St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-14
A SCALY SUBJECT.
Debate on the Fishery Treaty Con-
tinued by the Senate.


Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.--The debate
on the fishery treaty was continued in
the senate to-day. Mr.. Edmunds called
up his resolution asking for information
from the department of justice as to
letter said to have been written by the
acting attorney general to the SUPER
visor OF elections in the city of New
York stating that the supervisor of
elections would be paid for five days
service only during the November cleo
ton. Mr.. Edmunds said that he under
stood that the head of the de-
partment of justice had under
taken to notify the supervisor of
elections in New York in advance
that while the statute gave an inspector
ten days in which to perform his duties
he would be paid for only five days. If
that statement were true it would seem
to require some explanation as to what
authority the department of justice
claimed to have in determining how
long an officer should be paid for sery-
ice imposed upon him by statute. The
resolution was adopted. Consideration
OF the fisheries treaty was then resumed.
Mi. Call, OF Florida, spoke in favor of
its ratification. Mr.. Call was followed
by Mr.. Gray, of Delaware, who urged
the advisability of pOstponing further
consideration of the treaty until a more
quiet season when there was no political
excitement. The issues involved were
too mOmentOuS
TO BE LIGHTLY DEALT WITH.
The fishermen, whose rights were the
SubJect-matter of the treaty, were pur-
suing their avOcation undiSturbed, I'M
der the protocol attached to the treaty.
MI. Gray then proceeded to criticize a
published letter purporting to be from
=. L.. Woodbury., which stated that the
tWelfth article of the treaty gave away
the rights of the states to control their
territorial waters. He declared that
this was an absolute fatuous argument;
that 1t was unlaWyer-like and nonsens-
zeal. He did not believe that Mr.. Wood
bury had ever risked his high profess
sional reputation by such an argument.
lie asserted that the claim of Canada
over its bays was as absolute as the claim
of Maryland to jurisdiction over Chesa-
peake bay. These waters were as much
part of the local Jurisdiction as the
solid ground covered by corn fields and
houses. The pending treaty came to
the senate ear-marked with the Justice
and magnanimity which should belong
to- great people. 1t surrendered
nothing and asked nothing which a
proud and free people should not ask.
Mr.. Gray said that no taunt could be so
Irritating as the taunt that Democratic
senators were arguing the case of Great
Britain. The Democratic party had al
ways been read y to press to the extreme
everything that concerned the country's
right and honor. Mr.. Beck referred in
cidentally to the duty on Bessemer
steel by which, he said, Mr.. Carnegie
had given bonus of $1,000, 900. so that
he could carry in his carriage through
out Scotland the
WARWICK OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
who had now come back to this country
ito belittle all the rest of the Repub-
licans." Mr.. Gray again resuming,
complimented Mr.. Sherman on the
statesmanlike eXordium of his recent
speech, but said that when he got down
from the plane of craftsmanship to that
OF partisanship, he. tlOundered. Con-
Guiding. MIR: Gray said, that if the
treaty should be rejected and the an
noyances to American fishermen should
be renewed. the responsibility would
fall on those who voted to reject the
treaty.
MIR. George read from the Boston
Herald the report of meeting of the
deep Sea ASsemblage, K. of L." held
at Gloucester, at which resolutions
were passed protesting against the fish
trust, and favoring competition as the
only remedy. He asked Mr.. Hoar if the
Herald's report of the meeting might be
relied on?
t Mr.. Hoar said that there were great
many things in that paper that would
very much miSlead anybody, but it
would not publish narrative of facts
which it did not believe to be entirely
true. Continuing, he said that the pic
ture which the assemblage of Gloucester
Knights of Labor had drawn of the fish
ermen and the fishery interests, and of
the laboring men and capitalists of
Massachusetts was a SANDER. There
was not basis of truth in it, AS to the
lecture read to the senate by Mr..
George, he thought it exceeded the linn
its of comedy and burlesque for that
senator, whose ideas of capital and la
Dor, until within the last twenty-five
years, were that capital should own la
Dor and have
RIGHT TO WHIP THE LABORER
and separate him from his wife and sell
his children, to get up in the senate and
undertake to taunt the people of Massa-
chuSettS about ShackleS and unreuuited
labor. That senator's later notions
would be found on the records of the
senate in the COpiah and Jackson re-
ports; and his style of mathematics Zap
piled to the counting of votes would be
made known before the close of this
session. Mr.. George rose to reply, but
on motion of MIR. Beck, the senate at
6:15 adjourned.