The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-12
KrL1lNG OF THE sEALs.
President Transmits Documents in Relation
 to the Matter.

to the Maltefs
 Washington, Feb. 1.-The president sent to the senate to-day a bulky pack age of documents in response to a resolution calling for information about sealing in Boring Sea, Accompanying
 the documents was the following letter of transmittal
 "To the Senate-On the Sth day of January received copy of the fol- lowing senate resolution:
 Resolved, That the president be re- quested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to the senate all reports, documents and other papers, including logs of vessels, re- lating to the enforcement of the regula- tions respecting fur seals adopted by the government of the United States and Great Britain in accordance with the decision of the tribunal of arbitra- ton convened at Paris and the resolu- tion (regulations?) under which said reports are required to be made, as NCAA eb9 ASlNlAAlto " AlAC lllAlAAPOA OA 6Sen'S taken during the season of 1894 by polaric hunters and by the lessees of the Pribylov and Commander Islands; also relating to the steps which may have been taken to extend the existing regulations to the Asiatic waters of the North Pacific Ocean and Boring Sea and to secure the concurrence of other nations in said regulations; ard fur ther, all papers not heretofore pub lished, including communications of the agent of the United States before said tribunal at Paris relating to the claims of the British government on account of the seizure of the sealing vessels in Boring Sea-
 ''In compliance with said request I herewith transmit sundry papers, dos uments and reports which have been returned to me by the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of the navy, to whom the said resolution was referred. I am not in possession of any further infor- nation touching the various subjects | embodied in said resolution.
 Tt will be seen from letter from | the secretary of the navy accompanying the papers and documents sent from his | department that it is impossible to fur | nish at this time the complete log books | of some of the naval vessels referred | to in the resolution; but venture to | express the hope that the reports of the | commanders of such vessels herewith | submitted will be found to contain in | substance so much of the matters re- corded in said log books as are i'm nOrfpnf in a ,i,1u- bo apc s,i0 oJ dressed to me by the senate. Signed:
 GROVER CLEVELAND. Executive Mansion, Feb. il, 1895"
 The correspondence laid before the senate to-day contains much of which | is uninteresting and some matters here tofore printed. Under date of to-day the secretary of the treasury says, in a letter to the president in response to an inquiry relating to the work of the seal ing fleet, that but ten out of the thirty two American vessels engaged in fur seal fishing here made returns as to latitude and longitude, the captains of the other vessels deposing, under oath, that they cleared without notice of the regulations and therefore made. .no.re ord of the places of capture. It appears from this report that during the season of 1894 about 142, 900 seals were Killed by pelagic hunters i'm the north Pacific ocean, including Bering sea. Of this number about 60,0OO were taken either In Boring sea or on the American side of the north Pacific ocean, IL, ,o33 seals were taken on the Pribylov islands by the North American Commercial com pany lessees, under a contract with this government, dated March 12, 1890. The department has no official statistics of he catch in Commander Islands, but S unofficially informed that 1t amount ed to $27, ,2S5
 The subject of compensation and the wish of Great Britain to appoint a mixed commission to 'Iyerify and adjust he claims for comparison for the seiz- lres of British sealing vessels in | 3ering sea" first comes up in MT. Gresh- lm' s reply August 21, 1S9D to Sir Julian note of June '. MT. Gresham opposes the idea of a f as too dilatory and too ex- ] ,ensive and. says that under the cir the president has reached he conclusion that it may be practica- ' ,le as well as advantageous to effect a { lirect settlement of the claims by the payment of lump sum in full satis- : action of all demands. for damages i .gainst the United States. * * % < x and | o this end I am instructed by the president to propose the sum of $425, ,O00. , This proposition, if it should prove &C., eptable to her majesty's government, :, s to be understood as having been ! made subject to the action of congress n the question of appropriating the honey" In note of this same date, the British ambassador accepts the tender f $425,0O0 coupled" he adds, with he assurance of prompt payment al- hough the amount is much below the stimate of the compensation which night be awarded by a mixed com- lission." In a note bearing date of January }, 1895, MT. Gresham transmits to the ritish ambassador for communication ) his government, "the deep feeling f solicitudc on the part of the presi- ent with regard to the future of the laskan seal herds, as declared by the fficial returns of seals killed at sea uring the present season in the North acific ocean,"