The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-08-25
THOSE REBATES
NOW THAT THE UNITED STATES
HAS RETALlATED
And Put the Rates of the 800" Canal M.
u Big Row Sprung IN in the Domin.
ion Government.

WASHINGTON, August 23.-Included In
the aftermath of the Canadian retalia-
tion proclamation is statement that
this course has been under careful !ad-
visement since before the adjournment
of congress. After the act of July 26
authorizing retaliation had gone through
both houses without opposition. it was
stated five members oil the foreign Of
fairs committee. who reported the bill.
had done SO at the personal request Of
the president The information is now
allowed to leak out that the precise
shape which retaliation should take so
ms to produce the most telling elect on
Canadian commerce and reciprocity. a
solution oi the difficulty was arrived at
| after repeated consultations with lead
ing business men of our Canadian from
tier who were called into consultation
by the state department from northern
New York and other parts of the coun.
try so quietly that the fact of their
presence here on this business is only
now made known after their departure
and the completion OF the act.
The late hour yesterday when the
proclamation was given out and the fact
that Canadian newspapers very largely
follow the English fashion and publish
no Sunday editions. sufficiently explain
why so few echoes have yet been heard
from Canada
1t is said in administration circles that
the ground was go carefully gone over
beforehand that Canada is not left leg
to stand on, and must give into the
American demands, and Immediately
revoke the order in council of April
last authorizing the discriminating re-
bate Of eighteen cents q ton on grain
products shipped to Canadian ports and
refused TO all American merchandise
equally of tolls in the we'll and canal
was one of the distinct pledges made by
article 2i OF the trea of Washington,
OF 1871, under which treaty Canada has
proiited SO largely.
Another fact much commented on
here is the humiliating position in which
Governor General Lord Stanley and the
Canadian ministers have placed the
British legation in Washington. Mr..
Herbert, the British. charge d'affaires
twice asked OF the United States gov
ernment for an extension of the time,
stating that he did SO ut the request Of
the Canadian authorities and on the
last occasion, August 6. holding out on
the same authority, promise OF some
satisfactory action. Yet the first news
OF the decision of the Canadian govern
ment TO continue the obnoxious rebate
until the end OF the navigation season,
that is until q period when the relation
would be harmless, came to the state
department, not from the British lega-
ton, which had been led to promise
early and satisfactory information, but
from the United States consul general
in Ottawa. When Mr. Herbert yester-
day journeyed post haste from New
port to Washington. and was asked by
Secretary Foster whether the informa-
ton conveyed by the United States
consul general was true, he was obliged
to confess that the Canadian govern
ment had left him absolutely in the
dark that he had no official COM
munication tc make; although he did
not question the truth OF the consul
generals dispatch 1t is surmised that
Mr.. Gladstone's government and the
new colonial secretary will not let this |
apparent gross discourtesy on the part |
OF the Canadian powers to the British |
pass without fighting re- |
buke.