St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-22
NICE KETTLE OF FISH.
All the Talk About Canadian
Cod Was so Much Wind
Wasted.
The Senate, by a Party Vote,
Rejects the Fisheries
Treaty.
Sabin Voted "Agin' the Gov
ernment" and Davis Was
Paired.
A Substitute Tariff Bill, Sen
atOr Allison Affirms, Will
Be Submitted.


event in to-day's senate proceedings
was the rejection of the fisheries treaty.
After the reading of the journal Mr..
Morgan took the floor and closed the
debate upon the treaty. He concluded
his speech with an eloquent peroration
upon the prospects of trouble with Great
Britain after the treaty was rejected,
and his finishing remarks were proph-
ecy that when the exigency of war oc-
Cured the party which caused it would
find the party which had advocated the
treaty just as true to the flag and just
as ready to shed its blood for the coun-
try as they. At 10 O'Clock the gavel
fell. Mr.. Morgan took his seat and
the debate ended. 1t was expected
that vote would be taken at once upon
pending motions, amendments and the
resolution of ratification, hut Mr.. Nc
Pherson delayed action for half an hour
by calling up the concurrent resolution
accepting for Statuary hall the statues
of Gen. Phil Kearney and Richard
Stockton. of New Jersey. After eulo-
CYSTIC remarks by Senators Mcpherson
and Blodgett on the lives of those two
prominent men, the resolution was
adopted. The treaty was again taken
up, and at o'clock the
FIRST VOTE WAS TAKEN.
upon the motion of Mr.. Gibson to re-
commit the treaty to the committee on
foreign relations, with instructions to
frame and report amendments to the
treaty to prevent ambiguity in the con-
structiOn put upon the articles of the
treaty or to report measure of arbitra-
ton. This motion was lost by vote of
81 nays to 80 yeas. The treaty was then
read by sections. A vote was then taken
on an amendment to the eleventh arti-
Gle, offered by Mr.. Gray, providing that
on all occasions facilities shall be ac-
corded to United States fishing vessels
in Canadian ports for the purchase of
needful provisions and supplies. This
was rejected-yeas 2S, nays 80. No
other amendments were offered, and a
vote was then taken Oh the formal reso-
luton of ratification. 1t was defeated
yeas 81, nays 30-a strict party vote,
which in detail was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bate, Beck Berry. Black
burn, Blodgett, Brown Cockrell, Coke. Col
quit, Daniel, Faulkner, George, German, Gray,
Hampton, Harris, Jones of Arkansas, Nc
Pherson, Morgan. Pasco Payne, Pugh, Ran
som. Reagan, Vest Walthall and Wilson of
Maryland-27.
Nays-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Blair,
Chace, Chandler, Dawes, Dolph. Edmunds,
Evarts, Farwell, Frye, Hale, Hawley, lis
cock, Hoar, ingalls,. Jones, Manderson.
Mitchell, Platt, Plumb, Quay, Sabin, Sawyer,
Sherman. Spooner,. Stewart, Stockbridge,
Teller anu Wilson of Iowa-30.
Pairs-Call and Bowen; Butler and Gamer
on; Gibson and Cullom; Turpie and Davis;
Eustis and Paddock; Hearst and Stanford:
Kenna and Morrill,; salisbury and Riddle
berger, Vance and Palmer.
Senator voorhees, did not vote.
Mr.. Morgan moved that the president
be notified of the action of the senate,
and it was so ordered. The senate then
proceeded to legislative business. Mr..
widows of soldiers, without reference to
cause of the soldiers death, provided
they were married during the military
service of the soldier. Mr.. Stewart
made personal explanation denying
published reports that an amendment
which he had recently proposed
to an appropriation bill was in
the interest of mining corpora
tions. Mr.. Morgan said he proposed to
ask the senate tomorrow to take up
the bill relating to the debt of the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad company and Mr..
Platt said he would insist upon the
Washington, Montana, and
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL ADMISSION
bills being considered as soon as the
Jackson, Miss, and louisiana election
matters were disposed OF.
The house amendment to the Chinese
emigration restriction bill was con-
CURED in. The bill now goes to the
president. The conference report on
the naval appropriation bill was pre-
sented and agreed to. The senate then
passed a large number of private pen
sion bills, and after a short secret ses-
sion at $50 adjourned.
REGRETTED BY CANUCKS.
OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 21.-Regret. but
no surprise was Occasioned here by the
rejection of the fishery treaty by the
American senate. The modus viVendi
is likely to remain in operation.