The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-19
ON RETALIATION.
John Sherman Makes s
Long Talk.
IF he WERE ONLY PRESIDENT.
a Picture of Young United States
embracing Tender Canada
General News.
SENATE.

q WASHINGTON, September IS -Sher
}. mans resolution offered yesterday in
structing the committee on foreigl
T relations to inquire into the state of til
relations of the United States witt
Great Britain and Canada and repor
' at the next session such measures a
D are expedient to promote friendly com,
mercial and political inte recourse be-
tween those countries and the United
States, was taken up.
sherman proceeded to address thf
senate, delivering mis- remarks from
manuscript. After allusion to the
RESIDENTS retail alton message and the
justlncatlon OF the rejection of the
fisheries treaty, he asked why should
canada refuse to allow American
nsnlng vessels to enter their ports
and ship their fish to American
markets. The denial of that privilege
appeared so unchristianIike and so sell
hsh, that he wondered it had not long
since led to violent retaliation. If the
PRESIDENT had by proclamation with
neld a like privilege from Canadian
fishing vessels, the evil, he believed,
would immediately be corrected. But
the PRESIDENT, instead of exercising the
power which he had under the act of
March Sd, 1887, had asked Congress in
has retaliation message for power to
suspend the commerce, which
amounted for the last six wears to SEQ.
100000. No wonder that the sudden
change OF base excited surprise in
ooth countries, and was regarded
as a mere political movement. The
PRESIDENTS position was, in other
words, TO suspend and embarass the
commerce of exports and imports
amounting to nearly S100,0 900 a wear.
oucn proposition made without warn.
ing IN the midst of popular election
nad oeen the residents response to
me earnest demand made by American
nshermen that they should be secured
IN the enjoyment of what they believed
TO De their unquestionable rights,
Why had the President, he asked |
blended the dispute about transhipment |
OF nsA with the interior commerce. of the |
country? Why connect controversy |
IN the waters about the mouth of the |
st. Lawrence, with the commercial re-
latlons along the boundary line of 4 COO
miles. No good could come OF
such movement unless i
was desired to establish non
intercourse between the two countries
The measure of retaliation proposed b,
the PRESIDENT is far beyond the range
OF and out of all proportion to the com
plant. lie denied the position taken
by the President that article 90 of the
treaty OF 1871 had been terminated on
the lst of July 1885. The repeal was
by the construction, he argued, and not
favored by the law. Besides, all the
contracting parties treated that article
as IN full force. The retaliation pro-
posed by the President was retaliation
against the United States. When Grant
asked congress for powers like these
Wnlch cleveland now asked, they had II
oeen refused him, and was Congress, he {
powers which it refused to Grant evan
II Great Britain has violated or failed To
observe the provisions of article 29P !
congress alone could prescribe a +
proper remedy, either by abrogation S
d the whole treaty or portion of it. or q
oy retallation in kind. And if that q
'ase. Congress had furnished a remedy. I
ample, ample aud complete in the act
II March Sd, 1887. Congress had not
sbrogated article 90 of the treaty of
81, and, according to his construc-
Ion, tnal rtlcie was now in full force.
Neither the in '5s,s of the American g
'eople nor pubi.1 r1licy demanded its y
brogation, but Sner that it shonId 7,
.e maintained in full force. u
he institutions of Canada were sub
tantlally like those of the United 7
tates. The proximity of the two
ountrles was such that, while separ- Y
ted, they might be enemies, if united
hey would be friends. The union
ould only be accomplished with the
rec and hearty assent of both peoples
Morgan said he admired the Senator ri
Or thus .grasping Canada around the fo
alst and holding her up To close EN-. ~
race with the people Of the United i II
tates. He looked forward (perhaps Z!
the end of the next century, to some 81
llng Ike realization of the IL
,eam which the Senator from ne
MO had SO beautifully por- Ia Ia
aged, unless in the meantime 0e
10 Federal party of the United States ru
light think it better, after all. for Sc Sc
lnada TO embrace the United States pr
thin her Union and draw them hack M
thin the imperial power of Great N N
'ltaln, rather than absorb the pro- n n
noes, within this Democratic Re- Ia Ia
bic. OF
Sherman's resolution went over with. ma
II action and the Senate adjourned. pa