The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-03-02
From The London Itmcs, jan. 80.

C'4CI treaties 2flG It&4E3b struggles, were
dirrc Ell @jth no slight soicitude to re-
mote spot on the shore, Of the Pacific.
The San Juan difficulty" thanks to
tie forbearanco AMI uuleratiou Of the
t"o Governments concerned was success
fully escaped, but the question itself is
IantIDg still. and il viii not be uuin:er-
e,ting 70 the public to learn the position
III which it stands Certain features Of
the case render il one Of the mos: curious.
perhaps which even the orersights Of di
p.osuacy e'er proinced
'Ehea. af.eT a jong alteration, it was
iin:,.v @erlIe1 taHt the 10Th parallel
eHp constitute tie boundary between
t..e po,>ee-i.u, Of Great Britain and the
MED : ates on North American terrific
ry .I.iLAtion might have been fairly sup
posed at an end, aud excepting indeed.
Tor particular and unforeseen eu.barrass
ment. such would doubtless have been the
result. No sooner, how t, er, had the com
ui.soners charged with the duty ofcut
ting The boundary line bv land and defin
Ing 1t by wafer proceeded TO the dispatch
obstncir. Exac,Iy opposite to the point
3. which the 1911 parallel strikes the coast
ae, Fanc uyer's Island, a portion of which
i ne boundary line had been prolonged
vino { derivation would have been cut
Oh 70 .a.oid ills di,fneIn oernent Of
what Va, cpnf.,sediy British territory i
hal been agree that he Inc. after slrik
ing the cDa-l should lie detected in
sJulheiHIv direction, AM carried through
mid channel round the coast Of VancoH
ycr's Island into the sea This was al
plain am reasonable: and in the complete
and, az we may almost add, the pardona-
bie ignorance prevailing at the time re
spectng these Distant regions, it was prob
ably conceived that tie channel so de5-
cribei could not 10 mistaken. When,
however, tho actual saIvey came TO be
made, i. "as found l,.at tie supposed open
strait Vas booked up in tie middle BY a
group Of islands, and that 4 separate chan
Ar was left on eacn slGe Of them. That
to tie west IS kHo"l as Iaro- channel
that tie east rs the Rosario. If, therefore
the ha ni..rr inc we're raried down he
to.uar, il Woald throw al he islauls into
tic AmegIca,. side; II It were taken thro'
the latter. it wou.d 1ve them al 10 tie
British. hat We, under such c:rcuw-
stances, should st;cklo Tor tie Rosario
strait. whiio the Americans stand out for
the strait # iIaro, vii pot be considered
surprising As far as the letter of the
treaty goes, we believe it would be simply
Impossible To execute / according TO the
American proposal. According to the
best Information We can obtair, no YES, ell
keeping on such a course a. the terms Of
tic treaty prescribe, could by possibility
ret INTO tie Iaro channel, and it is also
true. We believe, that az far as any chan
ne! W.. known or used at the time Of the
convention, it was the Rosario channel.
and no other. However, for reasons to
be presently mentioned, We shall not insist
on this point any further.
1t viii appear from what we lrave said
that the debalablc territory is composed
not Of one island, hut a group of islands,
all OF which together would be transferred
either to England or America, according
as the Rosario or Haro channel were taken
as the channel for the line of deimitatior.
Accident, however, has brought one Of
these islands into especial notorietv, ana
attach its name TO the whole dispute -
-. westerrluost Of the group is called
TIE i-.e If -au Juan, ard OF this island,
though i! las been recognized as disputed
territory. Gen. liarnev last summer landed
bod, Of AmerIca troops. We need not
repeAf the circumstances under which this
violation OF Ighr WAS committed, though
w. mas remark that the sole explanation
Of Gen. Harvey offered by himself failed
absolutely 70 Justify the acts on which he
yeutnred. lie asserted hat American cit
zen, settled on the island, required tie
protection Of American troops To defend
them against til" Incagaions Of the Indians.
But even # this ne .esstv could have ben
established il certainly would not follow
that the island thereby became anv more
A,uetirn territory than it was before =
Non, Gcn. lttuuoy not only furnished his
country men with a military guard hut lie
,.n !; p,S>.s. Ion at san jun rs belonging
in lie United states, and proclaimed
Anne rnn laws AMI authority there nj
t.r gh i h.ti been distinctly admitted hv
u- own government TIA. he title 10 the
territory was In q srute, and that until it
advanced bv either Of the claiuauts-
These events bruugh- tire isle OF ) Juan
into notice p the bore Of contention, Al
though IN point Of fact. tie actual claims
ct the Americans wOuid. ii suetaire l, have
given them a good deal more than this
island, auG ON claim soul have secured
~ not oE!t san Juan, but the rest Of the
group tesI,e
We have said that We should be indis-
posed to re!v exclusively on the letter Of