Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-12-05

how far, If at all, 1t Is necessary for
 protecting and preserving the Ameri-
 ani fur-seal herd and for increasing
 it's number. This is a question re
 Quiring examination of the present
 condition of the herd and the treat
 ment which it needs in the light of
 actual experience and scientific inves-
 tigation. A careful examination of
 the subject. Is now being made, and
 this government will soon be in DOS
 session of considerable amount of
 new information about the American
 seal nerd, which has been secured
 during the past season and will be of
 great value in determining this uues-
 ton; and if 1t should appear that
 there is any uncertainty as to the
 real necessity for imposing a close season at this time, shall take
 an early opportunity to address a special message to congress on this subject. in the belief that this govern ment should yield on this point rather than give the slightest ground for the charge that we have been in any way remiss in observing our treaty obliga
 tions.
 Final Settlement of North Atlantic Fisheries Dispute.
 On the 20th of July last an agree ment was concluded between the United States and Great Britain adopting, with certain modifca tlons, the rules and method O. procedure recommended in the award rendered by the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration Tribunal on September ', 1910, for the settle ment hereafter, in accordance with the principles laid clown in the award of questions arising with reference tc the exercise of the American fishing liberties under Article l of the treaty of October 20, ISIS, between . the United States and Great Britain This agreement received the approval of the senate on August 1 and was for mally ratified by the two governments on November 15 last The rules and method of procedure embodied in the award provided for determinine by an impartial tribunal the reason ableness of any new fishery regula tions on the treaty coasts of New. foUndland and Canada before such regulations could be enforced against American fishermen exercising their treaty liberties on those coasts. and also for determining the delimitation of bays on such coasts more than 10 miles wide, in accordance with the definition adopted by the tribunal of the meaning of the word bays" as used in the treaty.
 Imperial Valley and Mexico.
 In order to make possible the more effective performance of the work nee essary for the confinement in their present channel of the waters of the lower Colorado river, and thus to pro tect the people of the Imperial Val ley, as we'll as in order to reach with the government of Mexico an under standing regarding the distribution of the waters of the Colorado river, in interested, negotiations are going for ward with a view to the establish ment of a preliminary Colorado river commission, which shall have the powers necessary to enable it to do the needful work and with authority to study the question of the equitable distribution of the waters. There is every reason to believe that an un- derstanding upon this point will be reached and that an agreement will be signed in the near future
 The message told what the govern ment has done in connection with the Balkan war and in placing the gov ernment of Liberia in position to pay it's debts. The new condition of af- fairs In China was set forth, and then our relations with Central and South American governments were set forth in more detail. It concluded as fellows:
 Congress should fully realize the conditions which obtain in the world as we find ourselves at the threshold of our middle age as a nation. We have emerged full grown as a peer in the great concourse of nations. We have passed through various forma tive periods. We have been self-cen tered in the struggle to develop ouI domestic resources and deal with OuI domestic questions. The nation is now too mature to continue in it's for eign relations those temporary expe dients natural to people to whom do mestic affairs are the sole concern | In the past our diplomacy has often | consisted, in normal times, in a merc | assertion of the right to international existence We are now in a larger l relation with broader rights of ouI | own and obligations to others than | ourselves. A number of great guid | ing principles were laid down early 1T | the history of this government. The ] recent task of our diplomacy has been to adjust those principles to the con | ditions of today, to develop their corol | laries. to find practical applications ot the old principles expanded to meet | new situations, Thus are being | evolved bases upon which can rest ] the superstructure of policies which [ must grow with the destined progress I of this nation. The successful con | duct of our foreign relations demands !