711.428/590a
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
The President: The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to the Senate, if his judgment approve thereof, the following suggestion with regard to the Convention for the protection, preservation, and propagation of the salmon fisheries signed September 2, 1919 and submitted to the Senate by the President on September 3, 1919.
Article II of such Convention has been objected to by representatives of the fishery interests in the State of Washington and since it would seem that such objections might be met by re-draft of this Article, without prejudicing the Treaty as a whole, it is suggested that the Treaty be withdrawn for the purpose of taking up the revision of this Article with the Government of Great Britain.11
Respectfully submitted,
- The convention was withdrawn Jan. 15, 1920.↩