The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-23
THE FISHERY TREATY.
The COnelusIOns Of she Joint Com
mItt.e Submitted TO the senate.

Hhe ConcIus1Ons OF she joint Cons
mtttse Submitted to the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The senate
yesterday made public the fisheries trea-
ty with the PRESIDENT letter of trans
initial. The president in his letter after
announcing the signing of the treaty
on February Is, and recommending
that it shall receive the consent
of the senate, says: The
treaty wants my approval because
believe that it supplies a satisfactory,
practical and final adjustment upon a
basis honorable and just to both parties
of the difficult and vexed question to
which it relates. The greater part of
the correspondence which has taken
place between the two governments
has heretofore been communicated to
congress and at as early a
day as possible. l shall trans
NIT the remaining portion to this
date, accompanying it with the joint
protocols of the conference, which re-
suited in the conclusion of the treaty
now submitted to you. You will thus
be fully possessed of the record and
history of the case since the termina-
| tion on June so, 1885, of the fishery ar
ticles of the treaty of Washington of
| 1871, whereby we were relegated to
the provisions of the treaty of
October 20, 1918. AS the documents
and paderS referred to will supply full
information of the positions taken I'M
der my administration by the repre-
sentatives of the United States as well
as those occupied by the represent
atiYeS of the government of Great
Britain. 1t is not considered necessary
or eXpedient to repeat them in this
message, but believe the treaty will
be found to contain just, honor
able and therefore satisfactory
| solution of the difficulties which have
clouded our relations with our neigh
| borS on our northern border. Especial
| ly satisfactory do l believe the pro-
| posed arrangement will be found by
| those of our citizens who are engaged
| in the open sea, fisheries adjacent to
| the Canadian coast and restoring to
those ports and harboTs under the
| treaty, provisions and rules of the in
| ternal law.
| The proposed delimitation of the lines
| of the exclusive fisheries from the COM
mon fisheries will give certainty and
| security as to the area of their legiti-
mate field. The headland theory of
| imaginary lines is abandoned by Great
| Britain, and the specification in the
treaty of certain named bays, especial
| ly provided for. gives satisfaction to
| the inhabitants of the shores without
subtracting materially from the value OF
| convenience of the fisheries rights OF
| America. The uninterrupted naviga-
ton of the Straight of CanosO is eX-
pressly and for the first time affirmed
and the four purposes for which GtIi
| fishermen under the treaty of 1918 were
| allowed to enter the bays and harbOrs
of Canada and Newfoundland within
the belt of three marine miles are
placed under fair and liberal con-
struction, and their enjoyment secured
! without such conditions and restrict
ions as in the past have embarrassed
| and abstructed them so seriously. The
enforcement of penalties for unlaw-
| fully fishing or preparing to fish with
| in the shore of Canada and NeWfound
land is to be accomplished under safe
guards against oppressive or arbitrary
action. thus protecting the defendant
fisherman from punishment in adj
| vance of trial, delays and incOnven
fence and unnecessary expense. The
history of events in the last two years
shows that no feature of Canadian ad
ministration was more harrassing and
injurious than the compulsion upOL
our fishing vessels to make formal Ell
try and clearance on every occasion Of
temporarily seeking shelter il
g.
Much inconvenience is provided
against in the proposed treaty, and thii
most frequent and just cause of com
plant is removed. The articles per
hitting our fishermen to obtain pro
visions and the ordinary supplies o.
trading vessels on their homeWard voy
ages, and under which they are accord
ed the further and even more import
ant privileges on all occasions of pur
chasing such casual or needful proVls
ions and supplies as are ordinaril.
granted to trading vessels. as of grea
Importance and value. The licenses
which are to be granted without charg'
and on application, in order to en-
able our fishermen to enjoy these priv
ileges, are reasonable and proper
checks in the hands of the local author
tiles to identify the recipients anC
prevent abuse, and can form NJ
impeachment to those who intend to us'
them fairly. The hospitality secured
for our vessels in distress with liberty
to unload and sell and tranship thei
cargoes is full and liberal. These pro
visions will secure the substantial en-
ioyment of the treaty rights for on
| fishermen under the treaty OF 1918, TO
which contention has been made in thu
: correspondence of the department o
state. and our minister in London, AM
present treaty, the right of our fisher
men under the treaty of 1913 did no
extend to procurement of distinctiv
, fishery supplies in Canadian port
and harbors, and one item
supposed TO be essential, to
wit: Bait was plainly deniei
, them by the explicit and definite word
of the treaty of 1918, emphasized by tn
course of the negotiation and expires
| doofaioua which Dracadad the cOuclu
sion of that treaty. The treaty nov
/ submitted contains no provision affect
ing tariff duties, and independently o
the position assumed upon the part o
| / the United States that no alteration II
| our tariff or other domestic Legislation
/ | should be made as the price or consiC
Grafton of obtaining the rights of on
: citizens secured by the treaty, it wa
D considered more expedient to allow an
T change in the revenue laws OF tn
] United States TO be made by the legi
t | Iative will. Therefore the addition |
/ the free list of fish, fish oil, VIVA
S and seal oil, ETC., recited in Il
b last article of the treaty is wholly lie
q to the action Of congress; and in CO.
b nection Herewith the Canadian al
, Newfoundland right TO regulate Il
y sales of bait and other fishing suppl
q within their own Jurisdiction is reco
Ie niZed, and the right of our own fishE
Y men to freely purchase these things
d made contingent by this treaty up
the action of congress in the modifiG
a tionsof our tariff laws.
sc In connection with the treaty he
1y with submitted deem it also my du
lie to transmit to the senate written
Il fer or arrangement in the nature of
or modus vivendi, rendered after the q
n clusion Of the treaty on the part of