The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-09
QNLDA'S DEMAND
BASED On FALGH(N)D
Alaska Controversy Due to 9
Lack Of Good Morals.
ITS CLAIM Is FICTITIOUS.
No Question Raised a. to Bound
ary Until Recently.
Then the Deaninlon PreaueeA naan-
1asasssA EvsAsnes n he sAaps q
Maos sAew1ns sAe Lane Movea
Over - - e 0lvs 0rses ns1taia
N Entry - Tiae Wa4sr-asssaaa
Statesmen Carefully Protected
Their Ceuntry IN tAs 0siginal
Treaty - Aste1nAias lnAiaersass
% Some sf sAe Americans.

Special Dispatch to fhs Post-1ntsIligencer.
WASHINGTON. Aug. A-Ameriean Dip
iomats. engaged in the endeavcr 70 settle
the AIasEan boundary controversy, md in
the minds Of their British opponents what
must be termed the densest ignorance or
most marvellous moral obtuseness Ths
plain facts upon which this country reiiea
70 secure It's rights were conctsely stated
to the Post-1nseiligencer correspondent re-
Gently by . prominent o6iciai Of the stats
department.
White no posts had ever been Get OF
monuments erected TO mark the boundary
between the Alaskan panhandle and the
territory. Of British Columbia. yet there has
been no 6sfYicuity until about twelve years
ago As 10 the approximate location Of the
said tine.
When the territory Vas owned by RusniA
Great Britain never questioned In bcunA-
ary. 1t wae specifically recognized b the
treaty Of iS1S between Engiand ana Rus
sia. and even Il IN earlier date the HUI
son Bay Company. the greatest Of BRUSH
pioneer enterprises IN the far west. paid
to the government of Hussia an annual
rent for the privilege OF trading IN those
Inland waters to the northwest Of ths
Portland canal where Greas Britain now
desires 10 exercise sovereignty.
uaaispsseA RtGhs % Anerica-
The right Of the Unised States 20 the
control of the same territory and tire sans
waters was recognized by Great Britain
after the purchase IN 1857. and for twelve
years after that the United States MAIN
tatnea . cus;nmhouse ~ the mouth OF
the Portland canal and q garrison Of
troops was kept there until tia year is7U
Topoxraphers Of the various countries.
Russia. Canada England and she United
States. al agreed N 10 shs Boundary line
IN making their maps. The paragraph in
the treaty osssfnsns The boundary was
considered 10 be very definite No one dis-
pSsea the generally accepted fact that shs
territory acquired by the United ssaaea,
which vas aisc cIsaxay defined m shs treaty
between Enesand and nussia, extend~d ten
marine leagues inland from every point.
hay Or inlet. marking ths nns Of salt water.
unsess . ranwe of mountains ran parxrsrs
with the coast. ia whsrh case The summit
~ shat ~nxe was to he the boundary
the
When Russia mads her treaty with Eng
lard II vas written ~ clearly ~ Il was
ros~fsse 70 Do that Rn~sa retained for her-
stss every hasacr along the ecas of Alas
ka. The Russian ssssesmen % the early
part ~ tits csrssry w~re fsrseesnx. ana.
as they nad n IN their power 30 make sAs
terms. EnGianS aeeepsed wrsc3ouay. thor
crshsy EMBARRASSING the nasfsF.
reanAasf~n 81 . vaese Claaa.
Il was not ussH 1ss7. wf<a he fnereaaeA
commerrsaI activity On ths HncsAe. sha
discovery cf xost n Southeastern Aisska
az. sne rssssxasinn 81 ths importance Of
sss timber ne.f assns she eaxz rrased Ea@
gsAad 10 sae knSwsedxe ef wAxs wos.d -