If an American vessel
should happen to have caught a cargo of fish at sea 100 miles distant
from some Canadian port, from which there is railway communication to
the United States, and should be denied the privilege of landing and
shipping its cargo therefrom to the United States, as the Canadians
do, it would be, of course, a serious disadvantage; and there is, it
is thought, nothing in the treaty of 1818 which would warrant such an
exclusion. But the Dominion laws may make such a distinction, and it is
understood that in fact the privilege of so shipping fish from American
vessels has been refused during the last year.
I also respectfully refer to Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 54,
Forty-ninth Congress, second session, being a communication from the
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to Hon. George F. Edmunds, chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations, dated February 5, 1887, which is
accompanied by a partial list of vessels injuriously treated by the
Canadian authorities, based upon information furnished to the United
States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.
This list is stated to be supplementary to the revised list which had
been transmitted to the committee by the Secretary of State January 26,
1887.
Of the sixty-eight vessels comprised in this list it is stated that six,
to wit, the _Nellie M. Snow_, _Andrew Burnham_, _Harry G. French_,
_Col.
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