Show BEHRtNG SEA COMMISSION Major Halford and J Stanley Drown Arrive Ar-rive Home WASHINGTON July 11The advance guard returning from the Behring sea commission has arrived in the persons of Major E W Halford and J Stanley Brown Major Halford will spend a few days in Washington and then visit his home in Indianapolis I is probable that he will be assigned to duty under General Gen-eral Brooks at the headquarters of the department of the Platte in Omaha Major Halford believes the arbitration I will beconcluded in a shorter time than the three months allowed by the treaty under which the proceedings are being conducted I The impression in Paris is that the arbitration I ar-bitration will result in a decision recognizing I recog-nizing the property right of the United States in seals to a more or less limited degree and recommending some international inter-national agreement for the protection of seal life |