Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-13
LORD sALIsBURY's BLUNDER.
Indignation st the Sudden Transfer Of the
Case From Diplomatic 20 Legal Channels.
specia. the New York Herald.
WASHINGTON. Jan. u

WASHINGTON, Jan. H.
By one sudden. unexpected act on the part
of Lord Salisbury, monumental ~ a piece Of
diplomatic laundering, the popular aspects of
the Bering question have become com
pletely reversed.
In a few days Mr.. Blaine will begin the
preparation of another diplomatic note of the
kind technically known as a dispatch and this
dispatch viii have the popularity Of being nd
dressed to the American minister at London
instead Of the British minister at Washington.
In that dispatch Mr. Blaine will tell Minister
Lincoln, for the information of Lord Salisbury.
.S whom Mr. Lincoln will read it, and with
whom he will leave a copy Of it, what the
President thinks of todays proceedings In the
supreme court. where Counselor Choate told
the justices that her royal and imperial ma
jesty. Victoria, assented 20 and approved of her
Canadian attorney generals application to the
court TO intervene by judicial process in the
very question now at issue between the polit-
ical departments Of the two governments aud
while diplomatic negotiations are in progress
for q determination Of that question.
In order that no loophole of escape should be
left to Lord Salisbury from Mr.. Blaine forth
coming indignant protest against what am
advised he viii characterize ~ an un-
precedented and affronting procedure on the
part of her Britannia majesty's government
or perhaps careful enough to insert the follow
ing paragraph in his motion 10 the Supreme
Court for q writ Of prohibition 10 the district
court of Alaska:
and the said Sir John Thompson, z. c. n.
G., her Britannia majesty's attorney general Of
Canada most respectfully informs this honor
able court that the fact that this, his sugges-
ton, is presented with the knowledge and ap-
proval Of the imperial government Of Great
Britain will be brought 10 the attention Of the
court by counsel duly thereunto authorized by
her Britannia majesty's representative In IL
United States"
Her Britannia majesty's representative In the
United States il Sir Julian Pauncefote, Who
takes his orders from Lord Salisbury and not
from the British colonial Office nor The
governor general Of Canada Hence, IL b
certain that Lord Salisbury will have 10
assume responsibility for acts done to-day IN
this capital in the name and in behalf Of the
British government, which have excited the
deepest feelings Of resentment IN the President,
House committees ON foreign relations, with
out regard 70 party.
The legal Representatives Of the attorney gem
eral Of Canada admit that his motion Of today
can succeed only in the event that the Supreme
Court finds itself satisfied beyond peradyent-
ure that the United States have no Jurisdiction
of any kind in Boring sea beyond the consen-
three-mile limit is the minimum limit in al
cases, and that larger and other limits are not
unknown 70 international law, and inasmuch ~
the executive departments Of the two govern
ments are nov in actual negotiation with yiev
70 determining what Jurisdiction the United
expectation Il that the application Of Sir John
Thompson viii be dismissed soon - its dis
missal can be pronounced with dscorou dsahb-
Grafton