Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-14
Let stalk AboutFiSh
Another Day Devoted to the
Fisheries Treaty.
SENATOR HOAR GETS his BACK UP"

And Pitches into George Of Mississippi
with Much Observation-Disclosures After
Information-Fens for Deafaess In
creaSed-Other Pension Proposals, In
Guiding Relief for Life-Savers - Gen.
Sheridan's WfI-Half Million More
for the Postntiice.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 1.-THE debate
on the fisheries treaty yesterday was given
a decidedly sharp turn at the end thereof
by Hoar, who opened fire hrlskly on George
of Mississippi, Before George could reply
the senate adjourned on motion of Beck.
The principal speech was made by Gray of
Delaware, who, IN urging poStponement until
after the electinn, SAID the issues involved
were too mumentouS to be lightly dealt with
The hShermen whose rights were the subject
matter OF ;he treaty, were pursuing their av-
ocatIon undiSturhed. under the protocol at
tached to the treaty He then proceeded to
critlrise published letter purporting to he
from T. l. Woodbury., which stated that the
twelfth article of the treaty gave away the
rights OF the states To control their terrific
rial waters He declared that this WAS
an absolutely fatuous argument, that II WAS
unlawver-llkr and nonSrnSical. II. did not
believe that Mr. Woodbury. had ever riSkrd
his high professional reputation by such an
argument tray asserted that the cthIm OF
Canada over It's bays was aN alb
soiute as the claim of Maryland 10
jurisdiction over Chesapeake bay. These
waters were as much a part of
| the local jurisdiction as the solid ground COW
| ara1 bV corn 6,i.lS and h,ls.s The mend
| ing treaty came to the senate ear marked
with the justice and magnanmity which
should ttlnng t" a great people II surren-
| deT'ed nothing ami asked nothing which a
| proud and Tree people should not ask, lie
| said that no taunt could be so irritating as
the taunt that Democratic senators we're ar
| Euing the case OF Great Britain. The Demo
cratic party had always been ready to press
to the extreme everything that concerned
| the country right and honor,
Beck referred, incidentally, To the duty on
| Bessemer steel, 10y which, he said, Carnegie
has been given Il bonus of a million and a
half dollars, SO that he could carry in ms
| carriage throughout Scotland the Warwick
al the Republican party, who had now come
| back 10 this country TO hrhttte all the rest
OF the Republicans
Gray again resuning complimentad Sher
man on The stateSmanl,k- eNordlum of his re
cent speech but SAID that when he got down
from the plane OF craftsmanship TO that Of
partis4nship. he foundered. Concluding,
he said that if the treaty should be rejected
and the annoyances to American fishermen
should be renewed the responsibility wonlt
fall on those who voted 10 reject the treaty.
George read from The Boston Herald tht
report of a meeting of the Deep Sea Assem-
bly, X of L. held at Gloucester At whict
resolutions were raSsed protesting against
the fish trust, favoring competition aS tn,
only remedy, and denying the assumption
that the fisheries were the nursery Of tht
American navy by the implication that mos
| of the fishermen We're foreigners He asked