Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-26
At ALL HAZARDS
The United States VIII Protect
the Sealing Industry.
The Presidents Reply to Lord
SaliSbury'S Answer.

SSAiioh(Aiy . E1IioWOIs
We Still Claim Jurisdiction Over tn
Claim of Great Britain TO the Con
trary-Poaching Canadians Must Keel
Out or Suffer.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The presi
dent transmitted to the senate Thursda,
the correspondence in the Behring Sc;
dispute. 1t comprises two communica
tions, one from Sir Julian Pauncefote t,
Acting Secretary Wharton and the lat
ter's reply.
AS Lord Salisbury Secs 1t.
Sir Julian advises Secretary Wharton
that Lord Salisbury "again points on
that the information in the possession o.
her majesty's government does not leat
them to believe that another years sus
pension of sealing is necessary to pre-
vent an undue diminution of the sea
herds" The premier says that there il
no security that the arbitration will be
concluded before 1893.
Sir Julian states that it is the judg
ment of her majesty's government that
it would be more equitable to provide
that sealing in Behring sea shall con
tinue on the condition that the owner Of
every sealing vessel shall give security
for satisfying any damages which the
arbitrators may adjudge."
From the Presidents Standpoint.
Secretary Wharton, replying, says
that the affair is urgent, the urgency
arising from the fact that any modus, il
agreed upon, will prove Intellectual, as
many of the Canadian sealrs have
already left to escape notice of the
modus. Mr.. Wharton intimates thlt
the president is surprised at Salisbury s
position.
The acting secretary clearly states the
contention of our government in the
following language:
From the moment an arbitration was
agreed upon, neither party was at liberty
to disregard the contentious of the other
1t must be assumed that the sincere
purpose of the two governments was to
promote peace and good will, but if,
pending the arbitration, either deals with
the subject of it solely upon the basis of
its own contention and in utter disregard
of the claims of the other, this friendly
end is not only not attained, but a new
sense of injury and injustice is added
even if it should be found possible to pro
ceed with an arbitration under such CON
ditions. For it must not be forgotten
that if her maiesty's government proceeds
during this sealing season upon the basis
of its contention as to the rights of the
Canadian sealers, no choice is left to this
government but to proceed upon the
basis of it's confident contention that
pelagic sealing in the Behring sea is an
infraction of it's jurisdiction and property
rights. His lordship will hardly fail to
see this.
He concludes his letter in the follow
ing unequivocal terms:
The president directs me to say, in con-
clusion, that the modus of last year is the
least that this government can accept.
In reason the restraints after treaty of
arbitration, should be absolute, not less.
He does not desire to protract this dis
cussion, and, having now in the most
friendly spirit submitted the considera-
tions which support the just demand of
this government, that the property which
is the subject of an agreed arbitration
shall not be subject to spoliation pending
the arbitration, he expresses the hope
that Lord Salisbury will give prompt
and friendly assent to renew the modus
The president will hear with regret
that her majestys government continues
to assert right to deal with this subject
precisely as if no provision had been made
for settlement of the dispute. And in
that event, this government, as has
already been pointed out, will be com
PEELED to deal with the subject on the
same basis, and to use every means in its
power to protect from destruction or
serious injury property and jurisdictional
right which il has long claimed and en-
joyed.