Show IN SENATE AND HOUSE inn lnrllkc Talk Ii Senitlors on llic Fisheries lucstloti WASIIINOTON Jan 21Itt the Senate tony to-ny the credentials of Charles B Fnrwoll elected to fill the vacancy caused by tho death of General John A Logan and Cush man 11 Davis of Minnesota wore presented and placed on file Senate bills wero reported back from committees com-mittees and placed on the calendar ns follows fol-lows For the relief of certain settlers of school ands ill Washington Territory TIme Senate bill concerning postofllces of the third class providing that they shall not bo changed into postoices of the fourth lass where the gross receipts amount to lDOO n year or where the box receipts end commissions constituting tho postmasters orapensntion amount to 1OU3 was on motion of Wilson of Iowa taken from the alcndar and passed At 1 p m the Senate on motion of M munds proceeded to the consideration of ho Senate bill to authorize the President of tho United States to protect and defend tlhe I KIQlITSOi AMERICAN 11H1HM1 IS3FIS Vmirican fishermen American trading and other vessels in certain cases Hoar suggested tho insertion of the words or unjustly vexed or harrasspd therein by the authorities thereof Ho thought tho nil would be much safer if it contained lint phraseology Ingalls thought the lUhery dimcultica must bo ultmmtelj settled either by nego lation or lj war Ihis measure was distinct ono of retaliation was an eye for nn eye n tooth for n tooth n lish for n halt nn insult for an insult a Ho it im wrong for a wrong le thought important portant before the bennto wns T called upon to vote tuat sue uommiitco on lorcign ito ntious should advise the Senate whether this measure was intended to be pncitio or hostile whether it wns in effect or mutation to negotiate or I rRACTIO LLV A DVCLAKVTION OF WAD Ihero was no uso disguising the proposition proposi-tion thero was n feeling of irritation the real part m interest being Great Britain mud not Canada which was at any moment if the present altitude wns continued liable to lend to discontent which might ripen into cinsjieration and this into open hostility I wns I therefore of very great importance that at the thrcshhold outset in the vestibule the Senate should understand whether the bill wns n ptcilio or a hostile measuio Ho quoted some Senators from the report Committee for port of tho on eign Iklntions and remarked that countiics had been inundated with blood on less proocation lime conduct of time Dominion and Great Jlntnm I according to this teltort 1 was sulhcient i I to justifj and warrant I decimation of war on the pait of tho United States I was n viola tion not olly of heats rights guaranteed guar-anteed by repeated conventions but it should n purpose on the tho part of the Go crnmcnt of Canada and of Her Mnjestys Go eminent to harass and niiuoy and DESTROY AMLHICAN 1ISHLRY INTERESTS Simply for tho purpose either of private gain or of some public advantage I appeared to him that in the case of those grave allegations and tho irritation and discontent mown to exist between the two contnes reporting of n measure which authorized tho President to enter simbly on a process of retaliation was hard consistent with tho gravity of tho situation It was a dangerous course to authorize the President to cintinne in the same line of conduct and policy with tho inevitable result of either tinally negotiating for tho purpose of settling these questions or else of going to war in defence 1 of our rights under the treaty of 1818 |