Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-11
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE FISHERY TREATY Will Not Go Through the .s5s E Senate. HORROR IN k SAx0NY MINE. Eighteen Killed and
 Many Wounded, BIG SCORES IN THE WALK. The Revelations of Alice
 HOyIe.
THE REPORTS MADE PvBLzc.

THE REPORTS MADE PUBLIC. No Further Secrecy in Regard to she Senate Committees Action on the Fishery Treaty Two Reports of
 which ahe Majority is Opposed to Its Acceptance.
 WASHINGTON, May 10.-The Senate has removed the injunction of secrecy from the report of the committee on foreign relations upon their fisheries treaty. The majority re- port reviews the history of the fishery ques- ton from colonial times to the passage of the act of March 3, 1887, authorizing the President in certain cases to protect and de- fend the rights of American fishing vessels, etc. This act is quoted in full and the re- port continues: 'fSo far as is known to the committee no step whatever was taken by the President to put this law into execution, but negotiations were initiated and contin- ued to the apparent end of accomplishing what Congress had thought it unfit to under~ take, an adjustment uf these difficulties by the diplomatic course of securing part of American rights at the expense of yielding other and the most fundamental and impor- tant of them" The events attending the negotiation of the treaty are stated. The pIenipotentiaries convened at Washington during the session of both houses of Congress, but the President gave no intimation to either body that such extraordinary opera tions involving grave interests of the United States were in progress. The Senate was not consulted in the selection of the plenipo- tentiaries. "It is not difficult to see," says the report, 'sthat in evil times when the President of the United States may be under the influence of foreign and adverse interests oL If rAarlt n great disaster to the interests and even the safety of our government and people. It is no answer to this suggestion to say that an arrangement thus concluded cannot be valid or efectual without the advice and consent of the Senate for the rights and interests of the people of the, United States might be so neglected, misun- derstood. abandoned or sold by Presidents plenipotentiaries as to greatly embarrass if not defect their ultimate reassertion in better times and under better administrations, though it is hoped that such will not be the case in respect of these negotiations. The document snbnit R.to the Senate by the President as the outcome of these negotia- tions may well illustrate the dangers of such methods. The majority's objections to the treaty are summarized as follows:
 I. The United States recognize as British territory and renoucce forever all claim of independent right in all the great bays along the British North American coasts named in the treaty and admit that all such bays form Q part of and are within British territorial sovereignty and jurisdiction.
 II. Of the few of such great bays that are left to be visited by American fishermen the larger part are understood to be valueless, and some of them are subject to French fish, cry rights older than our own if they are British bays.
 III. If bay fishing is not profitable now it may be in the future.
 kol>I >Ia f k1,aT Int kaI States ought not to give up upon any consid- eration whatever the right of its vessels of every character to visit and carry on business in any part of the public seas.
 V. The treaty surrenders the claim and right of the United States which has been acted upon and exercised for now more than 8 century of its vessels engaged in fishing or other occupations to visit and carry on their business in these great bays and the principle of which claim and right has once been solemnly decided against Great Britain by tribunal organized under treaty with that government.
 VI, The area of delimitation described in the treaty greatly increases the danger of our
 fishermen unintentionally invading prohibit ed waters and thereby exposing them to seiz. ures and penalties
 VII The treaty by it's fifth article re- nounces any right of the United States in any bay, etc., however large, that "cannot be reached from the sea without passing within the three marine miles mentioned in article of the convention of October 20, ISIS" thus excluding vessels of the United States from all waters, howevef extensive, and the distance between whose headlands is, however great, the sailing channel which may happen to be within three miles of the shore.
 VIII. The treaty is A complete surrender of any claim of a right now existing under either the treaty of 17S3, the treaty of 1918, the acts of Congress and the British orders in IL. ,Ss.NG ks1la of the treaty of 1871, for vessels of the United States engaged in fishing anywhere on the high seas and even having commercial char acter also to enter any port of British North America for any commercial purpose whatever and puts in place of these clear rights which in respect of British fishing yes sels exist in the United States to the fullest extent greatly restricted and Conditional rights as arising solely from a present grant of Great Britain.
 TX. It binds the United States to be con tent with whatever is given by this treaty as the full measure of its rights and to be oon- tent with it forever or until greater hespitalt- ty and freedom of intercourse can be obtained by further concessions or considerations on our part.
 X. In the face of all this it leaves British North American fishing vessels possessed of all commercial rights in all the ports and waters of the United States.
 
 pitality or humanity are thus provided for in the treaty are to be obtained only upon con dition that no fishing vessel of the United States shall receive any of them unless such fishing vessels shall under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be branded with an official number on each bow and that such regulations shall before they become effectual be communicated to her majesty's government
 XII. It provides that general and even then much limited commercial rights and lights of transshipment aS mentioned in ar exempting all Canadian fishery products from our custom duties.
 I XIII. Its provisions concerning the exc cutive and judicial treatment of American ! vessels and fishermen that may be seized or arrested for supposed illegal conduct are, to make the most of them, nothing other, and probably something less, than statement of \ any administration of every government pro- E fessing to be civilized should adopt and ex- \ ercise as an act of duty and justice: XIV. Instead of diminishing the sources of irritation and causes of difficulty different \ interpretations and disputes, it will the com- | mittee thinks, largely increase them. ! Various other suggestions adverse to the | wisdom of ratifying this treaty might be \ made, but the committee does not think 1t necessary to 90 into them. The committee cannot but hope that if these ill abused nego- II ! cannot properly commit the United States in any degree until they shall have received the constitutional assent of the Senate, shall fail to meet the approval of this body, her majes- tvs government will take measures to secure justiee and fair treatment in her North Amer icau dominion to American vessels and Amer ioan citizens in all respects and under all cir cumstances. and that that government will see the justice and propriety of according to American vessels engaged in the business of fishing all the commercial rights and facilities in her North American ports that are so free ly and cheerfully accorded to her own in the United States, and that thus the friendship and good feeling which ought to exist be- ltween neighboring nations may be finally es- Established and secured.
 The minority report says to meet the obs lection of the majority that the treaty was
 negotiated by persons not censtitutionally l empowered to do so the minority offered in ! committeea a resolution declaring the treaty
 valid. This was intended to bring before the Senate the recommendation of the com
 mittee, but the majority tabled the resolution
 The minority claim that in accepting the ! treaty and referring it to committee ths Senate virtually waived any alleged infor' mality iii the negotiation. The minority be- iieve thetre would benefit our fishermen 1T