The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-22
THE FISHERY TREATY.
PREsr o1EvE1AND's MKssAaE
Recommending that its provi.lOn. bo made
PubiiO-Ho thinks it n Just and Accept.
able Agreement that viii tend to
POaes..A Temporary Agreement.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l.-The President'
message transmitting to the Senate tn
Fisheries treaty, Is given below:
To he Se1dte Of he Uaited S.ales:
In my annual message transmitted i
Congress in December, 1855, 1t was statel
that negotiations were then pending 10
the settlement OF the questions growing
out OF the rights claimed by American
fishermen In British North American
waters. As result Of fBuch negotiations
treaty has been agreed upon between He
Britannia Majesty and the United States
concluded and signed in this Capita
under my direcsion and authority on the
10Th Of February instant, and which l nov
have the honor to submit to the Senate
with the recommendation that 1t shall re-
ceive the consent OF that body as provided
In the Constitution, in order that the
ratification thereof may be duly exchanged
and the treaty carried into effect
The treaty meets my approval because
believe that it supplies satisfactory,
practical and final adjustment upon q
basis honorable and Just to both parties
OF the difficult and vexed question to
which 1t relates. Ibelieve the treaty will
be found to contain Just, honorable, and
therefore q satisfactory, solution OF the
difficulties which have cloaded our rela-
tions with our neighbors on our northern
border.
Especially satisfactory do I believe the
proposed arrangement will be found by
those OF our citizens who are engaged in
the open sea fishermen adjacent to the Ca
madam coaat, and resorting to thoee porta
and hRrbors under treaty provisions and
rules OF international law. The articles
permitting our fisheries to obtain provls.
ions and the ordinary supplies Of trading
vessels on their homeward voyages,
and under which they are accor.
ded the further and even more i'm.
portant privileges on all occasions
Of purchasing such casual, or needtnl
provisions and supplies as are ordinarily
granted to trading vessels, are Of great i'm
portance and value. The licenses, which
are to be granted without charge and on
application, in order 10 enable our fisher.
men to enjoy these privileges, are reason.
able and proper checks In the hands Of
the local authorities to identify the re-
cipienta and prevent abuse, and can form
no impediment to those who intend to use
them fairly.
The treaty now submitted contains no
proviBions affecting tariff duties, and, in
dependently Of the position assumed upon
the part OF the United ststes that no al
teration in our tariff or other domestic
legislation could be made ss the price or
consideration OF obtaining the rights Of
our citizsns secured by treaty, 1t was con-
sidefed more expedient TO allow any
change in the revenue laws OF the United
States to be made by the ordinary exercise
OF legislative will and in promotion Of the
public interests.
The treaty submitted to you has been
framed in the spirit OF liberal equity and
reciprocal benefits, in the conviction that
mutual advantage and convenience are
the only reconsideration OF peace and
friendship between States, and that with
the adoption Of the agreement now placed
before the Senate beneficial and Batisfac,
tory intercourse between thetwo countries
will be established 80 as to secure perpet-
ual peace and harmony.
In connection with the treaty herewith
submitted, deem It my duty to transmit
to the Senate written offer or arrange.
ment In the nature Of a mOdus vivsndi ten
dered after the conclusion OF the treaty
on the part OF the British plenipoten-
tiaries to secure kindly and peaceful rela.
tions during the period that may be re-
quired ior the confederation Of the treaty
by the respective governments and for
enactment Of the necessary legislation to
carry ita provisions into effect II approved.
This paper, freely and on their own
motionsigned by the British conierees, not
only extends advantages to our fishermen,
pending the ratification Of the treaty, but
appears to have been dictated by friend.
ly and amicable spirit.
I, therefore, beg leave respectfully to
suggest that said treaty and ell such cor
respondence, messages and documents re.
lRting 10 the same Rs may be deemed inn
portant to accomplish these purposes, be
at once made public by the order Of your
honorable body.
GROVER CLEVELAND,
Executive Mansion, Feb. 20, S9.