Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-01
AFFAIRS OF STATE.
The Row About the Seal
Fisheries.
CANADIANS FEELING INDIGNANT.
Mandates of Congress to Be En-
forced Regardless of British
Buster.
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.

Associated Press DISPATCHES TO the HERALD
WASHINGTON, July 31.-Inquiry at the
Department of State this morning was
met by the statement that absolutely no
information has been received there
respecting the seizures of the Triumph
and Black Diamond, except that con-
tanned in the Associated Press dispatch.
In conversation with prominent official,
he said that whatever might have been
the policy of the last administration, it
was evident that the present administra-
ton did not look with disfavor upon the
seizure of British or other vessels sus-
pected of poaching on United States
seal-fishing grounds.
The case of the seizure and search of
the Triumph, afterwards released because
no sealskins we're found, this official inti-
mated, might be a more serious matter
than the seizure and detention of the
Black Diamond. for it involved the right
of the United States to seize and search
suspected vessels outside of what is con-
ceded to be the limits of the Jurisdiction
of the United States. This Government,
he said, claims that the right within the
limit is not yet acknowledged by Eng
land, and the settlement of the question
after all is to be one of jurisdiction.
THE vIcToRIANs AROUSED.
VICTORIA, B. c., July 31.-Indignation
is felt here over the seizure of the
schooner Black Diamond in Behring Sea
by the United States revenue cutter
Rush. A public meeting will probably
be held and resolutions passed for trans
mission to the Imperial Parliament, ask
ing that the Imperial Government inter-
ere in behalf of British vessels engaged
in the sealing trade. 1t is believed here
that If but one man has been placed
aboard the Black Diamond her Captain
will not obey the Rush's orders and will
sail for Victoria instead of Sitka.
NOT BLAINE BUT CONGRESS-.
BANGOR, Me-, July 31.-Assistant Sec
retary Blaine passed through the city
this evening. A reporter called his at
tention to the declaration of Boston pa
per today, to the effect that it would be
impossible for the National Government
to sustain the pretension of Secretary
Blaine that the Behring sea is distinctly
American water. The Secretary himself
remarked that it might be well for the
paper in question to indicate the occa-
sion, official or unofficial, where he had
said anything at all to that point. Mr..
Blaine made the further statement that
everything done on the fur seal question
since the 4th of March, last, was in lit
eral compliance with the directions con-
tanned in the act of Congress approved
by President Cleveland the last day of
his term.
CANADIAN BLUSTER.
OTTAWA, Ont, July 31.-The Cabinet
meeting yesterday considered the seizure
of the British vessel bv the United States
cruiser in the Behring sea. A demand
will at once he made on the British Gov
-ernment for two war vessels to proceed to
Behring sea and protect Canadian vessels
from the United States cutters
Bowel believes that several of the
sealing schooners that sailed from Vic
toria heavily armed will be able to pro-
tect themselves, as they started with the
intention of not being taken without
making desperate struggle.
Later.-The report that the Cabinet is
considering the Behring sea matter is un-
true. The Minister of Customs has tele.
grsphed to Victoria for a report as soon
as it comes to hand a strong remonstrance
will be submitted to the Imperial gov
ernment.