The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-29
OPEN DOORS ON A TREATY.
The Resolution to That Effect Agree
to by the Senate.

The Resolution to That Effect Agreed
to by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The senate went
into secret executive session at 1:20 o'clock
this afternoon, and Senator Morgan re-
sumed the floor and continued his speech
of last Friday. Other Democratic senators
contributed to the proceedings but
the Republicans said nothing No
tions from the Democratic side to
postpone the fisheries treaty until
December and lay on the table the motion
TO sit with open doors were ruled out of
order At 4:30 o'c ock the motion made
last week by Senator Sherman to proceed
to consideration of the fisheries treaty was
brought to yea and nay vote, and was
carried by a vote of 2l to 19.
Mr.. MoRGANs RESOLUTION
Mr.. Morgan then offered the following,
which was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the injunction of secrecy be
removed from all proceedings of the Senate in
reference to the treaty with Great Britain now
under consideration.
The purpose of this was to permit the
publication of Mr.. Morgan's remarks which
had already been delivered When the
doors were opened the Senators were found
seated in decorous silence at their desks.
The first persons to enter the chamber
were an official reporter on one side and
reporter of the Associated Press on the
other both of whom proceeded in haste to
their respective tables, Immediately in front
of the chair.
RATHER SARCASTIC.
"May ask said Senator Morgan, ''if
we are sitting iu legislative or executive
session"
'In open executive session." responded
the chair (Mr. Ingalls,.
Then" rejoined Mr.. Morgan, 1--WE do
not need any stenographers or clerks. They
are not officers of this body"
The reading of the Morgan resolution
was called for and matters proceeded there
after as prosily as if the executive session
had always been open.
Mr.. FRYE rose to address the Senate on
the pending treaty, but as the hour was
late, he gave way to motion to adjourn.
Mr.. Cullom raised question whether the
Senate, when it met again. would be in
legislative or executive session.
The motion to adjourn was agreed to, and
the Senate at $40 o'clock adjourned-no
announcement being made as to whether
the formal opening tomorrow will be in ex-
ecutive or in open session.
MoDUs vIvENDL
OTTAWA, ONT, May 2S.-An order in
Council has been passed bringing the modus
videndi under the treaty Of Washington,
act of 1888, into force. After the treaty
was signed a protocol was issued by the
British plenipotentiaries in which they
stated that they had been considering the
position which would be created by the i'm
mediate commencement of the fishing
season before the treaty could possibly be
ratified by the Senate of the United
States, by the Parliament Of Canada
and the Legislature of Newfoundland.
In the absence of such ratification
much friction and irritation might be re-
vived, and might interfere with unpreju-
diced consideration of the treaty by the
! legislative bodies concerned. Under these
| circumstances, and with the further object of
atfording evidence of their anxious desire
to promote good feeling and to remove all
possible subjects of controversy, the British
plenipotentiaries expressed their readiness
to make temporary arrangements for a
period not exceeding two years, In order to
afford a nloduS Uiuendi pending ratification
of the treaty, These arrangements have
gone into operation.