Connecticut western news., 1892-08-25
CANADA WILL SUFFER
PRESIDENT HARRISON REFUSES HER
 CANAL ulTlMATUM


 pending Free Navigation of St. Mary's
 Falls Canal and Imposing n Toll of go
 Cents n Ton on Canadian Freight.
 WASHINGTON, Aug 22.-By authority of President Harrison the state department has made public the important action taken by the president under the Canadian retaliation act of last session in partially suspending by proclamation the free nsvi- gation of the St. Mary's Falls canal and im- posing toll of twenty cents a ton upon all freight passing through that canal from Canadian ports The presidents proclama- tion, though constructively executed in Washington city, was signed at Loon Lake and forwarded here for promulgation.
 Accompanying the proclamation Is the correspondence on the subject which passed between the state department and Mir. Herbert, of the British legation, The cor respondenoe shows that the president re- fused to accept the Canadian offer to abol- ish the rebate tolls at the end of the season and wanted them abolished at once. The proclamation recites the provisions of the act of congress passed July % last, en- titled "An Act to Enforce Reciprocal Com mercial Relations Between the United States and Canada and for Other Pur> poses, and continues as follows:
 The Proclamation
 | Whereas, The government of the Dominion of Canada imposes a toll amounting to about twenty cents DOT ton on freight passing through | the welland canal, and also further toll on all vessels of the United States and on all pas | sengers in transit to port of the United States, ali of which tolls are without rebate; and
 Whereas The government of the Dominion | of Canada, in accordance with an order in | council of April 4 1892, refunds eighteen cents | per ton the twenty cent toll at the welland canal on wheat, Indian corn, peas, bal ley, rye, | oats, fsxseed and buckwheat, upon condition | that they are originally shipped for and carried | to Montreal or some port east of Montreal for | export, and that, if transshippod at an inter | mediate point, such transshipmcnt is made | within the Dominion of Canada, but allows no | such nor any other rebate on said products | when shipped to port of the United States, | or when carried to Montreal for export, fl | transshipped within the United States; and Whereas, The government of the Dominion | of Canada, by said system of rebate and other. | wise, discriminates against the citizens of the | United States in the use of said Welland canal in violation of the provisions of Article 27 of l the treaty of Washington, concluded May & 1871; and,
 Whereas, Said welland canal is connected | with the navigation of the great lakes and am satisfied that the passage through it of car | goes in transit to ports of the Un ted States if made difficult and burdensome by said dis eliminating system of rebate and otherwise and is reciprocally unjust and unreasonable;
 Now, therefore, l. Benjamin Harrison, presi | dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power to that end conferred upon me by said act of congress approved July 26, lSa2, dc hereby direct that from and after Sept. l, ls92 until further notice, toll of twenty cents pei ton be levied, collected and paid on all freight of whatever kind or description passing through the St. Mary's Falls canal in transit to any port of the Dominion of Canada whether carried in vessels of the United States or of other nations; and to that extent l dc hereby suspend from and after said date tn, right of free passage through sand St Marry Falls canal of any and all cargoes or portions of cargoes in transit to Canadian ports.
 Canada Must Give In.
 Included in the aftermath of the procls nation is statement that this course hai been under careful advisemept since befor, the adjournment of congress. After the ac of July 26, authorizing retaliation, had gon' through both houses without opposition il was stated that the members of the foreigI affairs committees who had reported tn, bill had done so at the personal request o the president. The information is now al lowed to leak out that the precise shap, which retaliation should take, 80 as [, produce the most telling effect on Canadian commerce and precipitate solution of th, difficulty, was arrived at after repeated consultations with leading business men oi our Canadian frontier, who were called into consultation by the state departmen from northern New York and other part of the country so quietly that the fact O their presence here on this business is onl, | ,a1a Enn aff thafr daxN r4ttra the completion of the act.
 It is said in administration circles that tn ground was so carefully gone over before hand that Canada is not left leg to stan, on, and must give in to the American de mands and immediately revoke the order ii council on April last authorizing the dis eliminating rebate of eighteen cents a toi on grain products shipped to Canadian ports and refused to all American merchan disc. Equality of tolls in the Welland ca nal was one of the distinct pledges made b. Article 27 of the treaty of Washington O 1871, under which treaty Canada has profite, SO largely.
 May He Rebuked by Gladstone.
 Another fact much commented on here the humilisting position in which Governo General Lord Stanley and the Canadia ministers havo placed the British legation | Ill W WAsulukUOu. Lne charge of affairs, twice asked of the Unite States government an extension of time stating that he did so at the request of tn Canadian government, and on the last occs sion-Aug s-holding out, on the same su thority, promise of satisfactory action. Yet the first news of the decision of tn Canadian government to continue the ot noIious rebate until the end of the navigs ton season-that is, until period when re taliation would be harmless-came to tn state department, not from the British le gation, which had been led to promise earl and satisfactory information, but from tn United States consul in Ottawa.
 When My. Herbert journeyed post hast from Newport to Washington, and wa asked by Secretary Foster whether the in formation conveyed by the United State consul general was true, he was obliged [ confess that the Canadian government ha left him absolutely in the dark; that he ha no official communication to make, althoug he did not question the truth of the consu , generals dispatch. 1t Is surmised that Mr Hladstone's government and the new colo
 sial secretary will not let this apparentl
 gross discourtesy on the part of the Cans dian powers to the British representative pass without fitting rebuke.
 Buchanan Indorsed.
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