The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-22

aud just cause of complaint is removed
Articles permitting our fishermen t
obtain provisions and supplies as arr
ordinarily granted to trading vessels
are OF great Importance and value
Licenses, which are to be granted with
out charge and on application, in
order to enable our fishermen
to enjoy those privileges, are reason
able and proper checks in the hands oil
local authorities, 10 Identity recipients
and prevent abuse, and can form no
impeachment TO those who intend to use
them fairly. The Inequalities secured
for our vessels in all cases of actual dis.
tress, with liberty to unload and sell
and trans-ship their cargo. is full and
liberal. These provisions will secure
the substantial enjoyment of treaty
rights for our fishermen, under the
treaty of 1918, for which contention has
been steadily made in the correspond
ence of the Department of State. by our
minister at London, and by American
negotiations of the present treaty.
The right OF our tisnermea under the
treaty of 1918 did not extend to the pro-
curment of distinctive fishery supplies
| III the Canadian ports and harbors and
one item is supposed to b., essential, to
wit: Bait, was plainly denied them by
| explicit words of that treaty of 1873
emphasis d by the course of negotiate n
and express decisions which preceded
the conclusion of that treaty.
The treaty now submitted contains
no provision affecting tariff duties, and
| Independently of the position assumed
upon the part of the United States, that
no alteration in our tariff or other do
nestle legislation could be made as the
price or consideration of obtaining the
rights of our citizens secured by the
treaty, it vas considered more ex-
pedient to allow any change in the
revenue laws OF the United States to be
made by the ordinary exercise of the
| legislative will, and in promotion of
public interests. Therefore, addition
to the free list Of FISH, fish oil. whale and
seal oil, ETC., recited in the last article
OF the treaty, is wholly left to the action
of Congress: and, in connection
herewith, the Can adam and New
foundland right to regulate the
supplies within thir own jurisdiction, is
ecosnjz9d; and the right of o IT Usher
men 10 freely purchase these things is
made contingent. by this treaty, upon
the action of Congress in modification
CT our tariff laws.
or our social and commercial inter-
course with those populations who have
been placed Cpon cur borders and
made forever our neighbors, is made
apparent by the list of United States
common carriers, marine and inland,
connecting their lines with Canada,
which was returned by the Secretary
Of the Treasury to the Senate, on the
18th day OF February, 1888, in answer to
a resolution of that day; and this is
instructive as to the great value of
mutually profitable interchaDges. which
have come into existence during the
last half century. This intercourse
il still bit partially de elope :,
and the Amicable enterprise auu
who esome feeling between the two
populations, if not INSTRUCTED, the
promises of the future are full of the
fruits of unbounded prosperity on both
sides of the border. The treaty now
submitted to you has been framed IN
the spirit of liberal equity and re
ciproca1 benefits in the conviction that
mutual advantage and convenience are
only permanent foundations of peace
and friendship between the States, and
that with the adoption of the agreement
now laid before the Senate, a beneficial
ouO Sob1SloClOLJ DClWCOu
the countries will be established, so as
to secure perpetual peace and har-
mony.
In connection with the treaty here
with submitted, deem it also my duty
to transmit to the Senate q written
offer or arrangement in the nature of
moduS viUendi, rendered after the con-
clusion of the treaty on the part
of the British plenipotentiaries,
to secure kindly and peaceful
relations, regarding the period
that may be required lor consideration
of the treaty by the respective govern
ments, and for the enactment of the
necessary legislation TO carry its provi-
sions into effect. If approved. this
paper, freely AMI on their own motion
signed By the British conferees, not
only extends advantages to our fisher
men, pending the ratification of the
treaty, but appears to have been dictated
by friendly and amicab BILE spirit. am
given to understand that the other gov.
ernments concerned IL this treaty will,
within a few days, in accordance with
their methods of conducting public
business, submit the treaty to their re-
spective legislatures, when it will be at
once published to the world.
In view of such action, it appears to
be advisable that, by publican n here,
an early and full knowledge of all that |
has been done in the premises
should be afforded to our people. |
1t would also seem to be |
useful to inform the popular mind con-
corning the history of the long-con- |
tinued disputes, growing out Of the
subjsct embodied in the treaty, and to |
satisfy the public interests touching !
the same, as well as to acquaint Jour |
people with the present status of the |
questions involved, and to give them |
the exact terms of the proposed adjust |
ment, in place of the exaggerated and |
imaginary statements which will other |
wise reach them. 1, therefore, beg
leave respectfully to suggest that said |
treaty. and all such correspondence, |
and documents relating TO the |
same as may be deemed important 10 |
accomplish these purposes. be at once |
made public by order Of your honor
able body.
~ GROVER CLEVELAND.
Executive MANSION, Feb. 90, 1888.
ARTICLES or THE TREATY