Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-27
HOME AFFAIRS.
BLaiNE DISCUSSES CLEVEL. iND'S
RECENT MESSAGE.
Settlers Troubles in Colorado-A +
rest of Bank Swindler-FaE
of q Mammoth Bridge.
lspEcnL DIsrE7c,Es TO THE RrconD-uMOs.I
AN ExrRAosp1NAxY DOCUMENT.
B2sine's Criticism on President Cleve-
lands Late Me,sage.

B1aine's Criticism on President Cleve-
lands late Message.
LEWISTON. August 26th.-The Republi-
cans rendered grand reception 10 Blaine
last evening. He came from Augusta and
was met at the train by several Republican
clubs and escorted to the City Hall amid
much enthusiasm. Speeches were made
by Congressman Dingley and Hon. John
A. Kassoa. Blaine devoted the few min
utes allotted to him to the consideration of
the fisheries muddle. He said
" / did not happen to have an oppe7-
tunity of reading Cleveland's message on
the subject antil this morning. and, with
all due respect to the Chief Executive of
the nation, must say THAI considering all
the circumstances, it is the most extraordi-
nary document that was ever sent from the
White House.
He then referred to the Canadian fisher
men and the ti,-for-tat policy inaugurated
by Congress last year. but which Cleveland
declined to enforce and allowed outrages
upon our fishing vessels 10 go unresented.
" He was bent upon some form of negotia-
ton with England, even against the ex-
pressed wish and will of the United States
and in disrespect and defiance of large
share in the treaty making power which
the Constitution assigns TO the Senate.
Finally, without the consent of the Senate
and practically against its protest, the Pres
ident organized commission to frame a
treaty that should settle all the points in
dispute.
A ONE MAN TREATY.
Eve can have our partisan differences at
home and settle them on our own soil in
our own wav, but toward all the foreign
powers on the globe we should present one
united, indivisible American Republic.
But this was not done. The treaty was
launched as Democratic partisan measure
rather than patriotic American measure.
1t is plainly apparent from the text of the
Constitution, though the wise men who
framed it intended the ordinary legislative
power should be committed to the major
ity, however small, that no treaty should
be framed without the overwhelming sup
port of public opinion. They provided,
therefore, that il should require in all cases
two.thirds of the Senate TO ratify treaty,
but despite this the National Administra-
| ton went ahead regardless of results and
| negotiated treaty SO repugnant to Ameri-
can instinct and national selfrespect that
| instead of securing a ratification by two
| thirds of the Senate it was absolutely re-
jected by majority vote.
ONE EXTREME TO ANOTHER.
what then? At the first rebound the
J President has leaped so far over on the
| other side that he asks authority to cripple
all our commercial relationship with Can.
ada from Passamaquoddy bay to Vancouver
| Island. Having for three years offered tc
| waive the rights of our fishermen and oul
+, national dignity at the same time, the Pres
| ident desires now to cross over to the oihel
side of the question and out Herod in his
| demands for redress after subjecting the
country month after month to the humilia
ton of an unprecedented surrender. The
Presidents supporters, with the zeal o
Lew converts, or rather with the extrava
CANT enthusiasm of pretenders, are now
manifesting such hearty and deep sense
of the wrongs we have experienced from
Great Britain and Canada in the matter o
the fisheries that they second the Presi
dents extraordinary somersault, and in al
instant the Democratic heelers are thirstine
for Canadian gore. What poss BILE sense il
there, gentlemen, in disturbing the com
mercial relations between our country anC
the Dominion at Western points becaus,
there is dispute between Halifax ant
Gloucester that can easily be settled on tb
ground?
IRRELEVANT ISSUES.
"Why should the railways of the United
States, that annually transport fifty mill
| w
prived of their business and endure larg
loss on account of a sudden whim of tn
President? Why should transit from De
troit and Buffalo and New York over boil
the American and Canadian lines of rail
road be suspended when it has no relation
whatever to the fishery question? VIII,
should the large traffic between Quebec an,
Montreal on one hand and Portland on tn
other, by which Portland becomes th
winter port of Canada, be summaril
stopped at caprice of the President, whel
that caprice is founded on chagrin over tn
course of an Independent, but as he con
siders refractory, Senate? Is it the desig
of the President TO make the fishery ques
ton odious by embarrassing our CONNER
cial treaties and commercial exchang
: along 5000 miles of frontier, and intiictin
) on American communities needless,
3 vexatious, perilous confusion of trade?
, Tremendous applause greeted Blaine {
the conclusion of his reply to Cleveland
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