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the northeastern fisheries. 1 Both controversies 

 thus went over to be taken up by the successor 

 of the Cleveland administration. In this situa 

 tion there was no room to question the impor 

 tance of the Canadian governmental and un 

 official sentiment. Sir Charles Tupper, the 

 shrewd and experienced associate of Sir John 

 Macdonald in the Dominion cabinet, was a 

 member of the commission that negotiated the 

 unratified treaty of 1888, and was the official 

 through whom the communication was made 

 that put an end to the negotiations as to the 

 seals. The oft-reiterated complaint that Cana 

 dian interests were sacrificed through failure of 

 the imperial government to make itself informed 

 about them could have no place in connection 

 with these incidents. On the contrary, the 

 Americans manifested from time to time im 

 patience and even stronger feeling because of 

 the time lost, as they declared, by the care of 

 the British Foreign Office to insure that its 

 every step should receive the vise of the Do 

 minion cabinet. 



In the summer of 1889 the activity of the 

 revenue cutters in Behring Sea, which was sus 

 pended during the preceding summer, was re- 



1 See above, p. 280. 



