AEGUMENT OP CHARLES B. WARREN. 1095 



physical coast-line or from an artificial coast-line which the British 

 Case called the political coast-line, and which was drawn following 

 the general trend of the shore, except that it crossed certain inlets, 

 and also crossed certain projections of land. This is shown on the 

 maps submitted to the Alaska Boundary Tribunal, a copy of which 

 will be left with the Tribunal for inspection. 



THE PRESIDENT: If the line had been drawn from what is called 

 the political coast-line, then the frontiers of British territory would 

 have come nearer to the sea than in the other case? 



MR. WARREN: The frontiers of British territory, Mr. President, 

 would have included the head-waters of the Lynn Canal, which 

 would have given to Great Britain access from the sea for the pur- 

 pose of trading with the gold-fields then recently discovered in the 

 Klondike. And I may state that the Alaska Boundary Tribunal 

 found that the boundary-line on mainland should be measured from 

 the physical coast-line, and not from any artificial coast-line. 



When the Government of Great Britain, in presenting their case to 

 the Alaska Tribunal, drew the political coast-line on charts, the line 

 was drawn following what was called the general trend of the coast, 

 cutting across certain inlets where the width from shore to shore was 

 10 miles, so as to give access to the head of one particular body of 

 water, the Lynn Canal. 



When the United States took up the position assumed by 

 660 Great Britain, no question was raised as to whether the line 

 should cross the inlets where the width was 6 miles or ten 

 miles. The United States stated that, in any event, the line must be 

 drawn outside the islands, because they were as much a part of the 

 territory of the United States as the mainland ; and that if the line 

 were drawn outside of the islands, then there would not be any strip 

 or lisiere, inshore at all, and the very object sought by the treaty of 

 1825 between Russia and Great Britain would be defeated. 



The ninth and last ground relied upon by Sir Robert Finlay to es- 

 tablish the assertion of broad claims of maritime jurisdiction by 

 Great Britain was founded upon extracts from the Memoirs of 

 John Quincy Adams, extracts from the correspondence between Mr. 

 Adams and Mr. Jonathan Russell, and the separate report to the 

 Secretary of State of Mr. Russell, who was one of the negotiators at 

 Ghent. 



These extracts are printed in the Appendix to the British Counter- 

 Case, on pp. 137 to 169. 



I am not going at any length into this correspondence. I merely 

 wish to make this observation : that in writing this book, " The Fish- 

 eries and the Mississippi," from which certain of these extracts are 

 taken, Mr. Adams was replying, in the midst of a heated political 

 controversy, to Mr. Russell, at a time when Mr. Adams, at least if 



