Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-10

pend upon it, should be referred to inn
partial arbitration. You win in that
case be authorized to consider, in con-
cert with Mr.. Blaine, the method of
procedure to be followed
Secretary Blaine in his response, ad-
dressed to Sir Julian Pauncefote on the
| 18th OF December past, at the outset in
slsts upon the correctness and validity
of the position which has been advo-
Gated by the Government of the United
States in defense of American rights in
the Behring Sea. Legal and diplomatic
questions, he says, are often found after
prolonged discussion to depend on the
settlement of a single point. Such, in
the Judgment of the President, is the
position in which the United States and
Great Britain find themselves in the
pending controversy touching the
true construction of the Russo
American and Anglo-Russian treat
les of 1924 and 1925. Great Britain,
Secretary Blaine says, contends that
the phrase Pacific Ocean," as used in
the treaties, was intended to include,
and does include, the body of water
which is known as the Behring Sea.
The United States contends that the
| Behring Sea was not mentioned or even
referred to- in either treaty, and was
in no sense included in the phrase PA
cidc Ocean," If Great Britain can main
tain her position that the Behring Sea,
at the time of the treaties with Russia
of 1924 and 1925, was included in the
| Pacific tho Gnuarnrr,anf nf the
United States has no well-grounded
complaint against her. If, on the other
hand, this Government can prove be-
yond all doubt that the Behrihg Sea,
at the date of the treaties, was under
stood by the three signatory powers to
be separate body of water, and was
not included IN the phrase Pacific
Ocean," then the American case against
Great Britain is complete and undenia-
BILE.
The dispute prominently involves the
meaning of the phrase Northwest
coast" or ''Ncrthwest coast of Amer
ica." Lord Salisbury assumes that the
Northwest coast" has but one mean
ing, and that it includes the whole
coast stretching northward to the Beh-
ring Straits. The contention of this
Government is that by long prescrip-
ton the Northwest coast means the
coast of the Pacific ocean south of the
Alaskan peninsula, or south of the six
tieth parallel of north latitude"
Secretary Blaine contends that the
phrase Northwest coast has been
well known and widely recognized in
popular usage in England and America
from the date of the first trading to
that coast, about 1854, and includes
precisely the area which has been
steadily maintained by this Gov
ernment in the pending discus
sion. Mr.. Blaine then quotes from
the treaties between Great Brit
ain and Russia and the United
States and Russia, and insists that
throughout the whole correspondence
connected with the formation of the
treaties there was no reference to any
distinctive name for Behring Sea, for
the simple reason that the negotiation
had no reference whatever to Behring
Sea but was entirely confined to a
"strip Of land'' on the Northwest coast
cADtlulllR lIOll VT. tOWA "
Prince of Wales Island, on the British
North American coast, and to the
waters of the Pacific Ocean adjacent
thereto He reminds Lord Salisbury
that Behring Sea was, at the time re-
ferred to, recognized name for that
body of water, and refers to list of
authentic maps 105 in number. pub
lished prior to on 1S25) every one of
which the body of water now known as
the Behring Sea was plainly distin-
guished by a name separate from the
Pacific Ocean, and then asks if it IS pos
sible for Mr. Adams and Mr.. Canning,
parties to negotiating the treaties, with
this cloud of witnesses should simply
include this body of water in the phrase
ssPacifc Ocean," and make no allusion
whatever to it as a seperate sea, when
it was known by almost every educated
man in Europe and America to have
been SO designated numberless times"
s'When we contemplate" Secretary
Blaine says, ''the minute particularly,
the tedious veribage. the Implications
and the reduplications employed to Sc
cure unmistakable plainness in framing
treaties, it is impossible to conceive
that fact of this great magnitude
could have been omitted from the in
structions written by Mr.. Adams and
Mr.. Canning, as secretaries for foreign
affairs in their respective countries
impossible that such fact could have
escaped the notice of Mr.. Middleton
and Count Nesselrode, or Mr.. Stratford
Canning and Mr.. Poletica, who were
the negotiators of the two treaties 1t
is impossible, that in the Anglo Russian
treaty Count Nesselrode, Mr. Stratford
Canning and Mr.. Poletica should have
taken sixteen lines to recite the titles
and honors they had received from their
respective sovereigns, and not even sug-
pest the insertion of one line, or even
one word to secure so valuable grant
to England as the full freedom of the
Behring Sea-.
Suit to Recover Money Loaned Dismissed.
New YORK, Jan. 6.-Thc suit of H. f.
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