Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-14
'THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Senator BALE Speaks Against the
Fisheries Treaty.
He Declares that All New Eng
land Fishermen De-
nOunCe Il.
The South Demands Protection to Her
Infant Industries.
The Mills Bill Not in Accord with Pres
emit Southern Ideas on Political
Economy.
WASHINGTON, June l3.
Senate.

Senate.
Mr.. Sherman, from the compittee on for
eign relations, reported the concurrent reso.
luton requesting the President to invite from
time to time, rs hi occasions may arise. negO-
tiations with any government with which the
United States has diplomatic relations, e
the end that any differences which cannot be
adjusted by diplomatic agencies may be
peacefully adjusted by arbitration. Placed
On the calendar.
Mr.. Hale called up Mr.. MOrgan's resolu-
ton as to the fishery treaty, and proceeded
10 address the Senate on the subject. He
said that Morgan's speech last week had
filled him with wonder that he, as the repre-
sentative of his patty and an advocate of the
administration, should be urging and advo
eating the cause of ''our friends, the enc
my" He ha reflected that in older days,
when the d. emocratic party was in power, one
of its distinguished leaders. Senator Lewis
Cass of Michigan, had spoken in different
terms in regard to somewhat analogous
controversy, touching the fisheries. lie ha
said in the Senate that the United States had
got right to fish, not from England or from
Canada, but from God Almighty, and that
they wanted to hold on to it.
The follow ing is an outline of the speech
ii Senator Hale on the fisheries treaty The
question, said Mr.. Hale, was Lot II local one.
1t involved the national spirit and the nation
al sympathy. There was no man living AL.
where inf the United States, taking an inter-
est in public affairs ~ no WAS not concerned
that out of the .xislii conditions shoul
G. me- the blishment of the rights of b :
fellow citizens engaged in the fisheries. he
fishermen hal suffered a hundred years. No
man could III asure the extelt of the hard
ships, anrUyances and dangers visited upon
them The fisherman wanted peace, moi,
war, because peace meant 10 him the con-
unuation of his vocation. . He was there
fore willing to bear much and had borne
much in I'll, part. How he had suffered,
how he had endured. everybody knew. He,
Hale, didn't propose to assail in detail the
proviso ons of.the treaty, unsatisfactory, illu-
sorry, comparatively valueless as they all
were. His colleague, Frye. had doAc tina,
in most thorough and efficient fashion
But the treaty was failure and
must needs have been failure
inevitably. because neither the adminstra-
!ion nor the negotiatOrs had been able to
seize or take into consideration the whole
situation. They didn't seem to have consid-
cred or taken into account the steady march
of Canada for twenty years under British in-
spration and under British rule, in making
attacks upon the United State. both under
the suise of carrying out the treaty stipala-
tions, and in the course of violating them.
Both the administration and the negotiatnrs
failed to realize that the time had come for
considering all questions and striking prop
er balance as the result of the negotiations
Coming back to the view of the fishermen.
Mr.. Hale declared that the fsherwen would
agree to no surrender. Their voice, all one
way, was against the treaty. Not a vessel
had sailed from Provincetown, Gloucester,
Marbehead, Portland, Castne or Boothbay
since the treaty, whose master and crew hal
not sent back an execrating protest against
the treaty Bad as were the old conditions,
beset as they were with annoyances and trOu-
bles, they had been better than the conli-
tions of the treaty. He gave it as his con-
victon that the desire of the Canadians was
to have the American markets free to their
fish. Ever since the Dominion was formed
twenty years ago, this steady purpose had
been pursued by the Canadian authorities to
the deffiment of the commerce, trale and
business of the United States. Mr. Hale
spoke of the enormous subsidies to the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad Company, subsidies
compared to which the aid granted by the
United States to the Pacific Railroad Co s
sank into iu.ignihcaLce. He said that the
course of Great Britain in that matter ought
to be watched with a jealous scrutiny by
every administration. Any administration
der, i in that matter ought TO be condemned
b., the Am. rican people because of its un-
patriotic want of jealous scrutiny into what
WAS going on in Canada.
Mr. Blair said that he would like to have
Mr.. Hales view upon the subject of fortiti-
cations being erected by the British govern
ment on the Pacific coast; whether they were
being erected with view to future warlIke
conditions.
MIR. Hale said that he did not believe any
wise British statesman contemplated with
any feeling except with apprehension and
dread any armed conflict with the United
States, but things were going on such as the
senator alluded to, which we're IN line with
Great Britain's course always. She was al
was, after the fashion commended and coun-
selled in proverbs, ''pTovident for the fut-
ure."
Mr.. Blair asked whether. with the pava
preparations of Great BriIain ami the fortit-
cation of her hal bors or the Pacific coast,
British power would rot be in a position
vlei any trlfling dispute arose between the
two Countries. to sweep the American inter
ests from the coast.
Mr.. Hale replied that the seeator co,l
draw his own conelus uns. Ii hal seemed t.
him a remarkable spectacle and an Al nal
ou- condition that in such an emergency the
solid array of SCI aiors Oh the other side OF
the chamber should take the ground that the
treat, was satisfactory for a day; that under
n the Nd InI Disffu uf1nO'. ri !
secured, and that 1t was a praiseworthy and
patriotic result of so important an negotia
ton.
Mr. Hale thcu ,ht the matters alluded ts
we're very important ones, but didnt Discus,
them further. He believed the treat,
would fail. He was lot one of those who
b 'lieved the subject matter which ha
BEEN GROWTH & in importance. touching tx
r lat ons between II e United States and Can
ala. ami therefore CIR, at Britain. would bt
ultimately settled Without further negotiation
| H. codldn't sav whv il was { ar TIE Ameri
oan negoi ator-, able, ho iest and patriotic
men. had VI, lded AID accepted such a /. cat y
| He Il Int suppose that anybody believed tina
the treaty " uld be confirmed by tho Senate
| He feared that American negotiatOrs in th'
future would be hampeTed and embarrassed
| by the concessions male. In conclusion h,
| thanked the Senate for its attention and sal,
that he endeavored to present some consider
atoms which made the American people dis
50 isfied with the treaty and made them fee
| as if the negoriators on the other side hat
gained an advantage over the American ne
/ gutlators.
/ At the conclusion of Mr.. Hale's speech
the resolution was postponed until Monday
| the 25th.
The Senate then resumed the considers
ton of the resolution offered by Mr.. Stewar
calling for statement of the sale of bond
since April, 1888, the question being OF
! CockreIrs amendment to add after the wor'
names the words Hother than private par
ties"
Mr.. Cockrell Withdrew his amendment.
motion to refer to the committee on fnanc
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