St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-08
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Senator Sherman Earnestly and
Forciby Speaks Against the
Fisheries Treaty.


Fisheries Treaty.
Special to the Globe
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE feature
of to-day's senate proceedings was an
earnest and fOrcible speech by Senator
Sherman in opposition to the ratification
OF the fisheries treaty. The reso-
luton offered yesterday by Mr..
Jones, OF Arkansas, directing the
/ hnance committee to investigate the
cotton bagging pool was adopted, and
1 the senate bill providing for postoffice
j at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone
4 Park, was passed. Discussion of the
fisheries treaty was then resumed, and
| Senator Sherman took the floor in op-
position to its ratification.
| Mr. Sherman said he had made up his
4 mind not to engage in the fisheries de-
pate, but remarks made by Senators
Morgan and Salisbury, respecting what
had occurred in the foreign relations
committee room, had made him change
his mind. He denied their assertions
I that the course pursued by the Repub-
llcan senators in declining to offer
amendments to the treaty, was the result
OF party caucus, and asserted that there
had been no caucus order to influence
the acton OF any senator in this matter.
OppoSlIlon 10 The treaty was not der
hler resort on the part of the Republican
party: The party needed no such resort,
standing as it did on its record and on
the general issues presented.
"A controversy with great Britain, he
| regarded as infinitely more important
and more injurious than controversy
with any other nation, therefore he
would gladly see in the treaty
| SETTLEMENT OF THE CONTROVERSY,
| Dut The more he QY9nina1 If tba moro
| ne became convinced that if ratified
IL would open new avenues of
| controversy, lead to new irrita-
flOnS and therefore not accomplish
Its purpose. He was anxious to bring
about public policy that would make
the relations between Canada and the
united States more intimate, and moth
ing pulled them apart except the jeal-
Ousy of local Interests and the aspira-
! Mons OF leading men. Canada, he
! thought, would be represented either
IN the imperial parliament of Great
Britain or in the congress of the
United States, and in his opinion it
would be in the congress of the United
States, and he favored the policy of
bringing about international exchanges
with Canada of the freest character,
which would relieve both countries from
the necessity of establishing customs
and Notifications along the border. The
treaty was not party question, nor a
sectional question. Neither was it an
Irish question, and the opposition to it
was not
FISHING FOR IRISH VOTES"
There was general sympathy in this
country with the people of Ireland in
their struggle for home rule. Mr..
Chamberlain was greatly mistaken in
saying that all leading men Of the coun-
try were opposed to the Irish idea. But
the people of the United States were
not going to get in a controversy with
England about matter over which they
had no jurisdiction. Mr.. Sherman had
no sympathy with what he termed An
glopobla, or in the abuse of the British
government. Whatever might be said
of the power it was the greatest element
OF civilization in modern history. Eng
glIsh civilization had spread itself all
over the world, and everywhere the
seeds of that civilization had adj
Vanced the progress of the world
more than any other known cause.
Coming down to discussion of the de-
tails OF the pending treaty, he criti-
clzed the fifteenth section, allowing the
free importation of Canadian fish and
fish Oil, as surrender of the right of
the United States to levy taxes on i'm
try. Nowhere in the history of diplo-
macy could be found
SO ONE-SIDED A TREATY
between two great and powerful ma
tiOns. 1t was diSgraceful to American
diplomacy. The fifteenth section was a
Siamese twin to the Mills bill. The
treaty might be considered a supple
ment to the Mills bill, and it followed a
line of policy to which the Democratic
party was becoming more and more
committed. and which would surren-
der all the great Industries of the coun-
try to Ovel come competition with foreign
ers. He ridiculed as bug-bear Sena-
tor Morgan'S intimation that Great
Britain and the United States were GO
ing to war about the matter. If the Re-
publIcanS came into power they would
inform Great Britain in the kindest and
freest manner of their discomfort with
the abOrtive agreement made by Mr..
Bayard, and say that while willing to
make concessions to local jurisdiction
along the coast, they wanted for that
concession the same privileges that
were granted all other people of the
world, except the fishermen of the
United States. The two nations would
settle this controversy as they had set
tied so many others, and if Gen. Har-
rison should be elected president
NO WAX NEED BE FEARED,
and no dangerous controversy about the
fisheries. The law of retaliation meant
to arm the president with powers to be
dlscreetly exercised, and to enable him
to prescribe for the Canadian fishermen
the same rules as the Canadians pre-
scrbed for American fishermen. He
had no doubt that if Mr.. Cleveland, who
might consider this treaty as dead,
would even yet pursue this course,
these two great and powerful countries
would go forward into the haven of
peace.
When Mr.. Sherman finished his
speech, Mr.. Frye stated that Mr.. Eyarts
would close the debate on the Republi-
can side tomorrow morning, and hoped
Senator Morgan would close the debate
on the Democratic side and let the sen
ate have vote on the question. Mr..
Morgan and several other senators on
the Democratic side desired to speak on
the treaty, and he did not propose to en-
ter into any agreement about limiting
debate. MIR. Frye reiterated his inten-
tion of pressing the matter in the senate
tomorrow. Mr.. Morgan said Mr.. Sher-
mans speech was on
a PLANE so MUCH HIGHER
than the other speeches on that side
that he desired to see it in print before
he undertook to reply to it. The SEN
ate then proceeded to legislative busi-
ness. A message from the president,
vetoing bill to grant 635 acres of a
military reservation to the city of Ia
coma, w. T., for park, was read and
referred to the committee on public
lands. The grounds of the presi-
dents disapproval are that the
army engineers report against the
grant because the land may be needed
for military nurn0SRS I'ha ta thar
resumed consideration of the bill re-
n0rted from the committee ON foreign