Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-27
WASHINGTON.
In Peace Prepare for
War,
FUNDS FOR FORTS AND GUNS.
Words for and Against the Fisheries
Treaty-President Cleveland
Goes Yachting.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. !

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD !
WASHINGTON, July 26.-The Senate to-
day passed the Army Appropriation bill,
with an amendment offered by Senator
Hawley, appropriating $750,000 for an
armory gun factory at the Watervliet
Arsenal, at West Troy, New York
IS 900, 900 for the purchase of steel for
high power coast defense guns; $500, 900
for the purchase Of submarine mines,
and 100000 for submarine controllable
torpedoes.
The bill had been called up by Senator
Allison, who stated that it was important
that it should be passed to-day.
Senator Frye, who had the right OF
way with the Fisheries treaty, yielded to
Allison, but gave notice that considera-
ton of anything but the Army bill ahead
of the treaty would not be permitted.
Berry called for separate vote ON
Hawley's amendment, and addressed
the Senate in opposition to it. He was
defeated, "a to l6, and the bill with the
amendment then passed.
WILSON DISCUSSES THE FISHERIES.
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration Of the Fisheries treaty in open
executive session and was addressed by
Wilson, of Maryland, in favor of its
ratification. He justified the construc-
ton placed upon the treaty OF 1918 by
the British government, and asserted
that its rejection would launch the
American people on the stormy sea OF
retaliation, which it was vain to say
would not lead to war. The Republicans
were engaged in what they fully knew
was desperate enterprise,-th attempt
to elect a President. They feared that
upon the issue of the present contest
hung the life of their party. How I'M
like the majestic
CAREER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
Which, being the party of the Constitu
ton as against Congressional usurpation
of home rule as against Capitalization, ol
economy as against profigate expendi
lures, of labor as against monopoly, had
deserved to live and had lived peren-
NAL life, whilst all other parties had
stranded on the shores of time. In the
debate on the treaty the Republican
Senators had been enacting the incen.
diary role of striving to arouse wa,
spirit among the people, and thereby to
gain the votes of the restless and uneasy
spirits throughout the land. Few were
so simple as not to see through their
game. They thought they could storm
and rave against Great Britain to such a
voters that they were about to twist the
lior,,c foil xrhiln n IL ha h,,, -,
terests OF the country laughed at the ides
gasconade without pinch of warlike
powder in it.
TELLER TALKS.
Teller spoke of the edict having gone
out from the House that the treaty was tc
be supported, and said eighteen months
ago the Secretary of the State had been
Turing New England fishermen into g
British trap, by telling them that they
had right, which the Senator from
Maryland (as the exponent of the Secre-
tary OF the State) now declared they
never had, and which the Secretary ot
State himself, in his letter to the Balti-
more Board of Trade, declared they
never had. The Senator from Maryland
he said, had gone several degrees beyond
the point which British official or a Can
adian official had ever gone in his efforts
to defend the treaty.
Wilson denied that he had taken the
extreme Canadian side, and said until he
had carefully examined the treaty few
weeks ago, his sympathies had all been
against the treaty, but he had changed
his mind.
Teller replied that he knew very well
what pressure the Senate had labored
under when considering this treaty. He
knew the Secretary of State had con.
sidered it his right and duty to wlite let
ters and have newspaper interviews
on the subject in order to induce popular
favor to come to this treaty. He knew
what all this meant to men who support
the administration.
MoRGAN's INTERROGATION.
Morgan asked whether the Republican
caucus had not decided that the treaty
should be opposed by the whole Republi-
can party, and no amendment to it be
allowed?
Teller replied that no Republican
caucus had ever passed upon the
question, whether Republicans should
vote for it or not. There never
had been Republican Senator
in favor of it, and no Democrat
would ever have voted for it if it had not
come from Democratic administration
AS to not allowing amendments to be
offered to it, he asked whether there
could be any amendment adopted which
the Administration would accept. Re-
publican opposition was not to the de-
tails of the treaty, but because the treaty
was surrender of American rights.
Morgan objected to the idea that the
Democratic Senators were espousing the
Canadian side of the question. Why
were they not as much the friends Of
their country and its honor as the Re.
publicans?
After further discussion the matter
went over without action.
Two Presidential vetoes were read and
referred, and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Legislation for the Benefit of the
Territories.
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