New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-08
AGAINST BAYARD'S TREATY.
MIR sHERMAN's ARGUMENT IN THE SENATE.
THE ISSUES IN THE COMING CAMPAIGN OUT.
LINED-soME DEMOCRATIC ASSERTIONS RE-
PEELED
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one Of the strongest speeches yet delivered against
the Fisheries Treaty. Alter Mr. Vance's frivolous
irrelevant and contemplate argument OF yesterday
suited more to the hustings or CROSSROADS meeuhg
than the United states Senate-Mr. shcfmsns speecn
was welcome relief Mr. Sherman is rarely eloquent,
but he has as few others that valuable faculty OF
stating an intricate question in such way as 10 make
It clear to the lcasttraned mind After others have
TALKED for days and hours upon subject, Deioagng
rather than calculating IT, he takes IL up ana IN rev
minutes succeeds in stripping 1t OF the barnaees ana
side issues which to have attached themselves 10
II In the of long, tedious and prohtess dis
custom He then, BY fow easy stages reaches the
main point and illustrates 1t IN its various aspects.
His choice of language may not always be happy bis
delivery may even DO wanting In effectiveness, but
his logic is unanswerabc and his deductions are irre
futabis. To-day he was at his best. lie held the at
tenton Of the Senate and the galleries throughout the
delivery Of his speech, which, with the thermometer
at 95 in the shade is perhaps not the least Compliment
that be paid him
Mr. Sherman said he had made up his mind not to
engage in the debate but the remarks Of the Senators
FROM Alabama and Delaware (Morean and sauispury''
referring to what had occurred In the room OF the
Committee on Foreign Relations, had made him c1ange
his mind He denied their assertions that the course
pursued by the Republican Senators in declining 10
sffer amendments was the result of party caucus
NO APPEAL TO THE IRISH VOTE
As TO the charge made on the other sde that the
policy Of Republican party was to make an appea
30 the Irish vote he considered that one OF the CASUAL
remarks made without any foundation. The great
contest about TO be wagcd before the people OF the
United States would turn other questions They
would be the same old questions talked about for the
last twenty years-he duty OF Congress to protect
first, the industries Of the country from undoe COM
petition 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 He regarded a
controversy with Great Britain as Infinitely more I'M
portant and moro injurious than controversy with
any other nation; for of all the people who inhabt
the globe the people Of the United States and the
people of Great Britain the most intimately allied
by every Tie Of consanguinity, Of history OF fath Oh
institutions Of similarity Of character and disposition,
of ancestry and of everything which tended 70 make
ties between separate nations Therefore, he would
have been glad in the pending treaty settle
ment Of the controversy, and he had approached It's
Consideration with desire TO find in such settle
nent.
But the more he had examined It, the more he had
become satisfied that the treaty, II ratified, wouid
open new avenues Of controversy lead to new rr1ta-
TONS and, therefore, not accomplish It's purpose lie
had strong desire to maintain the most cordial rea
lions with the Dominion Of Canada He looked upon
the Dominion and the United States Of America as
twin sisters that had the Institutions that were
governed by the ideas and that lay alongside OF
each other for 1000 miles. 1t would be impossible to
establish "bar sinister between the two people.
The history OF Canada becoming more and more
interesting the people Of the United states every
DAY. as Canada was growing in strength and power
and as the United States growing IN population
The people either side of this border OF 1000 miles
were of the same descent, the same birth, the same
ideas, the same aspirations and the same Interests
Their productions were alike This was especially so
A. ~
Ontario and their relations close as those be-
tween the States of Ohio and Kentucky. Citizens OF
Ohio had large pcounary interests I'm Canada, where
they owned mines and forests and other property,
amounting, perhaps, to hundreds OF millions. ONO
sent It's coal to Canada and exchanged with 1t vast
multitude Of things. And he was willing ana anxious
TO accomplish and bring about public policy that
would make more intimate the relations between the
Dominion Of Canada and the United States. All the
interests Of both peoples tended In that way and
nothing pulled them apart except tho Jealousy OF local
interests and the aspirations of leading men,
Anything that tended TO promote froe commercial
intercoune-nsy, anything that tended to produce
q union OF Canada with the United States of America
would meet his hearty support In his judgment, the
Dominion of Canada would be within ten years from
this time represented either IN the Imperial Parliament
of Great Britain or in the Congress Of tho United
states, and in HIS opinion It would be in the Congress
Of the United States He therefore favored the
policy OF bringing about international exchanges
Canada Of the freest character possbleperhaps some
thing In the nature of Zolvercn, which would relieve
both countries FROM the necessity Of establishing line
Of custom houses and Notifications along the border
IL would be the height of nonsense. almost crime
against civilization, 10 establish such line.
REASONS FOR OPPOSING THE TREATY
Mr. Sherman then proceeded to discuss the details
Of the pending treaty He regarded the XVIII Section
Of the treaty (allowing the free importation Of
Canadian fish and fish OLD surrender Of the right
of the United to levy taxes imported goods,
as an insult TO the United States There was not,
he said, in the history of diplomacy ones ded a
treaty between two great and powerful Nations.
Such o treaty seemed TO him to be dsgraceful to
American diplomacy. That expression would be,
perhaps, strong; but certa My such treaty was
the most unfortunate concession hat cori made by
any Administration and he deeply regretted that Mr..
Bayard had ever signed his name TO It, The XVIII
Section of the treaty was siamese Twin to the Mills
bill and both ought to be debated together. The
treaty might be considered a simple supplement to
tho Mills BILL 1t was in pursuance of line of policy
10 Which the Democratic party daily becoming
more and more committed, and which would surrender
all the great industries of the country TO undue
petition with foreigners. Another bugbear mentioned
BY tho Senator from Alabama (Mr. Morgan) an
intimate that the two countries wore going to war
about this matter; and Republicans asked what
sherman's answer was that they would send politely,
their plenpotent!ary to the British Government TO
communicate to that Government in the hndeSt and
freest manner their discomfort with the abortivc
agreement made by MI. Bayard. They would state
respectfully the grounds of the difficulty and say that
while they were willing to make concessions as to
local Jurisdiction along tho coast so as to meet the
changed of the times they wanted for that con-
ccssion and that surrender the same prviegeS that
were granted all the people Of the world, except
the fishermen of the United States. lie would like to
sec any British Government resist such demand.
He did not believe that any English Ministry that re-
sisted 1t could continue month in power. ANY man
who desired In this day and generation was a
lunatic. Any man who desired war between the
United States and Great Britain was mailman The
two nations would settle this controversy as they had
settled SO many others. No voice should be raised
against such a hopeful result
IT, In tho great controversies to be carried to
the people OF the United states mot much this