Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-03
rRE FISHERIES nlsprrr.
7hs Treaty ia Reference 70 mis- Masse,
Finally Made f'ssbtic.

letter, in plrt, is rs follows:
To the senate of the United States: In
my annual message, transmitted to con-
gress in December, 1886, il was stated
that negotiations were then pending for
the settlement of questions growing out
of the rights claimed by American fish
ermen in British and North American
waters. As the result of such negotia-
tions treaty has been agreed upon be-
tween her Brittanic majesty and the
United States, concluded and signed in
this capital under my direction and
authority the 10Th of February inst,
and which | now have the honor to sub
init to the senate with the recommended
ton that it shall receive the consent of
that body, as provided in the constitu-
ton, in order that the ratification there
of may be duly exchanged and the
treaty carried into effect.
Shortly after congress had adjourned
III March last, and in continuation of
my efforts at such an agreement between
the governments of Great Britain and
the United States as would secure to
the citizens of the respective countries
the umolested enjoyment of their Just
rights under existing treaties in the ter
rltorial waters of Canada and of New
foundland, | availed myself of oppor-
time occurrences indicative of desire
to make, without delay, an amicable and
final settlement of n long-Standing CON
troyerSy productive of much irritation
and misunderstanding between the two
nations, to send through our ministers
IN London proposals that conference
should take place on this subject at this
capital. The experience of the past two
years had demonstrated the dilatory and
unsatisfactory consequences of our in
direct transaction of business through
the foreign Office in London, in which
the views and wishes of the government
OF the Dominion of Canada were prac-
tlcally predominant, but were only to
ind expression at second hand. To
obviate this inconvenience and obstruc-
ton To prompt and well defined settle
ment, it was considered advisable that
negotiations should he conducted in this
city and that the interests of Canada
and Newfoundland should be directly
represented therein. The treaty meets
my approval because | believe that
it supplies a satisfactory, prac-
teal and final adjustment upon basis
honorable aud Just to both parties, of
the difficult and vexed question ito
which it relates. The greater part of
the correspondence which has taken
place between the two governments has
heretofore been communicated to con-
gress, and at as early date as possible
| shall transmit the remaining portion
to this date, accompanying it with the
joint protocols of conferences, which re-
suited in the conclusion of the treaty
now submitted 10 you. You will thus
be fully possessed of the record and his
tory of the case since the termination,
on June 30, 1885, of the fishery articles
of the treaty of Washington of 1871,
whereby we were relocated to the pro-
visions of the treaty of October 90, 1918.
As the documents and papers referred
to will supply full information of posi-
tons taken under my administration by
the representatives of the United States
as well rs those occupied by the repre-
sentatives of the government of Great
Britain 1t Is not considered expedient to
repeat them in this message. But | be-
lieve the treaty will be found to contain
Just, honorable. and therefore satisfae-
tory solution of the difficulties which
have beset our relations with our nei III
bors on our northern boundary.
The treaty submitted contains no pro-
vision affecting tariff duties, and, indie
pendently of the position assumed on
the part of the United States that no al
teratiOn in our tariff or other domestic
legislat on could be made, as the price
Or consideration of obtaining the rights
of our citizens as secured by treaty, it
was considerably more expedient to al
low a change in the revenue laws of the
United States to be made by the ordi-
nary exercise of legislative will and the
promotion of public interests. There
lore the add ton to the free list of fish,
ish oil, whale and seal oil etc, recited
in the last articles OF the treaty, is
wholly left to the action Of congress,
and in connection Herewith the Cam
adian and Newfoundland right to regu-
lar sales Of bait and other fishing sup
plies within their own jurisdiction is
recognized, and the right of our fisher
men to freely purchase these things is
made contingent, by this treaty, upon
;he action of congress with the modifi-
cation of our tariff laws. OF our social
and commercial intercourse with those
populations who have been placed upon
our borders and made forever our
leighbors, is made apparent by list of
United States common carriers, Maine
md inland connecting their lines with
Canada, which was returned by the Sec
rotary and treasurer to tile senate on
March Z, 1888, in answer to resolution
of that body, and this is instructive as
to the great volume of mutually protita-
BILE interchanges, which has come into
existence during the last half century.
This intercourse is still but impartially
developed, and if amicable enterprises
and wholesome rivalry between the two
populations, are not interrupted, tho
promise of the future is full of fruits of
an unbounded prosperity on both sides
of the border.
The treaty now submitted to you has
been framed in the spirit of liberal
equity and reciprocal benefits, in the
conviction that mutual advantages or
convenience are the only permanent
foundation of peace and friendship
between the states, and that with the
adoption of the agreement now placed
before the senate beneficial and salts.
factory intercourse between the two
countries will be established so as to Sc
cure perpetual peace and harmony. In
connection with the treaty herewith sub
mitted, deem it also my duty to trans
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