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Show SEAL TREATY -IS SIGNED AT VASIGTOII Prohibits Pelagic Sealing in All North Pacific Seas. WASHINGTON. July T. The Snal signatures sig-natures were affixed to the treaty for the protection of seal life shortly be-fore be-fore noon It the state department, and the convention will be submitted immediately imme-diately to the senate. By the terms of the treaty pelagic sesllng Is prohibited In the seas of Bering. Okhotek. Kamchatka and Japan. The convention arranges for the apportionment ap-portionment anions the signatory powers of the annual proceeds of the several seal herds In which they may be Interested, In-terested, as follows: Thirty per cent of the skins annually taken from the American and Russian herds respectively le divided equally between be-tween fjraat Rrltaln and JhDSJI. Thirty per cent of tlie Japaneea herds divided equally among the United Htates. Urest Britain and Ruasla. and M per cent from any herds which msy here-sfter here-sfter resort to ths breeding grounds under British Jurisdiction In ths north Pacific ocean is to be divided equally among the 1'nlted Ktalea, Russia and Japan. In connection with ths apportionment the t'nited mates will mske sn sdvance payment- or Sroe.eeeW" 4Jceee BWtaln wwd Japan each. These payments sre to be refunded to this country out of ths proceeds pro-ceeds of the British and Japanese share of skins taken from the herde. "This payment." ssys an official state-ment state-ment on the subject. "Is In effect merely s loan and waa necessary only betmuse the I nlted Steles reserved the right to discontinue sltogether lbs killing of the 1'rlhlloff Island seels." The convention slso prohibits the hunting hunt-ing of ses otters on the high seas. The treaty will extend for fifteen years snd thereafter until terminated by one year's notice by sny of the powers concerned, it will now be submitted to the sovem- ments whose representatives have signed It for rstlflcatlon. Aside from ratification by the senate. H will also be nei-esesry for congrees to pass some legislation to carry Ita provisions into effect. |