The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-10
OUR Law MAKERS.
A Lengthy Discussion in the
Senate.
AND OTHER BILLS.
The House Passes a Concurrst Reso.
luton to ADJ ourn In Respect
Of GenSral Sheridan.
SENATE.

WAsHIseroN, August 9.-Mitchel'
offered resolution calling on the
Secretary OF the Interior for informs-
ton concerning his recent decision in
the Guilford Miller land case, affecting
Northern Pacific lands. Agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to bust
ness on the calendar, and passed the
Senate bill to relieve the sureties of
George W. Hook, formerly receiver
disbursing agent of the land Office at
Humboldt, Calf
The Senate bill to pay A. W. Tabor
SO. S69 for the necessary additional ex
penses incurred by him as postmaster
of Leadville, Colo.
Also bill to pay Royal Hogbard $500
for additional rent for postofice at
Lengmont.
The Senate then proceeded to the
consideration of the fisheries treaty IN
executive session, and Evarts resumed
his speech against its ratification.
Evarts devoted a good deal of his ar
gument TO the question of bays and
headlands, and after he had spoken for
two hours yielded the floor temporarily
TO allow Hawley to introduce the cur
rent resolution that members of bSth
houses shall attend the funeral
OF General Sheridan on Saturday
next, at 10 am, and that as
a further mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased, the two
houses when they adjourn on Friday,
shall adjourn to meet On Monday next.
The resolution was agreed to and EYarts
resumed HE argument against the
fish, ries treaty. When EVarts ceased
speaking the discussion urging on
President Grants message to the
Senate with t1e proposed treaty on the
same subject was taken up by Morgan
who declared President Grant hao on
that occasion given counsel in favoi
of true and wise policy and
now SPOKE from his grave better than
any Senator had done in the discussion.
Morgan said the object of destroying
the treaty at once was nothing more or
less than political and was connected
with the Presidential election. Under
such circumstances it behooved the
Senators to look carefully around
them. O1e of the Senators from
Massachusetts had pronounced him
lMorgan) silly because he had alluded
to the TACT that war might grow
out of the question. He might be
silly, bat he had seen enough
of war to De afraid of it, perhaps the
Senator from Massachusetts had not.
Hoar disciaimed having spoken of the
Senator from Alabama as silly, what ne
said was if he had not so much respect
for that Senator he should pronounce
the suggestion that war with England
might grow out of insisting On the
rights or American fishermen as SUI
premely silly.
Morgan said the Democratic party
had in it the backbone OF a new
Jackson. That 1T was not going
to make a foolish quarrel, but
If quarrel ca re it would stand by the
country. right or wrong. When this
negotiation would fail them, the Demo-
cratic party Tor the Presidency meant
that the retaliation act, which then,
and not before, would become manda-
tory, would be obeyed, and when it was
expected that that law was to be obeyed,
there came howl from the fishery as
ISOLATION because the President would
not pledge him self in advance to limit
retalIations to the fishery business.
Blair, whose union negotiation reso-
luton had been alluded to by Morgan
declared sarcasticaIly that if there was
to be no war with England or Canada
until the discussion on the treaty
ended, war would be postponed until
the destruction of the world by fire or
a deluge came again. he defended his
resolution, and declared that, without
such union as 1t proposed, it would be
impossible for the two nations to go IN
peace. He did not know of any Repub-
lican who talked about war as due to
the r, lection of the treaty, The re-
sources of diplomacy we're all open and
had not been exhausted. A recaloitrant,
obstinate and pjg-headed executive
MAS not going to bear the responsibility
of infiicting on the American people
needless injury to mercantile interests,
distress and destruction of business Un-
necessarily, and simply because he had
the power. If Congress had conided
to him discretion in the direction CT re-
taliate, so far as was necessary to regu
gulate and to vindicate the injury that
might be be done to American rights,
simply in the matter of fish
cries, when it was intimated to the Sen
ate that the President was going further
and would destroy the Industrial
fabric of the United States simply be-
cause he and his party were in power.
It appeared to him (Blair) that the
wto party m ght as well be bsnished
from the country as being tooignorant,
too foolish or TOO unpatriotic to exist
properly under the prote stion Of
American laws. The Senate would M
doubtedly reject the treaty, and ought
to be permitted to reject it without so
much talk. The Senator from Alabama
would prevent war by his everlasting
speeches. As to his own resolution, il
meant basis for action might be
found under which the northern
boundary of the / nited States would
be co-terminus with the north pole,
Hale criticised Morgsn's position and
that Of the Democratic party on the
treaty ae being.in the interest of free
trade. The treaty was proposition to
remove the duties on fish caught BY
British fishermen to be brought into
American ports in competition witt
American interests and industries.
Morgan denied that he had made any
statement as to his desire or expecta-
ton to repeal the duty on salt fish,