Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-12-14
Senate Routine.

! award.
He said he felt it incumbent upon him
self to reply to certain published COM
ments made upon his course in the sem
ate by the British premier and the Brit
! ish ambassador. He declared that the
! Paris tribunal did not attempt to deter
mine the question of liability of the
! United States for seizures or the
amount of such liability. Great Britain
| contended, however, that the liability
was decided as a necessary inference,
and President Cleveland, proceeding on
that assumption, had, through the state
department. agreed to pay the $425, 900
in discharge of this alleged liability of
the United States. But that agreement
could not be carried out without the
ratification of congress.
The findings Of the tribunal rested en-
tirely upon the treaty-making power of
the two governments, and the United
States and Great Britain were bound to
carry out the regulations decided upon
for the protection of the seals as much
as if those regulations had been incOr-
porated in the treaty. But neither gov
eminent was bound further. At most
the award of the arbitrator would only
furnish a remote argument for the
claim of Great Britain to damages for
seizures.
He would be loyal to the findings Of
the tribunal, he said, but Great Britain
conveniently sought to oVerstate them.
Through negotiations the state depart
ment agreed to pay $425,O00 for dam
ages, and President Cleveland recon-
mended that the sum be appropriated.
Congress refused to make the appropri-
alton. At this point Senator Morgan
turned his attention to Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador,
and his "doleful plants" to Lord Kim
berly.
Mr.. Morgan was scornful and sarcas-
tic. He quoted from Sir Julians report
to Lord Kimberly that republicans and
populists and Al democrats had voted
against the appropriation. and his COM
ment attributing the action of the house
to the necessity of party expediency.
Senator Morgan declared cOntemptu-
Ously that it was getting TO be the fash
ion abroad to attribute everything that
did not please them to the influence of
party politics. He characterized Sir
Julian's remarks as unjust and often
sive in the case of the house.
but not content with these refec-
tons on the house." said Senator Nor
gan, "he refers to senators by name in
an ungracious and insulting manner.
He does this under the cover of the
British flag"
After quoting Sir Julian's comment
on his (Morgan's) Characterization of
some of the alleged British claimants as
''recalcitrant and rascally Americans"
he declared that the British ambasSa-
doris structures were based on the mis-
taken notion that the British naviga-
ton laws should cover violations of the
United States statutes. Crimes against
the decalogue could not, he said, be
found in the koran. He denounced the
action of the American marauders in
Boring sea who had placed themselves
under the protection of the British flag
as guilty of surreptitious piracy. He
did not object to the English ambassa-
dor criticising his course, either as
senator or as a member Of the Paris
tribunal, in his private communications
to his government, but he emphatically
protested that he had no right to give
his criticism to the American papers in
a pamphlet and thus forestall a reply.
Senator Morgan was exceedingly iron
ical in his reference to the indiscrim1-
nate nature of the claims England had
bundled together and asked us to set
tie for a lump sum-" The proposition
to pay lump sum-" he said, ought TO
be too revolving to lie on the Christian
stomach of the English ambassador.
The correspondence laid before the
house, Senator Morgan said, demon
strated that there were no negotiations
al nd WI
little investigation. England had sim
ply jumped at the lump sum" PROPOSE
ton made by Secretary Gresham for the
al had naith Rr