St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-22
The Retaliation Proclamation
Was Well Planned Be-
fore Issue.
Wise Counsel Had Been Taken
on the Dominion's VuI-
nerable Point.
Belief That the Obnoxious
Order in Council Will
Be Recalled.
Queer Actions of Canadian
Authorities May Need
Explanation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Included in
the aftermath of the retaliation proc
lamation is statement that this course
has been under careful advisement since
before the adjournment of congress.
After the act Of July 20 had gone
through both houses without opposition
Ii is stated that the committee OH for
eign affairs. who had reported the bill,
did 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
as to produce the most telling effect on
Canadian commerce and precipitate a
solution of the difficulty, was ar
rived at after repeated consultations
with the head business men of our
Canadian frontier, who were called into
consultation by the state department
from Northern New York and other
parts of the country SO quietly that he
tact OF their presence here OH this bus
lness is now only made known after
their departure and the completion Of
the act.
Waiting the Echoes
The late hour yesterday when the
proclamation was given out, and the
TACT that Canadian newspapers very
largely follow the English fashion and
publish no Sunday edition, sufficiently
explain why so few echoes have vet
been heard from Canada. 1t. is said
In administration circles that the
ground was SO carefully gone
over before that Canada is not
left a leg to stand on. and must give in
to the American demands and immedi-
atelV revoke the order in council of
April last, authorizing the discrimi-
mating rebate of IS cents ton on grain
products shipped TO Canadian ports, and
refused to American merchandise.
Equality of tolls in the Welland canal
was, with distinct pledges, made by
Article q of the treaty of Washington
of 1871, under which treaty Canada has
profited 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.
MIR. Herbert, British charge d'affaires.
twice asked of the United States gov
srnment
An Extension of Time
stating that he did so at the request of
the Canadian authorities, and on the
last occasion, Aug. 6, held out, on the
same authority, a promise of some sat
lsfactory action. Yet the first news of
The decision OF the Canadian govern
ment to continue the obnoxious rebates
Until the end of the navigation season,
that is, until a period when retaliation
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 yesterday Jour
neyed post haste from Newport to
Washington, and was asked by Secre-
tary Foster whether the information
conveyed by the United States consul
general was true, he was obliged to
confess that the Canadian government
had left him absolutely in the dark. and
that he had DO official communication
to make, although he did not question
the truth of the consul generals dis.
patches.
1t is surmised that Mr.. Gladstone's
government and the new colonial secre-
tary will not let this apparently gross
discourtesy on the part OF the Canadian
powers to the British representatives
pass without q fitting rebuke