The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-08-19
BEHRING SEE DECISION.
Deolaratsn Of the international
Board Of Arbitration.
A OOKPROMIsB DECREE ADOPTED.

WILL hoMAnH UHohu1 AONA I'M
Peiasio Sealing Is % BE- Permitted out
eide Of Protected Zone, bat = oisss
Season Is Provided for which win
Govern All seaiers.
PARIS, Aug. 16-The decision Of the
Behrlng sea tribunal has Just been handed
down. The first five points Of artiols6 are
decided against the United States
A close season iH established, 70 begin
May l. and TO continue until July 81 This
shall be observed In the Northern Pacific
ocean and Rehring sea. A protected zone
is established extending sixty miles around
the seal islshds.
Pelegio sealing Is allowed outside this
protected some only after Aug. 1. The
preseDt indiscriminate and wholesale
slaughter Of seals By the use Of firearms ir
prohibited
Notwithstanding the fact that the frst
Eve points Of article Q are decided against
the United States, the American arbitra-
tors express their satisfaction with the
text Of the decision.
After the decision was read Baron De
Oourcel, president Of the tribunal, thanked
the arbitrators for their Intelligent attsn-
ton during the hearings. Lord Hannen
and Senator Morgan replied. acknowledR-
lug the courtesy and hospitality Of Baron
de Courcel
The American arbitrators say the regu-
Lotions decided upon by the tribunal mean
practically the end Of pelagio sealing.
The terms, they say, are better than those
heretofore offered the United States by
Great Britain as a settlement Of the Ques-
tions involved
After preamble stating the case sub
mitted for decision the full text Of the
award runs as follows;
We decide and determine as to the Eve
points mentioned In article 9 as 70 which
our award is to embrace distinct deolsion
upon each Of them.
As 10 the ilrst Of said Eve points We,
Baron De Couroel, John NJ. Harlan, Lord
Hennen, Sir John 8. D. Thompson, Mar
Quis Emilio Visconti-V snosta and Gregoro
". W. Gram, being . majority Of said A.
bitratoTs, do decide as follows
By the ukase Of 1891 Russia claimed
| Jurisdiction in the see now known ~ Beh-
ring sea TO the extent Of 100 Italian miles
from the coasts and Islands belongings 70
her, but in the course Of the negotiations
which led to the conclusion Of she treaty
Of 1924 with the United States and the
treaty Of 1925 with Great Britain Russia
admitted that Der Jurisdiction In said sea
should be restricted 20 a. 10 reach cannon
shot from shore. u appears that from
that time up to tho time Of the oesaion Of
Alaska to the United Stated Russia never
asserted IN fact or exercised any exclusive
| jurisdiction In Bshglng see OF any eEelu.
Awe rights to the SsAi fisheries thsreiR,
beyond the ordinary limit Of territorial
waters.
As 70 the second Of the ave points We,
Baron de Courcel, John NJ. HARLAN, Lord
Hannen, Sir John 8. d. Thompson. Mar
quiB Emilio VisoOnti- VsnostA and Groeoro
W. W. Gram, being q majority Of said ar
bltrRtors, decide and determine that Great
/ Britain did not reonEniEe or oohoedO say
claim upon the part OF Russia TO exclusive
| jurisdiction as 70 the seal fisheries In BehF-
Ing Ssa outside the ordinary territorial
wetera.
As TO the third point, as 10 50 much
thereof as requires us to decide whether
the body Of water now known ~ BshriRg
sea was included in the phrase Pacific
ocean," and used In the treaty OF 1875 bO-
tween Great Britain and Russia, we
unanimously decide to determine that the
body Of water now known a. Bearing sea
was included in the phrase Pacific ocean"
as used In said treaty.
On the fourth point we decide and deter
mine that all the rights Of Russia TO IuFiS-
dietton and to the seal fisheries passed "
the United States limited By tbs osSSioA.
On the fifth point We decide and deter
mine that the United States have no right
TO the protection Of or property In the seals
frequenting the islands Of the United
States in Behring sea when found outside
the ordinary three mile limit And,
whereas, the aforesaid determination Of
the foregoing questions a. to the exclusive
jurisdiction Of the United States leaves
the subject in such a position that the oon-
ourrence Of Great Britain Is necessary 70
the establishment of regulations for the
proper protection and preservation Of fur
seals habitually resortlng to Bshring sea,
we assent to the whole Of the nins articles
of the following regulations a. necessary
outside Of the jurisdiction limits Of the
respective governments, and that they
should extend over the waters herein men
toned
WASHINGTON, Aug. Il. - Secretary
Gresham is said TO be anything but salts
esd with the findings Of the Behring sea
court, and II is asserted that his dlAsatis-
faction extends to the regulations. II q
understood that his views are shared by
other cabinet officers As for the regula-
tions, they are that the United States will
have entailed on them the cost and worry
Of patroling Behring sea without benefit
to its seaiers, while Russia, Japan and
perhaps other nations reap harvest, tbs
regulations being binding only 10 GreAl
Britain and this country.