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THE SEAL OUR PROPERTY.
SECRETARY BlAiNe'S REPLY TO
LORD SALISBURY.


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the Controversy and There Is No
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dressed by Secretary Blaine TO Sir Julian
| Pauncefote, the British Minister. and IL in
| reply to Nrd Salisbury's despatch OF
Feb. 81.
DEPARTMENT OF SrArr.
WAsHINoToN, April IA, iS9l,l
Sin. The notifications which !, ord Sails.
| burv ppogost. IN tho ouest;onu Tor erbi,ra-
| ,ior do not vholIy ,neo, .ho ,;o,s ~ ,ho
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out ."o 'n"hho' tne
'eN' VI 'he 'hiu anu MN III "'eh niaunei'
us hoper' AZ Will result IN an agreement
| between the two governments. While LORD
| Salisbury suggests different mode Of pro-
| codure from that embodied in the sixth
| question. the President does not nnder-
| stand him actually tn obieot tn Tho onestior
and no tberer,re sssrmos th,tit Ia ogroad 70
ais a.,
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iio''ueh' "ie IN 'o4'o"''
| first-What exclusive Jurisdiction In the sen
now known as the Behrtng Sea and what exclu-
sive rights in the seal hsheries therein did
Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the
states, . ~ 'D' '''''" A'A " '"' 'A'''0
o,a'es'
d,ct,on .s ~ ,,o sooI fsharies recorri,eS and
is as w 'nu n,a. ~e" "''''
Third-was the body OF water now known as
the Hebrino Son Included In The ,br.sa .p.,isc
| ~ 's " " " 'e pAiao e'i
Grso, es,,,tn a,d Rrssi, ond ,,h.t rishts 9,
80. a., a. p.h Ca - a -,
ah!, IN 'he hehfihs eea were heia ana ehclu-
| hveiy exercised by Russia after said treaty.
fourth-Did not all the rights of RussIa as to
jurisdiction and as to the seal fsheries in Beh-
r,no 60, o.st a., ,hs ,r,,or horna.rv aascr.n.d q,
.h go, s.,. @ 81" ,-,,I.ns s,s,a p,,a =,
'he treaty oetweeh ane .ni'ea sta'es ana nus
United States under that treaty.
F,ftb-Has the limited states anv ,iobt. and ~
so ,rhat r,ght -, nrot.c,,on o. r,ore.,, ,n ,ha
sur .a,. ts.r,in tha I.,.uas os .hs ~ ,ns
fur seals ireluenting the ISLANDS OF the United
States in Behring sea. when such seals are found
outside the ordinary thu ee.miie limit'
| Ri1th-lf the determination Of the foregoing
questions shall leave the subject in such posi-.
,,on that The corcnr,once ~ Great Hrt,.ir "a
uoii 'na' 'ne ~oonouiiehee ~ Vi uteA' britain rs
hecessary III prescribing resuiauohs ior tHe
|
of Behring Sea, then 1t shall be further deter.
mined. First. how far. ~ at ALL. outside the or.
d,n.ry Janitorial ,,nits a Il nscs,sary th,t Tho
uinat1 @ .oiii'oiiAt ,i'' ~ 10 he'essai' 'na' 'ho
United States should exercise an exclusive juris-
diction. in order to protect the seal for the
tine living upon the islands of the United
| sIates and feeding therefIom? Second,
whether a closed season during which
the Killing OF seas in the wsters Of BehrinE Sea
outiae t the oIainaS terrtorlai @ limits snsb DC
t a. "a W saws tTc ~ @ sI
third, what months or parts OF months should
be included in such season. ana over what waters
T,o prosidO,, doos M. ohi.,, O.. ,,o .da;
tiopa nnesio sc nTv aI ,ne n auu
s'er M th ,f rnisea ,ises w. 9 sae are m
so.s a. ,s se III ad.n snsat S,s prevn:; n,
the period s sft shall be paifoMr RAJ = the ordinary
priee t1r c when SKINS ere SOLD, Ihis seems
ord Saiisbnpvs NJ nropos,tion' AND 6a Snnbts M
no! 'na. th r VIII seSnre o ~ ord essen
IN t.e hrst paragIapn OF Lord oalhouTy
nwHns HesHsveah CI he makes the loi-
ii = now Ga,t. clear that the advisers Of tn.
tontion 10 express terms.
as to @py Se So Pnt IN
know mott that the United States had hith-
erto been re. resting its con'ention upon the
ihCt tHc sen was HdT6 ClbU-
spm. II that was HIS intention 1t would
have peen well for His Lordship to specify
wherein the United States ever made the as-
sertion. The emphatic denial in my de-
spatch OF Dec. II last. was intended to put
an end to the iteration OF the charge and to
eliminate u from the current discussion.
Lord Salisbury complains that l did not
deal with certain protests written by Lord
Londonderry and the Duke OF Wellington
} in lS22. which he had before quoted. II he
Will recur to the twenty-sixth and twenty
seventh pages OF my despatch OF Dec. he
will observe that specially dealt with these:
that maintained and, think. proved from
the text that there was not single word in
those protests referring to the Behring Sea,
but that they referred, in the Ian:
guaRe OF the Duke OF wellington OF
. the l 9TH OF October 1S@2. only to the
lands extending along the shores OF the
! Paclfic Ocean from latitude 40 degrees to
latitude 80 degrees north. In the first
paragraph OF LORD Londonderry's protest
Of Jan. II. 1s"2. addressed to Count
Lieyen, OF Russia. he alluded to the matters
in dispute as especially connected with
the territ rial rights OF the Russian crown
on the northwest coast OF America border
ing on the Pacific Ocean. and the commerce
aud navigation OF His Imperial Maiesty's
subjects in the seas adjacent thereto. rom
these and other pertinent facts it IN
evident that the protests of Lord
. Londonderry and the Duke OF Yelling
ton had nothing whatever to do with the
points now in isgue between the kmerican