Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1891 — BERING SEA AFFAIR. [ARTICLE]

BERING SEA AFFAIR.

A Settlement Now > robab • on the Basis Ot Arbitration. The Bering sea negotiation have taken a most favorably turn, and the governmen of the United States and Great Britain appear to have reached a basis upon which to settle their difficulties. Lord Salisbury in a letter to Sir Julian Pauncefote, states that her majesty’s government is ready to submit the six questions propounded by Secretary Blaine, with afew reservation to arbitration. He suggests that one more matter be submitted to the arbitrator, tha* is the question of what damages are due to persons who have been injured in cast it should be determined that the action of the United States in seizing British vess sels was without warrant of internationas law. In reply to Mr. Blaine’s claim that Bering s ais not a part of the Pacific pcean, Lord Salisbury cites authorities to prove that it is and claims that, the Anglc*Russ sian treaty of 1825 gives Great Britain the right of free passage and free fishing in any part of the Pacific ocean, he majesty’s government never having cot % ceded the claim of Russia to jurisdiction for 100 miles from the coast.