Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
AGREE TO A NEW MODUS.
England and the United States Come to
Terms.

Terms.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 29.-The
Senate has by unanimous vote ratified
the Behring Sea treaty without any re-
strictive conditions.
LONDON, March 29-Although the
Foreign Office does not confirm the state
ment it is reported from a high source
that Lord Salisbury has received cable
dispatch from Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, the British minister at Wash
ington, announcing that the United
States had agreed to the proposition
concerning the Behring Sea matter con-
tanned in Lord Salisbury's dispatch of
March 26. Color is given to the report
by the fact that it was announced this
morning that Alexander Stavelv Hill,
Conservative member of the House of
Commons for the KingsWinford Division
Of Staffordshire, who is In the govern
ment's secrets, was to ask question in
the House in regard to the situation of
the Behring Sea negotiations which
would draw from the government what
it desired to make public. When, how
ever, the House met at 2 o'clock this
| afternoon, Mr.. Hill did not ask the
question.
The result of the negotiations is
known here to be triumph for English
diplomacy. The charges that the posi-
ton of the United States was en-
tirely due to political considera-
tons are renewed with added
arguments. The St. James Ca
Zotte voices these criticisms this
afternoon, saying that President Harri-
son thinks he has done enough for
election purposes, and having ridden
his high horse he will now decend with
thing unspeakably irritating" the Ca
| zette adds, Sin the Yankee barney
about the President being gratlfied with
the present attitude Of the British
government. The attitude of Great
| Britain was only made difficult by I'M
| tenable demands, as the course of
| events would have been much more
summary on our part if it had not been
that a serious quarrel between Great
Britain and the United States is beyond
contemplation on such a subject"
| In the House OF Commons to-day, Ed
ward Gourley, Liberal member for Sun
! derland, asked whether the govern
| ment, before refusing the request of
the United States for q renewal Of the
modus vivendi, had under consideration
! the dispatch of Sir Baden Powell,
the British commissioner, stating that
renewal of the prohibition against in
| discriminate sealing and limiting the
catch to 800 yearly would be beneficial,
| and if SO why the policy thus indicated
had not been followed.
James w. Lowther, parliamentary
| secretary of the Foreign Office, replied
that it was incorrect to say that the gov
eminent had refused to consent to q re-
newal of the modus vivendi. Sir
| Baden Powell had said that in
his opinion, the taking of q years linn
tied crop could not injure the seal
| herds, but that the renewal of last
years prohibition and the 1900 limit
would be beneficial, although un-
necessary. That policy, Mr.. Lowther
| declared, was being followed, sub
| ject to the conditions considered
necessary by the home government in
| the interests of the British subjects en-
gagged in the sealing industry Mr.
| Lowther's statement was greeted with
| cheers.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 29.-There
was full attendance Of members at the
regular meeting of the cabinet to-day.
| The session was mainly devoted to the
consideration of the character Of the
response to be made to Lord
Salisbury's latest propositions for sus
| pension of pelagic sealing in Behrlng
| Sea, pending arbitration proceedings.
| 1t is understood that the Pr asident's re-
ply Will be transmitted to Sir Julian
Pauncefote tomorrow or the next day.