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United States (United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
By July, 1816, the British minister to the United States, Right Honorable Charles Bagot, had receivrce to be maintained upon the lakes by the United States and Great Britain shall henceforth be confully organized and prepared for war in the United States, in defiance of the efforts of the governmt the notice given by the President of the United States to the government of Great Britain and Irestions affecting the relations between the United States and Canada. Jan. 15, 1900, the House ofport it appears that, on May 30, 1898, the United States and Great Britain agreed upon the creationment various pending questions between the United States and Canada, among which was a revision of ain. It will be seen, therefore, that the United States, by continuing in force this internationalis enumeration of the disadvantages to the United States of adhering to the agreement of 1817, atte; that a treaty should be made between the United States and Great Britain which would expressly an[27 more...]
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
eer of navigation and commerce which has specially distinguished the New England States. See navigation acts; naval ships; Great Lakes and the Navy. Ship-building on the Lakes. Henry Sherman Boutell, who has been a member of Congress from Illinois since 1897, contributes the following illuminative discussion of the Rush-Bagot convention in its relation to the subject of the building and maintenance of war-ships on the Great Lakes. Mr. Boutell was born in Boston, Mass., March 4, 1856; gradc or Pacific coasts? The convention of 1817 prevents the efficient training of a large part of our naval militia. We now have over 5,000 officers and men organized in eighteen States and the District of Columbia. Of this number 1,000 are in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. It is a disadvantage to the governnment and an injustice and discouragement to these naval reserves to be deprived of the same practice on a modern gunboat that is enjoyed by the reserves in the seaboard States. In concl
Milwaukee (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
h did not exist when the convention was agreed to, and could hardly have been anticipated by its framers. In the first place, it debars the shipbuilders on the lakes from competing for the construction of such government warvessels as can pass the Canadian canals. This is a discrimination against a large and important industry which should not be tolerated except for the most urgent reasons. The American Ship-building Company now has nine plants on the lakes, located at West Superior, Milwaukee, Chicago, Bay City, Detroit, Wyandotte, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Lorraine. There are three other yards on the lakes, at Bay City, Port Huron, and Toledo. Owing to their proximity to the coal and iron deposits, all these lake ship-yards can compete successfully with any of the yards in this country or elsewhere. They have built several light-ships and other vessels for the Treasury Department, and have been, as we have seen, the lowest bidders for some of the naval vessels. The governmen
Lake Michigan (United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
little less than absurd, inasmuch as it often produces results which were not intended, or even contemplated, by the parties. In 1817 the navies of the United States and Great Britain on the lakes were about evenly matched, and numbered some twenty-five wooden vessels each. No iron or steel vessels then existed, and steam had not yet been used in ships-of-war. There was no communication for vessels from one lake to another, except from Lake Erie to Lake Huron, and from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan, and there was no passage from the lakes to the ocean. The Welland Canal was not opened for small vessels until 1833, and the chain of St. Lawrence canals was not completed until 1848. The shores of the lower lakes were sparsely settled, and the region of the upper lakes was an unexplored wilderness inhabited by savages. The chain of lakes was the only pathway of commerce to the West and Northwest. The war had left the Americans and Canadians along the border in bad humor and not a
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
exist when the convention was agreed to, and could hardly have been anticipated by its framers. In the first place, it debars the shipbuilders on the lakes from competing for the construction of such government warvessels as can pass the Canadian canals. This is a discrimination against a large and important industry which should not be tolerated except for the most urgent reasons. The American Ship-building Company now has nine plants on the lakes, located at West Superior, Milwaukee, Chicago, Bay City, Detroit, Wyandotte, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Lorraine. There are three other yards on the lakes, at Bay City, Port Huron, and Toledo. Owing to their proximity to the coal and iron deposits, all these lake ship-yards can compete successfully with any of the yards in this country or elsewhere. They have built several light-ships and other vessels for the Treasury Department, and have been, as we have seen, the lowest bidders for some of the naval vessels. The government is thus
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
could not be armed or built on the lakes and maintained elsewhere. They did not contemplate a time when vessels larger than the largest war-ships with which they were then familiar could pass to and fro between the ocean and the headwaters of Michigan and Superior. From their point of view, to build on the lakes was to maintain on the lakes. Second. The only restriction that Mr. Bagot in his note specifically places upon the vessels to be maintained by each power is that they shall in noic coasts? The convention of 1817 prevents the efficient training of a large part of our naval militia. We now have over 5,000 officers and men organized in eighteen States and the District of Columbia. Of this number 1,000 are in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. It is a disadvantage to the governnment and an injustice and discouragement to these naval reserves to be deprived of the same practice on a modern gunboat that is enjoyed by the reserves in the seaboard States. In concluding this
Canada (Canada) (search for this): entry ship-building
ecessity of transgressing the letter of the contract. During the revolution in Canada of 1838 the British authorities increased their naval armament on the lakes beypose of defending their shores from the incursions of small bands of so-called Canadian patriots. This increase of the naval force led our Secretary of State, Mr. ttack. With a touch of sarcasm he added that the hostile incursions with which Canada was threatened were from combinations of armed men unlawfully organized and pree Canadian Revolution of 1838. In 1864, Confederate sympathizers organized on Canadian soil for the purpose of making depredations on the commerce of the lakes and hh commission on questions affecting the relations between the United States and Canada. Jan. 15, 1900, the House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting referred for settlement various pending questions between the United States and Canada, among which was a revision of the agreement of 1817 respecting naval vessels o
Scotia (search for this): entry ship-building
esident in the following form: Joint resolution to terminate the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, regulating the naval force on the lakes. Whereas the United States, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the other part, by a treaty bearing date April, eighteen hundred and seventeen, have regulated the naval force upon the lakes, and it was further provided that if either party should hereafter be desirous of annulling this stipulation and shd and sixty-four: Therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the notice given by the President of the United States to the government of Great Britain and Ireland to terminate the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, regulating the naval force upon the lake, is hereby adopted and ratified as if the same had been authorized by Congress. Approved, Feb. 9, 1865. Secretary Seward, Senator Sumner,
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry ship-building
ed fruit. So began the career of navigation and commerce which has specially distinguished the New England States. See navigation acts; naval ships; Great Lakes and the Navy. Ship-building on the Lakes. Henry Sherman Boutell, who has been a member of Congress from Illinois since 1897, contributes the following illuminative discussion of the Rush-Bagot convention in its relation to the subject of the building and maintenance of war-ships on the Great Lakes. Mr. Boutell was born in Boston, Mass., March 4, 1856; graduated at Harvard in 1876; admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879; and was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1884. He was elected to Congress in November, 1897, and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. In 1815, at the close of the war between the United States and Great Britain, each country had a considerable naval force on the northern lakes. The reduction of this force was essential to a permanent peace. Nevertheless, in the latter part of the summer of 1815,
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry ship-building
er of her treaty obligations did not deter Great Britain from laying plans for a still further incr four 32-pounder carronades. It was now Great Britain's turn to remonstrate. All immediate necer our violation of the agreement were that Great Britain was violating the agreement, and that the fficulty similar to that which embarrassed Great Britain during the Canadian Revolution of 1838. Iote to Charles Francis Adams, our minister to England, instructing him to give to Earl Russell the y the governments of the United States and Great Britain. Notwithstanding the passage by Congresat, on May 30, 1898, the United States and Great Britain agreed upon the creation of a joint high cment of 1817. In 1857, and again in 1865, Great Britain raised the point that our action in this rtion places a restraint upon the action of Great Britain. This restraint would continue until the ome strained and was should seem imminent, Great Britain could not put a hostile fleet on the lakes[29 more...]
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