•SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE. 313 



The recommendation by the Commissioners of a series of regulations 

 such as those above considered, is clearly indicative of the bias and 

 partisan spirit which appear in nearly every section of their Report 

 (p. 128). 



This subject is treated at length in the Counter Case (p. 125) and 

 also in another part of this argument (ante. pp. 190-214) ; it need not 

 be dwelt upon here. 



In conclusion it is submitted, as the facts show that pelagic sealing 

 by its very nature leads to and necessarily depends for success upon 

 indiscriminate slaughter, that the females killed are, with rare ex- 

 ceptions, either gravid or nursing mothers and form a large propor- 

 tion of the pelagic catch; that the slaughter of a breeding female of 

 necessity involves the destruction of the nursing pup at home as well 

 as of the unborn fetus, thus destroying three animals at one blow; 

 that the only practical and intelligent method of preserving the race 

 is to stop pelagic sealing, leaving the United States to continue and 

 to improve, if possible, those measures best calculated to secure an 

 end which it is to the interest of both parties to reach. In other 

 words, the experience of men has taught that the preservation of the 

 breeding female was and is the only means of preserving and per- 

 petuating the race. Until it has been shown that the animal does 

 not share the conditions of other animals born and suckled on land, 

 the usual means of preserving them must be adopted. 



Unless these propositions are conceded, the hope of preserving the 

 fur-seals of the Pribilof Islands must be abandoned. Present greed is 

 not controlled by possibilities of remote loss. The South Sea seals and 

 their fate have taught the world a lesson which the United States are 

 seeking to improve in the common interest of mankind. They will 

 succeed if this High Tribunal by its decision shall prevent practices 

 repugnant to the growing humanity of the age. 



The foregoing statement of facts has been prepared in part with the 

 aid of a collated edition of the testimony presented with the Case of 

 the United States, and which is herewith submitted to the Tribunal of 

 Arbitration as an Appendix to the printed argument of counsel. 



F. R. Coudeet. 



