Show IN Dr DOAD T I Pages 1 of tS and naps S j Washington ht to Dec 2 The documents coving covering the tile American presentation pP of tin the Alaskan Ala kan boundary case caR are re com corn composed comp I posed p ried in hi three e volumes making a to total tal of ot about 1100 pages In IJ addition tJi re are also ablo two to volumes of maps mape Ti Th largest Ir t of If the Volumes of text I contains the original statement by the American 4 1 commissioners while one of or tin the smaller volumes presents the Amer A r rIan kan Ian counter case caire in rejoinder to the British case e and the other arguments argument of the tho American commissioners In the first t volume the Question at atIue sue namely what hat I to be beth beth beth th point of of the line of If demarcation demar atlon between b tween the United States Slates and Canada what is 18 the Port binl channel what course the line should take to the entrance of or that hr to what point of the fifty sixth parallel the line Jine should be drawn from the th head henri of ot Portland canal and other Ill familiar questions are aie discussed ed edH 1 here H rp also aillo I l extensive discussion of th extent of the strip of territory clung eling the coast on the mainland that ved to the States I 1 the treat of lIfT It appears ap n from t h document docu nt that Great Britain con conios code Ii ios that the th line begins begin at Cape Muron Th The United States contends contend ti it it was wa the intention of nf the powers v which hi h signed the treaty treat of 1825 to eon 1 t irm i nn m in full fuD sovereignty ove to Russia a 0 strip or llo th the shores of ot the northwest p st t of Am a extending from Pert Port PertrA 11 rA channel to the th meridian of ot longitude I 1 w west it of Greenwich and that Fuch strip was to be ton ten f n marine V agues measured from t om the heads head of o oi nil i I gulfs ulf aed other ther arm of the th see ea inIes there ther watt within that distance c r range of or mountains The contention i i further r male made that there rl Is III no such Rueh rl n of mountains m It is i also aJ o urged hat I the United State St tte has ha occupied tills t h 11 strip fit rf of f territory vr since Its Russia Runia and that Rus m jq j had controlled It Ain in the treaty f until ceded to the I d States s sh h I J 67 Counter Statement In the counter countr r statement the Amen ean an commission pi ion n makes make rejoinder to points cov eov f I 1 in the presentation pre of Mo iC British ido il which it says contains enty or nr nTo nJ II documents which here her heretofore have net bf hein fn given gin n to tn the pub 1 The additional evidence referred to toi i ai upon the negotiations which ok pla place e between Great Ireat Britain and andu i u sm luring during the th years to tt 18 1 5 01 nj r It H ts ic contended that this new e 1 in n no nn WA way a 1 n mat J ial contention cont mad 11 ii the th original lion Uon but bitt that on un the contrary it eon con confirma j firms firma nd strengthens the position of the t Stales Stas The Thes documents docu ta largely of statements stater m d l nd J written by Mr Ply who vho wh was wa at that Hat time thue dep depUty d duty depUt Uty Ut governor of the tit Hudson Bay com corn company compan pany pan and it is in i contended that his let letters lette letters te fully sustain the me assertion that in infixing I Infixing fixing a line of demarcation the Brit British BritIsh ish government acted act solely in the interests in interests of that comp company ny The Tb commissioners discuss ducu at some BOme length the claim made by their op OJ opponents that many man protests have been filed by British h officials against the theA American A claim In reference to the boundary line They The admit that from time to te there have bave informal representations but these the e they assert rt were ere in the main without sufficient data to t justify serious consideration In Indeed Indeed deed ded they say RaY that never tl r until after the Klondike gold discoveries dl were made la ta UM iSSi did the British govern government merit ment me t take e up the question seriously They admit that in 1898 attention was Wall called to the claim of the British gov gor government that the ten league strip ex en extended extended tended only from the main waters w ers of the ocean but they the say that tha t this con contention was wall not made absolutely clear until the British case Calle was delivered to the th present pre ent tribunal on the second day of May Kay last lart lartIn S Depositions Produced In support of ot the American Amerin conten centers contention contention tion tio that the strip should measure from tidewater tid and from the heeds heads of bays y yand and inlets a 8 number of depositions are r produced in connection with the coun counter counter counter ter ease case going to show the occupation of this thle strip by settlers settle from the United States since In e 1880 Special effort IK is di directed directed directed toward inward tow rd showing the th control of or the country about bout the head of or Lynn canal anal Including In the J Ues of the towns of Dyes Dye Skagway White lIV ite Pass Pa and Lake Bennett It also a o is stated at ted that numerous documents have b been en pre pro preserved preserved served which had be been a given to Indian chiefs and others othe by b officials of the theUn theUn Un td States government showing the thee presence presente e in the Lynn canal inlets Inlet of or naval And other oth r authority of the United States StatE annually for or twenty years after altero the United States State acquired the terri tern territory territory tory It is hi contended that thi occupation occupation occupation pation and control were known to the Canadian government and its people Discussing the boundaries b proposed by Great Britain the commission makes references to the instability In of the Ca Canadian nadian contention on this point and concludes conclude that the United States Stales has had from the time of cession of or Alaska Ala ka to the th present day maintained but one in interpretation of oC the treaty of ot 1825 Its position has hd ha been opeil ani and known to the world It is ill the same which was wu presented pre to the tribunal In its ease case and which it now reiterates 8 in this thle counter cue case Maps Produced The argument in the case is 18 A care careful careful ful ul study of maps map treaties and nd other document documents bearing upon the boundary contention and it is i Intended to drive home bome the facts presented in the state statements ments mente to which reference has hall been beel made mad Considerable space apace is devoted to the part played by the Klondike gold 1 1 discoveries in arousing Great interest In the controversy mid in this connection notice is Ie taken of an n laser inser insertion tion Uon made m e by the British commission commissioners ers ens that the towns of Dyea Dy and Skag Skagway SkagWay SkagWay way owed o ed their existence exl tenee to the migration migration migra migration tion to the Klondike They assert eert a on the contrary that Dyea Dye was wan founded in and Skagway in 1888 They con contradict contradict flatly a contention made toy by 1 the British commissioners to the effect that Canadas Cana claim to the territories at the head bead of Lynn canal was at the time well known to t the United States government This they say cay Y is ia a gratuitous as assertion There is no proof to sustain it Canada never put forward any such euch claim clam to the tile United States The claim was wv first at made in 1896 by GreG Great Britain fore Before the tile joint high sion slon It tt is said if the Canadian cP ft gov government emment had Instructed British vessels c to disregard these e regulations there th would have bave been grave danger dancer of a serious There Tb e undoubtedly would haw have ben been a collision colU ton Just as a con certainly leAnly as if they had been instructed to disregard dl the regulations of or the port of New York Strung Strong exception also is I taken en to the contention that there was wa a reserva reservation reservation tion on em the part ot of Great Britain when the United States volunteered to create a port of entry at Dyes Dye The Tile argo argument argument ment asserts rt that whatever r reservation ervaU re D there was WU was wa made by a commission comon commissioner er en of ot customs cu and that he had no au an authority in the premises ts |