Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-09
Canadian Fishermen Engage IN
Work Of Destruction.
TO STOP PELAGIC SEALING.
Alaskan Boundary Perpetual source
OF Annoyance EDeron' mens ny
Canada -TeIiers Frsnkness.
Special Correspondence.

Washington, June Ex-senator Hoar
cnce remarked In the senate that
Canada was "a troublesome neigh
Dor" and In many ways our people
have foui,d that such Is the case. The
troubles which our government mas
With Canada are brought prominently
TO the fore again by the action Of the
ways and means committee in report
ing bin to stop pelagic seal killing In
north Pacific waters. Our government
positively prohibits Americans from
engaging IN taking seals. 1t is max
Ing every effort to prevent their ulll-
mate destruction, but every year from
GO TO 100 vessels sail out of Canadian
ports and engage In an indscrmnate
slaughter of seals in the Pacific. Prof
elliott. who has made study OF the
subject. says that the worst feature
OF the slaughter Is that the mothers are
taken by thousands, leaving the young
10 starve to death In the sea. He also
showed what III feeling there was
among Americans against the Cana
dams. While our fishermen and would
be seal hunters are shut out from seal
ing, the Canadians come into our ports
and cry: ION. you Yanks! Oh, you
chumpsl" And II makes our men very
mad.
ALASKA BOUNDARY ALSO,
The sealing Industry IL not the only
thing that causes trouble In the Pa
| cihc northwest. The Alaskan boundary
| is a perpetual source Of annoyance.
| The sealing abuse can only be stopped
! BY Great Britain taking the same
course as the United States does and
| that would cause trouble with Canada,
| which supports the sealers. The same
| is true as TO the boundary England
does not care much about the matter
| but the Canadians are anxious to OBJ
tain as much oil our land as possible,
and England feels bound TO back up
her claims as she does I'm the matter
OF seals. While the sealing question
has always been annoying because II
ia claimed that seals are bred upon the
Alaskan islands OF the United States,
the boundary dispute Is one that causes
more general concern and which may
result In more strenuous action than
anything else. This matter of land
and territorial encrDachTnent IL one
which reaches the whole people, IL Is
a subject that can be kept alive all the
time and is not periodical only, as the
seal catching Men from the Pacific
northwest say they intend to keep up
this agitation until some OF the diff
oultles with Canada are finally settled.
A FRANK SENATOR.
There Is no humbug about Senator
Teller OF Colorado He says Just what
he means. Very often there is talk In
the senate about arranging time for
vote Some senator's on the majority
side win say. I'VE know there Is no
disposition to unduly delay this bill
but after so much debate Il seems that
time should be fixed for taking a
vote" Then some minority senator
viii say. We on this side have no de-
sire TO delay the bill, but simply ask
time for reasonable debate" Theu
Senator Teller viii come in with some
direct ayowal such as, Il VIII say 4
the senate very frankly that no tim,
can be fixed for taking a vote. and 1
Is a waste Of time TO consider the sub
ject." and everybody connected with
the senate knew In the beginning tha
such was the case. There ia no sub
terfige about the matter. When thei
were trying TO arrange for a vote ol
the Philippine bill, he said. 1T de
ponds whether the majority Is willnl
10 make SOME amendments In the lanG
provisions Of the bill" And every
body knew that Il was necessary 4
make those changes in order to seeur
} an agreement
ENOUGH FOR ONE SESSION.
; Representative Reeves OF Illinois
| who IL the second man on the river an
harbor committee and has been IN
chief assistant OF Chairman Burton Il
the preparation Of that bin, came gu
OF the conference room the other da
and said he had had enough II hav
. scarcely been In the house this ses
sion" said Mr. Reeves. but have de
| voted most Of my time from earl
: IN tbs morning until sometimes late a
!. night 20 this bill. After the bi
passed the house we had to work 4
conference, and that took a long tint
| would not go through Il again FOR
+. years salary" And he looked as II b
was just as tired as he said he was.
CONGRESSIONAL. TOPICS.
0 What Is your business?" asked Rer
resentatiye Tawney of Professor Ell
Oft. who was talking seals to the way
and means committee. The reply wa
: Il am a pomologist, hortlcultuns
| yiticulturlst, artist and naturalist {