The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-24
SHERMAN SAYS RETAlATE
We Can Enforce Our Alien Laws
if Canada Is Unfriendly.
DOES NOT EXPECT TROUBLE
No Response Has Been Received TO
the letter Sent Ambas sador Hay
on the Bering Sea Question-Amer-
/. lea VIII Iusist on the Policy
Outlined.

New York, July Secretary of State
John sherman arrived in the city about 10
o'clock last night and registered, with
his private secretary, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel He win leave this morning at an
early hour for Amagansett, L. where
| he expects to rest for several W eeks.
Secretary Sherman said that his health
was fairly good, but that he had been
suffering considerably from the heat. IL
was evident from Mr.. sherman's appear
ance that his health is not good de was
| mere than usually pale and he has lost
the vivacity and spring in his walk WHICH,
notwithstanding his age, has been one Oh
his characteristics up to within few
months
The Secretary was first asked what ne
thought OF the reports that the Cana
/ dian government proposed to en- FORCE
| the alien act against American miners
new rlocLing to the Klondike gold fields.
Il don't KNOW said the Secretary.
1--WE have an alien la W OF cur own We
have never enforced IL against guid miners
Canadian citizens have been free TO come
into the United states and mine LOT goid
under the same terms that our own citizens
did. There has never been any friction
ever the matter.
Where a man has taken up land
claim for the purpose of residence aud
cultivation we have always insisted that
he be a citizen. The same h as been done
under the Canadian government.
.Where a man has simply prospected
for gold with the intention of digging
into the ground little ways and taking
what he could find from land against
which there was already no claim. he
has never been iHterfered with on cur
side OF the border.
Il do not think that the Canadian gov
vernment VIII change that course OF pro-
cedure IL they do it may lead TO fuzzy
as rr.uch emhafrassne to them as to
our miners.
Prom the nleager reports already re-
| cefved it locks as If there mig ht be as
much gold ON our side of the Alaska
| liae as on theirs. do not anticipate any
/ serious trouble with our Canadian neigh
bors On that score"
Asked about the Pering Sea incident
and the "slfrt sleeves letter." the Sec
rotary laughed. and said:
The letters published In the English
| papers, together with their headlines, are
being too nradily received as tie send-
ment of the nation. The English gov
| ernnent has made no response Co the
| letter .eceived by Minister Hay in regard
to the pering Sea matter, and its foreign
office has said not hing of belligerent
| nature.
.EncIand has fully as much, II not more,
/ at stake in the seal trade as we have
| London is the center of the fur trade for
] the world-not only in the buying and
selling of furs, but in their dressing and
preparation for the market.
these matters win be fairly adjudi-
| Gated, and that without trouble. Amer
lea has conteHded, and believes she is
| right ia her contention, that something
| must be done. and done at once, Or the
seal race will soon be extinct In .Alask an
| waters
WHO wrote the shirt sleeves letter."
| Secretary sherman laughed and init
mated that the reporter was getting too
| close TO diplomatic secrets.
When asked about German criticisms
on our tariff hin now pending Mr.. Sherman
| said:
| Foreign criticism is always one OF the
/ incidents OF a protective tariff law. It
| viii take time and some experience with
| the law before our foreig n brethren get to
| thoroughly understand its provisions. When
| they do their criticisms win be entitled to
more weight than they are at present"