Wichita eagle., 1888-08-08
Rken by the House for Want
Of Quorum-Concerning General
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General Crook Gives His Ideas Regarding
the Location of Army Posts, and
the Concentration of Troops
Other Washington News
SENATE,

! VI L.
ton of the treaty
As 20 the charge made on the other side
OF the house that the pOlicy of the Repub-
lican party WAS to make an appeal to the
lrissl vote. Mr.. Sherman considered that
one of the casual remarks made without
any foundation. The great contest about
to be waged before the people would turn
on other questions. They would be the
same Old questions talked about for the
last twenty years, the duty of congress to
protect first, the Industries of the country
from undue competition with the labor OF
Europe and second, the rights of United
States citizens at home and abroad. These
questions would enter into the campaign
and would probably control the results.
Opposition 10 the treaty was not dernier
resort on the part of the Republican party
That party needed no such resort, standing
the great issues presented and
winch would be further presented
during the present session. He regarded
| a controversy with Great Britain as inf
niteiy more important and more injurious
than controversy with any other nation,
for of all the people that inhabit the globe,
the people of the United States and the
people of Great Britain were the most in
timately allied by every tie of consanguin-
! ity of history. of faith, of institutions, of
! similarity OF character and disposition, of
| ancestry, and of everything which tended
!
! Therefore he would have been glad to see
/ in the pending treaty a settlement of the
/ controversy and he had approached its con-
| Sideration with a desire to find IN it such a
! settlement. But the more he had exam
! ined il the more he had become satisfied
| that the treaty If ratified, would open new
| avenues of controversy, lead to new lrrlta-
| tionS and therefore not accomplish its pur-
| pose He had a strong desire to maintain
the most cordial relations with the domin-
ion of Canada. Citizens of Ohio had large
pecuniary interests in Canada where they
owned mines and forests and other proper
ty amounting perhaps to hundreds of
millions. Ohio sent its coal to Canada
and exchanged with it vast multitude
of things. And he was willing
and anxious to accomplish and
bring about public policy that would
make more intimate the relations between
the dominion of Canada and the United |
States Anything that tended to promote |
free commercial intercourse nay anything |
that tended to produce union of Canada |
with the United States, would meet his !
hearty support. In his Judgment the do
minion of Canada would be within ten /
years either in the imperial parliament of |
Great Britain or in the congress /
of the United States and |
he therefore Iavoring the policy of bring |
ing about international exchanges with |
Canada of the freest character possible, |
perhaps something IN Une nature Oh II ZOIl-
verein. He would vote against the unity, |
not because it might possibly bring about |
such a condition of affairs but because he /
believed it tended to erect a barrier and TO !
prevent the very purposes sought 10 be ac-
complished by it, He wished to proceed |
further with his disclaimer. He wished |
to say that he did not regard the treaty as
a party question. 1t affected the fishermen /
on the southern coast, in the Gulf of Mex
leo and on the Atlantic ocean just as much !
as the fishermen of New England. Neither |
was it an Irish question, nor was the OPP
position to it fishing for Irish
votes" There was nothing more IN
founded than such charge. He believed
that there was general sympathy with |
the people of ireland not only in the senate |
chamber but among all the people of the
United States. There was general SYM
pathy with the Irish people in their strug
gle for home rule: who did not share in it?
He did not wish to see this country in
volved in controversy with any of the
EuroDean nations. Great Britain should |
be treated not with prejudice, but as other
nations were treated, enemies at war, in
peace friends. That was the desire which
he had in dealing with the treaty. He
would treat Great Britain as friendly
nation without reviyinS any of the ami
nositieS OF the past.
Mr.. Sherman then proceeded to discuss
the details of the pending treaty. He re-
garded the fifteenth section OF the treaty
allowing the free importation of Canadian
fish and fish OLD as a surrender OF the
rights of the United States to levy taxes
on imported goods, as an insult to the
United States. There was not, he said, in
the history of diplomacy so one-sided a
treaty between two great and powerful |
nations Such treaty seemed to him to
be disgraceful to American diplomacy. !
That expression was perhaps too strong. |
but certainly such a treaty was the most |
unfortunate concession that could be made
by any administration, and he deeply re-
GREETED that Mr.. Bayard mad ever signed
his name to it. The fifteenth section of
the treaty was a Siamese twin to the Mills
bill and both ought to be debated together.
The treaty might be considered as simple
supplement to the Mills bill. Ii was in
pursuance of line of policy TO which the
Democratic party was daily becoming
more and more committed and which
would surrender all the great industries of
the country TO undue competition with
foreigners. He rdiculed the idea that the
two countries were going to war about
this matter and said if General Harrison
should be elected president of the United
States as he {Mr. Sherman most earnestly
hoped and believed, no war need be feared
and no dangerous controversy about
the fisheries. The question would be
settled on terms that would
be honorable, peaceful and proper. If the
president would with moderation exercise
the powers conferred on him by the law
retaliation there would be no
trouble. Whenever Great Britain or any
of her dependencies excluded American !
from he rights of hospitality in
their ports. the president should do the
like with Canadian fishermen. II this
were done quietly, moderately and earn
esUly, there would not be much longer any !
trouble in the matter He had no doubt {
that if Mr.. Cleveland. who might consider
this treaty as dead, would then vet pursue
that course so plainly marked out By law,
these two great and powerful countries !
would go forward into the haven OF peace
message from the president vetoiug q
bill to grant 6:s5 acres OF military reser-
walton To the city of Tacoma, W. L, for
park was read and referred to the com
mIttee on public lands The grounds of
the presidents disapproval are that the
army engineers reported against the grant
because the land may be needed for mill
tary purposes
The senate then resumed consideration
OF the bill reported from the committee on
foreign relations to prohibit the coming OF :
Chinese laborers to the United States.
Mr.. Stewart spoke IN favor OF the bill i
and when he closed the senate adjourned
FIfTIHFH CONGRESS-