Argument of Sir Charles Russell, Q. C, M. P., Her Britannic Majesty's 



Attorney General. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



I_20TH DAY; MAY IQth. 



Page. 



General consideration of the Case 723 



Changes of front in the United States position 725 



General propositions maintained by the United States 727 



View of the United States as the nature of International Law 729 



Grotius* doctrine of " Placiiitne f/entibus " 730, 1038 



Importance of subject to mankind overrated by the United States 733 



The Seal Fisheries not an important factor in the purchase of Alaska 734 



Destruction of the seal may be necessary 743 



Exaggerated view of pelagic sealing taken by the United States 745 



True nature of management and killing on the Islands 747 



United States criticism of Canadian position 757 



United States criticism of British Commissioners 758 



Position taken up as to Indians inconsistent with general argument of the 



United States 761 



II._21ST DAY; MAY IIth. 



Novelty of claim of the United States 764 



Writers in the United States who have opposed the claim 765 



Order of tlie Argument set forth 773 



The seizures of British vessels 773 



Meaning of liability in Article VIII of Treaty 773 



The facts of the seizures 786 



Correspondence on the seizures 789 



Mr. Bayard's opinion on the seizures 795 



First appearance of the ' ' Contra bonos mores " argument 803 



III.— 22ND DAY; MAY 12th. 



Mr. Blaine's reply to Lord Salisbury's answer to the contra bonos mores 



despatch 808 



History of the United States Legislation dealing with Alaska 812 



The Revised Statutes of Alaska ; section 1954 ■. 813 



— — — — section 1956 816 



The Statute of 1889 822 



Report of the Committee of the House of Representatives 824 



Proceedings in the Alaskan Court 828 



Transcript of the Record 828 



Copy of the Brief tiled by the United States Counsel 831 



Report of the Governor of Alaska for 1887 841 



Ju<lgment of Judge Dawson 845 



Distinction between Prize Courts and Municipal Courts 849 



Examination of the first four Questions of Article VI 854 



The forged translations of Russian docaments 857 



IV.— 23RD DAY; MAY 16th. 



Argument and Judgment in the " Sayward" case 864 



Description of the Behring Sea 869 



The Ukase of 1799 870 



The Ukase of 1821 872 



Nature of the claim made in the Ukase of 1821 877 



Protest of the United States 879 



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