The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-14
Senator Hale ON the Fisheries
Question.
A VERY ANIMATED SESSION
The Business Which Occupied the
Attention of the National
Solons on Wednesday,
SENATE.

L sAOhSs AOpOA LOU q OObOUl IChb
requesting the President to invite from
time to time, as occasions may arise.
negotiations with any government with
which the United States has diplomatic
relations, to end that any differences
| between the two governments which
cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agen-
cies may be referred to arbitration and
| peacefully adjusted by such means.
Placed on calendar.
Hale called up Morgan's resolution
as to O fishery treaty and proceeded
o address the Senat, on tue subject.
He declared that fishermen would
agree to no surrender in this matter.
heir voice was alone ia this matt. r,
I'D was against the treaty. Not Il
Vessel had sailed from Proviucetowp,
J oucester, Marblehead, Portland
! Cssiineer or Boothbay since the treaty,
whose master and crew had not SEM
back an execratipg protest against the
treaty. Bad as were the old conditions.
oeset as they were with annoy
inces and troubles and dangers
they have been better than the treaty
He gave it as his conviction that the
tesire of the Canadians to have the
American market opened free to
their fish was at the bottom of the
trouble Ever since the Dominion was
ormsd (2U years agO) steady rIr-
Jose has been pursued by CansdiaE
authoriti, to Lne deiriment of the
commerce. trade aud business of tue
United s ates. Hale spoke of the
enormous subsidies TO the Canadian
Pacific Railroad company, COM
Dared to which aids grated
ny the United States to the Pacific
Railroad companies sank into
tnsignlicance. and said the
course of Great Britain in that
matter ought to be watched with
Jealous scrutiny nv every American ad-
ministration. Ally I'D Illustration that
Mas dere,e.t Ill tnab /. " ought 10 BIZ
condemned by the AmG.l an people be-
cause of its unpatriouc L of Jealous
scrutiny into what was going on in
Canada. That great road, the Canadian
Pacific, shared by colossal government
,ids. has been built for two purposes,
military and commercial. Everything
involved in the Monre doctrine was
evolved in that question. and yet no
ittention was pai0 20 it. The Canadian
Pacific Railroad. owing The life that
was Fin it o government aid had no
been constructed under such clrcum-
stances as American railroads. When
ever an An. erIcan railroad was built.
. viliZation followed, towns sprung NJ
almost as fast as the rails were laid. ana
cities arose which have been msrvsls of
he age. The Canadian Pacific on con.
unulnR-ran for hundreds of miles
hroush waste places AID has been
ushed forward. not by the growth o
business, but by the rich hand of The
government. In this correction, Hale
,rit cised the action of the Treasury De
'artment in givirg transportation
il bond privileges to the Canadian
Pacific and to the steamship
ines between San Francisco and Van
Geuver under which t ey carry freight
niue-tenths of which would Otherwise
nd naturally pass over the American
lines. Hale also referred to the DIS
examinations made against the United
Safes on the part of the WellanG
canal. He declart d there ought to be
negotiation between the two cum
ries that did not take into account
American negotiations had not been
make it part OF the contention.
Blair said he would like o nave Hale's
view upon the subject of foruficatiops
,eing erected by the British govern
nent on the Pacific Coast. whether
they were being erected with q view 10
future warlike conditions.
Hale replied that he did not believe
my wise British statesman contem-
Jls ed with any feeling except aDpre
tension an armed conflict with the !
United States. but such things tina, |
we're on the line of Great Britain's
coarse always.
Blair asked whether with the naval /
OF Great Britain and thu |
nrnicatiou of the harbors on the Pa |
.i6c Coast. the British power would no. |
oe in position wneH any tri1lng dis
ute arose between the two countries |
sweep the American interest from, |
the coast.
Hale replied that the Senator could |
raw his own conclusions. It ha, |
eemed to him a remarkable spectacle /
md an aUamolous cond ton that IL /
UGH an emergency solid array o.
! majors on the other side OF the cham
Der could take the ground that tbs /
ireaty was satisfact ~ for the day. tina
luder it American rights were properly
eonred and that was the praise wort
md patriotic result of an importan,
NEGOTIATION.
HOar called Hale's attention to con
ract which the Bri ish gov eminent had
ust made for ship railway between
.Ae Bay of Fundy ard the Gulf of Sc.
Lawrence. which was to convey vessels
4 700 tons, and by which any num-
,er of gunh1ats couli be carried to th,
axes suth isnt TO command them,
Hale thought the matter alluded to q
cry imp rtant one. but did not discuss
+ further. He believed the treaty worIc
all. He was not one of those who be-
eyed In subject matters which had
rowing Importance touching the rela-
,ops between the United States and
'aunda. and therefore Great Brit
in. would be ultimately settled
Without further negotiation. He
ould not cay why it was tha,
Ame -ican neRotistors, who were able,
'onest and patriotic men, bad yielded
nd ADOPTED such treaty. He did not
uppose any body believed the treaty
7culd be ratified by the Senate. He
cared the Anerican negotiators in the
uture would be hampered and embar-
sssed by concessions made in it.
at the close of Hale's speech. the
esolution WAS postponed till Monday,