Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-17
WASHINGTON.
Pugh and Chandler Discuss
the Fisheries.
THE WOOL SCHEDULE COMPLETED
That Commodity Remains Op the
Free List-A Free Whisky
Amendment Fails.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

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WASHINGTON, July 16.-In the Senate,
the House joint resolution appointing
Col. Harris, of Ohio, General Martin,
of Kansas, and General Hartranft, of
Pennsylvania, managers of the National
Soldiers Home, to fill vacancies, was re-
ported from the Committee and
passed.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for the
purpose of erecting monument to Gen
eral George Rogers Clark in the city of
Louisville, was reported, and after some
debate, passed.
The Senate then went into open execu-
tive session on the Fisheries bill, and
was addressed by Pugh in favor of its
ratification.
| PUGH's DEFENSE OF THE TREATY.
Pugh said it was manifest that the Re-
publican majority was wilfully avoiding
its constitutional and sworn duty, and
was placing the Senate before the coun-
try in disreputable attitude for no other
purpose than supposed politi-
cal partisan consideration. How
could such party be trusted
with the custody Of political power ?
The hope of England, Ireland and Scot
land would suffer no injury or derive no
benefit from anything in the treaty that
would mortify or punish England. Eng
land had nothing to lose but everything
to gain by American non-intercourse with
Canada. The people of Canada were
naturally friends of the United States,
and could be made so in practice by
, the best policy of the United States to be
: neighboring people.
THE REASON FOR OPPOSITION
To the treaty, he said, was found in the
, fifteenth article, which it was feared
would give an American market for Ca
madam fishermen. Had it not been for
the menace of free fish found in
the fifteenth article, no outburst
OF indignation against the sacri-
fees and surrenders made in the
pending treaty would have been heard
In conclusion, he said the President had
discharged his duty with due care to the
rights of American fishermen, and was
free from any partisan consideration. II
the President or the Senate was most tc
.. blame for keeping up the disturbing
condition which was full of ruinous con
i sequences.
CHANDLER OPPOSES IT.
: Chandler addressed the Senate in op.
position to the treaty, which, he said
} was dishonoring to the Nation: Chandler
quoted speech of Sir Charles Tuppel
. | dn1f haf 10
ment, which he said libeled the Repub-
, lican party. Never before in the history
of the country had the emissaries
of foreign government openly
engaged in negotiations with one
{ political party, and the Senate
ought to find way to tell them that
. While American party strifes were bitter
, enough, they must not be made the bas-
sis of political negotiations. Chandler
declared Joseph Chamberlain came here
anxious to negotiate q treaty even at the
expense of conceding all the American
Government would demand, but from
the vanity and anxiety of Bayard to be
known as the negotiator OF the
u AYARD-CHAMBERLAIN TREATY,
The desire to protect the rights of the
: American fisherman and National honor
denly and unexpectedly obtained an easy
victory. But there must have been
more than vanity in the surrender and
decrepitude of Bayard, and it
clusion that combination had
/ been formed between the leaders
, of the Democratic party to sacrifice the
interests Of the New England fishermen
and break down the American tariff
system. These injurious assaults on
American interests by the combined
forces of English free trade and South
ern Democrats, ought to be met on the
threshold by the rejection of this miser-
, able treaty. Chandler declared
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Had been formally and deliberately
abandoned by the present Administra-
ton. To the South the Panama canal
was being constructed, and within five
years the Ishmus of Panama was
likely to become French colony,
while the Administration was opposing
and defeating the Nicaragua canal
scheme. To the North the Dominion of
i Canada was growing stronger and more
powerful than had ever been dreamed of,
She was bodily seizing the transportation
interests of the United States; was fore
ing her way into American markets; was
/ perpetrating outrages on American FISH
ing vessels and was forcing US to treat on
equal and degrading terms.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
Submitted to all these aggressions and
in his last annual message, through
amazing solecism, had omitted refer
ence to ony question of foreign or do
mestic policy except one, and that
one was to recommend Congress to JOIN
him in his alliance with Great Britain, to
strike down the American tariff system.
How long was the protection of Ameri-
can interests at home and the defense of
the National honor to be entrusted to
hands like these.
| Teller obtained the floor and the treaty
went over till tomorrow.
| The Senate bill for the adjustment of
accounts of laborers, workmen and
mechanics arising under the eight-hour
law, was then taken up and advocated by
| Blair. Without action the Senate went
into secret executive session, after which
| it adjourned.
THE FULLER CASE
was reached and taken up in secret ses-
sion and the case informally talked over
Some members of the judiciary Com
mittee took occasion to say there had never