Show fr FISH Oil CUT BAIT 1fJl 7i limo Senate bill reported yesterday by Senator Edmunds together with n report from tho Committee on Foreign Relations I i i t r Rela-tions is presumed to boin accord with the I policy of the Administration on the fishery fish-ery question It provides that when tho President shall be satisfied that American t Ameri-can fishing vessels or fishermen in Canadian h Cana-dian waters are or lately havo been denied de-nied any rights secured by treaty or tho laws are harrassed unjustly or not accorded ac-corded tho same privileges granted to Ir f tho more favored nations then It shall tl be lawful and it shall bo tho duty of l7 tho President in his discretion to issue l + itf his proclamation forbidding tho entrance of any vessels of said Itritisli Dominion t crew tfm of North America their masters or crew j r 1 t into tho waters or ports of tho United m States and also if ho thinks proper forbid tho entruico of fresh fish 01 any ot tho pioducts of tho Dominion into any f t of tho ports of tho United States In H 1 short tho bill empowers tho President 1 tu r t adopt retaliatory measures of tho most stringent character which if enforced I a must bring the fishery question shortly t to fgiS a settlement by diplomacy or by the ar Y t bitrament of war Something of tho kiml rt a is needed to prevent our fishing interest m t t + from being at the mercy of every Justice t c Shallow on the Canadian coast t t ° t It is noticeable that the Senate com a mittee appear to bo unanimous in condemning con-demning tho British interpretation of tho tI e law which gives Canada exclusive jurisdiction 2 juris-diction of three miles from shore measuring sly meas-uring from headland to headland on tho + + coast The report insists upon n construction s con-struction limiting it to three miles following a follow-ing tho windings of tho shore |