The position taken by this Government, as expressed in my previous communication to the Senate, that the canal tolls and regulations of which complaint has been made are in violation of our treaty with Great Britain, is not shaken, but rather confirmed.
Message to the Senate Reporting on Reciprocal Trade with Canada
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It is hereby ordered that the Executive order of May 17, 1884, by President Chester A. Arthur, be, and the same hereby is, modified so that all the lands described in said order which lie west of the 110th degree of west longitude and within the Territory of Utah be, and the same hereby are, restored to the public domain, freed from the reservation made by said order.
It should be known before new legislation is proposed whether the United States is under any treaty obligations which affect this subject
I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good neighborhood between the nations of the earth in the completion and equipment of these great ships that nothing else could furnish.
We have not stipulated in the treaty that we will permit merchandise to be moved through Canadian territory from one point of the United States to another at the will of the shipper
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