The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-08-22
THE BLOW At CANADA
Before Acting the President
Carefully Considered.
MANY BUSINESS MEN CONSULTED.

Canadian OHicials Discourtcous to the
Brittsh Legation at washington--Cana-
dinus mnzed at the Retaliation Proc
lamution--Its Terms.
WASHINGTON, Aug 22-Included in
the aftermath of the Canadian retaliation
proclamation is a statement that this
course has been under careful advise
ment since befor. the adjournment Of
Congress. After the act of July 26, au-
thorizinp retaliation, had gone through
both houses without opposition it was
stated that the members of the Foreign
Affairs Committees who reported the
bill had done so at the personal request Of
tie President.
The information Ia now given out
that the precise shape which retaliation
should take, so as to produce the most
telling effect on Canadian commerce, and
precipitate a solution of the difficulty was
arrived at after repeated consultations
with leading business men on our Cana
dian frontier, who were called into con
sultation by the State Department, from
| Northern New York and other parts of
/ the country, so quietly that the fact of
! their presence here on this business is
| only now made known after their de-
| parture and the completion of the act.
1t is said In administration circles that
! the ground was so carefully gone over be-
/ forehand that Canada is not left a leg to
! stand on, and must give in to the Ameri-
| can demands and Immediately revoke the
! Order in Council of April last authoriz-
| ing the discriminating rebate of 1S cents
ton on grain products shipped to Cana
dian ports and refused to all American
| merchandise.
Equality of tolls in the Welland Canal
was one of the distinct pledges made by
Article q of the Treaty of Washington of
1871, under which treaty Canada has
prohted SO largely.
Another fact much commented on here
is the humiliating position in which Gov
| ernor- General Lord Stanley and the Cana
dian Ministers have placed the British
Legation in Washington. Mr.. Herbert,
the British Charge d'AffaiTes, twice ask
ed of the United States Government an
extension OF ne, stating that he did so
at the reque-. Of the Canadian authori-
ties, and, on the last occasion, Aug. 6,
holding out, on the same authority, a
promise of some satisfactory action.
Yet the first news of the decision of the
Canadian Government to continue the
obnoxions rebate until the end of the nav
igation season, that Is, until a period
when retaliation would be harmless,
came to the State Department, not from
the British Legation, which had been led
to promise early and satisfactory inf or
nation, but from the United States Con-
sul-General in Ottawa
The proclamation recites the act of
Congress providing for retaliatory meas
ures and says:
Whereas, The Government of the
Dominion of Canada imposes a toll
amounting to about 20 cents per ton on
all freight passing through the Weiland,
and also a further toll on all vessels of
the United States and all passengers in
transit TO a port of the United States, all
of which tolls are without rebate, and
"Whereas, The Government Of the
Dominion of Canada in accordance with
an order in council of April A. 1892, re-
funds IS cents per ton, or the 20 cent toll
at the Welland Canal, on wheat, Indian
corn, peas, barley rye, oats, flaxseed and
buckwheat, upon condition that they are
originally shipped for and carried to Mon
treal or some port east of Montreal for ex
port, and that, if transhipped at an in
termediate point, such transhipment is
but allows no such nor any other rebate
on said products when shipped to port
of the United States, or when carried tC
Montreal for export if transhipped within
the United States, and
"Whereas, The Government of tn,
Dominion of Canada by said system o.
rebate and otherwise discriminates against
the citizens Of the United States in tht
! use of said Welland canal in violation o.
I the provisions of article 27 of the treaty
; of Washington concluded May s, 1871
and,
Whereas, said Welland canal is con
nected with the navigation of the Great
Lakes, and l am satisfied that the passage
through it of cargoes in transit to port
of the United States is made difficult anc
: burdensome by said discriminating system
, ofrebate and otherwise, and is rec procall.
: unjust and unreasonable,
, "Now, therefore, !, Benjamin Harrison
> President of the United States of America
by virtue Of the power to that end con
ferred upon me by said act of Congress
approved July 26 1892, do hereby direc
that from and after September /, 1892
until further notice toll Of 20 cents pc
ton be levied, collected and paid on al
freight of whatever kind or description
passing through the St. Marys FAN
Canal in transit TO any port of the Do
minion of Canada whether carried il
vessels of the United States or of othe
nations; and to that extent do hereb
suspend from and after said date Tia
right Of free passage through St Mary
Falls Canal of any and all cargoes or poI
tons Of cargo in transit to Canadia
ports.
The Canadians stunned.