•Jli; Tin; Tlil.ATV ok WASIIINliTOX. 



]>r()vi>l()n nmdc lor uUcl^ciI claiiiis on nccoiint of tlic 

 acts of lli(.' l'\'niaiis. iJut tlic L'nitt'd States would 

 Hut llslt'ii to L>itliL'i' of these proj)o.sitlons : so tliat tlie 

 ])(jniiiiloii liad oj)jiortiinity to allef.^c that she was 

 saei'ilieed to tlie Meti'oj)olis, and thus to o])tain, l)y 

 way of compeiisatioii, tlie miaraiity on tl)(! i)art of tlie 

 Jmj)eriai (lovernnient of a larL,a* loan tor th(! construe- 

 tinn of the jji-oposed trans-eoiilinental railway iVoni 

 the (ireat Lakes to the Paeilie Ocean. 



In sonic respects, tin- arrani^^ements wo have been 

 considering resemble those of the lleciprocity Treaty ; 

 but they are much uiore conii)reheuslve, and they are 

 better in other respects. 



AA'e have j)laced the fpiestion of the fisheries on an 

 indei)endent looting. If the American fisheries are of 

 inferior value to the Britisli, — whicli we do not con- 

 cede, — then ^ve arc to ])ay the difl'erence. I5ut the 

 fishery (piestion is no more to be employed by the 

 Dominion of Canada, as it lias ])vvn lieretofore, either 

 as a menace or as a lure, in the ho})e of thus inducing 

 the United Slates to revive the llecijirocity Treaty. 



A])ait fi'niii other new jirovlsioiiM in tlu? Treaty of 

 Washington of less moment, there is the all-import/uit 

 one, stii»ulating for I'cciproeal I'ight of commercial 

 transit for suT)j«'ets of (treat Britain through the 

 United States, hnd Ibr citizens of the United States 

 through the Dominion: in view of which Sir John 

 ^Facdonald has no cause to I'cgret liis partici]iation 

 in the negotiation of the Tre.'ity. 



Sir StalVord Northcote, in the late debate on the 

 Queen's ypcech, repels with foive and truth the sug-* 



