With Mr. Chamberlain in the 

 United States and Canada 



1887-88 



CHAPTER I 



MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S APPOINTMENT 



It would serve no useful purpose after this lapse of 

 time, nor do I propose, to do more than refer quite 

 briefly, for the benefit of the uninitiated, to the 

 circumstances which led the late Lord Salisbury to 

 invite Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in the autumn of 

 1887, to proceed to the United States as the senior 

 of three British Plenipotentiaries to negotiate, if 

 possible, a settlement of the Canadian Fishery 

 Question — which at that time had reached an acute 

 stage — with three Plenipotentiaries to be named by 

 the United States. 



With the exception of two comparatively brief 

 interludes, the question of the rights of the New 

 England fishermen to pursue their calling in the 

 in-shore waters of the east coast of Canada had 



