The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-01

eminent can not agree to the proposition.
which would suspend what Lord Salisbury
described in 1883 as 1.-THE wanton destruction
of valuable industry" In a later note he
suggests hat IL it is impos sibIe to, by legal
aetion. prevent British ships from engaging
IN TINS nshing for a Reason the United states
Government wouldb be satisfied with a-sim-
pie proclamation Ieuesting a suspension
To this the Mniste plies that he will for
ward The Suggestion and will. meantime.
Withhold The protest which had been for
Warded him by the British Governments
On June II. however, he states in another
letter tn It seeing by the public press that
the United states revenue cutters had been
dispatched to Behring sea with, instructions
TO seize British seaiers, he can not further
withhold the formal protest of his Govern
ment which he accordingly presents. This
protest states that the British Governments
desires an amicable adjustment of the
questions at issue, but that it can not admit
the right of the Unite1 States on Its sole
motion to restrict the navigation OF Beh-
rings sea and adds: 1.-THE undersigned is
in consequence Instructed formally to pro-
test against such interference and to declare
that her rritannic Majesty's Government
must hold the United States responsible for
the consequences that may ensue from acts
whic are contrary to the established prin-
cipals of international law"
On June "a Paunceforte lays before the
Secretary of State a counter proposition
from the British Government relative to q
temporary adjustment of the matter. 1t pro-
poses first u committee of arbitration;
second. pending that arbitration all inter
frence with British sealing vessels shall
abso utely cease; and third, that II the de-
cision Is adverse TO the United States IL shall
compensate British subjects for their losses
In suspension of operations during the pro-
gr IS of the a. btrstion
Mr.. Blaine makes direct reply to this
but June 30 sends a twenty-six page
(type- written) letter in which he goes into a
detailed discussion of the history OF Behr-
ing's sea and the ground which the United
States has constantly taken in the matter
and closes by saying: 81 am justified. there
| fore. in repeating the question addressed to
January and which Is still unanswered
| Whence did the ships of Canada derive the
right to do in 1886 what they had refrained
from doing for ninety years? Upon what
| ground did That Government defend In 1886 n
| course in Behring sea which had been care
| fully avoided ever since the discovery of
that sea? BY what reason did her Maiesty's
| Government conclude that act may be
| committed with impunity against the rights
| of the United States which had never been
attempted against the same rights when
| held by the Russian EmpIre?'
| The closing letter of the series is dated
Bar Harbor, July 10, and is addressed to Sir
Julian Pauncefote. In it Mr. Blaine dis
| cusses the question as to the breaking of
the negotiations which were in progress in
| 1889 and which were understood by
| this Government to have been sus-
| pended owing to the refusal of Canada
to agree 10 them and after a lengthy dis
| cussion of the matter closes by saying:
1.-The interposition of the wishes of Brit
| ish province against a convention between
two natl ms which, according to the United
States Minister (Pnelps), has been virtually
| agreed upon except as to details, was In the
P. esident's belief grave injustice to the
| United States"