The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-08-16
SENATOR VANCE.
Extracts From His Speech on the
Fisheries Treaty.

rASucHAcS AEcdCys
The Senate resumed consideration
of the fisheries treaty in open execu
tive session and was addressed by Mr..
Vance in favor of its ratification. He
accounted for the remarkable heat ex-
hibited by the Republicans against
the treaty by telling story of tel
once caught with an extra "Jack" in
his sleeve when playing the game of
"Old Sledge," and who, in reply to
fierce denunciation from his adversary,
said
"Bill, you know we were six-and-
six" and it was your deal, and / was
obliged to do something "So," said
he, "the Presidential election is COM
ing on and the Republican party,
which desires once more to get into
power, and whose chief joy is the
flesh pots of Egypt knows that the
game stood about six andsix' and
that the deal was ours and that they
were obliged to do something. All at
once it seemed as if while they
were journeying towards Damascus a
great light shone about them, and a
voice was heard.
Let me not be considered profane.
l do not intimate that that light or
that voice was from heaven. Far
from it. should rather suppose it to
have come from the intipodes of that
blessed region, but at all events that
light shone round about these Senators
and that voice was heard saying,
"Why will you not raise row against
Great Britain and get the Irish vote. %
Whereupon they promptly responded
"Lord, what wouldst thou have us
to do?' and the voice again said, Get
the to the place called caucus, and
there it shall be told thee what to do. %
And so they assembled in that upper
chamber, and there the voice was
made manifest, and they were told
that their only chance, "the only av
enue opened up under heaven where
by they might be saved" was to raise
row with Great Britain, appeal to
the Irish vote in this country and tc
the votes of all others whose prejudic
es against that country can be made
available in the coming campaign, and
that was the course adopted
The conversation OF those Senators
under that vision and the influence ol
that voice was the most remarkable
that was ever known in American
politics.
Mr.. Vance quoted at considerable
length from a newspaper interview
with Mr.. Frye to the effect that the
American fishermen require nothing
| at the hands of the Canadians, ant
said, If that be 80, what is all this fus
about? "Why do the heathen rage
and the people imagine vain thing 2
All Of the eloquence ON this subjec
must be understood in a Piokwickia1
sense. 1t must be all understood a
what lawyers term, "A matter OF in
ducement' that is an order to max,
the British government pay highe
damages if possible. A duty ON tresl
fish and higher duty on salt fish will
be the salve that will restore ou
wound
The proposition to whip Great Bri
tian, so gill ly talked about by Sen
ators, was not going to aid the settle
ment of the fishery question, although
it might get some votes of those VIII
could be controlled by such appeals.
He was sorry to see it 80. He ha'
had not not desired to speak on tn
question, but when he saw that it ha
come to be a mere political contest,
mere small-beer question, like an
other that might be broached on tn
eve of an election, he felt that h
could not be satisfied unless he de
nounced that method of treating sue
II subject.