Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-27
The BERlNG CONTROVERSY.
Points In Contention Between Tho
United States aud England.
Ahlwsrdt Appeals 60 the People. Az
AnnEchist-itlnE uumberrs
Marrow Escape.

NEW York, March 20. - The
Herd'd's Paris cable says that at the
meeting Thursday the Boring sea
arbiiratcrs decided that the slttings
should not be held behind closed
doors. This permits making public
the exact points In contention. Briefly
stated the case TO the United States is;
The Alaskan fur seal is bogotten, born
ana reared only upon tho PribiloiT
Islands, to which thoy return each
spring 10 spend several months con.
sorting together; that while at these
Islands tue seals are easily controlled;
that determination can be and has
been exercised; while absent from the
Islands during migration, which
teaches as far south a. the cJast Of
California, thoy land on no other shore
ana minglo with no other herd OF fur
seals; that because Of these habits the
ALASKAN herd and each Individual Of
II Il the property OF the United S,ates.
The methods employed by open sea
aealcrs Is attacked 10y the American
government as destructive, wasteiul
and tXlcrmiuatlng. IL Ia claimed that
n large percentage OF the seals killed by
open sea hunters are femal,s, u ma
ioriiy VI which are about 10 become or
are mlihurH. The deBtruotion OF u
| pregnant female causes the death OF
her unborn young. The death Of u
mother seal l. He'd while In search OF
food In the waters OF Berlng sea
destroys her offspring on the PTibilotl
rOokerles.
Further Il Ia claimed that many
seals shot Ia the open soa by hunters
escape morially wounded or sink before
the hunter reaches them. Open sea
sealing, II IL argued, will result IN tho
destruction Of the herd In the neal
future. On the Islands only II limited
number OF male seals aro killed. A.
the seal Is polygamUus largo number
OF males can be killed witOut affect.
ing tho birth Tato OF the borj.
The case OF Great Britain, on the
other hand, Is that Alaskan seals have
no characteristics OF animals that can
be made subject 10 property; that Ii /,
not certain that they land only upon
the PfibilDon islands, or that they dI
not intermiugle with the Russian sea
herd or that they are polaglc In untur,
and therefore should be treated ma fiB,i
rather than lani animals; that many
OF the propositions essential 10 tn
position taken by the United States ar,
improved or contrary TO facts.
As TO the pelnyic sealing, II 4
claimed that dostfuollveness an,
wattoiulness has been greatly exRVger
nted; that II Ia u legitimate ami proper
method Of taking seals and can b,
prosecuted without danger Of exter
minating the hrrJ. Much importane,
IL also given by tho British govern
ment to tho Jurisdiotional claims o. vel
Boring sea, but this seems u bu trcate,
by the United States rs secondary
question. Both nations concede tina
the seals have decreased, tho Unite
States charging that such de crease wa
caused by the destruction OF producing
seals by open sea scaling, Great Britain
claiming that the present condition ha
been caused by the excessive humble
Of mares killed. on the Islands aud tn,
injurious effects OF tue methods Their,
employed.