The Senate of the United States have rejected Mr. Cham-
berlain's Fisheries Treaty by the narrow majority of 3,—the vote given being a strictly party vote. As a modus riven& had been already agreed upon between Canada and the United States till the Treaty should be ratified, it is to be hoped that this modus vivendi will continue to regulate the conduct of the two peoples till there shall be another chance of concluding a satisfactory treaty on principles like those agreed upon between Mr. Chamberlain and the Government of the United States. But the President has sent a Message asking for powers to make reprisals on Canada, as he is for- bidden to settle the quarrel in the reasonable way. That is, we hope, a sort of reductio ad absurdum of the Senate's vote. A very silly attempt has been made to prove that the rejection by the Senate is owing to the disgust felt by the Irish- Americans for Mr. Chamberlain personally. The truth is, that the wish to defeat the Treaty was due to the eagerness for the Irish vote, and to the knowledge that Irish men in America will vote most eagerly for any policy which mortifies England. If Lord Ripon had negotiated the Treaty instead of Mr. Chamberlain, the Senate would have voted just as they did.
