The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-14
BUTTERWORTR's RESOLUTION.
He Says the United States Are In
Need OF Canada.

WASHINGTON. December 13-Batter.
worth, of Ohio, has introduced foI
reference the following joint resolution
WHEREAS, Citizens of the Dominion
of Canada are one with US in race, Ian
guage, history and tradition;
Whereas, The resources of the two
countries supplement each other and
the arteries of commerce, both natural
and artificial, are so interlocked and
mutually dependent upon each other
that they ought to constitute a system
to be one and inseparabIe;
Whereas, The relations between the
United States and the Dominion of
Canada are and have been strained
and uDnaturally cramped, and in q
measure paraly zed, owing to the in
ability of the two governments to es-
tabllsh such a system of international
trade and commerce between them as
is essential to meet the requirements
of the system;
Whereas, AS Canadas relations be-
fore referred to, as also the geography
of the two countries, suggest the i'm
possibility of permanent settlement
of the controversies pertaining to the
fisheries, boundaries and transcontl-
mental trade, except by blending their
efforts and interests under one govern
mental system, and point logically to
the necessity and probability of unity
and assimilation between the two ma.
tons under one government;
Whereas, The bonds of sympathy re-
sulting from k1nship, race, language,
tradition and substantial identity ~af
governmental symptoms, together with
community of interests based on COM
merce and its aids and agencies are of
such character, such union and assim-
ilation being discussed and favorabIy
considered by citizens of both nations.
and inasmuch as 1t is believed easy of
contamination, would be of great
advantage to all citizens and subjects of
the two countries, provided the Same
can be attained in manner consistent
alike with the honor and dignity of the
United States and Great Britain and
the Dominion of Canada. Therefore,
with view to aid in the consumma
ton of what is herein before suggested,
be it
RESOLVED By the Senate and House of
ia OOuSI0SS dSSGmDl6Us
that the President be and is hereby su-
tnorizsd and empowered to invite ne
gotiatlons looking to the assimilation |
and unity of the Dominion of Canada |
and the United States under one GOV |
such unity and assimilation |
to be based upon the admission of the |
several provinces of the Dominion or |
any one of them to the Union of States
upon the same terms and equality WiR, I
the several States now composing It'd. /
Union. and the assumption by TIKI I
U nited States of the Indebtedness of thu
Dominion of Canada or a just propors
5ion thereof, and such other equitt BILE
terms as justice to the high contracting
parties may demand and,
RESOLVED, further, That with view to
such negotiations the President invite
The appointment of commissioners bv
The governments of Great Britain and /
he Dominion of Canada, to consider
The wisdom and expediency of settling
md adjusting all controversies and Il
which now exist between the
wo governments growing out of the
fisheries, or otherwise by such union or
assimilation as is herein suggested
'ither as to the whole or any province
,r several provinces OF said dominion.
uch negotiations to be conducted with
iue regard to the amicable relations
which obtain between Great Britain