Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-24

MAP OF ALASKAN BOUNDARY.
Decision OF Commission Grants Conten-
tions Of America as Here Shown.)
verstone decided Tuesday morning not
to hold the proposed public meeting Of
tho Alaskan boundary commission, but
to hand it's decision to Messrs. Foster
and Sifton, respective agents Of the
American and Canadian governments.
The Canadian commissioners not only
declined to sign the award, but said they
would publicly withdraw from the COM
mission. They, as we'll as the Canadians
connected with the case, are very Bit
ter. kilograms from Premier Laurier
and other prominent persons in Canada
show that this sentiment is shared gen.
orally throughout the dominion.
Reason for Refusal.
Messrs. Jette and Aylesworth, tho
Canadian commissioners, in a statement
of their reasons for refusing to sign
the award, say they consider the find
ing Of the tribunal regarding the islands
at the entrance OF Portland channel and
the mountain line is not judicial one.
They add:
I'VE urged our views as strongly al
we were able, but we have been COM
PEELED to witness the sacrifice Of the
interests Of Canada. We were powerless
to prevent it, though satisfied that tho
course which the majority was deter
mined to pursue in respect to the mat
ter above specially referred to ignored
the just rights Of Canada"
One of the Canadian commissioners
said to representative Of the press in
an interview:
This award affects much more the
relations between the dominion and tho
mother country than people here seem
to realize, and almost marks the part
ing of the ways, at least so far as leav-
ing any such question for England to de-
eide for u.s.
Portland Canal Award.
The award relating to the Portland
canal gives the United States two is
lands, Kannaghunut and Sitklan, COM
manding the entrance Of the Portland
channel and the ocean passage to Port
Simpson and destroying the strategic
value Of Wales and Pearse islands, which
are given to Canada.
The mountain line adopted as tho
boundary lies 80 far from tho coast
as to give the United States substantial
ly all tho territory in dispute. The line
completely clears all the bays and inlots
and means OF access to the sea, giving
the United States 4 complete land bar
rier between Canada and the sea from
the Portland canal to Mount St. Elias.
Around the head Of the Lynn canal
the line follows the watershed, some
what in accordance with the present pro-
visional boundary.
The engrossed copy Of the award was
signed at 2:10 p. m, the Canadians de-
Ginning to sign.
Messrs. Aylesworth and Jette will
submit their contrary opinions to tho
tribunal, so as to go officially on record,
and while they declined to sign the
award they signed the maps agreed on
by the majority.
Questions at Issue.
The seven questions submitted to the
arbitration were as follows:
: 1.--What is intended as the point OF
commencement Of the line?
2.-What channel is the Portland
channel?
D. 3.-What course should the line take
from the point of commencement to the
entrance to Portland channel?
". 4.-What point on the fifty sixth par
allel is the line to be drawn from the
head of the Portland channel, and what
course should it follow between these
points? ".,, u. -
= .s:-In extending the line OF demarca-
ton northward from said point on the
parallel of the f1fty~sixth degree of north
latitude following the crest of the noun
tains situated parallel to the coast until
Ats intersection with the one hundred
and forty-frst degree of longitude west
Of Greenwich, subject to the condition
that # such line should anywhere ex-