The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-22
JOINT HIGH COMMISSION.
Canadian-American Conference Will
Open Tomorrow.

Open Tomorrow.
Quebec, Aug. 21.-The first session o.
the United States and Great Britain
joint high commission will be held il
this city Tuesday afternoon. A major.
lty of the commissioners are now here
but they do not expect to do more thar
take a general survey of the work and
appoint subcommittee at the first two
sessions. The meetings OF the commits
sion viii not be open to the public II
is a ponderous and perpleXing IasA
given to the commission to perform
Their work is that OF adjustment and
REIMBURSEMENT OF all the most import
ant questions which have been in con-
trCversy between the United States
and Canada for the past century
The principal questions submitted for
the consideration of the commission are:
!. The questions in respect to fur seals
IN Behring sea and the waters of the
North Pacific ocean.
2. Provisions in respect to fisheries of
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in
the waters of their common frontiers.
3. Provisions for the delimitation and
establishment of the Alaska-Canadian
boundary by legal and scientific experts,
If the commission shall so decide. or
4. Provisions for the transit of mer-
chandise in transportation to or from
either country, across intermediate ter
water, including natural and artificial
waterways and intermediate transit by
sea.
s. Provisions relating to the transit of
merchandise from one country to be de-
livered at points in the other beyond the
frontier.
G. The question of the alien labor laws,
applicable to the subjects or the citizens
of the United States and of Canada.
Z. Mining rights of the citizens or sub
1ects OF each country within the territory
of the other.
s. Such readjustment and concessions as
may be deemed mutually advantageous of
customs duties applicable in each country
to the products of the soil or industry of
equivalents.
8. A revision of the agreement of 1917,
respecting naval vessels of the lakes.
10. Arrangements for the more COM
plete definition and marking of any part
of the frontier line by lands or water,
where the same is now so insufficiently
defined or marked as to be liable to dis
pute.
II. Provisions for the conveyance for
trial or punishment of persons in the law
full custody of the officers of one country
through the territory of the other.
rights.
Other questions concerning the United
States and Canada may be brought before
the commission as the work goes for
ward. Already many representatives
from the various interests to be consid-
GT6u DS the COMMISSION dTo mere anu
eager to present their views. 1t will be
impossible, however, to give general hear
ingS TO all who may desire to be heard.
Chairman Fairbanks stated to the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent that where a
large number of men desired to be heard
upon any one question they would prob
ably be asked to select one from their own
number to present their arguments to the
commission. All briefs and communica-
lions concerning the work of the commits
sion should be addressed to Chandler P.
Anderson, the commissions secretary,
who is now in Quebec.
That the work is to be very important
and very difficult is indicated in the fact
that the commission is to take up the very
questions which the United States and
Canada have not been able to settle in
Of Senator Fairbanks, on the part of
England and Canada, there seems to be
n disposition to have all these questions
satisfactorily adjusted.
And so far as we are concerned" said
Senator Fairbanks, I'VE shall meet them
half way
What disposition Will finally be made
of the results of the commissions work."
he was asked.
Our findings he said. will be sub
mitted in the form of a treaty for the
approval of the senate of the United
States and OF Great Britain. 1t is i'm
possible to state how long the commission
will probably sit. The United States and
Canadian members have brought with
them an extensive equipment of books,
documents and maps. Many of the maps
the Alaskan boundary which, excepting
possibly the sealing ana commercial mat
ters. will be the most difficult question
before the commission