St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-21
THE END Is NEAR.
Little More Will be Said For or
Against the Fishery Treaty
Before the Vote Is Taken.


Against the Fishery Treaty
Before the Vote Is Taken.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-Discussion
of the fisheries treaty occupied most of
the time of the senate to-day. Mr..
Morgan will close the debate in the
morning hour tomorrow. and it is ex-
pected that vote will be taken by
noon. The resolution directing the
postmaster general to report next. seS-
sion the claims of poStmasters for
services rendered between July, 1864,
and July, 1S74.was taken up and passed.
Mr.. Morgan then took the floor and re-
ification of the fisheries treaty, and ar
gued that inasmuch as under Demo-
cratic policy up to 1861 the fisheries
tonnage had progressively increased,
while from 1861 to 1888 it had progress
lively decreased. the constant reduction
of the tariff in the first period men
toned accounted for the increase and
that Republican methods under the tar
iff of 1871 and 1888 accounted for
the decrease. Senator Hoar followed
Mr.. Morgan in opposition to the ratifi-
cation of the treaty. He denied that
there was disposition for retaliation
on the Republican side, or that anybody
had said the time for negotiation had
passed, in any such sense as Senator
Morgan had put upon it, or that any
one on the Republican side admitted
that the grievances of which
AMERICAN FISHERMEN COMPLAINED,
could not occur again if the treaty were
ratified. The opponents of the treaty
proposed, if Canada said American fish
ermen should not go into her ports with
catch of fish to be transshipped to
the United States, that no Canadian
vessels should come into a port of the
United States with catch of fish which
it proposed to sell. This was not retail
alton. Senator Evarts took up the arti-
cles of the treaty in detail to ''eXpresS a
general and peremptory condemnation
of them" The senate, he said. was now
asked to ratify third fishery treaty
with Great Britain, which repealed
neither of the two former treaties and
introduced wider area and a
multiplication of regulations, instead of
simplicity, regularity, peace, respect
and the ordinary conduct of affairs. The
rejectment of the treaty he contended,
in concluding, would be an opening to
quiet and repose.
Mr.. Gray said that the administration
had endeavored to place the relation of
the United States with Great Britain on
relations not only of friendship, but of
justice to all. 1t had endeavored to
deal fairly, broadly and magnanimously.
And when that attempt failed, the ad-
ministration would know how to pro-
tect the honor and good name of the
republic. He feared that there were
some senators figuring in the debate
who were like the men of Ghent in the
old song, who
TROD ON THE TAIL
of the lion of Flanders when asleep.
When the lion growled at the gates of
Ghent, "they bended low when they
saw him awake, and said they had trod
OH his tail by mistake" The admins
tration and the democratic party, while
maintaining Alright the position of the
United States toward Great Britain and
all the world, did not propose to put
this country in an attitude where it
would be obliged to retract or apologize,
or say it had trod Oh the lions tail by
mistake. Those who favored the treaty
did not fear war. Mr. Morgan at $50
took the floor to make the closing speech
in favor of ratification, and at 6 p. m.
the senate adjourned, Mr. Morgan still
having half an hours time to close de-
bate tomorrow before the vote is taken.