Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-08
F,FTY-THlRD CONGRESS.
suag In the Bcring sea Award Mailer
The House Quorumless.


WASHINGTON, April 7.-SENATE.-
THO House bin to extend the time for the
So. Louis and birmingham Railroad Com
r7uv 10 bulld a bridge across the Ten
re..se river al Clifton. Tenn, was passed
v.l IA substitute
cir. Hoar called the attention OF me
S. ..fs 10 q cablegram in the morning
....-s as to seal fishing in Bering Sea
.f the heading. ships not receiving no
,.. liable" and he asked Mr.. Nor
chairman Of the Committee on FOR
.- Relations, for information on tho
l....t -. .,o,.,
Sir Hoard remarked that II that para
..-.4 ver. correct recital Ineh any
.,- vessel which should sail beIoIe
g.. ,..-.-a az the British act of Parlia-
-.t t...ht easily evade the PROVISIONS
d.. tr. award during this season anu
...,.ftv hundreds OF thousands OF scans
..I h.. destroyed. II seemed 70 MN
,... 10 ,.ts a pure evasion OF the treaty
... f.y- o., allow Canadian sealers 10 De
,.....,l bv simply saying that they olu
p . know its provisions. IL secii,u -
lu ta.t some prompt suppieih.iI'"I !, -.
...... was necessary by which tue hla'leI
c.lI Ie taken into the hdhuS "a ''''
T.-l states Government.
.r. -f.rgan admitted that Mr.. hoar
, o.t. right IN his estimate OF inc
..-..~ 10 the Alaska seal-herds from 'he
.-rr.i. which appeared 10 nave ~"
f.,.r hv tie British Government ne
- n. l...-,.l bv the newspapers (and he
.,.t there was some official intorIha-
,, ii, tho same effect In the state De-
-..+mruU that some forty or more lana
..n sellers had QUILTED from an
...,.r or Victoria or Port IoWhse."'
.l some American sealcrS aiao-uliuV4
... llaa that the award was not opera
,. ~ ecectual until after legislation
.,v Congress and by the BRUSH al nc
,. THAT view of the subject had
....- hem admitted by the American ar
......ors. nor did lie understand lhdt IL
lt cv.r been insisted upon by more
nam one OF the arbitratofS cOhiP0s.ne
... tr,lunal. The view taken by the
.-..rican arbitratOrs was ana hao ."
,..s been that the award went INTO iuI'
.4..., from tie moment OF its delivery III
,..~5 - The prohibition against pelagic
t.Dtug within certain defined areas
NO FINAL AGREEMENT.
,r,. ,rtcrpretation which the two gov
.r-,..r,fs had given 10 that particular Tea
t..r- az the award-as TO us ouh6"'oIs
Iat.rs from the time OF It's deliVeiy--haS
.of .s vet. been perfected by an agree
81 zen them, so that the United
,,.t.4 Government might have 10 tame
b.. avn view of IL, and might have 10 acf
. ,h.+ ,fa,V. Some two weeks ago tne
rsrc.se language used in the dispalci'; .,
Inc substance OF IL. unqueSuonaDiy, nao
hem submitted 10 the State Department
By Sir Julian Pauncefote as part Oh the
general measure which IL was proposes
10 Introduce ia the British Parliament ioi
the enforcement OF the award on lne pai1
OF Great Britain. There were some oiher
features OF the measures whlch were
even more opposed--he used that phrase,
he a2d. with deliberation-to i1Il anu
c,o,rl.tc and free execution or the
award and treaty than those which lhs
Senator from Massachusetts had JUST
uuotel. and those provisions IN mat pr"
,osed measure Of legislation had becn
mOat distinctly and formally. ana per-
raaneutly. and finally rejected by the sec'
retary OF State. and the British govern
inent had been 80 informed. ABOUT ths
time that that Information shouio hass
reached hero no had seen In the news
papers that tho government had ,hiro'
duoal q bui In Parliament for the purpose
Of outing the award into effect. vi
course ne did not know, nor did ne sup.
pcse that the State Department Know All
NE PROVISIONS OF Mat I'm, ana wnethes
uey eoincfded enpctly With the pro
grdnns Of the fornbuated oili wnicn Si1
julian Pauncefote had submitted 10 me
inrpection Of the Secretary or State. out
within a day or two after tnat-Defnaps
After the bill had passed 10 ~ seceno
"ad'ng that nal hnA been uSkndNWA "