Telegram-herald., 1891-11-12
WAIIIAGOA IBl SENATE
The Fisheries Question VIII Be
Given TO Arbitration
SO sooy IS TIE sEslIE CONSENTS
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nounesment made by Attorney General
Miller Tuesday n the course ot MA ar
Eulaent before the supreme court on
behalf Of tas govsrnmsnt in the Say
ward case. that the correspondence
which has been carried on Through dip
icnztic channels during the past two
years. had faaliy terainxtsd in a mu-
tual agreensah created naeh aston
izhmspt
Solicitor Geaerzi Taft, who was ed.
dressisg the court. made the arst inti-
nation that the correspondence be-
tween the tive countries had reached
the point Of an Agreement upon ar bi-
tration. He stoppea az this point. and
when Justice Gray desired some more
explicit statement as To whether an
agreement on arbitration had been
actually reached. ths solicitor general
hesitated 20 reply. and iRtimated that
perhaps he had revealed more than he
. tnot being a cabinet Officer and being
authorized 10 speak only On legal ques-
! tions) should have done.
Thereupon Attorney General Miller
\ himself iatcrposed. and not only sub
stantiated all that the solicitor general
, had said, but went further zad An
nouneed that the governmsnt had ef-
fected an zgreemcn He said nothing
remained but TO secure the enicial
consent of the senate before the
plan can be placed in actual operation.
immediately after the senate shall
give its sanction TO the proposed arbi-
tration, represe atatives will be selected
by both the United States and Great
Britain aud the matter can at once be
placed OF the way to final adjustment.
All efforts 10 secure additional details
have been unsuccessfuL Secretary
Blaine Is inaccessible and Sir Julian
Pauucefote positively declines to con-
verse on the subject
The inference drawn from these de-
veloppients is that the president will
subm't 70 the senate an agreement in
the nature Of . treaty between the
United States and Great Britain Sy
which the parties bind themselves to
accept as final and conclusive the del nj
tion to be given by arbitrators of the
exact rights Of the United States in
Eshring sea 1t is also presumed that
Nbitrators have been selected'
Matters 70 Re PssssA Upon
No claim involving the question
whether Behring sea is closed sea is
put forward on behalf Of the United
States, nor is the concession made that
1t is an open sea. That question is in
allowance, because the position of this
country in regard to Pelogie
ssaling has never in the diplo-
matte eorrespondcnee rested on
such grounds What the arSitra-
tors will have to pass on will be the
right of the United States to protect
seal life outside the smile limit, hold
fng undisputsd ownership, rs il does, of
che feeding grounds of the seals. A
construction will also have to be
given the historical issue growing
out Of the Russian cession. That all
Russian rights passed to the United
States is admitted, but il will be left
20 the srbitrators TO determine just
what those rights were. The question
OF compensation will follow the ar
b.tratioa. II the finding IL that
the United States has been
wrong in prohibiting poaching the
kCanadian government will be entitled
TO recover damages for the sealers
(which have been seized II, on the
other hand. the rights of this county
are upheld, Canada will have to pay
fer the seals that have been taken by
the poaehers and .ae bill viii be some
thing enormous
Erstish Conmsat-
Lo<poN. Nov. i.-Commsntisg on
the Behrinx sea matter the News SAYS:
Both parties may be congratulated,
and it may fairly be hoped that no
party considerations will treubls the
passage of the agreement through the
senate or Interfere with pc aeeful and
honorable settlement"