Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-14
GOVERNMENT GOSSIP.
ButterwOrth's Bill for An
nexing Canada.
TIE SABBATH OBSERVANCE FOLK
Seventh Day People demonstrate.
Grievance of Native
Actors.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

iAssoc1ateo freSs Dispdtcnes 70 the dERALD.l
WASHINGTON, December 13.-Repre-
sentative Butterworth, of Ohio, has in
troduced for reference the following joint
resolution:
WHEREAS, The citizens OF the Dominion
of Canada are one with us in race, line
age, 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 single system to be
one and inseparable; ~
WHEREAS, The commercial relations
between the United States and the Do
minion of Canada are and have been
strained and unnaturally cramped and
in q measure paralyzed, owing to the in
ability of the two governments to estab-
Nsh such system of international trade
and commerce between them, as is es-
sential to meet the requirements of the
fituation;
WHEREAS, The conditions of the rela.
tions before referred to, as also the geo.
graphy of the two countries, suggest the
impoesibility of the just and permanent
settlement of the controversies pertain
ing to the fisheries, boundaries and trans.
Continental trade, except by blending
efforts and interests under one govern
mental system, and point logically to the
necessity and probability of unity and
assimilation between the two nations un-
der one government;
WHEREAS, the bonds of sympathy re-
sulting from kinship race language, tradi-
ton and substantial identity of govern
mental systems, together with COM
munity of interests based upon
commerce and its aids and agencies, are
of such character that such union and
assimilation is being discussed and favor
ably considered by the citizens of both
nations, and inasmuch as it is believed
its early consummation would be of great
advantage to all the 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 a
view to aid in the consummation of what
is hereinbefore suggested, be it
Resolved, By the Senate and House OF
Representatives OF the United States in
Congress assembled, that the President
be and is hereby authorized and en-
ployed to invite negotiations looking to
the assimilation and unity of the people
Of the Dominion of Canada and the
United States under one government,
such unity and assimilation to be based
upon the admission of the several Prov
inces of the Dominion, or any one OF
them, into the Union of the States, upon
the same terms and equality with the
several States now composing the Union,
and the assumption by the United States
Of the Indebtedness of the Dominion oil
Canada, or just proportion thereof, and
such other equitable terms and condi.
tions as justice to the high contracting
parties may demand.
Resolved, further, and that with view
to such negotiations the President invite
the appointment of commissioners by
the Government of Great Britain and
Dominion of Canada to consider the wis
dom and expediency OF settling and ad-
justing all controversies and differences
which now exist between the two Gov
ernments growing out of the fisheries
or otherwise, by such union and assimila-
ton as hereinbefore suggested, either as
to the whole or any province of the
several provinces of said Dominion, such
negotiations to he conducted with due
regard to the amicable relations which
obtain between Great Britain and the
United States and the obligations i'm
posed thereby.