New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-10
THE BEHRING SEA DISPUTE.
RECENT CORRESPONDENCE AND The ARB
TRATION TREATY.
PRESSING NECESSITY FOR 4 RENEWAL OF THE
NoDrs vIvENDI STRONGLY SET FORTH
IN THE REPLY OF THE ADMIN
IsTRATIoN TO THE LAST
BRITISH NOTE.
BRITISH NOTE.


IsTRATIoN TO THE LAST
BRITISH NOTE.
,pY TELEGRAPH IHE TKiBUNEI
! WASHINGTON, March 9.-Presdent Harrison fol-
! lowed up the submission yesterday TO the Senate
of the arbitration treaty with Great britain py
sending to the Capitol to-day copies OF all 'he
/ corresnondcncc between the two countries on the
seal fishery dispute from Nav last 10 the pres
ont date simultaneously with it's receipt by the
| Senate the Injunction of secrecy was removed
from the treaty itself and the full text OF 'he pro-
| posed convention was ordered TO be made puplic.
The summary of the treaty given below bears
o,t completelv all that has been published in these
/ dspatches about its contents. Practically no "i-
dtionol information is now given in the twenty
! five formal articles about the scheme OF aroi'ra-
tion adopted by the two Governments and await
/ inc ratification by the Senate. As has
been several times pointed out, the hVe
! PROPOSITIONS to be submitted to the Court OF
Arbitration are substantially. if not IN exact iori
! those suggested by Mr. Blaine in his note Oh
| December 1S90-propOsitions when pn' thc Pu's
tions at issue in such shape that the Doard o'
arbitration, if its inquiry il anything but super
fetal can scarcely fail to come TO definite ana
conclusive solution Of the whole problem.
The board of arbitration, as already announced,
| is 10 consist of seven members, TWO appolh~u
by the United States two tone OF them a
Canadian appointed by Great Britain, ana three
chosen IVY the friendly Governments of France,
Sweden and Italy, The board is TO meet at Parl-
within six or eight months time from tie exchange
Of ratihcaions and the decision OF the triouhal
! is expected to he made within ninety days from
tho limo of meeting The treaty is in form
clear. explicit and admirably drawn, and 1t Is
commended generally by members Of the Senate
| Committee on Foreign Relations and other eA-
I pcrts a. a model arbitration convention
SNIIsBrRY's DOUBLE DEALING.
The correspondence made public this afternoon
/ Is of Great interest in view Of Lord Hallsburys
refusal 70 renew the modus viyendi Of last season.
the most recent Enclosures dealing entirely win
that unwaIranted ana uneA pected act Of double
| ocaling and the halting argument with when the
/ Eu.lish Prime Minister now seeks To justify MS
cool Indifference to this couatWs property rights
| i'm tine lShring S.'a seal industry. In the llght
of the correspondence just Published. Lord sails
hury's decllnation to renew last years close season
j. plainly the outcome of a settled purpose whlch
na, run all through the negotiations. namely.
/ to ob-rruct and hinder far as possible all
! MAN, looking 10 the protection and perpetuatlon
/ of the seal herds if such measures of protection
| ,nould seem 10 interfere seriously with the III
tercst, of the Canadian poachers. His purposed
delay in yielding TO an agreement for CLOSE
season last spring until il was far too late 10 stop
roachino cTrctually resulted in practically I'M
restricted pcagic sealing IN Alaskan waters o"r-
| in,, the Greater part Of last summer
As soon as negotiations were renewed last Iail
for arbitration, and for the preservation OF the
scal industry, Lord Salsbury's old hsoi'
| of DELAY and evasion reappeared MI
Ub,rtop's note Of September :. dlscusslhl
tbc submission 10 arbitration of the question
of liability and compensation for VIOLATION oi 'he
rir6ts of this country in Behring Sea, he allowed
~ remain unanswered for ten full weeks On Mt.
Wharton's calling attention to tins iact Loru
Salisbury waited a week longer and then Sought
DELAY once more 10y insisting on ms own 'olsuuo-
tion Of the proposition regarding Ilaplllly ior
damages The State Department then agreeing
=, lro, the question of liability for the present.
tho ENGLISH Prime Minister remained silent a
n,nth LONGER. TIL November 25. Then he raised
,lr r,inor affection To the conditions of arbI-
,r,tion-oU th, while postpOnlng and olScurlng
,bc oue,tion of the renewal of the modus VlNendl.
ON February 10 hc was still fighting shy of the
r,,dus yivcudi. and finally. when the treaty
or arbitration WAS signed, he announcer
onenly that hc could not consent to the
renewal of tine close season, and calmly remarked
that while arbitration Is going on. we eut the
,ra,,"-that Is. while the property rlght oil TINS
country in the seal herds s being determined
Canadian poachcrs are to be encouraged prdctl-
cally to dcet roy il outright.
THE UNITED STATES ONLY ANSWER.
TLer,. can bc hut one answer from the United
States 81 this frcchooting proposition, ana VII
Wharron'- rcioindcr that the Administration can
NOT he expected to submit to arbitration il property
RIGHT which may be- made entirely worthless before
q decision can I've given. will doubt he Wig
orou,ly Insisted on until guarantee of close
,..,r can hc secured That Lord Salisbury :
siuilc W.. most unfortunate aud his position most
indcicn~ihc even those critics admit who nave
heretofore been violently attacking the state De
partmcnt and indirectly supporting many oi the
Enoi,h Prime Minister'S CONVENTIONS. professor
Elliott. whose reflections Mr.. Balnes course
have had a wide currency in certain opposition
newspapers. says tonight IN regard TO thlS pro-
posal To loot the seal waters:
Seriously Speaking the public mind in Great
Rritain cannot bc considered aS indorslng such
remarkable piece of sophism that simc OF
Lord Salisbury just published to-day, who sees
no more harm in cutting down the herd of FUR
..,Is ON the Prlbyon Islands than he does in
Irutting down crop of grass as II stands on the
meadow. for he says: The grass will be repro
du,cI next year and 50 will the seals.
THE SITUATION NOT UNDERSTOOD
The pcoplc of Great Britain do not under
stand this situation. The uproar of the Canadians
and their studied statements, backed by American
influence in favor of pclagic sealing are daily
filtered through the cable into the British news
papcrs Thus the sentiment over there, which
vould bc as kecnly aroused is our own. re-
main, passive, and even dormant, because the
whole truth is not before the English readers.
They ought to know that Salisbury ;
proposition means to license the indiscrimnate
slaughter Of several hundred thousand pregnant
and nursing fur seal mothers in the waters of
Behring Sea next summer. between July and
;hc end of October following: they ought to know
chat nnt ovcr 800 600 of these breeding animals