The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-03
CAN KILL SEALS.
Defining the Rights of
Russia.
VERY BAD FOR POAcHERs.
Still the Firmness of Lord Rosebery
Compelled Some Material Con-
cessions From the Czar.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

LONDON. June 2.-The Foreign Office
has issued the blue book which contains
the CORES pOndence concerning the agree
ment between Great Britain and Russia as
tC the protection of Russia's sealing inter-
ests in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering
Sea. The original contention of Russia
was that her cruisers should have the ex-
elusive right 70 police the seas in question
and convey British trespassers TO Petro-
paulovsky, where all cases should be ad-
judcated. Lord Rosebery declined to
agree to such proceedings and suggested
that British vessels caught trespassing be
conveyed to Yokohama, where the cases
should be adjudicated by the British Con-
sular Court. Eventually the powers agreed
that trespassers should be delivered to a
British cruiser or to the nearest British
authority on land, Great Britain at the
same time undertaking to bring them
speedily to trial.
Among the contents of the book is the
text of an agreement submitted to Privy
Councillor Schichkine on MAY 10 last. Es
provides that during the year ending
December 81 next. British subjects will he
prohibited from killing or hunting seals
within the following limits: (d) Within
a zone of len marine miles following the
sinuosities of the Russian coasts which
border Bering Sea and any other part of
the North Pacific Ocean. % Within a
zone of thirty marine miles around the
kOmandOrsky Islands and around Robin
Islands and 1uIinew Islands. British YES
sells poaching in said limit may be seized
by either British or Russian cruisers; but,
if seized by the latter. they shall be handed
over as announced above.
The Russian Government engages to
limit to 10000 the number of seals that
may be killed in the whole year 1893 upon
and around the islands of Komandorsky
and Tulinew.
Schichkine, in accepting this agreement,
said it was with the distinct understanding
that it leaves intact all the rights of Rus
sia in her territorial waters, and Rose
berry in reply said that it might be- mutu-
ally understood that the rights and
position of each power would remain
unaffected by this provisional agreement.
PARIS. June 2.-Sr Richard Webster
continued his argument to-day before the
Bering Sea tribunal of arbitration in be-
half of the British case. He pointed out
that the exclusion of the seals by Senator
summer, VINO nau cnarge In the United
States of the measure for the acquisition
of Alaska. from the description of Alaskan
products refuted the assertion that the
value of the seals had induced the United
States to pay S7,Ooo.O00 for Alaska. Sir
Richard quoted from the debates in Con-
gress on the purchase of Alaska to show
that no importance had then attached to
the seals or to the exclusive jurisdiction
claimed to have been obtained in BerIng
Sea.
WASHINGTON. June 2.-Unoficial ad-
vices from members of the American COM
mission at Paris in connection with the
Bering Sea arbitration do not give any
hope of an early termination of present
proceedings. Besides Sir Charles Russell
Great Britain will present four other attor-
neys, and. after they shall have finished,
E. j. Phelps and n. W. Blodgett of counsel
for the United States are still TO be heard.
Alter the argument is concluded the arbi-
traitors have three months in which 10 rem
der a decision and it is hoped that the final
result will be reached by the first of Octo-
Der, at which time the modus vivendi ex-
pires by the terms of the treaty of arbitra-
tiOn