The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-07
BEHRlNG SEA ARGUMENTS.

Sir Charles Russell and yIr. Carter Address
the Arbitrators-A Sleepy Judge.
PARIS. April 6.-The morning session of
the BehrinR sea court of arbitration to-day
was dull, and even the eloQuence of such
pleaders as Encouragement Russell and
Mr.. Carter failed to awaken interest. Even
the mem bers of tho court seemed bored.
and it was noticed that the august head of
Sir John Thompson, one of the British ar
bitrators. frequently nodded, suggesting
the awful suspicion that he was tempted
to lumber. In closing his answer to Mr.
Phelps's proposal to exclude tho supple
mentary report of the British Behring sea
commissioners. Sir Charles Russell
contended that the objections OF
the United States to tho re-
port on the ground that 1t had not been
subject 10 control or cross examination ap-
piled equally TO u large mass OF evidence in
the United States counter case. For in
stance, four reports made by Captain Hoop
er, conoerning seal life in the Priby lOff
islands. had been Incorporated in the
counter case, although this was evidence
of the kind to which che United States had
objected when il came from Great Britain.
These reports. like much other similar mat
ter. had been used In the American case
without provoking the slightest protest
" otVht y lbO Tux
report which Mr.. Phelps had asked TO have
excluded, did not contain any new facts.
but simply the results of q re-eX-
animation of well-known facts. In
conclusion, Sir Charles Russell urged
upon the arbitrators the necessity of de-
.ternining the question or right before deal
ing with the regulation of the seal fisheries.
The British counsel. he said. would do their
utmost to make this course of procedure
prevail.
In opaprpu h,a addraaa in raply 20 CT
Charles Russell Mr.. Carter remarked that 1t
was not O custom of the American bar for
counsel to introduce his own personality
in a case so IA TO lend weight TO his argH
ments; therefore. he would not follow the
example set several times by counsel for
Great Britain. Proceeding. then. 30 the
question at issue. he pointed out that when
the United States delegates arrived In
Paris the cases. as far es argument was
concerned, were finished. and both cases
apd counter cases had long been closed.
The United States government. therefore.
never imagined that further evidence
would be adduced. The United States
government was OF the opinion that il bad
conduct in the case. but this had been
passed over. That. however, after
the case had been submitted ad-
ditional evidence should be brought
forward was O constituency which had
never been plated by the repre-
sentatives of the American government.
They admitted that further oral argument
might be necessary for the purpose of
calculation, and surprise was the least of
the emotions they OK perienced when the
supplementary report was introduced.
They believed that the only thing 10 be
done was 10 return these documents. as the
time for submitting new evidence was long
past. I'VE would not lmpnte bad faith 10
the British government" said Mr. Carter,
nor charge the British delegates with en-
tering upon this case. saying: We will
teach these Yankees a trick worth know
ing AT tho same time we hold that our
opponents proceeded on an erroneous in
depreciation of the treaty of arbitration"