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not so affect seal life as to make it necessary to establish regulations for 

 the siipi-)ression or control of that practice, they will liave no need to 

 make any award further than to dismiss all tliat part of the submission 

 and leave the questions submitted to them undecided. 



This would not be a "result of their proceedings" tli at would be final, 

 "as a full and perfect settlement of all the questions referred to the 

 arbitrators," but would leave the Governments confronted to each 

 other, with no barrier between them to prevent hostilities in future. 



If the arbitrators should hold that the United States "has exclusive 

 jurisdiction" to protect the fur seals on the open ocean, because the 

 seals are their exclusive property, and if they should stop at that decla- 

 ration, many questions as to the manner of exerting that right or 

 power, which lie beyond that determination, would arise; such as the 

 right of visitation, search, and seizure; and also questions as to the 

 effect of statutes of the United States beyond the limits of their ter- 

 ritorial jurisdiction, and also the question of the condemnation of ships 

 belonging to Great Britain, in the courts of the United States. 



Proper concurrent regulations, established by this tribunal, would 

 result in establishing the peace of nations, and the protection and pres- 

 ervation of a valuable species of animals, the destruction of which 

 would seriously injure commerce, woidd deprive many thousands of 

 people of remunerative employment, and would leave a blot on the 

 civilization of the age. 



To hold that there is no necessity for the regulation of pelagic sealing 

 by some power or some authority is to ignore the evidence in the case 

 and the joint report of the commissioners appointed under this treaty, 

 and the statement and opinions of the diplomatic representatives of 

 both countries and of Eussia and Japan. 



Canada alone has formerly contended that no necessity exists for 

 regulating pelagic sealing, but that the Government has so far modified 

 its views as to agree to the draft convention submitted to Mr. Blaine by 

 Lord Salisbury, which proposed a close time for pelagic sealing in the 

 North Pacific Ocean and in Bering Sea. If Canada has not gone ftir 

 enough in the right direction she has, at least, admitted the necessity 

 of some progress, and has shown her willingness to conform her action 

 to the views uniformly expressed by the Government of Her Majesty, 

 that the seals in Bering Sea and the North Pacific should be preserved, 

 and that unrestricted and indiscriminate sealing should not be allowed. 

 There is no dispute that this has been the avowed purpose of both 



