's rights as a provision
for reciprocity in an important Industrial
product, and chiefly as removing the cause
Of dissatisfaction with our nearest neigh-
bor.n
WHAT lIs MDONALD'S MoTIVE2
The Herdld says: "Tho President, it ap-
pears, has prepared "a state document ex-
pressive of his pleasure Mt the motives that
actuate all parties in making the usual
comments ON the preservation of peace, the
promotion of international harmony etc.
No one questions the motives Of the United
States, and those OF Great Britain and
Chamberlain are to'erably plain; but what
Sir John McDonald's motives may have
been in compelling Sir Charles to surrender,
time onty will show Whatever it may be,
fact remains that the piecemeal rights pos
sessions and interests of Canada are aban-
dOned to the United States, and so we pre-
sumo it will continue as long as Sir John
remains in power, until there remains but
name and geographical position.
AMERICAN RIGHTS SACRIFICED.
GLOUCESTER, MASS, Fob 22-The fish.
cries treaty has been the subject of much
comment here to-day. The Merchants Ex-
change this morning all averred
lean fishermen had been sacrificed TO the in-
terest of Canada. President Cleveland and
Secretary Bayard received much criticism
ut the hands of the fishermen, who declared
that the treaty was disgrace to all Ameri-
can citizens. Regarding the headand,
they say that Fortune Bay and other parts
of Newfoundland, where our fishermen
have always had tho right TO procure bait
and all necessary articles Of outfit, to land,
dry fish aud tranship cargoes, are by this
arrangement practically excluded from
them, more especially Fortune Bay, which
is a great resort for fishermen in the winter
season, when IN pursuit of frozen herring.
The drawing of the line from Conneaut
Head TO the southerly end of Bruet Island,
thence to Fortune Head, at Sir Charles
Hamilton, will debar fishermen from this
privilege which they always have had.
THE LICENSE OBJECTED TO.
They object to paying III 80 per ton for
licenses for privileges which they claim the
treaty of 1918 has already given them. The
opinion of many persons who have been
discussing the subject is that an Indignation
meeting should be called TO protest against
the ratification of this treaty, which they
claim destroys the last right of American
fishermen.
TO DISCUSS 1T IN OPEN SESSION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The Senate will
proceed tomorrow TO discuss the PROPOSE
tion to consider the fisheries treaty in open
session. Everything that Senators say
about it Indicate that it will be agreed to.
There will follow lively debate, which will
have just as much politics in il
as though it were not about
questions Of commerce. Messrs. Frye,
Sherman, Edmunds and other
are already preparing for vig-
orouS attack not only upon the treaty, but
upon the administration. Their speeches
will be very much like those they made on
the administration on the recommendation
that tho Canadian questions should be re-
ferred TO commissioner, only more severe.
Unfortunately there is no one on the Dem
ocratic side of ths Senate who can cope e
with the republicans on the question. But
Messrs Beck, Gray, German and others
will do what they can to secure the ratifica-
tion Of the treaty.
ENGLISH COMMENTS.
LONDON, Feb. 22.-The Chronicle, COM.
menting on the fisheries treaty, says: sit is
an amicable bargain in the nature Of things.
Canada's concessions appear to be larger
than Americas, but it would be useless FOR
Mr.. Chamberlain 10 extort such terms from
America as would lead to the rejection OF
the treaty by the Senate"
The Daily NetOS says: "We still think
that it would have been better TO have
chosen "a commissioner less obnoxious to a
powerful section of the American public"
HALIFAX, Feb. 22.-The Chro1iicJe says
"The full text Of the treaty seems quite
stale since it Is practically according to the
terms indicated by the dispatches from
Washington several days ago. The whole
matter may be summed up in a nutshell:
In 1854 we get for our fisheries an ample
treaty of reciprocity; in 1881 we got free
fish and five and half million dollars; in
1883 we get nothing"
Iuonroyad Condition of tha Prince