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character of tlie regulations winch are necessary to execute the pur- 

 pose of both Governments to preserve and i)rotect the fur-seals of the 

 Alaskan herd, and that would also answer a bcne(u;ent purpose in 

 accomplishing the universally declared wish of all nations interested 

 in the subject of protecting and preserving seal lile, and in rexjairing 

 the daaiage that has been indicted upon it by raiders in the absence 

 of governmental protection. Tliis, 1 take it, is tlic real ground upon 

 which other x)owers are to be invited to give tlicir adiiesion to the reg- 

 ulations that this Tribunal may determine and award as between 

 Great Britain and the United States. 



The regulations, like all enactments of laws that are remedial in 

 their character, are to be framed with a view to giving relief against 

 an existing evil, and this (;an oidy be wisely and Justly accomi)lislied 

 when the nature and extent of the evil is lirst asccitained. When that 

 is done, the nature of the evil suggests the charaeter of the remedy, 

 and we can not frame the remedy that we are to preside so as to merely 

 check the evil for a time, leaving it to burrow and work its havoc at a 

 date that is more acceptable only because it is more distant from us. 

 The occasion requires a just, serious, and firm attitude as to a ques- 

 tion of great importance to the whole world. 



I will now state, as I gather from all the evidence before us, what is 

 the evil that these Governments have found to be so threatening to 

 seal life in the Alaskan herd as to draw them into an agreement that 

 it should be repressed by their commrrent action. 



I will not attempt to examine again the details of the evidence, so 

 thoroughly presented and with such judicial iuq)artiality, by Mr. 

 Justice Harlan. I can find no flaw or omission in his careful state- 

 ment of the evidence, or in the conclusions that he drew from it as to 

 matters of fact. I believe that he stated the exact truth of the situa- 

 tion, and I fully concur in his treatment of the subject and in the 

 conclusions that he has reached. 



The present situation, as I understand it, is as follow^s, as shown by 

 a comparison of the Pribilof and pelagic catches: 



* Estimated. 



