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Show IN THE PSEIIIllNf. Mi Harrison Proposes That the Eights of the United States Shall Be Maintained. OONGEE33 MUST ACT AT ONCE. HeW.ll Afik ThatTbey Make an Appropriation Appro-priation For the Fitting of Revenue Cutters. New York, Dee. 20. A Washington special says that President Harrison expects to accompany his transmission to congress of further papers relating to the liehring sea controversy with a special message, expressing his views reinjecting the rights and claims of the United States connected with the seal fishery, and the comparative merit of the conduct and position of the twit governments since the first seizure in lHSfi, and the, duty of congress in its present position. The message will be framed with espee'ial reference to the pending proposal pro-posal of the British government for ar- bitration, which proposal it is intended to reject. The personal bitterness between be-tween Blaine and Lord Salisbury that has arisen out of the course of the negotiations is perceived per-ceived here to constitute a material objection to the continuance of the clforts to ward a settlement specially after the diplomatic relations between tho two governments shall have been further strained by the energetic manner man-ner in which Blaino is preparing to show up tho hollowness and unfairness of the British arbitration project. It is because of tho seemingly hopelessness of the prospect of a settlement by peaceful means and of the necessity of almost instantly resolving upon a new course of conduct con-duct for the United States, that tho president is determined to lay tho matter mat-ter fully before congress and to apply for legislative assistance in shaping and enforcing tho policy of the immediate f I,,,.,, The British proposal is to refer to the determination of friendly and impartial arbitration of the question whether the seizure of British sealing vessels by the United States were or were not lawful seizures. To this form of proposed submission of the case to arbitration the president strenuously objects, and he never will agree to it, unless congress con-gress shall assume the responsibility. The president will give congress to understand that in the present state of the matter he perceives neither authority author-ity nor reason to abstain next season from the literal enforcement of the provisions of the law for the protection of thfl tnr seals in Alaska and the waters thereof. He will ask congress for a lijteral appropriation appropria-tion to meet the expense' of fitting out chartered vessels to serve as revenue vessels in sufiicient number and character char-acter to capture and dispose of the numerous marauding vessels expected. |
