Lansdowne, the governor general transmits to the Senate and the House of Commons a copy of the fishery treaty between Great Britain and the United States in relation to the fisheries of Canada and Newfoundland, signed at Washington on the fifteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and the protocols of the various conferences, together with the protocol from the British plenipotentiaries offering to make a temporary arrangement for a period not exceeding two years in order to afford a modus vivendi pending the ratification of the treaty ...