The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24
FISHERIES TREATY DELEGATE
SJR IDH ARD NORRIS HEADED
ron THE .-..9Es.

N,,to,,r,IlaRdS Premier ExpAaIns the
FONTS aI issue Betwcen Esls IsreSSnee
art the United ssates-T0 Ne Guest
81 Hhs COuntr1 men a q Danaes.
=. 3 ward. Morris. K.C. N. O.. tho Pre-
,.,.- . ,wfoundland. who arrived in
Ny * Yesterday and 10 staying nc the
u.a-..u House until neat Wednesday
VI. l. -ails for The Hague by way OF
I,.t.g discussed yesterday tho atti-
,ra. . 'hs NewfoundlAnders In regard to
~. r..crics question and reciprocity
WITH ,h, Unit.d States.
~ iward will represent tho New
,..ra.aui interests nc the hearing before
~. board II arbitration az The Hague on
Inn. when the dispute betweeR. Great
R-,aiu and the United States over MahinR
,r,,.r-sr, nn the Newfoundland coast
vii .. finally settled.
H. 20 the fisheries dispute Sir Edward
,ai Ii - really the question % the
Interpolation OF an ordinary contract or
agreement called a treaty, made In IsiB
l..,wran Great Britain and the United
STATES Under that treaty the inhAbi-
t,f.,- II the United States were given the
y.ht % take fish on the west coast of
Newfoundland.
y wfoundland contends that this right
i. ,uu.inet To the inhAbltAnts of the United
Starcs and that they only can take fish
The United States says: No. We ON en-
,rris 'hls right through others. We can
10 Their. In our own vessels with q crow
81 Sveces or Canadians or No can employ
Newfoundlandsrs 20 take Ash for ua'
-Th~n the right. in thu words u the
treaty. IL confined TO the coast. hun the
Urlted Stasss interprets this 10 include
tn uavs. hArDors and creeks. while New
f5undiand holds that the right 10 con-
hn-d 20 taking fab outside the coast.
Another question that has arisen
!. that Il the right % Newfoundland 20
MAKE the regulations governing the
nshing We hold that being owners Of
the soi and territory we have sovereign
power tins United States only having .
LICENSE 90 fab. The United States says
there must b. joint regulAsiOn made and
approved 10y both countries.
When the treaty was made in lsls
thers were no lighthouses on the coast.
\. Slnc. then Newfoundland has pat them
all over tine coast and has exactcd hight
du.s. Americans says that under tho
treaty they are not hound % pay because
the lighthouses were noa there in 1913
when the treaty was signed. Americans
Al-o decline to enter their vessels &C the
custom House
Slr Edward said that IL seemed to him
a great thing that the dispute. which has
llst,d so long. %as TO be settled by arbi-
iratIOn, and added:
Fifty years ago or even less such q
dispute would probably have resulted
IN war But we are getting more sensible,
and vet u was a less matter that caused
%. Russo Turkish the Franco-German
an re spanish American wars.'
Sr Edward SAID that in spite Of tho
failure u the treaties Of 1850 and l007
Newfoundland to-day favors reciprocity
with the Cnited States. After reviewing
IT, failure Of those treaties he said:
In the raeantime Newfoundland had
Cv"a to American fishermen the con-
C'~sions undertaken in the treaty. IN
IT, hope that the treaty would hc rati-
he'd The Spposltlon % both treaties
ard States. Being fishing settlements
MY considered that hsh coming from
NcWfoupdland might Interfere with
th-m. In this. however. they zero
- IN the same market - the Gloucester
fishermen. Thore are millions Of peoplc
"a tho Chitsd States to-day, who never
GET chance " eat Q hit. VI fresh cod
and who might have 10 At . and cents
a round, or one-third Of what thcy have
T. ray for Inferior tnsat. But the Giou-
,~stsr combine has sufficient influence.
% -'ier "a maintain a decayinR industry
O. make tho consumer IN the United States
Iay loE IL.
Notwithstanding the past. the feeling
N Newfoundland 10 in favor 81 reciprocity
on cerrain lines. We have FISH and miner
ais sad paper and pulp. and we are look
.ng s0r a market in the United States.
We have al the present time more distant
markets
On the other hand We take from the
United States over - 900 900 a year Of
thsiT products. and the greater portion
= these such as foUr. kerosene oil.
.a~- and twins and agricultural implc-
m"nfs- -" have placed on the free hist,
aHd N this way greatly 0snefit the United
states producer: whereas the United States
ADMIT nothing from NJ duty free except
q bs some few items which they admit
raw for TO-. purpose % manufacturing
10 The Unit Il States.
Take tbs As an example Of how ne
have J'sn 7gislated against. The United
states admit our ssalstins u ehsy come
ITEM there - a tarih wall against them
valch MAKES Importation prohibitive.
Know a. reason why We could not have
commercial arrangement which would
p" advantageous To both. We ape net gh-
-, sprung practically from the Aame
race. ana Il ought not 10 be difiicult to
lave a working agreement.
SIr Edward will be dinsd az the Hoh-
nan H1uSe next Tuesday by the New
i1sudlaud society and Sewfoundlanders
Who have come to live In New York.
Mayor Gaynor AMI members 81 the Cham
c"r = ,ommerce have prorised To attend