Show A NEW SEAL CONFCnCNCE I I At the Invitation of the United BtatM a conference on the fir IlIon I-lIon will bo held at Washington In October t TbD United Stoles IrMt Ilrltnln RUSSIA Japan and Canada are I expected to ba represented I The purpose of the eonf rn la In Fonldrr the retorts of the Ilrltiih and Amfrlcjin experts upon the present condition con-dition of the seal 1 herd and f < > drift measures for their more effeetlr pro section The power of the conference ire not final but Ita mneliulona will bn rferre l to Ibo respective governments is a baal for an International agree mint The confereiscc will not reopen the I liienllon I of eielnalre I Jnrladlrtlnn InJ I II i herring see whlfhvina dMldM I against the I United Htfllm by the Parts trlhiinal of 1891 Neither will the eonfrenro have nnythlnK to do with the amount of damages which the Colled states should pay treat Ilrllaln for unwarranted unwar-ranted tHiiireti nf the vessels I nf llrlt lih milijxln That ilnllon WM not titjudlraleil by the tarla tribunal but It li I In proems of nclttement by a ooml j I miNion appointed by Irrot Ilrllaln and the United Slain I U la I with the question of prigs n > deepM 1 fishing that the ronfer < ni will dMl White the farts tribunal de < I oldnl tint the United slates Imd no ex elusive rl table In the ml fisheries 11 1 I eopt on the Trlbllof lalnndi anti wllh I In three miles of them It mtalillihed n protected tone ably l mile wide Again not the Islands within which that I taking I of aeois I was at all time prohibited and It forbade aenllnR In any part ol the North Iaelflr or llerlng sea between I I be-tween the flint nf May sod the first of August In earn year If Iheafl prohlhl liens were nu rveil there would to I lUll longer nf the extinction all the I herd Hut them la I n Urge destruction of sea life In violation of these conditions DurIng the breedliiK season 1 sea-son the seals I awlm northward to feeding feed-ing grounds at n long distance from I the Ulanda They follow n narrow I route which make It may for the pel 1 axle nealen tn Intercept them MM of the amlt thin taken Are females and their rnpturo Involves a double waste of life I That the rnntlnuanro of three pray flees threatens the Penis with eitlnc lion la not seriously queallonM though British anti American experts differ In their entlnmlNi of Ibo rate ot I diminution For several year the United States haa trleil to secure from I the Ilrltiih Rovernmnnt moro effective conperatlon In the enforcement of the decisions of the Parts tribunal for the I protection ot tho seals 1 This season ni In prevloni yean both American and Ilrlllth teasels have patrolled llcrlnc tea to prevent lllcRal reaMnxi but there la need of a more exact knowleilRe of the situation nnd of an agreement on whatever measures meas-ures may be necMaary to meet It |