The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-08

embodying stipulations providing for an alternative procedure which would remove the constitutional objection to that part of The Tague convention which provides that there may be an appeal to the proposed court from the decisions of national courts, has re- ceived the signature of the govern- nsents parties to the original conyen- ton and has been ratified by the gov ernment of the United States, together with the prize court convention.
 The deposit of the notifications with the government of the Netherlands awaits action by the powers on ths declaration, signed at London on Feb ruary 26, 1909, of the rules of inter- national law to be recognized within the meaning of article of The Hague convention for the establishment of an international prize court.
 Fur Seal Treaty
 The fur seal controversy, which for nearly 25 years has been the source Of serious friction between the United States and the powers bordering upon the north Pacific ocean, whose subjects have been, permitted to engage in pelagic sealing against the fur seal herds having their breeding grounds within the jurisdiction of the United States, has at last been Satisfactorily adjusted by the conclusion of the north Pacific sealing convention entered into between the United States. Great Bri- tain, Japan and Russia on the 7th Of last July This convention is con- servation measure of very great iin- portance, and ifs it Is carried out in the spirit of reciprocal concession ana advantages upon which 1t is based there is every reason to believe that not only will it r0jult in preserving the fur seal herds of the north Pacific ocean and restoring them to their for mer value for the purposes of com merce. but also that it will afford a permanently satisfactory settlement of a question the only other solution of which seemed to be the total destruc- tion of the fur seals. In another as- pect also this convention is of import ance in that it furnishes an illustra- tion Of the feasibility of securing a general international game law for the protection of other mammals of the sel, | the preservation of which is of im- portance to all the nations of the world.
 Legislation Necessary
 | The attention of Congress is especial | ly called to the necessity for legisla- 1 tion on the part of the United States for the purpose of fulfilling the obli- l gations assumed under this convention. to which the Senate gave its advice and | Protection of Industrial Property l The conference of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial
 Property, which, under the authority of | Congress-, convened at Washington on May 16, 1911, closed its labors on June l ?, 1911, by the signature of three acts, as l follows:
 1 CD A convention revising the Paris con
 vention of March 20, 1883, for the protec- l ,f ip6tr ctrio arfx l..
 the additional act signed at Brussels on
 December 14 1900;
 (2) An arrangement to replace the ar- lrangement signed at Madrid on April IA, | 1891, for the international registration of trade marks and the additional act with E,regard thereto signed at Brussels on
 December IA. 1900; and
 1 (3) An arrangement to replace the ar-
 rangement signed at Madrid on April IA, 1891, relating to the repression of false indication of producaton of merchant disc.
 The United States is signatory of the first convention only, and this Will be promptly submitted to the Senate,
 International Opium Commission In a special message transmitted to the Congress on the 7th of Janunry, 1911. in which I concurred in the recommenda- tions made by the Secretary of State ir regard to certain needful legislation foi the control of our interstate and foreign
 traffic in opium and other meuacine drugs, I quoted from my annual message of December T. 1909, in which announced that the results of the information opium commission held at Shanghai in February 1909. at the invitation of the United States. had been laid before this govern ment: that the report of that commission showed that China was making remark able progress and admirable efforts to-
 ward the eradication of the opium evil that the interested governments had no , permitted their commercial interests tt prevent their cooperation in this reform
 ana as a result of collateral investiga , tions of the opium question in this coun