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...Articles X and XI secure commercial privileges to our fishing vessels;- Speech of Saulsbury in Cong. Record p. 6899. (b) Under treaty of 1818 they had no commercial privileges; Senate Majority Report, p. 6, no 1. (c) Commercial privileges were not secured by reciprocity of 1830.- Putnam's Speech p. 142: Speech of Pugh in Cong. Record...
...proper subject for legislation (a) for the protection of the state and the citizens-Cong. Globe, Vol. 29, first session, 33d Congress, p. 1135; (b) it is not a sumptuary law-Blair, Temperance Movement, p. 337; (c) and does not infringe on personal liberty-Lees, Liquor Traffic, p. 91; (d) It is proper, also, for the constitution-U. S. Supreme Courts Reports, Curtis, 16, p. 519; Our Day, 1, pp. 11; Journal of Social Science...
Best general reference: Samoan Affairs, Cong...
...commercial relations with Samoa are small.- N. Y. Times, Feb. 6, 1889; Boston Journal, Jan. 30, 1889; Samoan Affairs, p. 96-98. (b) Our right to a coaling station, although not used, is acknowledged.- Samoan Affairs, p. 124, Art. II; Cong. Record, p. 1455, Jan. 29, 1889; Samoan Affairs, pp. 59-60, 98; Public Opinion, Feb. 2, 1889, p. 344; Cleveland Leader and Philadelphia North American. (c) There is nothing in the German Samoan treaty denying it.- Samoan Affairs...
...should use arbitration in preference to war.- Sherman in Cong. Record, Jan. 31, p. 1461. (a) We have not the navy for a Samoan war.- Boston Transcript, Feb. 1, 1889, p. 4; Samoan Affairs, p. 87; Cong. Record, Feb. 5, 1786, pp. 1595-7; (b) war is more costly than arbitration, is wasteful, inhuman and demoralizing...