The Portland daily press., 1888-06-14
SENATOR HALE ON THE TREATY,
In Reply to Senator Morgan's
Speech In Its Defence.
The Question One Affecting the In
terests of the Nation.
Our Fishermen and the Injustice
Which They Have Endured.

WASHINGTON, June BIN the Senate to-
day Senator Hole called up Senator Morgan's
resolution as ID the fisheries treaty and pro-
ceeded to address the Senate on the subject.
He said that Senator Morgan's speech last
week had filed him with wonder that he as
representative of his party and advocate of
the administration should be advocating the
cause OF "Our friends, the enemy" Mr..
Hale had reflected that in the old days when
the Democratic party was in power one OF
its distinguished leaders, Senator Lewis
Cass, of Michigan, had spoken in different
terms In regard to a somewhat analogous
controversy touching the fisheries. He said
In the Senate that the United States had got
the right to fish, not from England or from
Canada, but from God Almighty, and that
they meant to hold on to it.
Inc question was not a local one but in
VOWED national spirit and national sym
patny. There was no man living anywhere
In the United States, taking an interest in
public affairs, who was not concerned that
out Oh the existing conditions should come
the establishment of the right of his fellow
citizens engaged in the fisheries, who had
suffered hundred years. The fisherman.
was man who could measure the extent of
hardships, annOyanees and dangers visited
upon him. He wanted peace, not war, be-
cause peace meant to him the continuation
OF his vocation. He was, therefore, willing to
bear much and had borne much in the past.
HOW ne had suffered and how he had endur-
ed everybody knew. He Senator Hale) did
not propose to discuss In detail the provis-
ions OF the treaty unsatisfactory, illusory
and comparatively yalueless as they were.
his colleague Senator Frye had done that
IN most thorough and efficient fashion, but
the treaty was a failure, as 1t must needs
have been failure inevitably, because nei-
ther the administration nor the negotiators
mad been able to take into consideration the
whole situation. They did not seem to have
consldered, or taken into account the steady
march OF Canada for twenty years under
British inspiration and under British rule,
IN making attacks upon the United States
Doth under the guise Of carrying out treaty
stipulations and in the course Of affairs re-
latlng to them. Both the administration
and the negotiators failed to realize that the
time had come for the consideration of all
questions. and striking proper balance as
the result OF the negotiations. Coming back
10 the view OF the fishermen, Senator Hale
declared the fishermen would agree TO no sur
render There voices were all one way, and
were against the treaty. Not vessel had
sailed from Provineetown, Gloucester, Mar
blehead, Portland, Castine or Boothbay,
since the treaty, whose master and crew had
not sent back protest against the treaty.
Bad as were the old conditions, beset as they
were with annoyances and troubles, they
had been better than the treaty. He gave IL
as MS convictionl that the desire of the Ca
nadians 70 have the American market opened
Tree 70 their fish was at the bottom of all the
trouble. Ever since the Dominion was
formed, twenty years ago, a steady purpose
mad been pursued by the Canadian authori-
Ties 10 the detriment of commerce, trade and
business in the United States.
Senator Hale spoke of the enormous SUBJ
sides paid to the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Company, compared to which the aid granted
by the United States to the Pacific railroad
cos. sank into insignifcance. He said the
course OF Great Britain in that matter ought
10 be watched with jealous scrutiny by every
American administration. Any administra-
tlon derelict in that matter ought to be con-
demned by the American people.
Senator Blair said he would like to have
Senator Hale's view upon the subject Of the
fortlncattons being erected by the British
government on the Pacific coast; whether
they were being erected with view to future
warlike conditions.
Senator Hale replied he did not believe any
wise British statesman contemplated with
any feeling except apprehension and dread
any armed conflict with the United States,
Dut the things going on, such as the Senator
alluded TO, were in the line of Great Britain's
course always She was after fashion
"provident for the future"
Senator Blair asked whether with naval
preparations OF Great Britain and the forti-
iications Of the harbors on the Pacific coast
the British power would not be In position,
when any triting dispute arose between the
Two countries, to sweep American interests
from the coast.
Senator Hale replied that the Senator could
draw bis own conclusions. 1t had seemed
to him remarkable spectacle and an ano-
malous condition that, in such an emer-
gency, the solid array of Senators on the
other side Of the chamber should take the
ground that the treaty was satisfactory, for
day, that under, II American rights were
properly secured, and that 1t was the praise
negotiation
Senator Hoar called Senator Hale's atten-
tlon TO the contract which the British gov
ernment has Just made for a ship railway
between the Bay Of Fundy and the Gulf Of
OF 200 tons, and by which any number Of
gunboats could be conveyed into the Laies
sufficient to command them.
Senator Hale thought that the matter al
lnded 70 was very important one. but he
treaty would fail and was not one Of those
who believed that the subject matter, which
had growing importance, touching the re-
lations between the United States and Cana
ia, and, therefore, Great Britain would be
ultimately settled without further negotia-
ton. He could not say why it was that the
American negotlators, able, honest and pa
triotic men, had yielded and accepted such
treaty. He did not suppose anybody be-
lieved the treaty would be confirmed by the
Senate. He feared that American negotia-
tions in the future would be hampered and
embarrassed by the concessions made. In
conclusion, he thanked the Senate for its at
tention and said he had endeavored to pre-
sent some OF the considerations which had
made the American people dissatisfied with
the treaty and made them feel that the ne
gotiators on the other side had gained an
advantage over the American negotiators
AT the close OF Senator Hale's speech, the
25th. Wv