Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-03
LEGISLATIVE.
The Fisheries Treaty Again
Ventilated.
CLEvELAND'S PENSION RECORD
British COmmOns-DebateO on the Par.
nell Commission Continued.
Washington Notes.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, August 2.-In the Senate
to-day Stewards resolution offered yes
terday, calling on the Secretary of the
Interior for information as to cancelled
desert land applications, was taken up
and adopted. The presiding officer an
nounced the appointment of the select
committee, under Hoar's resolutions, on
Commerce and Business between the
United States and Canada, as follows:
Senators Hoar, Allison, Hale, Dolph,
Pugh, Eustis and Blodgett.
A conference committee was ordered
on the Naval appropriation bill, and Sem
ators Hale, Farwell and Beck were ap-
pointed conferees on the part OF the Sem
ate.
A resolution instructing the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs to continue their
investigation into Indian matters, with
authority to visit the Indian reservations,
was reported and agreed to.
Platt offered a resolution (Which was
adopted) calling on the Commissioner of
Patents for information as to the default
of Levi Bacon, Financial Clerk Of the
Patent Office, in the Attorneys fund at
the time of Bacon's death in 1887.
Beck moved to proceed to the consid-
Grafton Of the bills on the calendar in
regular order.
Sherman moved to proceed to the con-
sideration of the Fisheries treaty in open
executive session. The latter motion
was agreed to, ayes "a, nays %, "a strict
party vote), and the Fisheries treaty was
taken up,the question being on Morgan's
motion to postpone its further considera.
| ton till December next.
RIDDLEBERGER ATTACKS THE TREATY.
Riddleberger made an exhaustive
speech against the treaty and declared
the Republican party was opposed to the
ratification, and the Democratic party
was in favor of it. He arranged the ad-
ministration and the Democratic party
which backed it as a ro-English organiza-
ton, and proceeded to read extracts from
English periodicals to prove that the
Mills bill and the Presidents tariff mes
sage were in the direction of free trade,
and that that the present ELECTORAL contest
was conflict between free trade and pro-
lection and nothing else. He read an
extract from aspeech of S. S. Cox in the
House, in speaking of protectionists as
robbers, rascals and plunderers, and said
he was not surprised at that, when he
read the book published by the same
gentlemen years ago, entitled the Buck
eye Abroad, in which such sentences as
these occurred: cold England, God bless
her. with tears in my eyes l beseech
Heavens best blessing upon her. I re-
member her only as the land of noble
deeds and generous hearts," "I hope
that the Pope will create no Cardinals for
America" ''The i'll success attending
the wise mans experiment in England
will prevent the Pope from creating any
Cardinals in Protestant countries" He
(Riddleberger) did not propose to intro.
duce religion into the question of politics,
but he proposed to show what the free
trade Democrats were. He knew that
Cox in the House of Representatives had
pleaded "the baby act'' in reference to
that book, and supposed he would plead
dotage in reference to his late utterance.
Referring to the subject of the treaty he
declared: We will never be National
Government until we have whipped
England for the third time. Our boasted
Monroe Doctrine is being annulled and
wiped from the face of the earth and we
find the gentlemen on the other side of
the Chamber saying, "We must arbi-
trate or we must fight"
MORGAN RoAsTs THE REPUBLICAN COM
| MITTEE.
Morgan spoke at some length in SUD-
port Of the treaty. Commenting on the
statement in the majority report that the
time for negotiation had passed, Morgan
criticized it as piece of Outrageous
presumption" and said the Committee
on Foreign Relations had no more right
to instruct the President to cease nero-
tiations than it had to require him to re-
sign his Office. He also spoke of the
Committees appeal to the British Gov
ernment as piece of unaccountable
presumption and of affectation of
authority and dignity on the part of this
Committee, in setting itself up to advise
the British Cabinet. He paraphrased
the closing paragraph in the report in
this manner: "We beg Your Majesty
that you will not take this abortion which
the President of the United States has
negotiated with your Commissioners,
and its rejection as being evidence Of
hostile purpose on the part of the United
States, but that you will proceed in such
way that our fisheries shall have full
commercial privileges and enjoy the
/ oahO ilSuCc dAH advantages III YOUR
Canadian ports, that your fishermen en-
joy in ours"
ITO say nothing of the presumption of
it," he raid, ''look at the humiliation of
that Committee asking the British Queen
for favors after rejecting the treaty on
the grounds that she was no longer en-.
titled to have negotiations in respect to
it."
Morgan then went on to give flu ther
free translations Of the paragraph as fol-
lows: Our ofense Gas you will please to
understand it) is not against your Royal
Majesty at all or your Majesty's Govern
ment. 1t is against Grover Cleveland.
We want to give him wipe and a very
serious one, and we have done that by
denouncing him as presumptuous ne
gotiator of a treaty in the face of our law
making it his duty to employ retaliation.
We have done it; we have fla:tened him
out, and turn now to your Majesty and
assure your Majesty humbly that we did |
not mean any offense toward you.'
"This little political finesse, this at
tempt to cast odium and slurs upon the
President Of the United States and then
to turn round to the Queen of Great Bri-
tain and beg her for favors, is one of the
most humiiiating attitudes that any great
Committee ever took. 1t is regular toady-
ism to the British power. do not think