The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-04-16
MAKES STRONG CASE

much Co maintain ihr .NiNeI 'N"" '0"- tention as Co the international boundary between Alaska and Canada a, Thomas Willing Baleh, of Philadelphia. who has just issued his third and mos, conn plete monograph on the subject. Mr. Balch i, lawyer and a man ot learn ing. He has spared neither time nor expense iu his search for facts that have bearing on the controversy over theten league li,ierc along ,he Alaskan coast. and he ,y,, forth che result ot his labors in hj, book in detail While the book !, written for che purpose of ,u,- tainiug che American contention. !, .> prepared more l> 90 statement ot al thc facts than as an argument that i>prc- sumed Co be che contention oi only one side and which pre,ume> che existence of other facts which may be used a> @ foundation for au opposition argument. Nr. Balch dodge, nothing, but meets an ,he facts as they eNi,, fairly. ], Is. no, necessary Co go beyond che pages O, hi, book Co set u an the fact, in connection with ,be whole matter. If. there ., anyone who has any doub, %, Co che validity Of che American claim Co an ,he ,iuuo,i,.es ot thc coast north of 54-io. !, is safe Co say that the doubt could never survive careful reading of "The Alaska Frou,icr
 A reading of Mr. Bacb', book win disclose something oi the enormou, amour, ot work be ha, devoted Co tbe question .u which he has taken such a grea, interest. Hc ha, no, only searched an the documentary evidence available at Washington. London and Petersburg. but he ha, visited nearly an ,he capitals of Europe, and from all source, he ha, accumulated evidence ,ha, tend, Co demonstrate tha, ,he. Anslo-Nu,coy.te treaty of I,25. which defined che boundary between Russia and Grea, Britain. was construed Co. shut che British ou, ot tide water aud Go give Russia ,eu-,eague strip along che coast. Hc publishes 2> map, an told. an from ,he official record, of. couutrie, other than che United States. and an ot them show the boundary along substantially the lines claimed by che United State, at the pre>en, time. Among these maps wa, one pre- pared a, early %, 1881 by Joseph Bou- che,tc. Jr.. deputy surveyor genera. ot. Lower Canada. Another wa, au oh'- cia. map of Nor,bNc,, Canada. pre- pared by Tboma, pcyue. under ,he direction O, Joseph Coucbou. commits ,.oner Of crown land, 'or Canada. This. map wa, issued u IS77. The British admiralty chart. No. 7,7, issued iu lS77 and corrected a, yariou, time, up to. 1901. ,ub,,au,.ate, the American contention.
 The history oi the negotiation, is handled a, length by Mr. Ba'ch anJhc successfully establishes thc fact that the principal effort o' thc British am- ba,,ador who negotiated thetrea,y wa, directed toward securing torhi- country a sea DOT, aud that thi, wa, ,he point which Russia gained in the uegotiat- ions. The fac, that che Hudson Bay Company. through the British foreign office leased a DOT, from Russia tor 30 period oi 70 year> and the further fact tha, the British never made a claim Co a sea DOT, on the coast north of 5i dee grees and Co minutes until very receut- Is Is handled to good Use. Attention ,, called Co the fac. that Great Britain proposed three different boundary line, an Of which were refused by Russia and any Of which would give Che United States territory now claimed by Canada.
 Russian. French, Belgian and German maps eorroborate these already reierrod 70.
 But Mir. Balch goes further and inc troduces evidence that would stop the British from making any claim Co the country whatever it the matter were tried in a court of law. He shows that the British and the Canadian author.t- ies have repeatedly admitted the ter ritory Co be American. A notable in- stance of the early recognition of the