The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

tain her position hat the Bearing Sea,
at the time Of the treaties with Russia
of 1924 and 1895, was included in the
Pacific ocean, the Government Of the
United States has no well-srounded
complaint against her. II, on the other
hand, this Government can prove be-
yond all doubt that the Behring Sea,
at the ds.e of the treaties, was under.
stood by the three signatory powers to
be q separate body Of water, and was
not included m the phrase @Pacinc
Ocean then the American case against
Great Britain Is complete and undenia-
bic.
The dispute prominently involves tho
meaning of the phrase Northwest
coast" or Northwest coast Of Amer
lea" 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 tho
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 17s4. 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 q
strip of land" on the Northwest coast
extending from Mt Elias down to
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-
fcrred to, a recognized name for that
body of water, and refers to list of
authentic maps tl05 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 IL 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
Pacific Ocean," and make no allusion
whatever to it as seperate sea, ''when
it was known by almost every educated
man in Europe and America 10 have
been so designated numberless times"
when we contemplate" Secretary
Blaine says, 1.-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 a fact of this. g-e-t maGritrda
couId nave peen omitted from the in
structions written by Mr.. Adams and
Mr.. Canning, as secretaries for foreign
affairs in their respective countries
impossible that such a 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