Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-25
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But Morgan Trips Him Up Again.
WASHINGTON, August 24.-Immediate-
ly after reading the journal, the message
from the President on the subject of tine
rejection of the Fisheries treaty was laid
before the Senate and was read in full by
the Clerk. The reading was listened to
by Senators of both sides with close atten-
ton. When it came to close Mr.. Sher-
man moved that it he printed and referred
to tine Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mr.. Edmunds made a brief speech, ex-
pressing qualification at the patriotic ex-
preston of the hopes, wishes, almost in
tentions, of the President OF the United
States in reference to the protection Of
American interests and American rights,
bat asking why the law passed eighteen
months ago, giving the President full
power to act in the emergency he nov says
exists, has never been put into effect by
him.
Nr. Morgan, after criticising Mr.. Ed
munds for moving an adjournment yester-
day when the message was presented to
the Senate, said. 1t now turns out as the
evidence clearly established, that the pur-
pose of all this opposition to the Presi-
dent in respect of his dealing with these
fisheries, had not been to get the Govern
ment or the people into better shape,
but to entrap the Executive and put
him into side lines, into straight
Jacket, to put him where he would do the
bidding of the minority of the people OF
the United States, represented in this
chamber by the majority, and where he
should have no option TO do anything else
than what they required and commanded.
They had even threatened the President
with impeachment if he dared to disobey
their commands and to cOuntervail their
will. He (Morgan) had not been for
retaliation for the purposes OF destroying
Canada, much less for the purpose of in
juring the people Of the United States.
He had been for putting it into the power
of the President to retaliate and thereby
convince Great Britain and Canada that
the United States had power enough to
remedy wrong they might do and that the
United States meant to execute its pur-
pose unless they came to some wise and
honorable agreement with it. II any SEN
stor had proposed to do something else, let
him avow it. If any Senator thought that
it was the duty of the President immedi-
ately to proceed to retsliate on Canadian
commerce for injuries and wrongs that had
been done to the United States previous to
that time, let him ayow it.
Mr.. Edmunds said that lest by his sill
ence he might be taken to accede TO what
the gentleman had said, he would state he
was very far from avowing that the Presi-
dent, under the law, WAS to proceed to OBJ
tain redress for what had occurred before
the passage of the law, unless it hsd oc-
Cured recently, for the statute itself pro-
vided that the occasion for the Presi-
dents action should be something
that had lately occurred. The
Senate was looking chiefly to the future
undoubtedly, but he might say also that
he had no expectation that that was lever
for a treaty and that was all it was. He
thought that it would be difficult for any
body to read the report upon the bill and
not understand that the cases could be
much better treated by legislation than by
| negotiation, as all the relations Of the
United States with Canada, except for two
short intervals, had been carried on by
what was called retaliation until reciprocal
relations adjusted them.
Mr.. Morgan said that the Senator from
| Vermont had drawn the law and if he had
known of cases then recently occurring that
violated the treaty of 1918, he ought TO
have put them in and made them the basis
of the legislation. Why had he not SAID to
the President, These cases have occurred
and this treaty has been violated and Con-
yress declares in bill that retaliation shall
take place; that negotiations have ended
and this is not a fit subject of negotia-
tons"
Mr.. Hale characterized the Presidents
message as desperate expedient to recoy-
er lost ground.
Mr.. Sherman confessed that the message
of the President gave him more pleagure
than he usually derived from messages
coming from that high authority, but he
thought it was a movement to supply lost
ground If the President had based
his treaty upon the principles
laid down in his message,
there would have been no difficulty about
the treaty, and it would have been rati-
fed by unanimous vote. MIR. Sherman
proceeded to speak of the discrimination
in tolls on the Canadian canals and said
that they ought to be insisted upon. The
matter of sending goods through Canada
to Portland was q matter of importance
and beneficial to the people of both coun-
tries, and if conducted properly there
could be no complaint about il. IL We
deal with them on the principles Of Justice
and right, we will win their favor rather
than provoke their opposition. believe
that the result Of such mode Of dealing
would be the union of the Dominion OF
Canada and the United States, and that
would be best for all.
Mr.. George took the floor, the matter
went over without sction, and the Senate
adjourned till Monday.
THEY ARE ON The RUN.