The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23

Therefore, We Bought Nothing of the
Sort from the Czar-The Regulations
Practically Put an End tO PeIagic
SeaIing-NO Firearms 10 BE Per-
mitted I'm killing SeaIs-Text of the
Decision.
PARIS, Aug. 15.-At 9 o'clock this
morning the Boring sea arbitrator held
q private session in room occupied by
the officials of the department of
foreign affairs at the Quai d'Orsai. At
il o'clock the arbitrator reassembled
in the room in the foreign Office in
which the public sessions of the trl-
bunaI have been held. Baron de Courcel,
the president of the tribunal. then de-
livered to the agents of the United States
and Great Britain original copies of the
decision, signed by all the arbitrator.
Afterward Baron de COurcel addressed
the arbitrator. saying that he recog-
nized the great value of arbitration as
a cause of peace between nations. He
expressed the opinion that every in
ternatiOnal arbitration renders war less
probable, and said he looked forward to
the time IN the near future when it
would be the rule and not the exception
to settle international differences in this
way.
Senator John T. Morgan, one of the
American arbitrator. and Lord Han
men, one of the arbitrator appointed
by Great Britain, responded to Baron
de COurcel. declaring that they recipro-
Gated the sentiment expressed by him
and recognized the hospitality extended
by France to the arbitrators. The ses-
sion terminated amid mutual congratu-
latiOns and expressions of good feeling
The Decision.
After a preamble stating the case
submitted for decision. the full text
of the award runs as follows:
I'VE decide and determine as to the
five points mentioned in article g. as
TO which our award is to embrace
distinct decision upon each of them
AS to the first of said five points we,
Baron de Courcel, John NJ. Harlan
Lord Hammer. Sir John S. ID. Thompson
Marquis Emilio ViscOnti-Vanosta and
GregerO W. W. Gram. being a majority
of said arbitrators, do decide as fol-
lows: BY the ukase Of 1921 Russia
claimed jurisdiction in the sea-
now known as Boring sea, to the
extent of 100 italian miles from the
coasts and islands belonging to her,
but in the course of the negotiations,
which led to the conclusion Of the treaty
of 1924 with the United States and the
treaty of 1925 with Great Britain. Rus
STA admitted that her Jurisdiction in
said sea should be restricted so as to
reach a cannon shot from shore. 1t ap-
pears that from that time up TO the sine
Of the cession Of Alaska to the United
States Russia never asserted in fact or
exercised any exclusive jurisdiction in
the Boring sea, or any exclusive rights
TO the seal fisheries therein beyond the
ordinary limit of the territorial waters
'As to the second of the five points,
we. Baron de Courcel, John Harlan
Lord Hammer, Sir John S. d. Thomp-
son, Marquis Emilio Visconti-Venosta
and Gregero W. w. Gram, being a
majority of said arbitrators, decide
and determine that Great Britain did
not recognize or concede any claim upon
the part Of Russia to exclusive juris-
dictiOn as to the seal fisheries in Bering
sea outside the ordinary territorial
waters.
'As to the third point. as to so much
thereof as requires US TO decide whether
the body of water known as Boring sea
was included in the phrase Pacific
ocean. as used in the treaty of 1926 be-
tween Great Britain and Russia, we
unanimously determine that the body of
water now known as Boring sea was in
cluded in the phrase Pacific ocean as
used in said treaty.
ION the fourth point we decide and
determine that all the rights of Russia
to jurisdiction and to the seal fisheries
passed to the United States, limited by
the cession.
''On the fifth point we decide and de-
termine that the United States has no
right to the protection of or property in
the seals frequenting the islands of the
United States in Boring sea when found
outside the ordinary three-mile limit.
This last decision was made by Arbi-
traitors John l. Morgan, Baron de Cour-
eel. Marquis Visconti-Venosta and Judge
Gram, Lord Hannen, John NJ. Harlan
and Sir John Thompson dissenting"
The Regulations.
The following regulations were
adopted by a majority Of the arbitration
commission. Mr. Harlan and Sir John
Thompson dissenting:
Article l. The United States and Great
Britain shall forbid their citizens and
subjects, respectively, to kill, capture
or pursue. at any time or in any manner
whatever. the animals commonly called
fur seals within a zone Of sixty miles
around the PrybylOff islands, inclusive
of the territorial waters, the miles being
geographical miles, sixty to a degree
of latitude.
Art. 2. The two governments shall
forbid their citizens or subjects to kill
capture or pursue in any manner what
ever. during a season extending in each
year from May 1 to July 81, inclusive
fur seals on the high sea in that part
Of the Pacific ocean, inclusive Of Bering
sea situated north OF the thirty-ffth de-
gree of north latitude or eastward on
the $50 degree Of longitude from Green
witch until 1t strikes the water boundary
described in article L of the treaty Of
1867 between the United States and Rus
STA, following that line up to Bering
straits.
Art. 3. During the period Of time in