The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
RAYARD,s PROMISES.
How He Has Protected American Vessels
SeiZ>d by the Canadians.
Gpeciaf To the fundamentals journal

How He Has Protected American Vessels
Seiz>d by the Canadians
Special TO the Indianapolis journal.
WAsHINeToN March 1.-The dispatch from
Ottawa published to-day announcing that pro-
ceedines in the cases of the David ]. Adams and
Ella NJ Doughty, the United States fishing yes
sells 1ibeled in the Admiralty Court at Halifax,
have been discontinued on the ground that ''as
these seizure were made to assert and establish
the right of Canada to prevent the purchase of
bait or supplies or the shipping of crews in her
territorial waters under the convention of 1918,
and inasmuch as those rights have been recog-
nized and established by the recent convention.
it is unnecessary that the proceedings should
continue" must have been pleasant reading to
Secretary Bayard. These vessels were seized
in 1856, and on the Goth of May of that year Mr..
Bayard wrote to Minister West in regard to the
detention of the Adams that ''the report received
by me yesterday evening alleges such action in
relation to the vessel mentioned rem ders it
difficult to imagine it TO be that orderly proceed
ing and due process of law so well KIN own and
customarily exercised in Great Britain and the
United States, and which digniies the two oy-
ernments and gives to private rights of property
and the liberty of the individual their essential
safeguards"
In the same letter he eharacterizes the seizure
as harsh and peremptory arrest and deten-
ton OF vessel the property of citizens of a
nation with whom cations of peace and amity
We're supposed to exist" Again. Sept. II, 1886.
Minister Phelps wrote to Lord Iddesleigh in re-
gard to the Adams and several other vessels that
1.-THE conduct of the provincial officers toward
these vessels was therefore, not merely Oh,
friendly and injurious. but in clear and plain
violation of the terms of the treaty, and / am
instructed to say that PREPARATION for the losses
sustained by the owners of the vessels will be
claimed by the United States government on
their behalf soon as the amount be ac-.
curatey ascertained."
June 80, 1856. Mr.. Bayard wrote to Captain
Jesse Lewis. the owner of the David J. Adams:
Your case commands my sincere sympathy,
and ever since it was brought to my knowledge
has had the constant consideration of this de-
partment and of the consular officers OF the
United States in the Dominion of Canada Rep
aration for all losses unlawfully caused by
foreign authority will be made the subject of
international presentation and demand"
These only few brief extracts from a
large mass of correspo ndence relating TO these
same vessels, in which Mr.. Bayard asserted
over and over again that this government could
not consent to any interpretation of the treaty
of 1918 that would justify the Canadian treat
nent of them. What the Dominion govern
ment thinks the new treaty means is very plain
ly set forth in the despatch quoted above, for it
officially declares that the right of Canada to
seize and condemn the two vessels in question
has been recognized and established by the
recent convention" Mr.. Bayards triumph is
indeed great