The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, September 4, 1888. THE FISHERIES DISPUTE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 191, 4 September 1888, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, September 4, 1888. THE FISHERIES DISPUTE.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God's, and truth’s.

We are surprised to hear our evening contemporary treat this question as one which is likely to drag England and America into war. The only result by President Cleveland’s message will be to delay for a time the final settlement, That the Treaty would be rejected by the Senate was anticipated long ago. As far back as May last the majority of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate reported against the Treaty, at the same time criticising severely the action of the President in appointing plenipotentiaries to conduct the negotiations, without the advice or consent of the Senale, averring the fact that he acted unconstitutionally. At the same time the minority reported that it was quite competent for the Senate to declare the Treaty properly signed and negotiated. They likewise argued that

he whole matter of the associations of he States and Canada on the fisheries question should be regulated by friendly agreement rather than by retaliatory laws. The Senate have declined to ratify the Treaty, and thus the parties are reverted back to the positions they held under the Treaty of 1818 and the situation that has come about by the misunderstandings of the terms of that Treaty, or rather the whole matter will be in a better position owing to the meeting of the plenipotentiaries. This is simply what Cleveland means by his message. The effect of the Senate’s rejection of the Treaty is to revive the law of retaliation, and in order to carry out that law he wants the assistance of Congress. He desires to make public the position in which the Senate, of which the Republicans who oppose the Treaty are in a majority, has placed him. If Cleveland is returned as President, parties are then likely to be revised and the whole matter amicably arranged. Meanwhile there is not the least cause for anxiety.