, 1888-12-14
He Wants Canada,

WASHINGTON. Dec. l3.-Butterworth
of Ohio has introduced for reference the
following joint resolution:
WHEREAS, The citizens of the domin.
ion Of Canada are One with us in race, lin
cage, history and tradition.
WHEREAS, The of the two
countries supplement each other and the
arteries OF commerce, both natural and
artificial, are so interlocked and mutually
dependent upon each other that they
one and inseparable.
WHEREAS, The commercial relations
between the United States and the do
minion of Canada are and have been
strained and unnaturally cramped and in
a measure paralyzed, owing to the inabil-
ity of the two governments to establish
such system of International trade and
commerce between them as is essential to
meet the requirements OF the situation.
WHEREAS, The conditions and relations
before referred to, as also the geography
of the two countries, suggest the impossi-
bllity of a lust and permanent settlement
of the controversies pertaining to the
fisheries, boundaries and transcontinental
trade, except by blending the efforts and
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TEN. and point logically to the necessity
and probability of unity and assimilation
between the two nations under one gov
eminent.
WHEREAS. Bonds OF sympathy, result
ing from kinship, race, language, tradi-
ton and substantial identity of govern
mental systems, together with commun-
ity interests based upon commerce and its
aids and agencies are of such a character
that such union and assimilation is being
discussed and favorably considered by
citizens of both nations, inasmuch as it is
believed the early consummation would
be OF, great advantage to all citizens and
subjects of the two countries, provided
the same can be attained in o manner
consistent alike with the honor and dig
nifty of the United States and Great
Britain and the Dominion of Canada.
Therefore, with a view to aid in the
contamination of what is hereinbefore
suggested, be 1t
ResolUed, BY the senate and house of
representatives of the United States in
congress assembled, that the president be,
and is hereby authorized to invite negotI-
atoms looking to an assimilations and
unity of the people of the Dominion of
Canada and the United States under one
government, such unity and assimilation
to be based upon the admission of the
several provinces of the dominion, or any
one of them, into the union of states
upon the same terms and equality with
the several states now composing the
union, and the assumption by the United
States of the Indebtedness OF the Domin
ion of Canada, or a Just proportion there
of, and such other equitable terms and
conditions as justice to the high contract
ing parties may demand, and
Resolued, further, that with a view to
such negotiations the president invite the
appointment of commissioners by the
government of Great Britain and the
Dominion of Canada to consider the wis
dom and expediency of settling and ad-
iusting all controversies and differences
which now exist between the two govern
ments growing out of the fisheries, or 9TH
erwise, BY such union and assimilation as
hereinbefore suggested, either as to the
whole or any province or several provinces
Of said dominion, such negotiations to be
conducted with due regard to the amicable
relations which obtain between Great
Britain and the United States and the
obligations imposed thereby.