Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-14
Fiftieth Congress--First Session,
WAsH1NeroN,. June 13.

visions of the treaty, unsatisfactory, illusor, and comparatively valueless as they all were His colleague (Mr. Frye) had done that in most thorough and efficient fashion. But the treaty was failure, as must needs hay, l been failure inevitably because neither tn, administration nor the negotiators had beer able to seize or take into consideration thu whole situation. They did not seem to hayt I considered or taken into account the steady march of Canada for twenty years undel British inspection and under British rule in making attacks upon the United Statei both under guise of carrying out treaty stip ulations and in the course of violating them Both the administration and the negotiatori had failed to realize that the time had come for considering all the questions and striking proper balance as result of the negotia- tions. Coming back to the view of the fish, ermen, MT. Hale declared that the fisherman would agree to no surrender in this matter that his voice was all one way and against the treaty. Not vessel had sailed from Provincetown, Gloucester, Marblehead, Port. land, Castine or Booth Bay since the treaty whose master and crew had not sent back ar execrating protest against the treaty. Bad as were the old conditions, beset as they were with anneYances and troubles, they had been better than the treaty. He gave it as his conviction that the desire of the Canadians to have the Amer ican market opened free to their fish was at the bottom of all the trouble. Ever since the Dominion was formed twenty years ago steady purpose had been pur- sued by the Canadian authorities to the detri. ment of the commerce, trade and business of the United States. Mir. Hale spoke of the enormous subsidies to the Canadian Pacific railroad, subsidies compared to which the aid granted by the United States to the Pa cifie railroad companies sank into insienif- canoe, and said that the course of Great Britain in that matter ought to be watched
 with jealous scrutiny by every American ad-
 ministration. Any administration that was
 dereIict in the matter ought to be condemned
 by the American people because of it's unpa-
 triotic want of jealous scrutiny into what was
 going on in Canada.
 Mr. Blair said he would like to have Mir,
 Hale's view upon the subject of the forti6ea-
 tions being erected by the British government on the Pacific ceast-whether they were being
 erected with view to future warlike condi-
 tions.
 Mr. Hale replied that he did not believe
 that any wise British statesman contemplated
 with any feeling except apprehension and
 States. But the things that were going on,
 such as that to which the Senator from New
 Hampshire alluded, were in the line of Great
 Britain's course always. She was, after the fashion commended and counse1led in the
 proyerb, "provident for the future'
 mIs D1dlT dSkGu MAcbuOE WILL I06 uaVAl preparations of Great Britain and the fortifi- cation of harbers on the Pacific coast the British power would not be in 6 position when -triding dispute arose between the two countries to sweep American interests from the coast.
 MT. Hale replied that the Senator could draw his own conclusions. It had seemed to him, he said, remarkable spectacle and an anomalous condition that in such an emer- gency solid array of senators on the other side of the chamber should take the ground that the treaty was satisfactory for the day, that under it American rights were properly secured and that it was a praiseworthy and patriotic result of an important negotiation.
 Mr. Hoar called MT. Hale's attention to & contract which the British government had just made for ship railway between the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which was to convey vessels of 2,700 tons and by which any number Of gunboats could be conveyed into the lakes sufficient to com- mand them.
 MT. Hale thought the matter alluded to very important one, but did not discuss it further. He believed that the treaty would fail. He was not one of those who believed that the subject matter, which had growing importance touching the relations between the United States and Canada (and therefore Great Britain, would be ultimately settled without further negotiation. He could not say why it was that the American negoti- ators, who were able and honest and patri- otic men. had yielded and accepted such a treaty. He did not suppose that anybody believed that the treaty would be confirmed by the Senate. He feared that American ne- gotiators in the future would be hampered and embarrassed by the concessions made. In conclusion he thanked the Senate for it's attention, and said that he had endeavored to present some of the considerations which
 made the American people dissatisfied with the treaty and made them feel that the ne- gotiators on the other side had gained an ad- vantage over the American negotiators.
 At the close of MT. Hale's speech the reso- lution was postponed until Monday, the 25th
 Mir. Blair moved to take up the Senate bill for the adjustment of accounts of labor CTS, etc., arising under the eight hour law. The vote by yeas and nays resulted: Yeas 21, nays Il. The negative votes were all given by Democrats and the affirmative by the latter being joined, how ever, by Senators Call and Turpie. As there was noquorum the roll was called and forty-four senators answered.
 A motion to proceed to executive business was made by MT. Butler and defeated, yeas IA, nays 13. There was another call, show ing the presence of a quorum. several sen ators, however, being paired, but another weary of useless voting, the Senate at 4:20 adjourned.
 HoUsE.-The House went into committee on the tariff bill. Mir. Warren, of Missouri, moved to strike from the free list burlaps not exceeding sixty inches in width of flax, jute or hemp. The motion was lost
 Mir. McMillan, of Tennessee, moved to place upon the free list bags of jute for grain.
 MT. Dingley, of Maine, opposed-the propo- sition to place jute bags on the free list on . T in this country of cotton bag ging.
 Messrs. Briggs and Thompson, of Colorado, supported the motion and Mfr. MeKenna and Mir. Felton opposed. The motion was then agreed to.
 Reaching the clause putting on the free list machinery for the manufacture of cotton bagging, Mir. Lind, of Minnesota, offered an amendment including machinery for making twine of hemp or jute butts. This was re- jected, as well as a motion to strike out the 
 The next paragraph was read (tin plate) and Mir. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, moved to strike 1t out Mr. McMillan and Mr. Breck- enridge, of Kentucky, made an earnest ef- fort to have time set for taking vote on the paragraph, but without avail, the Repub licans refusing to accept any offer.
 Finally Mr. Dalzell was permitted to talk for fifteen minutes. He said the bill pros posed to further exaggerate the inequality between the duty on steel plate and taggers' iron It proposed to maintain the duty on steel plate while admitting free taggers iron, 6 much lighter finished product.
 Mir. Scott, of Pennsylvania, said that ever since John Jarrett had taken small interest in little tin plate mill the legislation had continued for an increase of duty.
 MT. Yost. of Virginia, taking up the fig ures showing the imports of tin plate into the United States calculated that the labor ing people of this country had lost $15, ,00O,~ 900 in wages by not being allowed to pur- chase these tin plates through higher duty. Virginia could furnish everything necessary to make the best plates She had mild basic steel and tin, without which the plate could not be made. The South was demanding it's rights and could get them if the men who represented her did their duty. Her future was bound up in the industries, for they were infant industries in the South and she had long enough paid to the North. No man could make 8 canvass this year on the basis of the Mills bill.
 Mir. Butterworth, of Ohio, speaking upon the effect of the reduction upon the canning industry, said it would not result in higher prices for the farmers peaches and toma- toes, nor would the consumer get his goods cheaper The middleman would benefit and thousands of people would go without taste of the canned goods. He could not look the