St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-06
OTHER DOCUMENTS.

The Remaining Documents ReIat-
ing to the Fisheries Treaty.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. March 5.-President
Cleveland to-day transmitted to con-
gress the remaining documents and
protocols relating to the fisheries treaty,
accompanied by letter from Secretary
Bayard. In his letter Secretary Bay
ard says: IAN inspection of this docu-
mentary history will serve to demon
strate the practical and important re-
suits accomplished by the treaty now
pending the senate by which the ques-
ton of the interpretation and admins
tration of the treaty of 1918 between the
United States and Great Britain is
transferred and elevated from the OBJ
security into which it had been
suffered to lapse since the
date of that convention, and
its restoration from the practical control
of minor and local officials of the Cana
dian maritime provinces. Until the
treaty now pending was concluded, no
available remedy seems to have been
supplied for the Inconsistencies, incon-
grufties and unjustifable construction
of the treaty of 1918, to which our fish
ermen had for year after year been
subjected, and Which.by the progress of
gradual encroachmentS of Canadian leg
lslation and local port regulations, had
almost converted their privileges, eX-
pressly reserved by treaty, into sources
of inconvenience and expense. An
examination of the published lists con-
tanned in this correspondence and laid
before congress will disclose that the
preteXts OF cauSeS..allegef for the arrests,
IntA of W l,n.
mentS of
AMERICAN FISHING VESSELS
during the years 1886 and 1887 were
based upon alleged attractions of the
treaty of 1918 or, of Canadian laws passed
ing in profeSSed execution of that
treaty. All such veXatious action as is
recorded in the list of seizures, ETC., is
met and rendered impossible of occur
renee in the future by the provisions of
the treaty now before the senate-and
the amplest enjoyment by the United
States fishermen of treaty rights and
the customary hospitality due under in
ternational law and comfy is secured
in the ports and harborS Of Eastern
respondence will serve also to establish
the fact that prior to the
treaty of reciprocity of 1854
and subsequent to its abro-
CATION and in the years 1870 and 1871,
the veXatious and harassing admins
tratiOn by the Canadian authorities was
practically unchecked. As neither
the treaty of 1854 nor that of 1871 con-
tanned any alluSion to the wrongs thus
inflicted upon United States fishermen
and at neither convention contained any
remedy OF provision against their re-
newal and repetition, it became neces-
oh "a
longer be unprOvided. 1t is believed
that such remedy is practically and
fully supplied by the treaty now pend
ing, and by its terms now and for the
first time since 1918, just and joint in
depreciation is agreed to by both gov
ernments and placed upon the treaty of
1918 which will secure
JUST AND HOSPITABLE TREATMENT
to the United States fishermen and Sc
cure to them unmOleSted the full meas
IRE of their rights and, that under the
proposed arrangement every American
pursuing his vocation in the waters adj
jacent to British North America can
acquire clear understanding of his
rights and duties whilst within the
jurisdiction waters of Canada, or to such
ports and harbOrs as casualty, necessity
or convenience may suggest, without
fear of encountering such harsh and
unfriendly treatment as he was hereto
fore subjected to under uncertain, un-
warranted and variant interpretations
of his treaty rights. The accompanying
papers referred TO are made up of eX-
tracts from the diplomatic correspond
ence of 1887 Secretary Bayard'S letter
to Minister Phelps, of July H. 1887, and
protocols of the conference of the nego-
tiatOrs.
BAYARD TO UPPER.
Washington, ID. c.. May 81, 1SS7-My
Dear Sir Charles: The delay in writing
you has been unavoidable. In the very
short interview afforded by your visit
referred to she embarrassment arising
out of the gradual practical emancipa-
ton of Canada from the control OF the
mother country and the consequent as
sumption by that community of attri-
butes of autonomous and separate SOW
ereignty, not, however, distinct from
the empire of Great Britain. The awk-
wardness of this imperfectly developed
sovereignty, is felt most strongly by the
United States, which can't have formal
treaty relation with Canada, except in
directly and as colonial dependency
of the British crown, and nothing could
better illustrate the embafrass-
ment arising from this amor
phouS condition Of things than