Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-24

The senate Committee on Foreign
Ailair~ could do no less than make an adj
verse report on Mr.. Bayard'. Fishery
Treaty. The Senate should do no less
than reject the treaty.
The facts are clear. We have always
claimed that the treaty of 1878 and the
convention of 1880 gave our fishing vessels
commercial privileges in Canadian ports
and one of these was the right to buy
bait. No one was more certain of this
than Secretary Bayard two years ago.
When our fishing vessels were seized for
exercising these privileges, Secretary
hayard said, less than two years ago:
81 earnestly protest against this I'M
warranted Withholding of lawful commercial
privileges from an American vessel and her
owners and for the loss and damage conse-
qnent thereon the Government of Great
Britain will be held liable. -Bayayut 10 VEST.
JuHe 10, 1856.
Against this treatment make instant and
formal protest as an unwarranted interpreta-
ton and application of the treaty by the off
GERS OF the Dominion of Canada AMI the
Province of Nova Scotia. as an nfraction of
the laws of commercial and maritime inter-
course existing between the two countries
and as u violation of hospitality, and for any
loss or injury resulting therefrom the Gov
eminent of her Britannia Majesty will be
held liable. -Baydrd to Vest, JuIy 10,
1856
The treaty surrenders this privilege
upon which we have insisted for over half
century. Instead of the full CONNER
cil privileges Canadian vessels enjoy in
out ports, it gives our fishing vessels the
right to sell and tranship only when driv-
ca TO Canadian port by danger of ship
wreck No Christian country denies this
to anyone today.
50 complete is Secretary Bayard's sur
render in this treaty that England and
Canada are already insisting that. what
ever the fate of the treaty, the United
States must be controlled in future nego-
t@tions THE position her representatives,
took in the conference.
"Supposing the treaty should be re-
jectcd by the Senate ofthe United States.
asked Sir Charles Upper of the Canadian
Parliment, secretary Bayard and Presi-
dent Cleveland are both on record as hay
ing admitted that Canada had made every
concession that could reasonably be OK.
pected of us
Mr.. Chamberlain in still stronger
language at Birmingham, noting that
Mr.. Bayard "has declared in his Judgment
the treaty comedies to American fisher
men all that in reason and justice they can
ask from the Government of Canada"
claimed this surrender for all the future.
even if the Senate should reject the treaty
In any case, even if the final result should
be delayed. we have at least succeeded in |
putting ON record in the most formal and !
authoritative way, the opinion of three gov
ernments, of the executives of three nations. |
as TO what constitutes a ust and honorable. a !
fair and reasonable seaement of the differ |
ences that have arisen between them That |
cannot be left out of account in the future |
it must influence and in the end il must gov |
ern, the final disposal of the question. 1t is |
an element that do not believe any fair or |
reasonable man either in Canada or in the |
[ uited States. would desire to ignore
Nothing can cure this surrender but |
prompt and speedy rejection, an energetic |
iisavowal that Mr.. Bayard speaks for the .
future Ph10deiphia Press.