946 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



men to whom we have extended such generous treatment are pre- 

 cisely those who have worked most strenuously to injure us in our 

 trade relations with their country. We now propose to convince 

 those men that the hands that have bestowed the privileges they have 

 enjoyed have the power to withdraw those privileges. In doing 

 this we simply rise to the full dignity of matter-of-fact statesmen. 

 With the Administration of the United States we have no shadow of 

 a cause for complaint. They have treated us with the greatest 

 courtesy whenever we have approached them, and have manifested 

 both a friendly and just attitude toward this colony. It is not the 

 fault of the Administration at Washington that we are where we 

 are to-day in this matter; the fault lies solely at the door of those 

 who, for petty personal interests, have misrepresented facts, and, by 

 so doing, have deceived those who represent them in the Senate of 

 their country " 



And so on. 



This measure, therefore, of 1905, was passed, as I have said, for 

 the reasons which I have given. It was intended only for what 

 might be called a commercial purpose, entirely outside and irre- 

 spective of the position of the United States as fishermen under the 

 treaty of 1818. No change whatever took place in the relations of 

 the parties, or has taken place in that regard. 



THE PRESIDENT: Please, Sir James, if I understood you correctly, 

 you said that in 1893 the Government of Newfoundland thought itself 

 entitled to prohibit the enlistment of Newfoundlanders, but that in 

 the cases you mention, supplementing a man who had been lost by 

 accident, and so on, they permitted the issue of a licence ? 



SIR JAMES WINTER : Yes. 



THE PRESIDENT : But, in principle, in 1893, the enlistment of New- 

 foundlanders was considered as illicit? Was not that the purpose 

 of the Act of 1893, section 1, which says the Governor-in-Council 

 may authorise the issue of licences to foreign fishing-vessels for the 

 following purposes; for the shipping of crews, and so on that pre- 

 supposes, in principle, that the shipment of crews was not allowed? 



SIR JAMES WINTER : It was done, I presume, in order to give the 

 Government power, at any time they saw fit, to put a stop to that. 



THE PRESIDENT: Yes. 



SIR JAMES WINTER: It was left in the hands of the Government 

 to give a licence or refuse a licence. 



THE PRESIDENT: To make exceptions? 



SIR JAMES WINTER : Yes ; but clearly it does not involve the prin- 

 ciple that the shipping of crews would be illicit. 



THE PRESIDENT : It did not go so far as that ? 



SIR JAMES WINTER: It did not go so far as to declare it illicit, 

 because under the comity of nations they might come in and ship 

 crews if nobody made any objection. 



