Show RESULT OF AN OVERSIGHT what was waa once known as aa russian america and now a as alaska together with the aleutian islands was waa coded ceded to the united beatea by tie great white czar on the ab of juno june 1667 1867 it was not a to u nor was it a adap or any similar but a straight out clean out purchase the considers alon being spot pot cash which was handed banded to his muscovite baety or his hie i treasurer name thing in effect in glittering gold coln coin the deed was of the warranty vat pat 1 torn whereby title was affirmed and and property passed over there are square miles of ef it altogether and as aa it Is mainly quite productive one way and another and aoah be paid our government fully five per percent cent a year on the investment it was a very one line speculation peculation for an but we really know bow much or how bow little we were getting at the time save lave and ex dept dept the soil with its ita temen to emente emen tf tp and hereditaments thereunto belongia or ID anywise any wise appertaining api alii I 1 together with as many seals ealiah as might perennially hibernate near the shores the thereof Teof the islands spoken of resemble somewhat on the map a string of link sausages flaue agee and come very near land looking lockling the vast body of water known as bering sea des lying be tween them and the mainland so BO that whether our respected uncle samuel cont cout Tole the whole of that sea aea because of the enclosure aforesaid or merely holds sway away over the usual three milea each way as provided by international law or any other less lese than the le i the question que atlon the NEWS NE WS has repeatedly given warning that it is of the utmost importance to leave nothing to implication or o r understanding ID a transaction of consequence covie quence that is ie nothing but the words some of which by reason of diZ erent meanings attaching to them and barta i because of gram grammatical st structure be selected with the greatest carean careane care and in some cases supported with w iab i other words having a similar meaning it ie is isbester better that we have redundancy and iteration than that we omit any thingly thing by reason MOW of which gome desired and conceded is riot not expressed the short form of deed provided by the utah statutes is as aa good as any for ordin ordinary sTy transactions wherein the amount involved is not considerable and even in some gome orbera such form may io do as well do as any but it would not loot fill the bill or even commence to do such a thing iff ff the deal were fur for a 4 thousand acres variously ly improved and Irre irregular vular in location ideation and value but altogether worth say a million vr r more and no do lawyer or man of affairs would ither either draw offer or take taka such a deed but bat the United states must bave accepted one of that nature when it perfected the dicker with russia and it was buying an aim ex empire avire too in all respects j save population now we can all we bee that great men sometimes make mistakes which those who are not so BO great would sot not make at all the work of some of the most profound and thoroughly experienced lawyers can be and oftentimes is ie diagnosed dissected and picked to pieces by as an humble a person as aa an editor who may work a whole year or more for what the lawyer gc gets ts for the one job which the editor knocks into and the measures mea turea introduced supported and carried through by congresses and legislatures always excepting the utah lawmakers law Jaw makers are quite frequently shown to be bad in various degrees running from technically to fatally by limbo of the law quite young in the profession so bo with that alaska deal lt it was waa engineered by william H seward reward otie one of the greatest of our states statesmen bud purest of our on with so W approval and end endowment out of wares course of the administration andrew johnson being president at the time and aad a good one but we fancy we could shut abut our eyes and go to 0 o a law office out L f several equally good in rait galt lake where we the deed lor for the transaction would have been more carefully drawn und and the possibility of controversy thereafter by reason of the terms employed cm aloyed have been reduced more nearly to a minimum just see the result of ill id or perhaps it would be better to say nay one of the results for there have been several but thu tbt arbitration commission az in session at paris fans is the greatest it has been going on for several mouths months now and the hope at bret entertained d that our middle aged people at least would know before they died whether berl bering ng sea is ours exclusively or the worlds world a generally grows fainter space apace mr webster representing great britain Bri taiD now has ibbe floor and acts as though be intended to keep it for he be took possession several weeks ago and seems to have but fairly started next to making blunders in a big agreement the paying of lawyers a day and expenses to run a legal job through sti is S about the most injudicious thing of the kind we can think of for they the nut dot only prolong the pro unwarrantably as an it seems to the uninitiated tout but take long recesses and observe holidays with religious exactness with their pay go going log on just the same and ai all the talk really contains no more in substance and point than we have here stated in about a it would have beena been a great economy in the matter of worda moro if a few more mere of them had bad been employed plo Y ed in that deed |