| Show t I CANADA AND UNITED STATES Fruits of the Recent Visit of Canadian Canad-ian Commissioners Ottawa Nov 19Sir Wilfred Laurier and Sir Louis Davis have returned from Washington Within a couple of hours after their arrival a meeting of the cabinet was held at which the premier pre-mier explained the recent negotiations with President McKinley and his ministers min-isters As a result of this it is stated that the cabinet has decided to send a commission com-mission to Washington composed of men familiar with the various questions ques-tions involved to meet with a similar body of men appointed on behalf of the United States with exSecretary Foster Fos-ter at its head and endeavor to reach a settlement on all boundary and other questions at present at issue between the two countries Washington Nov 19The dispatches from Ottawa announcing that the Canadian Ca-nadian cabinet has decided to send a commission to Washington to consider I all questions at issue between the United Unit-ed States and Canada has had the important i im-portant effect of drawing here for the first time a statement of the exact proposition that was laid before the Canadian contingent who were in Washington a few days ago I can now be stated that the proposal of Mr Foster representing the United States government and which the Canadian officials took home with them to submit sub-mit to ther councils was FirstThat both nations agree to the cessation of killing of seals next season in the Bering sea to go into effect on the first of next month SecondThat the representatives of the governments of the United States and Great Britain including Canada be II r invited to enter upon the consideration of all unsettled questions between Canada I Can-ada and the United States with a view I of settlement by treaty this to include I in-clude the sealing question and other matters which they may choose to bring forward So far the state department has not been advised that the Canadian council has acted upon the proposition but an early reply is expected as is evidenced i by the fact that the date set for the beginning of the modus vivendi stopping stop-ping the killing of the seals is no later than the first of next month |
