1454 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



cise the Treaty right should take out a license from the Colonial 

 Government. No license is required for what is a matter of right, and 

 no such license has, His Majesty's Government are informed, been, 

 in fact, required." 



That, of course, would apply to the right of fishing. Then, I 

 refer the Tribunal to Sir Robert Bond's speech of the 7th April, 

 1905, which is found in the United States Counter-Case Appendix, 

 at p. 417 : 



" To sum up : Herring is never taken by Americans themselves. 

 They are purchased in exchange for cash, and in a lesser degree for 

 merchandise, from Newfoundlanders, who catch and freeze them. 

 Newfoundlanders are never hired to catch herring for the Americans. 



" Care must be taken to distinguish between United States vessels 

 visiting this coast for the purpose of purchasing bait, supplies, etc., 

 for the codfishery, in fact those making Newfoundland ports a base 

 from which to carry on fishing operations, and those who engage in 

 the frozen-herring trade. To the former licenses (copy of which is 

 inclosed) are issued, for which $1.50 per ton is charged; to the lat- 

 ter no charge is made, except the usual ones, equally chargeable to 

 Newfoundlanders, of light and custom dues." 



He is quoting in that speech from his own letter of the 12th March, 

 1894, to the Treasury Department of the United States, when the 

 Act of 1887 had been in force for seven years. 



In 1891 the treaty, which I think Sir Robert always spoke of as 

 the Bond-Blaine Treaty and which we speak of as the Blaine-Bond 

 Treaty, was entered into. It was defeated; and Sir Robert learned 

 afterwards that it was through the intervention of Canada that that 

 treaty came to grief. This was one, and I think the first, of Sir 

 Robert's grievances or disagreements, at all events, in matters of 

 policy with respect to his colony (Appendix to the Counter-Case of 

 the United States, p. 422) : 



" His Majesty's Government, recognizing the force of the position 

 that was set forth," 



He speaks of having been in England 



" granted permission to the government of Newfoundland to make 

 the attempt on its own behalf, and I was authorized to proceed to the 

 United States of America to assist Lord Pauncefote in negotiating 

 a trade convention. The result of my labors was entirely successful 

 so far as the making of a treaty was concerned. An agreement was 

 arrived at satisfactory to the government of this colony as well as 

 to the Government of the United States, which has passed into his- 

 tory as the Bond-Blaine Convention. 



"That convention was upon the lines of the 1888 treaty. It pro- 

 posed to convey to American fishermen the rights intended to be 

 conveyed by the Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty, in exchange for the 

 free admission of our fishery products and crude copper ores, the 

 product of Newfoundland mines, into the markets of the United 

 States. That convention never was submitted for ratification, being 



