Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-24
APLAN TO GET EVEN
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
 TO CONGRESS-.
RETALIATION IS SUGGESTED.
HE WANTS FURTHER POWER THAT HE
 MAY BOTHER CANADA.

Free and to Establish the Same canal Tolls as are Charged By Cams nada-How the Message was Received By Congress. WASHINGTON, Aug. 34--The President in his message sent to Congress recommends immediate Legislation conferring upon the executive the power to suspend, by proc lamation the operation of all laws and reg ulations permitting the transit of goods, wares and merchandise in bond across or over the territory of the United States from Canada.
 Ieeislation is also recommended that will give Canadian vessels navigating our canals precisely the same advantages granted American vessels in Canadian canals and that both be measured by inc same rule of discrimination.
 The following is the message in part: To the Congress: The rejection by the Senate o I the treaty lately negotiated for the settlement and adjustment of the differences existing be- tween the United States and Great Britain concerning the rights and privileges Of the American fishermen in the ports and waters of British North America seems to justify a survey of the condition to whict. the pending question is thus rCmfLted.
 The treaty upon this subject, concluded in 1SlS, through disagreements as to the meaning of it's terms, has been fruitful source of irritation and trouble. Our clti- Zens engaged in fishing enterprises ln waters adjacent to Canada have been sub- jected to numerous VeXious lnterterences and annoyances.
 This conduct has been justified by Great Britain and Canada by the clam that the treaty of 1918 permitted it and upon the ground that 1t was necessary to the proper protection of Canadian interests. We Hanv that tTeatV ApreomoQtS lIhStltV these acts
 While keenly sensitive to all that was exasperating i'll the condition, and by no means indisposed to support the just com plaints of our injured citizens, l still deem it my duty for the preservation of import ant American interests which were directly involved, and in view of all the de- tails of the situation, to attempt by negotl- ation to remedy existing wrongs and to finally terminate, by fair and just treaty, these overcoming causes ot dlfn- culty.
 fully believe that the treaty just re- jected by the Senate was well suited to the exigency, and that it's provisions were ade- quate for our security in the future rom vexatious incidents and for the promotion of friendly neighborhood aud intimacy without sacrificing in the least our national prfue or dignity.
 am quite conscious that neither my opInion of the value of the rejected treaty nor the motives which prompted its nego- uatiOn are of importance in the light Of the judgment of the Senate thereupon. But it is of importance to note that this treaty has been rejected without any ap- parent disposition on the part of the Sen ate to alter amend It's provisions, and with the evident intention, not wanting expression, that no negotiation should at present be concluded touching the matter at issue.
 The cooperation necessary for the ad- justment of the long-standing national differences with which we have to deal, by hNjC nJNf having thus been declined 1 am by no means disposed to abandon the inerests and the rights of our people III he proml- ses or to neglect their grievances, and therefore turn to the contemplation of a plan of retaliation as q mode, which suIl remains of treating the situation
 am not unmindful of the gravity of tue responsibility assumed in adopting tllds line of conduct, nor do l fail in the least 10 appreciate it's serious consequences. It will be impossible to injure our Canadian II neighbOrS by retaliatory measures without inhicting some damage upon our own citis zeDs. This results from our proximity, our community of interests and the enevI- table commingling of the business enter prises which have been developed abY mu- tual activity.
 Plainly stated, the policy of national re- tallation manlteSty embraces the int1ic tlon of the greatest harm upon those who nave ln1ur9d us, with the least possl ble damage to ourselves. There is also an evi-
 
 moral support, found in visiting upon the offending party the same measure or kind of treatment of which we complain, and as far as pOssi ble within the same lines And above all things the plan of retalia- tion, if entered upon, should be thorough and vigorous.
 These considerations at this time lead me to invoke the aid and counsel of Con gresS and it's support ill such a further grant of power as seems to me necessary and desirable to render effective the policy have indicated.
 In the year 1886 notice was received by the representatives of our Cover nment that our fishermen would no longer be al lowed to ship their fish in bond and free of duty through Canadian territory to this country; and ever since that time such shipment has been denied.
 The privileges of such shipment which had been extended to our fishermen, was a most important one, allowing them to spend the time upon the fishing grounds which would otherwise be devoted to a voyage home with their catch; and doubling their opportunities for protitably prosecuting their vocation.
 In forbidding the transit of the catch of our fishermen over their territory in bond and free of duty the Canadian authorities deprived us of the only facility dependent upon their concession, and for which we could supply no substitute.
 The value to the Dominion of Canada of the privilege of transit for their exports and imports across our territory, and to and from our ports, though great in every aspect, will be better appreciated when it is remem bered that, for a cons derabie DOT tion of each year, the St. Lawrence River, which constitutes the direct avenue of for eign commerce leading to Canada, is closed by ice.
 During the last six years the imports and exports of British Canadian provinces car Tied across our territory under the privil- ege granted by our laws, amounted ill value to about $27O, 900, LOO, nearly all of which were goods dutable under our tariff laws, by far the larger part of this traffic consisting of exchanges of goods between Great Britain and her American provinces brought to and carried from our ports ill their own vessels.
 The treaty stipulation entered into by our Government was ill harmony with laws which were then on our statute book and are still in force.
 1 recommend immediate legislative ac- tion conferrng upon the Executive the power to suspend by proclamation the operation of all laws and regulations per mitting the transit of goods, wares and merchandise in bond across or over the territory of the United States to or from Canada.
 kgThere need be no hesitation in suspend. ing these laws arising from the supposi. tion that their continuation is secured by treaty obligations, for it seems quite plain