Congressional Serial Set (Volume 5938)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1912 Excerpt: ... 1886. Governor, Newfoundland, told Colonial Office why Newfoundland object to treaty. U. S. C.-C. A., pp. 312-3.) 1886. Newfoundland passed statute to regulate sale of bait. (Not printed.) 1886. Discussion in London as to disallowance of statute. (U. S. C.-C. A., pp. 315-6.) Rosebery letters. Only one opinion. (B. C. A., pp. 310-317.) 1887. Newfoundland re-enacted statute. (B. C. A., p. 711.) 1887. Colonial Office surrendered. (U. S. C.-C. A., pp. 321-2.) 1887. United States statute, retaliating. (B. C. A., p. 792.) 1888. Newfoundland statute. Licenses may issue to purchase bait. (B. C. A., p. 712.) 1888. Proposed treaty and modus. (B. C. A., pp. 44, 427.) 1889. Newfoundland statute. The Bait Act. (B. C. A., p. 714.) 1890. Bond-Blaine Treaty. tB. C. A., p. 45.) 1893. Newfoundland statute, The Foreign Fishing-Vessels Act. (B. C. A., p. 730.) 1902. Bond-Hay Convention. (B. C. A., p. 46.) 1904. Treaty with France. Purchase of bait on west coast permitted in ex change for abandonment of exclusive claim. (B. C. A., p. 48.) 1905. Newfoundland statute. (B. C. A., p. 757.) 1905. Bond's speech. By refusing bait-supply we cau bring our competitors to realise their deendeiice upon us. (U. S. C.-C. A., p. 448.) 1906. Newfoundland statute (not in force). (B. C. A., p. 758.) Now, I take up Question No. 1. This question, as developed by Senator Turner, seems to me to present a very clear and a very simple issue, namely: Are the common operations of fishermen, who work side by side in British waters, to be regulated by the laws of one Government or by the laws--possibly divergent laws---of two Governments? In other words, the United States claim that the treaties give not only the liberty to fish but a liberty of extra-territoriality to their fishermen, and still furth...