Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-01-23
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IL consequence OF me repeated seizures
by the cruisers OF the United States navy of
Canadian vessels while employed IN the
capture Of seais III tnat part of tho North
egn Pacific oesHn known as Behring sea my
government has strongly represented to
Her Mpjosty's ministers the necessity OF
protectlrs our shipping while engaged in
rhelr laNtu! calling, rs well as Of guarding
against the assumption by any nation OF
exclusive proprietary rights IN those waters.
feel confident that those representations
have had dle weight, and / hope to be
enabled during the present session TO assure
you that all differences on this question are
Ia the course Of satisfactory adjustment.
1t is comforting to learn from so high
authority that such is the case, hut it this
administration bad devoted less attention
10 "feediog the pigs" and more to the
important business of the nation, ''all
differences on this question" might have
been satisfactorily adjusted months ago.
They we're brought long ways on .'the
course Of satisfactory adjustment by
Secretary Bayari; 90 far that little re.
manned 10 bs done had this Harrison
administration been patriotic enough TO
take up the work where lie left it. Mr..
Bayard, following the precedent of an
existing conventional arrangement b..
tween Great Britain, Norway, Sweden
and DENIM ,rk for the protection OF the
oil seal, much leBs valuable animal than
the fur seal, had set on foot negotiations
with Russia, Great Britain and other
maritime powers for the international
policing OF Behrlng Sea. Russia, whose
interests IN the premises are identical
with those OF the United States, because
! OF her Behsing Sea islandd and because
she also has contract with the Alaska
Commercial Company giving that CON-
pany precisely the same rights in the
Russian that it POSSESSES in the Ameri-
can portion Of Behring Sea Russia WAS
earnestly 10 accord with Mr.. Bayard's
proposition. Great Britain, which taus
NIL the fur seal skins, M industry that is
something Of o trHde secret aud that fur.
nlshej employment TO 10000 workers in
London, also responded favorlbly to
Mt. Baygrds proposition. Japan, which
owns the Kuriie Illands, where there are
seals, wAs similarly fsvorably disposed; as
also were Sweden and Norway and
Denmark With her Ioslaud md Green.
land seal tisherieE. Had II not been for
the dog.in-the-manger policy OF the Ia.
| publican Senate, manifested in deter.
mination 20 obAtsuct, al whatever cost to
the real interests Of the American nation,
a settlement Of any international gues.
ton which might have bsen regarded as
creditAble TO the Cleveland ednGnistTa.
tion, this mater would most likely have
been satisfactorily and honosably ad-
| justad betors the Harrison administra-
ton came into being As il was it M.
Blains had been willing to take up
the work where Mr. Bayard, be-
cause OF this obstructive policy, had
been Obliged to leave l., the little
tuat was # to be done ocald soon have
been arranged. But this did not suit Mr..
Blaine, or his masters. They preferred
to feed the pigs" and let the Behring
Ses dispute drift along, At the risk OF In
yolving the United slates government
in an uutans5le position from watch it
couid NOT rscede without hGmilistion;
trusting that time would bring TO the
American people fotEotfulpsas or mis-.
apprehension Of what Mr. Bayari had
done and rendered ii possible for tho
Harrison administration to take up tho
matter as Il do ngyo ald reap all the
glotg
TAGs this IL now being done appsara
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