The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-10
THE FIPTIETH CONGRESS-.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Mr. Palmer intro
duced a bill for the purchase of the Portage
Lake and Improvement Company's canal, etc.
Referred to the committee on commerce..
Mr.. Mitchell offered q resolution calling on the
Secretary Of the Interior for information con-
corning his recent decision in the Guilford- Mil
Ter land case. affecting the title to the Northern
Pacific lands. Agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to business on the
calendar, and the following bills were passed:
The bill to pay A. ". Taylor $50. 500 for nsces-
sary additional expenses incurred by him as
postmaster at Leadville, Col; also. alike bill to
pay Royal M. Hubbard 5000 for additional rent
OF p~ostofice at Long Mount, Col; the Senate
bill TO relieve the sursties OF Geo. w. Hook,
formerly receiver and disbursing agent of the
United States Land Office at Humboldt. CAL,
(bond dated in 1851; the Senate then. at Has.
proceeded TO consideration Of the fisheries treaty
in open executive session, and Mr.. Evarts re-
sumed his speech begun yesterday against Its
ratification.
When Mr.. Evarts ceased speaking, the discus
sion turning on President Grants message to
the Senate, with a proposed treaty on the same
subject, was taken up by Mr.. Morgan. who de-
OloAO4 aoe SoAAN y - "a
sion given counsel in favor of q true and wise
policy. and now spoke from his grave better
than any Senator had done in the discussion.
Mr.. Morgan said that the object OF destroying
the treaty at once was nothing more nor less
than political, and was connected with the presi-
Dental election. Under such circumstances 1T
behooved Senators to look carefully around
them. The committee on foreign relations and
the Senator from New York, alert aud ex-
perienced statesmen, had proposed nothing in
the place of il. They pooh-poohed and treated
with contempt the idea that there might be en-
broilment and war growing out Of the fisheries
trouble. One of the Senators from Massa-
| chusetts had pronounced him [Mr. Moreap a
silly man because he had alluded to the fact that
war might grow out of the question. He might
be silly, but he had seen enough Of war to be
afraid of il. Perhaps the Senator from Massa-
chusstts had not. He had seen enough a. OF blood
shed between brethren to understand that when
blood was shed between Englishmen and Ameri-
! cans, who belonged to the same stock, there was
going to be a great many people killed
DIR. Hoar disclaimed having spoken or the
| Senator from Alabama as silly. What he had
said was that if he had not so much respect for
that Senator he should pronounce the sugges-
ton shat war with ENGLAND might grow out OF
insisting on the rights of American hshermen
as supremely silly.
Mr.. Morgan said that the Democratic party
had in it the backbone of Andrew Jackson; that
it was not going TO make a foolish quarrel, but
that il the quarrel came il would stand by the
country, right or wrong. The other SIDE might
mean a joke. might mean some traffic, some
swapping Of knives, some chatting about q little
contract. but the Democratic party meant bust
ness. When this negotiation would fail, then
the Democratic party meant, as the President
meant, that the retaliation act, which then, and
not before. would become mandatory, would be
obey ed. And yet when It was expected that
that law was to be obeyed there came q howl
from the fishery association because the Presi-
dent would not pledge hips self in advance to
limit the retaliations to the fishery business.
Mr.. Blair, whose union negotiation resolution
had been alluded to by Mr.. Morgan. declared
sarcastically that if there was to be no war with
England or Canada until the discussion on the
treaty ended. war would be postponed until the
destruction of the world by fire or q dsluge came
again. He defended his resolution, and de-
clared that without such a union as it proposed
IL was impossible for the two nations to go on In
peace. The extension Of some federal system
over the whole continent was Indispensable.
| There could be no better opportunity for it than
the present. Why should it be postponed until
the population of Canada was ten millions and
that of the United States one hundred millionsf
Were all the dreams OF the prophets and OF the
lovers Of freedom to be postponed Very likely
his proposition would not affect the Senate or
the press, but there were men aud women all
over Canada and the United States who would
say that that was the thing to be done. Talk
about war under such circumstances was wholly
out of place. He supposed that the object OF
the Senator from Alabama, in talking
war. was for effect In the political
campaign at home. He did not know of
a result of the rejection Of the treaty. The re-
sources of diplomacy were all open, and had not
been exhausted. A recalcitrant. obstinate and
pig headed executive WAS not going to take the
responsibility Of inflct!Dg on the American peo-
pie needless injury, mercantile distress and the
destruction of business unnecessarily, and sim
ply because he had the power. Congress had
confidence to give him Q discretion IN the direc-
ton Of retaliation so far as was necessary TO
regulate and to vindicate the injury that might
be done to American rights simply in the matter
of fisheries. When it was ated to the
Senate that the President was going further and
would destroy the industrial fabric OF the
United States simply because he and his party
were in q pet, IL appeared to him Mr.. Blair
that the whole party might as we'll be banished
from the country as being too ignorant. too
foolish, or too unpatriotic TO exist properly IN.
der the protection of American Law. The Sen
ate would undoubtedly reject the treaty, and
ought to be permitted to reject 1t without 90
much talk. The Senator from Alabama would
prevent war by his everlasting speeches. As to
his own resolution, it meant that a basis for &C.
ton might be found under which :he northern
boundary of the United States would be CO.
terminous with the North Pole.
MIR. Hale criticised Mr.. Morean's position and
that of the Democratic party on the treaty az
being in the interest Of free trade. The treaty
was a proposition to remove the duties on fish
caught by British fishermen, to be brought into
American ports in competition with American
interests and industries. II was only within the
last year that an American administration was
to be found that was willing to trample Ameri-
can interests under it's feet and make long homi-
lies and to have its friends in the Senate make
long speeches in favor Of our enemies, the
British people" He congratulated the country
in having seen in this debate what the animus
of the Senator from Alabama was.
Mr.. Morgan denied that he had made any
statement as to his desire or expectation to re-
peal the duty on salt-fsh. nor had he intimatsd
that in consideration Of the tariff bill soon to be
entered upon he, or any Senator on his
side, proposed to make such a motion. He re
fsrred TO Republican Senators, who seemed TO
think that his life ought TO have been forfeited
for his position in the late war. rs men who had
run no risk of being killed themselves; who had
hid themselves IL oomb-proofs while they were
filling their pockets. and who had never dared to
ments to Mr.. Blair, Mr.. Morgan said that the
country would not go to school to that
Senator to learn lessons of wisdom, and
would not receive instructions from a Senator
who had talked such q batch OF nonsense as thai
Senator had talked this evening. What credit,
Mr.. Morgan asked, could the British govern
ment give TO that set or resolutions or to the
American Senate in which they had been offered
and debated. except to say that the Senator
from New Hampshire did not know what be
was talking about. and that his party was not
responsible for what he said.
The Senator from New Hampshire, he said,
had spoken of President Cleveland as pig head
ed. Mr.. Cleveland was not pig headsd, and was
not q fool. He had been wise enough to beat
the Republican party every time he came In con