The Press., 1893-08-17

some partisan advantage.
 IT has become a certainty that congress will not be hasty in repeating the silver bill. The bimetalists will fight it to the bitter end, and have unexpected strength in the south, where many of the demo- cratic candidates secured their elections only by making pledges which kept pop senate the tactics of opposition will run largely to extended debate and delay. :.
 THE 25th annual meeting of the Spring field Hampden Park Association is ad- vertised in this issue. The races extend over next week Tuesday, Wednesday, l Thursday and Friday. $25,0O0 will be paid in premiums, and many of the best steppers of the age will be upon the track. The classes are 2.15, 2.17, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.25, 2.27, 2.30, 2.40, and free for all. Some of the noted horses and drivers to be present are named in advertisement. Excursion rates are given on the railroads. The long-awaited decision of the Bering sea court of arbitration in Paris was given last Tuesday morning. The five points of article are decided against the United States. A close season is established, to begin May and to continue until July 31. This close season shall be observed both in the north Pacific ocean and in lished, extending for 60 miles around the islands. Pelagic sealing is allowed out side the zone in Boring sea from August 1. The use of firearms in sealing is pro- hibited. The American arbitrators have expressed their satisfaction with the text of the decision. They believe that the regulations decided upon by the tribunal mean practically the end of pelagic seal ing, and are better terms than were heretofore offered to the United States by Great Britain as settlement of the ques- tions involved.
 Mr. Gladstone, in announcing the de- cision in the British house of commons, said that with few exceptions the award of the tribunal was satisfactory to British interests. The London Pall Mall Gazette published a dispatch from Paris saying that on questions of fact regarding the seizure of sealing vessels the decision of the tribunal is in favor of Great Britain. The paper adds that as result of this decision, the United States will give the Canadian sealers due compensation, for seizures illegally made The regulations providing for close season are very stringent. The prescription of firearms may be found to be a serious disadvantage to Canadian sealers.
 While both the governments at issue express satisfaction over the finding it is evident that each expected some thing better for themselves. Some opin- ions expressed are as follows: ,~
 Said Senator Frye: II am disappointed about this decision, for l believed the court would hold that we had property right in the seals. It raises very serious question as to liability for past action, which am not now prepared to discuss. Of course, so far as the decision goes in the direction of protecting the seals, I am gratified, though do not think pelagic sealing should be permitted at all. Look ing at the whole subject, am inclined to think that the sealeries of Alaska are about destroyed already.'
 Ex-Minister Edward J. Phelps: II re- gard 1t as favorable to the United States and as giving to us all that the govern ment requires
 Frederic R. Coudert, who was one of the counsel of the United States before the tribunal, said ''I am quite satisfied The object of the United States was to protect it's property in all seals. In order to do this it advanced a number of prop ositions, all tending to the same end, namely, the protection of useful anil nal, the existence of which, commercially speaking, was in imminent danger. If the effect of the decision is to protect the seal, the object of the United States is gained, even though our government should not have the satisfaction of main taining all of it's theories. Several most important propositions, all tending to pro- tect the seal, are established in our favor First, close season from May to the end ' of July second, this close season, (and this point is singularly importantly, is to be observed not only in the Boring sea, but in the North Pacific ocean, the favor ite pond of the pelagic sealer, whose pur- suit consisted in intercepting the females as they were moving north; and, third, the use of firearms in sealing is prohibit ed. This is such radical measure that I almost afraid that is to good to be true. Prohibit firearms and the pelagic busi- ness will be fatally crippled. I may add that the terms thus given are very much better and mo re favorable than any thus far suggested as settlement, and in that view of the case the decision may fairly be treated as triumph for the United States.''