Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-08
WASHINGTON.
The Two JOhns-Sherman
and Bull.
THE FORMER LAUDS THE LATTER
The Ohio Senator Would Carry
Water on Both Shoulders.
The Irish Vote.
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Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, August I'm the Senate
to-day the resolution introduced yester-
day by Jones, of Arkansas, instructing
the Committee on Finance to make an
investigation OF the cotton bagging pool,
was adopted.
The Senate bill appropriating $4,000
for postoffice building at Mammoth
Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National
Park, was passed.
The Senate then resumed considera-
ton of the Fisheries treaty and was ad-
dressed by Sherman in opposition to its
ratification.
As to the charge made on the other
side OF the House that the policy of the
Republican party was to make an appeal
to the Irish vote, Sherman considered
that one OF the casual remarks made
without any foundation. The great con-
test about to be waged before the people
would turn on other questions. They
would be the same old questions talked
about for the last twenty years. The
duty of Congress was to protect, first,
industry and the country from undue
competition with the labor of Europe,
and, second the rights OF United States
citizens at home and abroad. These
questions would enter into the campaign
and would probably control the results.
Opposition to the treaty was not dernier
resort ON the part OF the Republican
party. That party needed no such res
sort, standing as it did on its record and
on the great issues presented, and which
would be further presented during the
present. session.
He remarked that the controversy
with Great Britain was infinitely more
important and more injurious than the
controversy with any other Nation, for Of
all the people who inhabit the globe, the
people Of the United States and of Great
Britain were most intimately allied by
every tie OF consanguinity, OF history, Of
faith, OF institution, of similarity of char
acter and disposition, of ancestry and OF
everything which tended to make ties
between separate nations; therefore he
would have been glad to see in the pend
ing treaty settler. ent of the controversy
and he had approached its consideration
with desire to find in it such a settle
ment, but the more he had examined it.,
the more he had become satisfied that
the treaty il ratified would open avenues
of controversy and lead to new irrita-
tions, and therefore not accomplish it's
purpose. Anything that tended to free
commercial intercourse, anything that
tended to produce union of Canada
his hearty support. In his judgment the
| ,nia ho
either in the Imperial Parliament of Great
States. He therefore favored the pol
exchanges with Canada, of the freest
character possible, perhaps something oil
the nature OF a zolluerein. He did not
consider the treaty as a party question
nor as sectional question; neither was
it an Irish question, nor was opposition
to it "fshing for Irish votes" He be-
lieved there was general sympathy with
the Irish people, not only in the Senate
but among all the people Of the United
States. He hoped the people of Ireland
would gain the right to pass their local
laws, but the people of the United States
were not going to involve themselves in
a controversy with Great Britain in re-
spect to matter over which they had no
control. He had no sympathy with
| Anglophobia or with the abuse of the
| British Government. Whatever might
be said of that power, it was the greatest
| element of civilization in modern his
tory in all the great elements of the pro-
gress of the human race, the English
power had always led. He would treat
Great Britain as friendly nation, with
out reviving any Of the animasities of the
past.
Sherman then proceeded to discuss
the details of the pending treaty. He
regarded the section of the treaty allow
ing the free importation of Canadian fish
and fish oil, as a surrender of the right
of the United States to levy taxes on
imported goods as an insult to the Unit
ed States. There was not in the history
Of diplomacy 80 one.sided treaty be-
tween two great nations. Such treaty
seemed disgraceful to American diplom.
acy. He ridiculed the idea that two
great countries were going to war about
this matter. If the President would,
with moderation, exercise the powers
conferred upon him by law authorizing
retaliation, there would be no more
trouble.
A message from the President vetoing
the bill to grant 635 acres of the military
reservation to the city OF Tacoma, w. IT,,
for public park, was read and referred
to the Committee on Public Lands. The
grounds for the Presidents refusal to
sign are that the army engineers report
against the grant because the land may
be needed for military purposes.
The Senate then resumed the consid-
GRAFTON of the bill reported from the
Committee on Foreign Relations to pro-
hibit the coming of Chinese laborers to
the United States. Stewart spoke in
favor of the bill and when he closed the
Senate adjourned.
THE TARIFF COMMITTEE.
The Senate Tariff Sub Committee is
still at work, early and late, upon the de-
tails of it's tariff bill, with the determina-
ton, if possible. to make all the neces-
sary changes in the original draft before
it is reported to the full Committee, or
the Senate, expecting thereby to bring
out measure which the majority in the
Senate can stand by as a whole. 1t be-
gan this morning the final revision of the
measure in detail, and hopes to have the
work completed this week. There is a
possibility that three or four contested