Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-12
WASHINGTON.
Senator Gray Speaks on the
Fisheries Treaty.
WOODBURY. GOES FOR COX.
The Gentleman From New York
Makes Reply = Cap
ital Notes.

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, June 11.--In the Senate
the credentials of Senator Gibson, oi
Louisiana, were presented and laid on
the table.
On motion of Sherman, the Senate
proceeded to consideration of the
Fisheries treaty in open session, and was
addressed by Gray in support of its rati
fication.
Gray said the Senate was bound to
presume that this treaty was the out
come OF honest endeaver and earnest and
honest desire on the part of the Execu-
tive, and that the President was correct
tuntil the contrary appeared) when he
said that it had been made on basis
honorable and just to both parties. He
greatly mistook the temper and sense OF
the American people If they would toler-
ate any discussion OF the pending treaty
but one which appealed to their
judgment, not to their preju-
dice or passions, and not to a
class or section; or il they countenance
the rejection of it for any reasons which
do not concern the interests and welfare
of the whole country, or the honor, pres
tige or dignity of the Republic. Some
slurs, he said, had been ungenerously
cast by the Senator from Maine (Frye)
towards the Secretary of State, but there
never had come from the State Depart
ment anything like the surrender Of
American rights in the treaty of 1871,
under President Grants administration
Although the privilege OF in-shore fish
ing, which the American fishermen had
just abandoned, was not worth license
of one dollar ton, it gave the American
market to the Canadian fishermen. and
$5,500,000 besides, Notice had been
given by Congress Of the abrogaton OF that
treaty at the expiration of its term
and the United States had been again
remitted to the privileges, conditions and
restrictions prescribed by the convention
OF 1918. Was it surprising, therefore, he
asked, that the old conditions OF dispute
and differing interpretations should again
recur. The treaties OF 1854 and 1871 had
not attempted to settle these questions; I;
they had only postponed them. The
United States, he said, could not in view
of the valuable fisheries of Behring Sea,
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i've doctrine Of territorial waters. Such
has not been the doctrine OF American
publicists and statesmen. He went on
to argue that the pending treary was
practicable, sensible and statesmanlike
way OF dealing with the question. The
Democratic party to-day was on the Amer
lean side Of this question. The Secretary
of State and the negotiations Of the
treaty were on the American side OF it,
Those who defended it in the Senate
were on the American side. The Presi-
dent was on the American side, and the
American, people would recognize the
courage and self-sacrificing devotion to
their highest interests, OF that brave,
honest, straightforward and sagacious
man who bad sought to save them.
At the close Of Gray's speech, Hoar
obtained the floor, and further consider
alton Of the fisheries treaty, was on the
motion Of Sherman, postponed till Mon
day, the 25th of June. The Senate then
adjourned.
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY.
The Senate Committee OF Judiciary to-
day further considered the nomination
Of Melville w. Fuller to be Chief Justice,
without result
tOSfUfflCE AUTHORIZATIONS.
The Senate Committee on Appropria
tions has increased the Postoflice Appro-
priations bill by 81, l,549,000. One million
dollars is appropriated to carry out the
eight-hour law with respect to letter car
riers, and 100000 is appropriated for
subsidies, the provision being substan-
TALLY that advocated by Senator Frye
last year. The House provision appro-
priating $4,000 to pay postoffice clerks
for unusual business Is struck out, and
the provision Of $550000 for rent, fuel
and light for third-class offices is reduced
to $450, 900, with the proyiso that there
shall not be allowed for the rent OF any
third-class Office more than $500. nor less
than $50 for fuel and light in any one
year, and that no contracts shall be made
calling for either rent, light or fuel be-
yond the end Of the next fiscal year.
NEW BILLS.
Senator Teller to-day introduced bill
by request, appropriating $4,000 for the
development and encouragement OF silk
culture in the United States. II creates
division Of silk culture in the Depart
ment Of Agriculture and authorizes the
establishmenoof experimental silk cul-
ture stations throughout the country.
1t provides for the free distribution to
farmers and others OF mulberry seed and
silk worm eggs.
Senator Dolph introduced bill author
izing an adjustment OF claims OF Oregon
and California for expenses incurred in
raising troops and preparing for the de-
tense Of Union interests during the War
of the Rebellion.
The House.
WASHINGTON, June 11.--In the House,
under the call OF States, the following
bills were introduced and referred: BY
Herbert, OF Alabama, providing for an
Assistant Secretary of the Navy; by
Dougherty, Of Florida, a resolution recit-
ing that at this time there seems to be no
probability of the passage at this session
of the Mills bill; that there is q large
surplus in the treasury, daily accumula-
ting, to the detriment oil general business
and which tends to the contraction OF the
circulating medium Of the country; that
the late unfortunate and unnecessary
civil war made an enormous and daily
increasing pension list just and neces-
Bary that the success of the armies OF
the United States made II possible to se-
cure the accommodation OF large, private
and corporate fortunes all over the ccun-
try; and instrucaing the Committee on
Ways and Means to report to the House,
bills, first, repeating all laws providing
for internal revenue taxation and remov-
ing all said tax except that now col
lected on spirits distilled in whole or in
part from grain, and upon malt liquors;
second, providing for the levy and col
lection Of graduated tax upon all in
comes Of persons and corporations, asso-
Citations and trusts OF $4,000 and upwards,
per annum, the proceeds OF said income
tax to be devoted exclusively to the pay
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