| Show CHAMBERLAIN nN SFAIA lie I Ill rtril by I Her Llrbc lie Knows Whul 118pek London Oct 31lIermann IMhe of the North American Commercial company com-pany and one of the lessees ot the IIby I off let nnds haninadoaotatement In I rluatton of the case put orward I by Mr Chamberlln secretary OfStrite for the colonies I la his recent dispatch tu Secretary Sherman Mr Liebes say In Part There cn lie 1 no doubt whatever that the Prlbyloft Islands are Igltt mntely owned by the United States < and the United States has an un doubted rig ht I to Brunt n Ira se to the seal 1 11 r her Ia up the Islands to tb highest I bidder viz my company And there can be no furthei doubt that the United States govern Tent has In abi lute right to permit the lessees of tim island to kill every seal frequen Ilig the rookeries II Amrla wre to exrclsc Its right to kill oft all the seals upon Trillion Islands the whole seal 1 herd would be exterminated less 1 W week nil LeIngle opolingtIln r I ut tmh I Ilerlng so uldi a 1 ught to su my end The object of America however Is Ito I-to preserve and nol to extrmlnate the seals though we may bo u ultimate driven In self defense to kill on enl as under pr sent conditions sUng IN I not profitable What 19 I toby sired to-by America nnd the lessees of riby loft I Islands Is I that nil pal ties Incan created both In Il1nol Out ooenn ej Int lthou a moment loss 01 time confer together mith the view 01 seeIng see-Ing Ahether or nol some arrangement can he made by which by 1 > fair and equitable terms by both I arlle the herd can ha Protected I I do not myself believe tint any solution can be found which dees not Includ a a one of Its teims tin absolute prohibition of nil iclnrlc sealing This ought not to he a dlmult matter to arrange having regard to what I assert as nn un doubted fact viz that pelagic sealing Is not nnol cannot be under Iollllcat con < lltloll profitable A great deal has ben said about lupsla und Japan It Is I suggested that IlIJ they were not parties to the arls treaty and are not ound 1 by any regulations unit lire said to he con erned < l only In Ihe seal flatteries of the western and not the ntern coast of the Northern Pacific their preence at tiny cOIIIrenco would he nul of place and would he only desired by America Ameri-ca to l secure i from the countries a mnjnlt ty vote against Brlllh Interests The whole objection to Russia rind I Japan being represented nt tiny conference con-ference Is I venture to think mot unreasonable There Is I 110 qurlion of voting In the matter the conference Is I merely held with the view of nrrhIII If I possible nt Home solution by which the herd shall be saved from extermination extermina-tion but 00 many difficulties nnd de lays atl lso that I very much tear that by the time the conference has been helot there will be no seals to confer about |
