Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — RATIFIED THE TREATY. [ARTICLE]

RATIFIED THE TREATY.

Senators Approve tho Long-Considered Treaty and Vote xvlth Unanimity. The treaty or convention providing for arbitration in tlife settlement of the differences between Great Britain and the United States over the jurisdiction of Behring Sea has bse-n ratified by the Senate by a unanimous vote. The treaty does not stipulate the language in which the proceedings shall be conducted. Mr. Sherman spid that the suggestion that they be conducted in English had been communicated to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, who replied that he had no objection, but preferred to communicate with his own government before agreeing to it. This he did, nnd Lord Salisbury approved. After Mr. Sherman had made tliis statement tho treaty was amended so that English should be the language used in conducting of proceedings. The time allowed ihe arbitrators for decision was extended to four months and the treaty was ratified without the passage of any resolution (by a yea and nay vote), and resolutions informing the President of its ratification and removing the injunction of secrecy from the vote were adopted. Officials of the N-orth American Commercial Company, to whom the contract was awarded for taking seals on the Pribylov Islands for a term of twenty years, were notified that arrangements should be made'for this season on the basis of a catch of 7,500 skins, the same as last year, under the provisions of the modus vivendi still in force. Information to this effect came direct from the State Department, coupled with the statement that, with the exception of arranging a few deals, the,United States and Great Britain had practieally.reached an agreement to continue last year’s p opcsition in force during the scaling ‘season-of 1592.