The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-05-19
SEIZURE OF THE DOUGHTY.
Consul General PheIan Instructed to
Investigate the Matter.
The Story of the Seizure as Told Ry
the Captain.

Halifax despatch gives the following
statement which is made by the captain of
the Ella NJ. Doughty, the.P ortland fishing YES
sci which has been seized for buying bait in
Dominion waters:
20, put not succeeding in getting any return after
Settlng travis three times, decided to make for
Oa zap Nortn; FIRST we struck ice off Lousburg,
started again and were driven to North sydney by
ICE. Inere reported, and heard for the first time
tnat my permit to touch and trade was of no SER
wee, which l could scarcely believe. We left
NoItn Sydney and got little north of Ingonsh,
ana an We're driven by ice into Stann's Bay. Again
NE started, but put back into the bay Thursday.
rndlng that the bait purchased at Portland was
spolled, we purchased 20 barrels of fresh herring
from nsnermen, and again attempted to leave, but
were driven by ice inside the beach, and dropped
ancnor on the northern side of the harbor, under
tne Zee OF Smiths mountain, on Friday Nothing
happened until Monday, when Customs Ohicer
McAuiey came off and seized the vessel in the
queens name l entered protest and telegraph
ed the owners at Portland, who telegraphed me
That they had forwarded a telegram to Washing
| Ton and to await instructions. Customs Collector
Campbell, in whose district this seizure is made, is
the same officer who detained the Gloucester
schooner Joseph Story three weeks ago.
Secretary Bayard telegraphed Consul Gen
eral Phelan at Halifax to Investigate the
seizure of the Ella M. Doughty He will in
| struct Consul General Phelan to take similar
| of the Adams. There is little doubt that, as
result of the report made by Consul Gen.
eral Phelan in the Adams case which the
cabinet was expected to consider yesterday.
demand for the release of the Adams will
be made which the imperial government will
induce Canada to comply with. The seizure
Of the Ella M. Doughty will hasten the pass
age through the House of the Dingley bill,
with the amendment added by the Senate
| yesterday.
In speaking of the seizure of the Ella M.
Doughty, Mr.. Dingley said in Washington
Monday night:
This shows that Great Britain has not vet noti-
fed Canada to hold up for the present as was re-
ported. Exactly what Secretary Bayard is doing
cannot say, although he stated some days ago
that he was in correspondence with the British
foreign office on the subject, and expected that
the British government would decide that COM
merclal privileges could not be denied to American
fishing vessels The unanimous action of the Sen
ate to-day in adding the bill introduced by Senator
Frye and myself to the House shipping bill shows
that that body doesn't look with much favor on
the course Canada is pursuing. think the House
VIII not be far behind the Senate.
An Associated Press despatch from Hall
fax, N. s., received last night states that
that there have been no further developments
in the case of the seizure of the schr. Ella Ne
Doughty yesterday at Englishtown, C. B.
The captain has received a telegram from the
owners ordering him to bond the vessel and
leave, but as there is no consul at English
town he cannot do so. The captain has tele-
graphed to Consul General Phelan for in
structions, and it is expected the Consul will
go to Englishtown. Officer McAuley, after
receiving telegram from Ottawa, handed
TO the captain his ''touch and trade permit,
which was taken with his other papers. The
names of the parties who supplied the
Doughty with bait are known. The fisher
men at Englishtown think it hard not to be
allowed to sell bait to Americans, who give
more for it than the Nova Scotia fishermen.