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Show Tho llclirlng'Hea Heal Ca "If the matter can ho lUmhel oat In n conrt of law In tl way to which both natloni aro accuitomed, ths riik of misconception la rcdnccfl to a mlnb mum," rtmarki the London Spectator iftboMnl fishery dl.puto. TlieSpocta. tor oWrvea alra that the Engll.u i)-ak-Ing race never fully undentxnd a dlv putcd queitlon till It comoalnto court. Uoth lidei are therefore to he cccgialn-Uted cccgialn-Uted that Ibe matter will In the court anume n far clearer ihapo than It did In the 'jnngle of dlptomatle ccrreipond mce between tbe government! of Lon dun nn I Waihlngton." In conw-quenco of tho lllneu of Juitlco llrwlley tbe trial of tbe Sayward cane before be-fore tho lupreroe court of the United StAtci hu been I ul off till Octolvr. Then it will doubtlna be Milled. Tho claim that will be made then on behalf ot tbi United Slates li that we have nrtjM to patrol and protect tbe watira of lVbrlii,: ica for a dlitance cf 100 rallea frocl iliore, and that veueli of no other nation na-tion have a right to take will withlu Hill 100-mlle limit. Mr Ulaine, however how-ever eiprculy dlHlaltu that we con-ilder con-ilder llohring sea aa a cloaol tea, loan cliuium, on grneral principles 11 fl only a clusod aea ai far af leal flailing goes. Our claim li bued on two propoil-tlonn propoil-tlonn I Thenatureof tho trail thein-xclies, thein-xclies, that miulre inch protecllon al we ihall eierclie oter them or they will bo exterminated S. Iluiiln rua.le inch cLtini aa thti before na, and handed over to ui all her righli along wllh the transfer trans-fer cf AUuka. Mr Clioau, howenr, connwl for the ownen of tho lell it! Canadian iclioonrr Htiyward, will argue Uforotheaupreine conrt that when we give up the claim that llchrtng water are a closed lea we glreup the very wlnt that LIumIa al-way al-way hel I fait to, and, (tiring up tlilo, no lurrcnder all llnmt. Furllier, urali aro wild lie&iti of nature, feno rniture. They belong in whitirer wnleri they ore caught, and when tney depart from tbtS-mllellmlt'cf Inlrrrwtlonal law beyond be-yond the coat of a given country they become labile properly Knrthenuore tbe claim of lliu.latu.it lleliring was a cluenl lea wai never made In due form till IH9I. and Great llrltaln Immcllately protreteil agalmt It, an l lluwla accord Ingly recoiled rmm It, Sued are briefly loth il lee of Iho waling schooner com, which li to be argued before the aupreme court. |