Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-10
CONGRESSIONAL,
Evarts Concludes the Blast
From his Bugle.
BLAIR GARRULOUS AS USUAL.
Morgan Scores Several Nice Points,
Interesting Talk on the
Fisheries.

Associated PressDispatches to the HERALD. !.
WASHINGTON, August 9.-In the Senate
to-day Mitchell offered resolution call
ing on the Secretary of the Interior for
information concerning his recent decision
in the Guilford land case, affecting the
title to Northern Pacific lands. Agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to business
on the calendar and passed the Senate
bill 10 relieve the sureties of George w.
Hook, formerly Receiver and Disbursing
Agent of the Land Office at Humboldt,
CAL, and the Senate bill to pay A. w.
Tabor 1859 for necessary additional ex.
penses incurred by him as Postmaster al
Leadville, COL. also bill to pay Royal
M. Hubbard 5000 for additional rent fol
the postoffice at Long Mount, Col.
EvARTs FINISHES HIS RHETORICAL BLAST.
The Senate then proceeded to consid.
Grafton Of the Fisheries treaty in open
executive session, and Evarts resumed
his speech against its ratifca ton.
Evarts devoted good deal of his argu-
ment to the question of bays and head
lands, and after he had spoken for two
hours, yielding the floor temporarily to
allow Hawley to introduce concurrent
resolution that the members of both
houses shall attend the funeral of Gen
ernl Sheridan on Saturday next at 10 A.
NJ, and that as a further mark of respect
to the memory of the deceased, the two
houses, when they adjourn Friday, shall
adjourn to meet on Monday next. The
resolution was agreed to, and Evarts re.
sumed his argument against the fisheries
treaty.
THE SHADES OF GRANT.
When Evarts ceased speaking, dis
cussion hinging on President Grants
message to the Senate with reference to
a proposed treaty on the same subject.
was opened by Morgan who declared
that President Grant had, on that occa-
sion, given counsel in favor of true and
wise policy, and now spoke from his
grave better than any Senator had done
in this discussion. Morgan said the OBJ
ject of destroying the treaty at once was
nothing more or less than political, and
was connected with the Presidential
election; under such circumstances it
behooved the Senators to look carefully
around them. One of the Senators from
Massachusetts had pronounced him
(Morgan) silly because he had alluded to
the fact that war might grow out of the
question; he might be silly but he had
seen enough of war to be afraid of it.
Perhaps the Senator from Massachusetts
had not.
Hoar disclaimed having spoken of the
Senator from Alabama as silly. What
he said was, if he had not so much re-
spect for that Senator, he should pro-
nounce the suggestion that a war with
England might grow out of insisting on
the right of American fishermen, su-
premely silly.
Morgan said the Democratic party had
in it the backbone of Andrew Jackson,
that it was not going to make foolish
quarrel, but that if quarrel came it
would stand by the country right or
wrong. When this negotiation would
fail, then the Democratic party meant
(as the President meant) that the retalia-
ton act, which then and not before,
would become mandatory, would be
obeyed and when it was expected that
the law was to be obeyed there came a
howl from the Fishery Association be-
cause the President would not pledge
himself in advance to limit the retalia-
tions to the fishery business.
BLAIR's GARRULITY.
Blair, whose union negotiation resolu-
ton had been alluded to by Morgan, de-
clared sarcastically that if there was to
be no war with England or Canada until
the discussion of the treaty ended the
war would be postponed until the de-
struction of the world by fire, or until
the deluge came again. He defended
his resolution and declared that without
such union as it proposed it was i'm
possible for the two nations to 20 in
peace. He did not know Of any Repub-
lican who talked about war as result of
the rejection of the treaty. The resources
of diplomacy were all open and had not
been exhausted. A recalcitrant, obsti-
nate and pig-headed executive was not
going to take the responsibility of nflict-
ing on the American people needless
injury, mercantile distress and the de-
struction of business, unnecessarily, and
simply because he had power. Congress
had confided to him discretion in the d.
rection of retaliation, so far as was neces-
sary to regulate and to vindicate the in
jury that might be done to American
rights, simply in the matter of the Fish
cries; when it was intimated to the Sem
ate that the President was going further
and would destroy the industrial fabric
of the United States, simply because he
and his party were in a pet, it appeared
to him (Blair) that the whole party
might as we'll be banished from the
country as being too ignorant, too foolish
or too unpatriotic to exist properly under
the protection of American laws. The
Senate would undoubtedly reject the
treaty and had the right to be permitted to
reject it without 30 much talk. The Senator
from Alabama would prevent war by his
everlasting speeches. As to his own
resolution, it meant a basis for action
under which, in case of a fight, the
northern boundary OF the United States
would be co-terminus with the North
Pole.
Hale criticised Morgan's position and
that of the Democratic party on the
treaty as being in the interest of free
trade. The treaty was proposition to
remove the duties on fish caught by
British fishermen to be brought into
American ports in competition with
American interests and industries.
MORGAN PAYS HIS COMPLIMENTS TO BLAIR.
Morgan denied that he had made any
statement as to his desire or expectation
to repeal the duty on salt fish, nor had
he intimated that in consideration of the
tariff bill, soon to be entered upon, he or
any Senator on his side proposed to make