Show BY TELEGRAPH The Adams8eIxHfe WASHracTOX May 9The Port tomorrow to-morrow will publish an interview with Hon Sackville West British Minister in regard to the seizure of the United States fishing vessel Adamt by the Canadian authorities in which he say I have had no official correspondence upon the fisheries question this year You see that matter is in the hands of the Dominion authorities at its present I stage They correspond directly with the Colonial Office in London and it is not until some action is taken by the I Imperial government that I should be called upon to act in the matter with the United States I dont apprehend the question is going to cause any serious differences between the two countries Of course the seizure seiz-ure of the Adams at Digby will increase t the unpleasantness which is 1 felt on both sides Everything might have been I avoided had Congress taken the advice I of the administration and appointed n commission to inquire into the whole dispute but it has chosen not to do soled so-led by Senator Frye who really does not seem to care what he says Con gres has denounced the treaty of 181 1 and it has substituted nothing leaving us to fall upon a miserable old treaty of ISIS Instead of progress there has been retrogression in this matter and we are now acting under a treaty made over sixty years ago The question now is as to the interpretation of that treaty The Canadians may interpret one way the Americans another while the Imperial government may understand under-stand it in a way of its own Everything Every-thing appears now to der end on the way in which the British government may interpret this treaty This seizure of the Adams will bring up the question and possibly decide the interpretation It will come before a mixed court part British citizens and part Americans I dont believe there will be any retaliatory re-taliatory action taken by either country coun-try That system is too old and has gone out of use and it has been found always to operate against retaliation retalia-tion |