Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — RIGHT TO SAIL IN BEHRING SEA [ARTICLE]

RIGHT TO SAIL IN BEHRING SEA

Sir Charles KiihmUl Argues tlmt It I'reo to All Niitlonfl. Sir Charles Itussell, in behalf of tho British case boforo tho Behring Bea tribunal of arbitration, at Paris, argued that tho seizures mado of British vessels in Behring Bea wore not justifiable, and be reviewed at' length tho origin and nature of tho rights transferred by Bussia to the United States In 1867. Sir Charli s claimed that the ukase of 17US\ in which Bussia asserted jurisdiction over her subjects on all huntinggrounds and establishments on tho (oast of America from the 55 th degree of north latitude to Behring Strait and thence southward to Japan, und on the Aleutian, Kurile and other islands in all the “northeastern o.:ean,” applied only to llussian subjects. Tho ukase of 1821, in which tho Czar of Bussia laid claim to exclusive jurisdiction over tho northwest coast of America down to the 51st parallel of latitude, together with a considerable portion of. the opposite coasts of Asia and tho neighboring seas to tho extent of 100 Italian miles from any part of the coast and intervening Islands so appropriated had, Sir Charles Bussell pointed out, elicited earnest protests both from Gr< at Britain and tho United States, and subsequent treaties reoognlzod that the pretension of liussia to exclusive jurisdiction over the waters of Bering Sea was untenable. Hence the rights derived from Bussiu by the United States were merely the ordinary property rights in the soil and not in the seals.