Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-31
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washington correspondents, illustrator
the old adage about two many cook.
spelling the broth. This whole bushes.
would have been settled satisfactorily "a
both Great Britain and the United States,
had 1t not been for the unfriendIy atti.
tude OF the Senate, during President
OleSelsnd's administration. Under thar
administration, Secretary Bayard, cara,
fully refraining from claiming exclusive
jurisdiction in Bshring SEA- and resting
upou the protection of he seal preserves
as a matter interesting Great Britain.
Russia, and other maratime powers az
well as the Unitsd States, set on fool
negotiations for toe international protec-
ton OF the seal fishery; negotiations
which were pr greNing with every
promise OF success until obstruoted by
the maiign ia6asncs Of tbs Alaska Oon.
mereial Company aud OF auglophobist
Jlngolsm exerted through the Senate and
finding plis5le coAdjutors among some
Republtcans who being partisaas before
patriots, wsre ready to welcome any
means TO prevent the Cleveland admins
tration from winning prestige among the
people.
The stake which araet Britain has in
the preservation of the fur seal is only
second 70 our own. The hides Of these
animals IRE ali tanned and prepased in
London, making an industry whiSh fur
nlsnes employment to thousands Of
people. Yhl processes employed are
something o. trade secret, winch ran.
dsFs the retsatioa of the Industry in
British hands reasonably secure SO long
az there Is q regular annual supply OF
sesl skins to bs depended on. The
Pribylov Islands, in the American
half Of Bebring Sea, ore the main
source OF that supply; being the chisf rs-
sort OF the fur bearing ssal. Under
their contracts with the United Stntes
the Alaska Commercial Com pany and ia
successor. the North American Oommer.
cial Company, have been restricted in tho
number of seals they are permitted 10
take and send to market annually. This
IL necessary precaution to prevent thu
gradual determination OF this valuable
animal prscsution which obviously
would be made nuility il every spscu-
lator who can procure aud man suitable
vessel were permitted to 90 into the
neighboring waters and kill the seals
wherever he could find them more
than marine league from shore.
In the negotiations which have been
conducted under this administration by
Secretary Blaine, and which were OF
actively resumtd until January of the
present year, no has bsen successful inst
80 far as he has kept toithe course marked
out by Ex-Sscretary Bayard, and, the
revelations Of the New York HsydR
show, would probably have succeeded in
bringing about an amicable adjustment
OF the oontroV rsy, in the end, il he had
been lett alone. But the maliRn infin.
enee Of the North American Comm srcial
Company came in to embprrass
Mr.. Blaine, in much the same shape as
that OF its predecessor was exsrted
against Mr.. Bayard; with the difference
that the North American company worked
through a plant President Instead of
through politically hostile Senate. The
of this company was that the
government should protect 1t in exclusive
control Of the seal fisheries, without re-
Hpeet to International rights considera-
tions or complications. This counsel fell
in with that OF lingo" advisers OF the
who, the Mckinley home
market dodge having fallen fiat, were
ready to riak everything in twist OF the
Lions tail il thereby an issue
could DO stirred up to bring them votes
in the fall elections. Yielding TO such
pressure, Secretary Window, acting
under the instructions OF the President
but apparently without the full knoyl.
edge Of Mr.. Blaine, dispatched revenue
cuttera for behrlng Sen with secret in.
struc'ions to seizs aud disma tile any
poaching ve5aels found Their aud to CON
hscste their iading OF seal skins. Tie
premature publication OF these secret
orders, VIII ch were in violation
of the pledged faith OF the
united States that British vessels
should not be further moleltsd while
nsRotiAt onI were in progress, broke up
Secretary B.ains's programmes ana oon-
victed the administration of an act OF
double dealing watch OF course 1t ould
mol defend, hsying pa. his foot into the
business Ia tuis way, aud been caught at
IT, President harriion had no RECOURSE
but to take il out ayain, and sup Iemen-
tsry orders were therefore forw rdsd to
the cutters y 7psnd the rest o. the seal
ing season in simple police duty.
In the meantime the British gov.
ernmeat had issued warning that
intet'crencs with itish vessels outside
Of the territorial waters d the United
stains would b resented. The conss.
qnence has been that Mr.. Blaine, freed
a. last from tie iutermaddiing Of the adj
mlnlstratl2p, y 3oiaa," We are .ola, 10
4fblttatg tha iisputs because Til inter
ference q fEe aon-diplomati3 elements
o. Eha administration havs LIT MIN no
other course aaa before Tie next eeaiiug
saasou pa e1pep.s to hays the negotIa-
tioas ~ far advanced that the ASSOCIATION
q ealing ve ls AMI revenue cutters in
bshsos > viii possess bd5 al hia,orl-
nai lnieteH
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The good work 81 economic s1u cation
through the pat4,sieuc3 Of the NJ 1lItnlsy
atyle af Repapietu Clngrss men goas
brAgely on. 4 fit7-lpas Republican in
Northern New Y)sS writes TO i corres.
pondsnt IA Dts8lrs outlining hi1 prob.