Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-30
Frye on the Fisheries.
He Vigorously Opposes the
 Proposed Treaty.

4AC NiSOaOoSiy OPPOSCS baC
 Proposed Treaty.
 YANKEE RIGHTS IGNORED. He Thinks Yankee Fishermen are Worthy
 by the Senate Making Sheridan "Gen-
 eral of the Army"
 WASHINGTON. May 3O-Mr. Frye, con- tinuing his speech on the fisheries treaty in the senate, said the question before the senate was no tihing one It involved the dignity and honor of the great republic and the rights of its citizens. 1t could not be belittled by talk of locahzation, by charging that it concerned only New England industry of little account and that Yankee fishermen alone were in- terested.
 It could not be obscured by the presiden of the United States intimating that in event of the failure of the treaty he would resort to the law passed by congress in such a way as to jeopardize and it might be destroy all the business interests of the great north The question before the senate was: Shall Ameri- can citizens Fishermen, but still citizens,) be protected against injustice and wrong and outrage inflicted by a neighboring nation, emboldened to it only because it rested under the protection of mighty power beyond the SeaSs
 He paid glowing tribute to the valor of the "Yankee fishermen" in the various wars of this country, and asked whether such men were entitled to contempt
 When the war for independence was over we met to frame a treaty of peace, and there were men in the land who loved their coun- try, and who secured in that treaty of peace provision for the rights of the repub- lie; nay more, Great Britain had accorded us the rights of fishing on the Grand Banks and other banks over which she had no moro right or control than over the mid ocean She never surrendered anything that was her own.
 We were again victorious in the war of lSl2, and when that was over and we met to make treaty of peace, Great Britain said:
 "You have forfeited every right that you had in these northwestern waters
 We had men then. patriotic and courage ous men, who said to Great Britain emphatic ally.
 "You put that into the treaty of peace and we will never make peace with you"
 The result was that the treaty was entirely silent as to this fishery right The treaty of 1S1S was negotiated at a very unfortunate time for our country, when we were stag
  and Great Britain was more arrogant than ever, having just conquered Napoleon on the field of Waterloo. Under these circum- stances we made e dishonorable, humiliat- ing and cowardly surrender of our rights, but we did have courage enough to insist that if our fishermen were driven by stress of weather into any of thass nffapdfEfa fBs faeht to purchase wood, refill their water tanks and repair their vessels, but no right to enter these waters for any other purposes what ever.
 The United States grew in power, in popu- lation, in importance and grew immecscIT- s> k>~ -..>skoess 0IUuo BrIram ana Can ada looked upon these markets with avari- cious eyes, and determined to possess them There was no hesitation, no question of rights, or decency, or hospitality. Great Britain proposed to have our markets so that Cana dian fisherman might be quadrupled, and when she needed sailors she would know where to find the bravest and the best in the wide world. Canada drove our vessels to sea in storms. She seized them on the high seas and searched them; she put aboard them armed men, and literally confined the cap tains and crews on their vessels with the American flag flying over their heads. They were tried in the colonial courts, their vessels confiscated one after another, until the perils of the sea were not half so many as the ter TOTS of the law in shore.
 Under the treaty of 1854, known as the reciprocity treaty, we were permitted to fish within their waters and they within our waters, and they were permitted free entry to our markets for their fish, and they thus had all they wanted-just as the senator from Alabama (Morgan), the senator from Della ware GSaulisbury), and the senator from Ohio Payne) within two days had threatened as the result of the failure of this treaty, that they should have again if this treaty was not ratified.
 Mir. Morgan and Mr. Payne both disclaimed having made any such threats
 Mir. Frye maintained that their speeches in the secret sessions embodied a plain intima- tion that free fish would result from a failure to ratify. the treaty.
 Mr. Morgan replied that he had said, and would say again, that if the senator from Maine placed before the people of the United States the question of 6 war with Great Britain, against that of letting fish in free of duty, he would raise very serious issue.
 Mir. Frye declared that the modus vivendi only secured to us, by the payment of sl50 per ton, commercial rights which already be- longed to us.
 Mir. Frye referred sarcasticaIIy to the meetings of the plenipotentiaries at Wash ington, with the rooms furnished with S10 orchids, living like princes, and the result of their labors was treaty, the most disgrace full huniliating and cowardly surrender that the American republic had ever made.
 At this point in his speech Mir. Frye com plained that the air in the senate chamber was exceedingly oppressive, and that he was unable to proceed with bis speech. A recess for half an hour was taken in order to ven- tilate the chamber by opening the gallery doors.
 When the senate reassembled the bill to revive the grade of general of army was again taken up
 MT. Berry made speech in opposition to it, and Mir. Manderson spoke in its favor. It was passed, yeas, 34; nays, 2; the negative votes being given by Senators Berry, Coke, Harris, Reagan, Salisbury, Vance and Will son, of Maryland
 |, Mir. Frye then resumed his argument against the fisheries treaty. At the conclusion of MT. Fryeis speech Mir. Gray obtained the floor to make a speech upon the treaty; but its further consideration was, on motion of MT. Beck, who said that l he and other senators desired to attend the St Louis convention, postponed till Monday, June 1i The motion to postpone till Decem- | Der next was entered by MT. Morgan, and is now pending. Motions to publish the pro ceedings in executive session past and fut- ure) in The Congressional Record were also