The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-25

upon the senator from Vermont, after the
declaration he had made In his report, that
Great Britain had violated, Intentionally
and Wiifully, the treaty of 1918.
WISDOM OF THE PRESIDENTS COURSE.
If the President had gone forward under
the act, and had declared non intercourse,
he would not only have gotten himself into
hot water that had already been heated for
him, but would perhaps have gotten the
country embroiled in war. Why had the
senator put the statute of limitation at so
short periods What was the then lately"
cases which had occurred within one year, or
ten years, or twenty years, or three monthsf
There was reason for it, The senator
had been connected with the administration
OF the government for many years past.
He knew all the history of thi fishery con-
troversy, and knew that there was large
number of cases lying back during republi-
can administrations as we'll as the demo-
cratic which had been unadiusted, but he
wanted to put the statute of limitation in
and prevent the President from resorting
to retaliation when the republican party
had not done it, and when the republican
senator's. though knowing all about the
occurrences, had never opened their mouths
by way of protest. The treaty of 1871 had
been framed in an extraordinary manner.
1t was in order that the republican party
might buy its peace rather than meet the
question face to face and settle 1t.
COSTLY PURCHASE.
Canada had been given fishing rights
which it did not have before, and IS, 500, 900
had been given for the purchase of peace.
All the influence that could be brought to
bear on British and Canadian cupidity had
been used in making the treaty of 1871 in
order to get money from the British gov
eminent to pay TO insurance companies. He
did not wonder that the senator from Yer
mont wanted President Cleveland to limit
his proclamation of non-intercourse to cases
then lately occurring; but it would have
been manly thing if the President had
received all Indication of what those cases
the words then lately"
WHAT HE WOULD HAVE SAID.
Mr.. Beck inquired of Mr. Morgan what
the senator from Vermont would have said
had the President done under the act of
1887 what he asked in his message authority
to do
Mr.. Morgan replied that the senators on
the other side would have said that the
President was going outside of his author
ity, and that he had TO jurisdiction over
cases that had remained RATED up in vast
masses of wrong at the time that the report
on the retaliation bill had been written.
D,
statute of 1878 and of treaty articles bear
ing on the question of transportation
in bond between the United States and
Canada, Mr.. Morgan declared that the
President found himself confronted with
that act of congress las to transportation in
bond) which bad not been modified or re-
ferred to in the act of 1SS7-the retaliation
act. 1t had heen asked (by Mr.. Hoar) why
the President had not brought up that sub
ject before. He (Mr. Morgan) asked why
congress had not brought it upi
Mr.. Hale, asked Mr.. Morgan whether, in
view of the Presidents message, he did not
believe that it would have been better, in
laying the keel Of the recent negotiations,
to have included in them subject matters
which now seemed so grievious in the eyes
of the President! Would it not have been
better to have have had an all-embracing
treaty.
TOO WIDE IN SCOPE.
Mr.. Morgan replied that an "all-em.
bracing treaty. would include the Behring
sea fisheries, Monroe doctrine, Clayton
Bulwer treaty, and quite number of other
matters.
Mr.. Hale-And why not IL these are
involved in our relations with Canada, why
not embrace them Why not make treaty
which should settle all of those things, and
not make treaty and afterward be con-
fronted with message from the President,
dealing with subject matters which haveno
more to do with the treaty than with the
declaration of independence
Mr. Morgan-I could give several
answers to your question. The first is that
while they are not kindred subjects they
are not correlated. The President SAYS
that he finds statute in the way of retalia-
tion-the statute of March l, 1S73-and he
comes to congress and says: 81 am willing
and anxious to do all that can to redress
the wrongs of the American people
against Canadian Interference, but | find
this statute barring my way. desire to
exclude from the right of transit through
the United States the products of Canada
and goods imported by her for foreign coun-
tries, and amounting in the last six years to
nearly $3OO,0O0,000.
WILL FALL ON CANADA.
81 desire TO stop this, if | am under COM
pulsion to retaliate, because this heavy part
of the blow will fall on the people Of Can
ada. and not on my own people; and the
President asks congress to declare whether
he has a right to do that, under the law
as it stands. 1t was a congressional
declaration which put the difficulty in his
path, and he has right to come to congress
and ask to have i5 removed. He says, "Re-
move that difficulty if you want retaia-
ton, and | will prohibit the passage of
goods between toe United States and Cana
da on these ralroads.n But that is not the
thing which the senator's on the other side
want to have done The Grand Trunk and
other connected railways are valuable
They are money-making insti
buttons. They are of great conve-
nience to the ca tern part of
the country. The railroads have been the
pets Of the republican senator's. | am now
quite satisfied that If we give the President
power to prohibit the passage of goods in
bond. free of duty, over these railroads, we
will touch tho whole subject right at the
core; and then two sets of people will be
railroad owners and mana
gers in New England, and the Canadians.
Then we will have peace; then we will have
an agreement, and 1t will make no differ
ence whether Mr.. Cleveland or Gen. Harri-
son be elected.
RULED BY THE PoCKETBooK-
But you compel the President retaliate,
and yet you take good care that certain of
your great aud overwhelming interests
shall not be interfered with, and your can
didate for the vice presidency is a director
in one OF these railroad companies.
Mr.. Frye informed Mr.. Morgan that Mr..
Morton had SOME time ago resigned his posi-
ton as q railroad director.
Mr.. Morgan intimated that a nominal
act of resigning might not be an actual one
1t might have been ante-dated.
Mr.. Edmunds resented that intimation,
and said that afr. Morton was an honorable
man and played no tricks on the people OF
the United States, or anybody else He