Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-02

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The senate has removed the injunction
Of secrecy from the treaty just concluded
in regard TO the Canadian fishery dis
putes and ordered it made public. The
treaty went TO the senate, accompanied
10y "A message from President Cleveland
n which the result reached was described
as the most advantageous and amlcable
settlement possible. The treaty de
cides that the three-mile limit spoken
Of in the convention of 1918 shall follow
the coast line. Canada the
headlands theory, which practically eX-
cluded American fisherman 10y drawing
the line of delimitatiOn from cape TO cape,
and shut out entrance 10 various bavs.
Under the new convention the coast line
must be followed whenever a bay in point
is more than 10 miles wid
The new treaty does not require United
states vessels TO report, enter or clear at
Canadian harbors when entering for
wood, water or purposes of shelter or
repairs, but they must report If
they remain more than "A hours.
When thew enter under stress of
weather they may reload, tranship
Or sell as they please, subject to Can
adian customs laws, and may purchase in
Canadian or Newfoundland ports such
things as may he necessary to Teplenish
their stores. In case Of death or illness Of
crews they may ship sailors and shall have
all facilities possible extended TO them.
The treaty provides that a mixed com
mission shall be appointed at once to sur
vey the delimltations made by the treaty
and chart 1T at once for the use of mari
ners.
The treaty provides for forfeiture for
unlawful fishing. but makes all prosecu-
tions for Illegal fishing as speedy as posi-
BILE, so as to avoid any possible persecu-
ton. Another article provides for the
removal of duties on fish, whale and seal
oil, and fish of all kinds, being the prod
ucts of American fisheries, as soon as the
United States acts in the same manner to-
wards the products OF Canadian fisheries
and upon such remission OF duties extern
sive rights are TO be granted free TO
American fishermen.
The treaty Is accompanied by a liberal
modus vivendi to govern the action of the
Canadian and American governments
until the treaty Is submitted TO the re-
spective governments and accepted.
Strike on the Burlington SYSTEM.
A strike has been ordered on the Chica
go, burlington q Quin Y railroad system.
The strike promises TO be the most re
makable eve known, for in it the strong
est single labor organization in existence
has been pitted against the largest
railroad corporation in the west
and one of the greatest in mile
age and wealth in the world. Should
the strike long continue 1t Is probable that
in addition TO the 400 men directly in
volved the great majority of the 1900
employees of the company will be thrown
out of work. the 1900 members of the
Engineer brotherhood throughout the
ountry called upon to contribute of their
savings. and the industries OF "A vast coun-
try tributary to the road subjected 10 a
partial paralysis. The ~far-reaching effects
OF the strike can be inferred from the fact
tina the road has 5000 miles of main and
leased line gridironing the states of llli-
nois. Iowa. Missouri aud Nebraska. From
Chicago it reaches to Denver, Col. over
COO miles away, and Cheyenne. Wy. T.,
is equally as far. Minneapolis to the north
and st. Louis to the south are within its
reach-the territory of an empire.
The refusal If the &. +. n o..
10 do away with classified wages for rail
road engineers has undoubtedly precipi-
tated the strike. The reason OF the broth
erhood's stand against classified wages
was that the roads were beginning TO dis
charge the higher-prlced men who had
been in their employ for many years, and
were s~upplanting them with cheaper men
The brotherhood now proposes IA scale OF
wages in which passenger engineers shall
get ! cents per mile and freight engineers
~ cents, iremen % get 40 per cent OF this
scale. All the negotiations with roads
were successful until the c.. Is. a g. of
iicials were approached.