706 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



423 Ad interim Arrange- Observations on Mr. Bay- 



ment proposed by ard's Memorandum, 

 the United States Gov- 

 ernment. 



ARTICLE VI. 



The Government of the This Article calls for 

 United States and the no remark. 

 Government of Her Bri- 

 tannic Majesty agree to 

 give concurrent notifica- 

 tion and warning of Ca- 

 nadian Customs Regula- 

 tions, and the United 

 States agrees to admonish 

 its fishermen to comply 

 with them and cooperate 

 in securing their enforce- 

 ment 



No. 239. 1888, February W: Message from the President of the 

 United States transmitting a treaty a between the United States 

 and Great Britain concerning the interpretation of the convention 

 of October 20, 1818, signed at Washington, February 15, 1888. 



February SO, 1888. Read, treaty read the first time, referred to the 

 Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with the message and 

 the accompanying documents, ordered to be printed in confidence 

 for the use of the Senate. 



To the Senate of the United States: 



In my annual message transmitted to the Congress in December, 

 1886, it was stated that negotiations were then pending for the set- 

 tlement of the questions growing out of the rights claimed by Ameri- 

 can fishermen in British North American waters. 



As a result of such negotiations a treaty has been agreed upon 

 between Her Britannic Majesty and the United States, concluded and 

 signed in this capital, under my direction and authority, on the 15th 

 of February instant, and which I now have the honor to submit to 

 the Senate, with the recommendation that it shall receive the consent 

 of that body, as provided in the Constitution, in order that the 

 ratifications thereof may be duly exchanged and the treaty be carried 

 into effect. 



Shortly after Congress had adjourned in March last, and in con- 

 tinuation of my efforts to arrive at such an agreement between the 

 Governments of Great Britain and the United States as would secure 

 to the citizens of the respective countries the unmolested enjoyment 

 of their just rights under existing treaties and international comity 

 in the territorial waters of Canada and of Newfoundland, I availed 

 myself of opportune occurrences indicative of a desire to make with- 

 out delay an amicable and final settlement of a long-standing con- 

 troversy productive of much irritation and misunderstanding be- 

 tween the two nations to send through our minister in London 

 proposals that a conference should take place on the subject at this 

 capital. 



Printed Appendix, Part I, p. 43. 



