The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
Sir WiIfrid Laurier and His Col
matum from the United States.
MUST AGREE TO STOP SEALING
BEFORE RECIPROCITY AND OTHER
SUBJECTS ARE TAKEN UP.
John A. kassOn Thinks NegOtia ii Ons
May Be COntinued-Supreme Court
Clearing It's Docket.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15-Sir Wilfrid
Laurier and his Canadian colleagues will
return to the Dominion Tomorrow or next
day, having failed to come to an agreement
with this government over sealing or any
thing else. The Canadians were confronted
this afternoon with an ultimatum that un-
less they would agree to a suspension of
pelagic sealing for one year as a condition
precedent, all talk about other matters
might as well come to an end. A surrender
on that point at the outset was regarded by
the visitors as fatal, inasmuch as it was the
leverage relied on to rescue many conces-
sions from the United States, and so they
refused to yield. That leaves all the matters
in controversy up in the air.
Special Commissioner John A. Kasson,
speaking to a friend this evening, said It
must not be concluded that negotiations are
over. as it was probable that joint COM
mittee would be appointed to draw up
new treaty between the two gov
ernments and to take up in de-
tail, and as an entirety, the sub
ject Of trade relations. The attitude of
the administration towards the subject of
reciprocity with Canada is probably dis
closed in the following statement of a gov
ernment official: "The task of the govern
ment would be made easier if the statesmen
in Congress would be controlled by the in
terests of the country at large. Some of
them unfortunately confine their views to
particular concession to be obtained from
a foreign country for local interest, and
then desire our compensatory concession to
be made not by their own, but by some
other locality. They make of reciprocity a
series of questions to be settled in the in
terest of particular districts. We may be
able to secure arrangements which will add
millions our national export trade, and yet
it might be defeated by combination of
a few minor local interests not amounting
to a million. Yet reciprocity means mutual
concession, without this nothing can be ac-
complished. We must give a market if we
acquire one-not necessarily a free market,
but an accessible market Take coal for
an illustration BY giving access to the
New England coast, we might gain access
(perhaps controD in the coal market of all
central Canada with mutual advantages by
reason of geographical and transport condi-
tions? 1t is the same with other articles of
commerce, where long water transportation
is balanced against short railway carriage.
In some things we can acquire an almost
exclusive market, greatly increasing our
only to the competition of the other party.
So it is with some phases of the question
of logs and coarse lumber against manu-
features Of wood. Whenever we enlarge
the market of manufactures we inevitably
enlarge the demand for our raw material
from which they are made, and this tends
to increase the price paid to the. original
producer. The advantages of increased
trade are widely distributed.
I'm the major portion of commercial ex-
change this country is in the exceptional
nf 1nfY n z1ttG 1AtI %
raw material and of the manufactured
products. Our policy must take into view
this situation, although it increases our diff
fculty in negotiations which shall satisfy
every interest. All that can be hoped for is
a. result which, in the aggregate, shall be
clearly advantageous to the Nation as a
unit. All producers are also consumers and
they often gain on one side as much as
they lose on the other"
An Associated Press dispatch says the
delegates to the Bering sea meeting
laborS to close to-day, but after
two ,arduous sessions, lasting until
$3.50 this evening, the experts had not
been able to reconcile all their differences.
1t was determined, therefore, to continue
the meeting tomorrow. Up to the time of
closing to-day the experts had made good
progress, reaching an agreement on all but
three or four reserved propositions. These,
1T is expected, can be agreed on during the
morning session tomorrow, so that the ex-
pert report can be signed and the meeting
concluded so far as the experts are con-
cerned. This will make available all the
data necessary for considering the vital
diplomatic question of stopping pelagic seal.
ing. The intention is that General Foster,
Sir Wflfrid Laurier and Sir Louis Davies
will meet tomorrow afternoon to go over
the results reported by the experts and, if
possible, agree on basis of settlement. The
outcome of this diplomatic meeting contin-
ues to be much in doubt. 1t was intimated
tonight that the Canadians might make a
counter proposition not going as far as the
American representatives desire in the way
of limiting pelagaic sealing, but yet offering
a possible ground for amicable adjustment.
Equally reliable sources stated that if the
issue assumed the form pelagaic sealing or
no pelagic sealing, as now seemed likely, it
would be extremely difficult to reconcile the
differences In view of the continuance of
the meeting Sir Wilfrid and Sir Louis will
not leave until tomorrow night or
Wednesday,