The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-12
TIM SEALING lNrE,,Esrs.

W. khO Vt'hb VIZ
question.
To he senate;
On tho 9Th day Of January | received
a copy oil tho following scnatc resolu.
ton:
M'Vtrtd, That tho President DO 70.
CURED, u not Incompatible with tho
pupllc lntcrosls, to communicate to tho
scnato all reports. documents and other
papofS, including logs Of vessels. rolat.
ing 10 tho enforcement OF tho regula.
ions respecting fur A0als adopted BY
inc governments OF tho United States
aud Great Britain In accordance with
The decision Of the tribunal Of arbi!ra.
lion convened at Paris, and tho resolu.
ton (regulattons) under which said 70.
ports are required to DO made, Us well rs
relating to tho number OF suals takon
during tho scason OF 1874 by polagic
hunters aud by tho ~losscos Of the Phi.
Dyioil and Commander Islands; also 70.
ial'ng to tho steps which may have
oeel takon 10 extend the said regula-
lions TO the aaiRtic waters Of tho North
Pacific Ocean and Boring Sea aud to 30.
cure inc concurrence Of othor nations
in said regulations; and, further. all pa.
Pers now hstetotoro published. inclul.
Ing communications Of the agent Of the
United States before said tribunal ut
paris, relating 10 the claims OF the Rrit.
ISM government OF account OF tho aeiz.
urt OF sealing vessels in Boring Sea.
In compliance with said request I
herewith transmit auudry papers. docu.
mcntd and reports which have been ro-
turned to mo by tho secretary Of state,
the secretary Of the treasury and tho
secretary OF the navy, to whom said
resolution was referred. I am not In
possession OF any further Information
touching tho various subjects embodied
In such resolution.
II will DO seen from q letter oil tho soc.
rotary OF the navy, accompanying the
papers and documents son, from his do.
partment, that it is impossible to furnish
at this time the complete log books OF
some OF the naval ve.sela referred to in
tho resolution. but l venture to express
the hope that the reports OF the COM
manders OF such vessels herewith sub.
mitted will be found to contain In sub.
stance SO much OF the matters recorded
In said log books as are important in an.
swering the inquiries addressed to me
by the senate. GROVER CLEVELAND.
Executive Mansion, february II, 1905.
The message is accompanied by q
letter from the secretary OF the treasury
transmitting a statement takon from
the lors OF vessels engaged in the Boring
sea seal fisheries. which have reported
the latitude and longitude in which
seals were taken. lie says that Of the
thlrtv-two American vessels engaged in
this business only ten have made re.
ports of the latitude and longitude OF
the catches made on those points aud
states that the collector OF customs nj
San Francisco reports that the captains
OF the other vessels dcposed under oath
that they cleared without notice Of tho
regulations and therefore made no re.
cord o! the places Of capture.
He puts the number OF seals killed
by pelagic hunters in the North Pacific
and Boring sea during the season Of
1901, At $4,000, and says that OF this
number about $4,000 wcrs killed in
Boring sea and on the American side OF
the North Pacific. He also states that
l5.O33 seals were taken on the Pribyloff
islands BY the North American Com.
mercial Company.
The unofficial! figures place tho mum.
Der killed on the Commander Islands
at 1925. The secretary also transmits
tho logs OF .he Rush, Bear, and Corwin,
in relation to tho enforcement OF the
Paris tribunal regulations, and closed
with the statement that the papers for
wsrdod constitute all the reports md
documents in tue department which it
is deemed compatible with the interests
TO transmit to Congress At this time"
The correspondence includes l29 lot
tors and kilograms, some OF them quite
v%oluminous, beginning with a PROPOSE.
ton made by Sir Julian Pauucetote on
tho ODD OF August, 1898, that the Beriug
sea award be laid before parliament,
and closing with long statement from
Mr.. Gresham to Sir Julian Pauncefote,
OF January % last. in which he com.
municates the deep feeling Of solicitude
OF the President and people OF tho
United States relative to the future OF
Alaskan seal herds as disclosed by off
ciHl returns oil seals killed at sea during
the present season in the North Pacific
ocean, and giyes statistics upon the
subject.
In this last letter OF tho list, after ro-
icrring to the seal killing OF the year,
which WIS, he says. unprecedented in
the history OF pelagic sealing. the score.
tarv says:
ut would appear that the vessels en-
gagged in Berinc Sea, although only one.
third Of the total number employed in
the North Pacific, in four or tivc weeks
killed 1855 seals, not only 5000 more
than wero killed In Boring Sea in 1891
(the la,t year tho sea was opeul but
even moro than the total number killed
during tho four months on the Ameri-
can side Of tho North. Pacific this
season.
He continues:
This startling increase in the pelagic
slaughter OF both tho American and
Asiatic herds has convinced the Prcsi.
dent and cannot fail TO convince her
majesty's government that tho regula-
tons enacted by tho Paris tribunal
have not operated to protect the seal
herd from that destruction which thoy
werc designed to prevent and that
unlesz a speedy change in tina regula.
tions be brought about determination
OF tho herd must follow. Such u
deplorable result must II possible BIO
avortcd."
FREDERICK CilIiISL,2R DEAD.
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