There are several rather interesting subjects which are forming matters of discussion between Canada and the United States. The first one also affects the Motherland and the other Overseas Dominions, and refers to the appointment of a Canadian Ambassador to the States. It now appears that, yielding to the pressure brought upon it by Home authorities in the British Empire, the Canadian Government will postpone such an appointment until after the Imperial Conference which will be held in London next October. It is said that while efforts will be made at that Conference to alter materially the Canadian plan for direct representation at Washington, the Canadian Government 1s determined upon its policy. Further than this, though the Government may be determined upon its policy, it does not necessarily follow that Parliament will adopt it. This decision to delay the appointment came after an interchange of opinions between the Canadian Government, the British Home Office, and Sir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador to the United States. Who Canadian Government was given to understand that the approaching Conference will be one of the important events in the history of the B Empire as its aim will be to work out_a new ideal of union among the British self-governing Dominions and the Mother country in the light of the admission that they are autonomous groups. This aim has become more prominent owing to the commotion caused by Canada having signed "the Halibut Fisheries Treaty with the United States, and not the British Ambassador.
A second matter between Canada and the United States is that since 1888 American fishermen have enjoyed the privilege of using free the ports of Nova Scotia as fishing bases to operate from, and of shipping their catches from the fishing grounds, or through a Canadian port, without the payment of duty. Why this privilege was granted has not been stated Efforts have been made at various times to secure similar rights from the United States for Canadian fishermen; they were obtained during the Great War as part of the war measures, but lapsed at the close of the war along with the war measures. The Canadian fishermen find their chief market in the States, and now, in edition to this handicap mentioned, the recent American tariff has placed an additional one upon them by placing a heavy duty upon their ish. The matter has come before Parliament, and it is understood that if the United States Government will not at least exend similar privileges to Canadian fishermen which the Americans enjoy from the Canadin @"vernment, there will be a withdrawal of the privileges. It is claimed that the Canadian fishermen suffer not only from the loss of the American market, but that what might be called the unfair competition of the American fishermen interferes with their other markets.
A third matter is the question of the sale of American ships sold "having a string" attached to them in the form that they shall be under the Prohibition laws of the United States. This shows the lengths to which the prohibitionists will go. The pro-visa is an absurd one, and is so regarded by the Canadian Government, which has refused to allow any ships submitting to it to go on the Canadian register. Both the Canadian and British Governments are taking the question up, but so far there has been no announcement of any results.
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