St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-22

in the proposed treaty, and this most
frequent and just cause of complaint is
removed. The articles permitting our
fishermen to obtain provisions and the
ordinary supplies of trading vessels on
their hOmeward voyages, and under
which they are accorded the further and
even more important privilege on all
occasions of purchasing such casual or
needful provisions and supplies as are
ordinarily granted to trading vessels,
are of great Importance and value. The
licenses. which are to be granted with
out charge and on application, in order
TO enable our fishermen to enjoy these
privileges, are reasonable and proper
checks IN the hands of local authorities
to identify the recipients and prevent
abuse, and can form no impeachment to
those who intend
TO USE THEM FAIRLY.
The hospitality secured for our YES
sells in all cases of actual distress, with
liberty to unload and sell and trans
ship their cargOes, is full and liberal.
These provisions will secure the sub
stantial enjoyment OF the treaty rights
for our fishermen under the treaty of
1918, for which contention has been
steadily made in the correspondence of
the department of state and our minis
gotlatOrS of the present treaty. The
right of our fishermen under the treaty
of 1918 did not extend to the procure
ment of distinctive fishery supplies in
Canadian ports and harbOrs; and one
item supposed to be essential, tO-wit,
bait, was plainly denied them by the
explicit and definite words of the treaty
of 1918, emphasized by the course of the
negotiation and express decisions which
preceded the conclusion of that treaty.
The treaty now submitted contains no
provision affecting tariff duties, and in
dependently of the position assumed
upon the part of the United States that
no alteration in our tariff or other do
price or consideration of obtaining the
rights of our citizens secured by treaty,
it was considered more expedient to
allow any change in the revenue laws
OF the United States to be made by the
ordinary exercise of legislative will and
in promotion of the public interests.
Therefore, the addition to the free list
OF fish, fish Oil, whale and seal oil, ct
cetra, recited in the last article of the
treaty, is wholly left to the action of
cOngrest; and in connection Herewith,
the Canadian and Newfoundland right
to regulate sales of bait and other fish
ing supplies within their own jurisdic-
tiOn is recognized, and the right of our
fishermen to freely purchase these
things is made contingent, by this treaty,
upon the action of congress in the modi-
fcatiOn of
OUR TARIFF LAWS.
Our social and commercial intercourse
with those populations who have been
placed upon our borders and made for
ever our neighbors, is made apparent
by list OF United States common car
rlerS. marine and inland, connecting
their lines with Canada which was re-
turned by the secretary of the treasury
to the senate on the 7th day of Febru-
ary, 1888, in answer to a resolution of
that body, and this is instructive as to
the great volume of mutually profitable
interchanges which has come into ex-
istence during the last half century.
This intercourse is still but partially
developed, and if the amicable enter
prise and wholesome rivalry be-
tween the two populations be not OBJ
structed the promise of the future is
full of the fruits of an unbounded pros
perity on both sides of the border. The
treaty now submitted to you has been
framed in spirit of liberal equity and
reciprocal benefits, in the conviction
that mutual advantage and convenience
are the only permanent foundations of
peace and friendship between states,
and that with the adoption of the agree
ment now placed before the senate a
beneficial and satisfactory intercourse
between the two countries will be es-
tablished so as to secure perpetual
peace and harmony. In connection
with the treaty herewith submitted l
deem it also my duty to transmit to the
nv. Nnr1f
in the nature of modus vivendi, ten
dered after the conclusion of the treaty
on the part of the British plenipoten-
tiarles to secure kindly and peaceful
relations during the period that may be
required for the consideration of the
treaty by the respective governments
and for the enactment of the necessary
legislation to carry its provisions into
effect if approved. This paper. freely
and on their own motion, signed by the
British cOnferees, not only extends
ADVANTAGES TO OUR FISHERMEN,
pending the ratification of the treaty,
but appears to have been dedicated by
a friendly and amicable spirit. l am
ernmentS concerned in this treaty will
within a few days, in accordance with
their methods of conducting public
business, submit said treaty to their
respective legislatures, when it will be
at once published to the world. In view
of such action it appears to be advisable
that, by publication here, early and full
knowledge of all that has been done in
the premises should be afforded to our
people. 1t would also seem to be use
full to inform the popular mind con-
corning the history of the long cOntin-
ued disputes growing out of the subject
embraced in the treaty and to satisfy
the public interests touching the same,
as well as to acquaint our people with
the present status of the questions in
volved, in place of the exaggerated and
imaginative statements which will 9th
erwise reach them. L therefore beg
leave respectfully to suggest that said
treaty and all such Correspondence,
messages and documents relating to the
same as may be deemed important to
accomplish these purposes, be at once
made public by the order of your honor
able body. GROVER CLEVELAND.
Executive Mansion, Feb. 90, 1883.