Show i i OF canadian fishermen engage ui of destruction 1 bill to stop pelagic scaling fc boundary a pcr w ac letual source of annoyance L encroachments Encroach ments by canada ii sen tellers frankness capitol notes K 1 washington june C special sen ator hoar once remarked in the senate that canada was a troublesome neigh bor and in many ways our people have found that such is the case the troubles which our government has with canada are brought prominently to the fore again by the action of the ways and means committee in reporting mil to stop seal killing in north waters our government positively prohibits americans from engaging lu taking seals it Is making every effort to prevent their ultimate destruction but every year from to a hundred vessels sail out 0 canadian ports and engage la an in discriminate slaughter of seals la the professor elleott El llott who has made a study of the subject says that the worst feature of the slaughter Is that the mothers are taken by thousands leading the young to to death in the sea he also showed what feeling there was among americans against the canadians while our fishermen and would be seal hunters are shut out from scaling the canadians come into our ports and cry ob you yanks oh you chumps and it makes our men very mad alaskan boundary also the sealing industry Is not the only thing that causes trouble in the pacific northwest the alaskan boundary Is a source of annoyance the sealing abuso can only be stopped by great britain taking the same course as the united states does and that would cause trouble altu canada which supports the sealers the same Is true as to ohp boundary england does not care much about the matter hut the canadians arc anxious to obtain as much of our land as possible and england feels bound to back up her claims aa she does in the matter of while the sealing question had always been because it Is claimed that beata are bred upon the alaskan islands of the united states the boundary dispute Is one that causes v amore general concern and which anay result in more action than anything alae this matter of land and territorial encroachment Is one which reaches the whole people it la a subject that can ba kept alive all the time and Is not periodical only as the goal catching men from the pacific northwest say they intend to keep up this agitation until some of the dim cuttles with canada are finally settled A frank senator there ia no humbug about senator of colorado he says just what ho very often there Is talk in the senate about arranging a time for a vote some senators on the major ity eide will nay we know there Is no disposition to unduly delay athla bill but after so much debate it seems that time should be fixed for taking a vote then some minority senator alu say we on this bide have no detre to delay the bill but simply ask me for reasonable then senator teller will como in with some direct avowal such as 1 I will say to the senate defy frankly that no time can be fixed for taking n vote and it fan waste of time to consider the subject and everybody connected with the senate knew in the beginning that such wa the case there la no aub about thac matter when they were trying to arrange for a vote on tc philippine bill he said it de whether tile majority is willing to make some amendments in the land provisions of the bill and everybody knew that it was necessary to make those changes in order to secure an agreement enough for one deion of illinois who is the second man on the river and harbor committee mid has been the chief assistant of chairman burton in the preparation of that bill came out 0 the conference room the other day cud eald he had had enough 1 I have scarcely been in the house this sea felon said mr aceves but have devoted moat of my time from early in the morning until sometimes late at night to this bill after the bill passed the house we had to work in conference and that took a long time not go through it again for a yearb salary and he looked as if he jut as tired as he said he was topics what Is your business asked app of professor ott who was talking seals to ways nad means committee the reply was ani a t a arti stand naturalist if cleveland 0 it took tawney ano re of the day to digest the reply quite a larga number of pt the house think that it looks afke chester I 1 long for benator front members of the house would bo very gaad to see the handsome kansan promoted to the upper branch jhc thc friends of general john it brok are making every effort to have biro made n lieutenant general before ho Is retired so that be may have that rank in his retirement if be stood alone he possibly could get it but the falc ada of general bealey and general elwell S oils are qualey qua liy insistent that they shall have this rank it brooke such an honor ARTHUR W DUNN |