Show BUTLER AND JOHN BULL THE cost of carrying out the he bering sea arbitration treaty between this country and great britain as estimated by mr blaine will wili be about through the secretary of the treasury he has forwarded forwar deu a request for an appropriation to the above amount to be expended under the direction of the secretary of state with the approval of the president mr blaine urges the necessity of promptness prompt nees on this matter and it to is expected that congress will authorize the appropriation at once in relation to this controversy two distinguished personages have articles in the north american review for may they are general benjamin benfamin F butler and the be marquis of lorne lome the former in his treatment of the subject in no uncertain terms he says aye the original title deeds to lands and waters on this continent are the tight of discovery and occupation russia held bold exclusive jurisdiction luria diction un questioned over alaska and the aleutian islands for more than a hundred years these possessions with rights pertaining erta ining thereto were transferred flo iotte the united spates slates for a consideration for many years after the transfer this country exercised unquestioned the same jurisdiction as russia did at this late day england comes forward to claim privileges which she has no earthly right to the drift of the doughty veterans argument is that england is impertinent insolent arrogating and domineering and that she should be whipped like a dog if possible and whether or not itris due to manhood and self respect to try the threshing process a the redoubtable benjamini Ben janaine article arbiol will be perused with displeasure displease to by john bull for it contains COMMUS midy many uncomplimentary allusions to brit tanis on subjects on which she is very sensitive the marquis of L larne rne suggests that the ladies of the united states and of great britain forego the luxury of wearing sealskin garments for two years and the question will be effectually settled however he justly concludes that this suggestion will not be acted on ance he be proceeds to discuss the situation from the british stai I 1 point he contends that ships of all nations have a right to enter bering sea and through it the arctic ocean he says nobody doubts that seals landing on islands or mainland shores or swimming imming aw in water within the three mile limit of the coast are the proper y of the but away at sea there can be no more property in them than in the sal salmon mon which come regularly arly to certain rivers then become landowners property but are anybody a game when on their way to the rivers and out at sea I 1 I 1 the marquis then quotes from mr adams who wrote in 1822 to say may that russia claimed jurisdiction in these northern latitudes which she was not entitled to by international jurisprudence the marquis also asserts that british seamen hunted and fished in bearing sea in the last century and that the be right was insisted on by uret great britain at the convention with russia in 1826 1825 great britain contends now and did always that bering sea is embraced in the pacific ocean the drift of the lorne lome article is that the sea seal should not be exterminated but that no one nation nor auy any corporation should have an exclusive monopoly of the seals of bering sea and that it to la the duty of all civilized nations to regard the question in this light |