Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — NOTE FROM SALISBURY. [ARTICLE]

NOTE FROM SALISBURY.

HE WOULD RENEW THE MODUS VIVENDI. Hi* Lordship insists, However, that the Pending TreKty First Be Ratified, and that Provision Be Made for the Assessment of Damages. Salisbury Sauce. Lord Salisbury has replied as follows to Sir Julian Pauncefote in response to Mr. Wharton’s note: “In reply to your telegram notice has been given to owners of ships sailing lor Behring Sea that both agreements at present under discussion between Great Britain and the Fnited States—that as to arbitration and that as to an intermediate arrungc ..lent—may affect the liberty of sealing in Behring bea. They have, therefore, notice of their liability lo possible interruption, and will saii subject to that notice. The question of time is not, therefore, urgent. "Inform the President that we concur in thinking ihat when ihe treaty has been ratified there will ar.se a newstate of things. 1 util it is ratified our eouduot is governed by the language of your note of the 14th of June, 18J0. but when it is ratified both .parties must admit that contingent rights have become vested in the other, which both desire to protect. “ Vie think that the prohibition of sealing, if it stands a.one, will be unjust to British sea.ers if ttre decision o. the arbitrators sh.u d be adverse to the United States. A e are, however, wiiling, when tne treaty nas been ratixied, to agree to an arrangement similar to that or last year it tue United States wi.l consent that the arbitrators should, m the event of a decision adverse to the l nitcil States, assess the damages which the proh b.tion of sealing snail have inflicted on British sealers during tne penaency of the a.bitration, and in the event of a decision adverse lo Great Biitain should assess the damuges which the limitation of slaughter shall, during the pendency of arbitration, have inflicted on the United States or their lessees.

“As an alternative course we are also willing, after the l aUtica’.iou of the treaty, to prohibit scaling in the disputed waters if vessels be exempted from prohibition which produce a certificate that they have given security for such damages us the arbitrators may assess ;n case of a decision averse to Great Britain, the arbitrators to receive the necessary authority ou that behalf. Iri this ease a restrict.ou of slaughter on ihe islands will not in point ol equity he he cessary. "Her .Majesty’s Government are unable tj see any other than one of these two methods of restricting seal hunting in the disputed waters during ilie uro.tration which would be equitable to both putties.” Salisbury Stages His Terms. A later note from Lord Salisbury to Sir Cuban Pauncefote sa^s: MKu iuru.ir foil reacts to jour telegram, I am not, prepared lo a-amit, i.s 1 gatnur lh.it ihe Pres.eent thinks, that ive nave objected lo ilie aruitrat.is having jurisdiction as to the clam ,ges indicted lit ilie t ast by ihe party against whom the award is given. X cniy oojected to iter Majesty's bovoiiin eni bob g tiaule for nets litey have no committed. Jt am reuay to consent to re it re nee ou this point on the loiiowiug terms: That in case the nrb.trators shall decide in favor of the Isruish Govern ~ent, u.a. Government may as.c them funner to decide Whether tilt: l mtej States Government lias, since IsSo, taken tiny action it Behring Sea directly iiifl.c.tng wrun.ful tes-on BiitIsh suujeo.s, and, if so, to assess die carnages Incurred thereby. That in case tne arbitrators shall decide mi favor i f tee G iternrnnit of tne United ttates that Government may ask them lo del ide further wheti or the Urhlslt e.uvtrnmeut have, since Issq, take t atty act on In liering feu, uireetly indie.lug > rongfut l s, on t ie United Sta es or tue r 1 ssecs. i.lid, L so, to assess ,ho ctarna.es incurred thereby. The note to Sir Julian Pauncefote of June 14, 189 j, referred to in Lord Salisbury’s reply, is as follows: \\ Astil.sOTox, June It.—With ref. renco to the note which 1 had the honor to autlress you outlie 11th i desire tj express u.y deep tegre.. at having tailed up to the present time to rec ive from yt.u the assurance which I it a hoped to receive, that (luring the continuance of our negotiations for the settlement of the fur seal quest.on lir t sh sealing vessels tvouid not be interfered with uy United Stales revenue cruisers in the Behring Sea outside of lerrlior.al tv.. tars.

Laving learned from statements in the pub.lc press and from other Sourcei that the revenue cruisers Kush and Cjrwin are now about to be dispatched to the Behring Sea, 1 cannot, consistently with the insti uctions X have received from my Guv.-rn-ment, Ueler any longer the communication of their formal protest announced in my notes of the 23d ult. and the lith insu against any such interference with British \ essels. I have accordingly the lienor to transmit the same herewith. I have, eta, Julian I’A'jnceiotk. flnclosurc.) (Received June If. 12:33, 1893.) The undersigned, her Britannic majesty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to tne United States of America, has the honor, by instruction of ills Government, to make to the Honorable James G. Blaine, Secretary of State of the United Stat.s, the following: Her Majesty’s Government has learned with deep regret from notices which have appeared in the public press, the accuracy of which has been confirmed by Mr Blaine’s statements to tho undersigned, that the United States have issued instructions to their revenue cutters about to bo dispatched to Behring Sea under which tho vessels of British subjects will again be exposed under the prosecution of their legitimate industry on the high seas to unlawful inter.erence at the hands of American officers. Her Britannic Majesty’s Government are anxious to co-opeiate to the fullest extent of their po or with the government of the United States in such measure as may be found to be expedient for the protection of the seal Usheries They are at the present moment engaged in examining, in concert with the Government, of the United States, the best method of .arriving at an agreement upon this point But they cannot admit tha right of the United States of their own sole motion to restrict for thi. purpose the freedom of navigation of Behring Sea, which the United States have then selves in former years convincingly and successfully vindicated, nor to enforce their municipal legislation against Btitish vessels on the high seas beyond the limits of their territorial Jurisdiction. Her Britannic Majes y’s Government are therefore unable 1 1 pass over wit hout notice the public announcement of an intenijn on the part of the Government of tiie Jnitrd States to renew tho acts of interference with Brit sh vessels navigating outside the territorial waters of the United States, of which they have previous’y had to complain. The Undersigned is. in consequence, instructed formally to protest against such In erference. and to declare that her Kr*tanniaMajesty’s Government must hold the G nernment of the United Slates responsible for the consequences that may ensue from act* which are contmry to iho establ shed principles of international law. The undersigned, eta

JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.

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