St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-10
Text of the Correspondence
On Proposed Renewal Of
the ModuS Vivendi.
Courteous and Clever Pas
sages With Pens Anent
the Seal Imbroglio.
Pauncefote Measures Wits in
the Matter With Blaine
and Wharton.
Synopsis of the Arbitration
Treaty Now Pending in
the Senate.

WASHINGTON. March 9.-Ihe preSI-
dent today sent to the senate the CORE
spoudence between the governments of
the United States and Great Britain
which preceded and led up to the sig
nature of the Behring sea treaty of ar
bitratiOn transmitted to the senate yes
terday. The correspondence begins
April 20. 1891, but inasmueh as the de-
partment of state has heretofore made
public that part of it which is in Guided
between the dates of Jan. 6
and June Is last. it is I'M
necessary TO review the CORE
spondence, which relates in great
part to questions to be submitted to
arbitration and resulted in an agree
inert that there should be seven arbi
traitors, each country to be represented
by two, and the other three to be ap-
pointed by the governments of France,
Italy and Sweden, and the treaty as
agreed upon was signed Feb. 20. The
following are some of the letters con-
Guiding the correspondence up to this
date:
Blaine to Pauncef0te.
Department of State, Washington. Feb. "a,
1S92.-Sir: | am in receipt OF your favor or
the 10Th. You therein inform me that Lord
Salisbury cannot express any opinion on the
subject of the modus yiyendi until he knows
what we desire to propose. In reply 10 your
INQUIRY, the president suggests that the
modus should be much the same as last year
in terms, but that il should be better exc
cuted 1t was very ineffective last year. for
there were larger number OF seals IN
Behring sea taken then than ever before.
teA
efforts most effective, the sealing in the
North Pacific ocean should be forbidden. for
there the slaughter of the mothers, heavy
with Young. is the greatest. This would re-
quire notice to the large number of sealers
who are preparing to go forth from British
Columbia. Holding an arbitration as TO the
rightful mode of taking seals while their de-
struction goes forward would be as II while
an arbitration to the title of timber land
were in progress one party should remove all
the trees. / shall have 10 ask you to transmit
the contents of this note to Lord Salisbury
by telegraph Every day that is lost now en-
tails great trouble npon both governments.
JAMES e. BLAINE.
PauncefOte Fences Cieyerly.
Washington, Feb. % 1S92.-Sir: Immedi-
ately upon the receipt of your note of the oath
inst, respecting renewal OF the modus VI
vendi i'll Behring sea, and in accordance with
the wish therein expressed. telegraphed It's
the honor to inform you that have received
a reply from Lord Salisbury to the following
effecl. In the first place. his lordshlp states
that he cannot in any degree admit that the
delays have been more on the part
OF Great Britain than on the
part of the United States. The
British commissioners on the Behring sea
Joint committee have Informed her majestys
government that, as far as pelagic sealing is
concerned, there is no danger of Bny serious
n Nf 70 FIN a. q o.
quence of this years hunting
Nevertheless, Lord Salisbury would not
object. as Il temporary measure OF preeaution
for this season. to the prohibition OF all kill
more than thirty nautical miles around the
Pribyloff islands, such prohibition being con-
ditional Oh the restriction of the number OF
seals to be Killed for any purpose on the
islands to maximum of 10000
Lord Salisbury proposal eff thirty-mlle
radius round the Pribylof islands, within
which no sealing should be allowed. is a ju-
dioious temporary measure OF precautlon
pending the establishment or permanent
regulations for the fishery as a whole. 1t is a
somewhat larger proposal than that which
you originally made to me on the 10Th of
March, 1891. and which was for a similar
radius of twenty five miles only. The reason
why you subsequently abandoned the
radius proposition was not that
such a radius would be Intellectual
in the Behring sea- Az that time no aet of
parliament had been passed in England to
enforce such a measure on British vessels,
and no doubt there was some danger OIL that
account of il giving rise TO difficulties; But
it is otherwise now, and, therefore, the en-
forcement of the new modds viyendi now
proposed by Lord Salisbury would present
much less difficulty than was experienced
last season in putting the existing one into
operation. trust that the above observa
tons will satisfy your government that il is
under the circumstances reasonable pro-
pesal, and one which will, if acceded 10,
su Efficiently safeguard The interests of both
nations during the few months comprised in
the next fishery season aud pending the de-
cision of the arbitrators.
JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.