The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-02
NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA.
AN OFFICIAL THINKS A BASIS nc
LAID FOR FUTURE ADJUSTMENT
OF DIFFERENCES.
CANADA WILL ASK CONCESSIONS
concession by Her in the Matter nj
sealing Will Have to he Met
by Uncle Sam in Other
Matters.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE officers of
the state department were very mucb
surprised at the reports of the total
failure of the Canadian negotiotions
winch appeared today in several news.
papers; one of them said that view is
ilot taken Dy the government in WASH
mgton. He said: ISL
The representatives of the Canadian
government, who have not left the CITY
ana not come to Washington with m
expectation of concluding any arrange
ment or treaty during their brief stay
ihey entertained views upon the cues
ton of the sealing regulations and
noped TO acquire accurate information ms
TO the views of our .neighbors on the
remaining questions which the preceding
government In Canada failed to adjust.
L ne only fact correctly stated i'm the
public news referred to is that under
the favorable influences prevailing the
seal experts agreed on report. This
+ report Will furnish a good basis for fu.
ture action. 1t goes without saving
that Canada is not disposed to make n
| concession upon the seals without con-
cession to that country. What such
reciprocal concession of concessions
| should be is a question not yet disposed
OF but continuing under consideration
There has not been the slightest check
to the negotiations further than the in
evitable delay in the settlement of the
| sealing question. The Canadian repre-
sentatives were Hospitality received.
frankly talked with and participated in
a free and frank discussion"
| The official added;
! III ever irritating questions can be
removed between the two countries
meaning the United States, and Cana
| da) they can be disposed of under the
administrations now charged with the
conduct of affairs in the United States
| and Canada"
Some interest naturally attaches to
the conditions that will govern the seal
hunters in the future, supposing that
no agreement is arrived ut between the
| United States and Great Britain for
further measures of protection.
In the absence of an official statement
on the subject and answers to he af-
forded by the language of the award
made by the Paris arbitrators, that body
having in terms decided that the United
States had no right of protection or
property in the fur seals in Bering sea
beyond the threc-mile limit from the
shores of the seal islands, laid down in
set of regulations for the guidance of
both parties to the agreement prescrib-
ing the conditions under which seals
might be taken in the waters in the
| .>OTtn anu DeIlip sell. nest
are the regulations that govern today,
enlarged, as they have been, by mutual
agreement 1t is provided in the award
as follows:
The concurrent regulations hereby de-
termined with view to the protection
and preservation of the fur seals shall
remain in force until they have been in
whole or in part abolished or modified
by common agreement between the gov
ernments of the United States ant
Great Britain The said concurrent reg
ulations shall he submitted every five
years to new examination so rs to en-
able both interested governments to con
slider whether, in the light of past OK
perience there is occasion for any modl
tication thereof
This first term of five years expires
about the time the seal season closes
next year, and it is fair to assume from
the language of the award that, failing
an agreement on further regulations
those in force will continue TO run.