Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — BERING SEA COMMISSION. [ARTICLE]

BERING SEA COMMISSION.

Arbitrators Meet at Parts and Adjourn to Harch 23. The Commission of Arbitration on the Bering Sea controversy between the United States and Great Britain met in Paris Thursday in the foreign office to open formally the proceedings. There were present Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court, American arbitrator; Lord Hannen, British arbitrator; Marquis Visconti Venosta, Italian arbitrator; Baron Alfonse de Courcel, French arbitrator; C. H. Tupper, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, there as British agent; J. T. 'Williams, council for the United States; Sir Richard Webster and Sir • Charles Russell, counsel for Great Britain. Judge iram, or the Christiania Supreme Court, the Swedish arbitrator, will not go tc Paris until the next meeting. Baroi de Courcel was elected to preside. Ihe proceedings, which lasted bilt hal an hour, were purely formal and the commission adjourned until March 23. In 1848 1,631 journals wore issued in the United Stabs.