i82 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 



come under the exclusive territorial jurisdiction 

 of Canada. 



I should like to ask any American who may be 

 present here to-night to apply the three-mile limit 

 or the ten-mile limit to the shores of the United 

 States of America, without taking care to exclude 

 such bays as Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay, 

 or other similar estuaries of the coasts of the United 

 States (cheers), and I only ask of Americans that 

 they should seek to be content to do to Canada as 

 they would that Canada or some greater power 

 would do to them. (Cheers.) 



I will not dwell, although I attach great impor- 

 tance to them, I will not dwell upon those pro- 

 visions in the Treaty, which provide for a prompt 

 and economical jurisdiction in the case of fishery 

 offences, which limit the penalties to be inflicted, 

 and which specify the special cases to which for- 

 feiture may still be exacted ; but you will see that 

 they are declared by the same spirit which has 

 governed the provisions of the rest of the Treaty. 

 They are all consistent with a spirit and with an 

 intention of amity and good fellowship, and they 

 have been inserted in order to remove as far as 

 possible for the future causes of irritation and of 

 hardship. (Cheers.) 



THINGS DENIED TO FISHERMEN 



Under the Treaty as it stands there are only 

 three things denied to the fishermen of the United 

 States in Canadian waters. In the first place, they 



