St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-17
HONORS WE'RE EASY.
Senators Pugh and Chandler
Speak for and Against Ratifica-
ton of the Fisheries Meetin3

ton of the Fisheries Meeting.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Two speeches
on the fisheries treaty, one by Mr..
Pugh ane another by Mr.. Chandler,
were the feature of the senate proceed
ings to-day. Mr.. Hoar, from the COM
mittee on library, reported back the
senate bill appropriating s25, 900 for the
purpose Of erecting monument to
Gen. George Rogers Clark in Louis
vile. KY, instead of in Washington, in
recognition of his eminent services to
his country in the conquest of the
northwestern territory during the
Revolutionary war. After eulogic re-
marks by Senators Horn, Voor-
hees, Blackburn and Daniels, the
bill was passed and the senate
took up the fishery treaty in open ex-
ecutive session. Mr.. Pngh took the
floor and spoke in favor of ratifying the
treaty. Republican senators, he said,
assailed the treaty, but did not propose
to amend it. They wanted to close the
door to further negotiations, and in
doing this were willfully avoiding their
sworn constitutional duty and placing
the senate before the country in dis
reputable attitude. for no other purpose
than supposed political and partisan
consideration. The Irish voters. for
whom the Republicans were fishing,
would find nothing in the rejection of
the treaty to
NOTIFY OR PUNISH ENGLAND,
who mad everything to gain and moth
ing to lose by American non-interfer-
ence with Canada. Referring to a state
ment made by Senator Sherman i'm
secret session that he intended to offer
an amendment to the Objectionable fif-
teenth article of the amendment, which
it was feared would give the American
market to the Canadian fishermen. Mr..
Pugh said 1t was not until the Republi-
can senators had determined that no
amendment should be offered that they
had agreed to discuss the treaty In
openly executive session. So it was
amusing to witness the indignation af-
fected by Senator Hoar at the
suggestion that politics enter into this
question. In concluding, Mr.. Pugh
said the president had discharged his
duty with due care to the rights of
American fishermen, and it was for the
people to decide whether the president
or the senate was most to blame for
keeping up a disturbed condition of af-
fairs full of ruinOus consequences.
Mr.. Chandler spoke in opposition to
the treaty: The treaty, he said, was
not beneficial to American fishermen.
1t surrendered access to waters that
were favorable to them and belittled,
humilitated and endangered the coun-
try. The treaty was dishonoring to the
nation i'll many respects. 1t had
been negotiated after a series of
wrongful seizures and outrages
perpetrated OH American fishing vessels,
for the purpose of forcing upon the gov
eminent a disadvantageouS bargain. 1t
forced the United States into an I'M
alterable revision of its customs law; it
had been negotiated by representatives
of Great Britain, not with the United
States government. but with one politi-
cal party of the country. Never before
had the emisSarieS of foreign govern
ment monopoly engaged in negotiations
with one political party, and the senate.
he said, ought to find a way to tell
them that, while American party strifes
were bitter enough, yet they must not
be made, without reburle, the basis of
political negotiations. Secretary Bay
ard was so anxious to make treaty,
perhaps" he added, parentically,
from the vanity of the aged statesman
to be known as the negOtiator of the
BAYARD-CHAMBERLA TREATY,
of American fisherman and national
honor, was easily overcome, and so Mr.,
Chamberlain suddenly and unexpectedly
obtained an easy victory. But still he
thought there must have been in the
surrender smore than the vanity and
decrepitude of Mr.. Bayard," and it.was
impossible to resist the conclusion that
a combination had been formed between
the leaders of the Democratic party to
sacrifice the interests of New England
fishermen, and to break down the Amer
lean tariff system. The great object of
the Democratic-British alliance was to
destroy the American tariff system.
Contrasting the views of two
leading Democrats on the treaty, Mr..
Putnam, one of the American negOtaitors
and now candidate for the governor
ship of Maine. and Charles Levi Wood
bury. who had said the treaty surren-
dered everything for which the United
States had commended since 1888. Mr..
Chandler declared that Mr.. Woodbury.
perSonated toward the United States
the courage of an Andrew Jackson,
while Mr.. Putnam personated toward
England the subServiency of a Grover
Cleveland. The Monroe doctrine, Mr..
Chandler exclaimed, had been formally
and deliberately
ABANDONED BY THE ADMINISTRATION.
The Panama canal was being con-
structed and the isthmus was likely to
become French colony, while the adj
miDistration was opposing and endeav-
oring to defeat the American project
the Nicaragua canal. At the conclusion
of Mr.. Chandeliers speech Mr.. Teller OBJ
tanned the floor for speech OH the
treaty tomorrow, and after a short
secret session, the senate at 5:55 p. m.
adjourned.