The Fishery Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine: Speech of Hon. William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, in the Senate of the United States, Monday, July 16, 18881888 - 20 páginas |
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Administration alliance American continent American fishermen American vessels Angell and Putnam appointed arrangement of 1830 Article assertion Bayard Britain British North Canada Canadian fish Canadian ports canal cargoes Chamberlain CHARLES LEVI citizens claim colonial commercial arrangement commercial intercourse commercial privileges Congress consent customs duties customs laws declared Democratic party England fishermen enlargement entering Canadian bays entitled European powers exclude expressly fisheries forbidden waters foreign freely full commercial rights give Government guaranty honor interests Isthmus Joseph Chamberlain laws LEVI WOODBURY liberty of commerce Majesty's Government markets ment Mills bill ministers minority report Monroe doctrine national dishonor natural products neutralization obtain plenipotentiaries President Cleveland proposed protection purchase bait purpose reciprocal liberty reciprocity treaty renounced repairs repealing Republican party rights and privileges says Secretary secure Senate ships Sir Charles Tupper Southern Democrats supplies surrender territories tion treaty of 1818 treaty of Washington vessels could enter vessels in Canadian
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Página 18 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Página 18 - The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissable. If the protection of the United States...
Página 11 - Commerce : the inhabitants of the two countries, respectively, shall have liberty freely and securely to come, with their ships and cargoes, to all such places, ports, and rivers, in the territories aforesaid, to which other foreigners are or may be permitted to come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any part...
Página 11 - The inhabitants of the two countries respectively shall have liberty freely and securely to come, with their ships and cargoes, to all places, ports and rivers in the Territories aforesaid to which other foreigners are or may be permitted to come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any part of the said Territories, respectively...
Página 11 - ... respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and generally the merchants and traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries, respectively.
Página 18 - A mere agreement of neutrality on paper between the great powers of Europe might prove ineffectual to preserve the canal in time of hostilities. The first sound of a cannon in a general European war would in all probability annul the treaty of neutrality, and the strategic position of the canal, commanding both oceans, might be held by the first naval power that could seize it.
Página 13 - ... described parts of the British American coast, into a pretext or means of obstructing the business of deep-sea fishing by citizens of the United States, and of interrupting and destroying the commercial intercourse that, since the Treaty of 1818 and independent of any treaty whatever, has grown up and now exists under the concurrent and friendly laws and mercantile regulations of the respective countries?
Página 18 - I repeat, in conclusion, that it is the right and the duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any iuteroceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests.
Página 13 - ... of crews in whole or part, and the purchase of ice and bait for use in deep-sea fishing. Concurrently, these usual rational and convenient privileges are freely extended to and are fully enjoyed by the Canadian merchant marine of all occupations, including fishermen, in the ports of the United States. The question therefore arises whether such a construction is admissible as would convert the Treaty of 1818, from being an instrumentality for the protection of the inshore fisheries along the described...
Página 18 - ... can never be so vital and supreme as ours, would partake of the nature of an alliance against the United States, and would be regarded by this government as an indication of unfriendly feeling.