Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-08-14
IN CONGRESS.
Ment of Justice-senators Discussing
the Fisherles TreatY-In the House.

Supervisors Of Elections and the Depart
Ment Of Justice-senators Discussing
the Fisheries Treaty-In the House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE debate on the
fishery treaty was continued in the senate
yesterday.
Mr. Edmunds called up his resolution ask
ing for information from the department OF
Justice as to letter said to have been writ
ten by the acting attorney general to the SUI
pervisor Of elections in the city OF New
York stating that the supervisors Of elections
would be paid for five days service only dur
ing tho November election. Mr.. Edmunds
said that he un derstood that the head of the
department Of justice had undertaken to
notify the supervisor Of elections in New
York in advance that while the statute gave
an inspector ten days in which to perform
bis dutiesl he would be paid for only five
days. If that statement we're true IL would
seem to require some explanation as TO what
authority the department Of justice claimed
to have in determining how long an officer
should be paid for a service imposed upon
him by statute. The resolution was adopted.
Consideration Of the fisheries treaty was
then resumed
Mr. Call, Of Florida, spoke In favor OF its
ratification.
Mr. Gail was followed by Mr. Gray, OF
Delaware, who urged the advisability Of
postponing further consideration OF the
treaty until a more quiet season, when there
was no political excitement.
Mr.. Gray then turned his remarks 70
politics
Mr.. George read from The Boston Herald
the report Of a meeting Of the Deep Sea
assembly, Knights Of Labor, held at Glou-
cester, at which resolutions were passed pro-
testing against the fish trust and favoring
competition as the only remedy He asked
Mr.. Hoar if The Herald's report of the meet
ing might be relied on.
Mr.. Hoar said that there were a great
many things in that paper that would very
much mislead anybody, but II would not
publish a narrative Of facts which it did not
believe to be entirely true.
Continuing, he said that the picture which
the assemblage Of Gloucester knights Of
Labor had drawn Of the fisheries and the
fishery interests and Of the laboring men and
capitalists OF Massachusetts, was a slander.
There was not a basis Of truth in it. As to
the lecture read 20 the senate by Mr.. George,
he thought it exceeded the limits Of comedy
and burlesque, for that senator, whose ideas
Of capital and labor, until within the last
twenty-five years, we're that capital should
own labor and have a right to whip the
laborer, and separate him from his wife and
sell his children, to get up in the senate and
undertake to taunt the people Of Massachu-
setts about shackles and unrequited toll.
That senator's later notions would be found
on the records Of the senate in the Copiah
and jackson reports: and his style Of mathe-
matics applied to the counting Of votes)
would be made known before the close Of
this session.
Mr.. George rose TO reply, but on motion
Of Mr.. Beck the senate adjourned.
The senate bill was passed increasing to
$50 per month the pension rate for total deaf
ness by the house yesterday.
Unanimous consent for immediate consid-
Grafton Of the dependent pension bill was
asked, but Mr.. Walker, Of Missouri, OBJ
jected.
The fertilization bill was then taken up in
committee Of the whole, but pending a de-
cision, The committee rose, and the house at
o'clock adjourned.