1500 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



THE PRESIDENT: Was he in any official relation to the Newfound- 

 land Government? 



MR. ELDER : No ; he had no such relation. He was from the Ameri- 

 can side. 



THE PRESIDENT: Yes; but had he any official mission to the New- 

 foundland Government? 



MR. ELDER: No; he had not. 



THE PRESIDENT: No; he had only to advise the American fisher- 

 men concerning their rights and their duties ? 



MR. ELDER : It was rather more extensive than that, Mr. President. 

 The Newfoundland Government was notified by the State Depart- 

 ment that he was coming down, and, as I have said, he was in com- 

 munication with Captain Anstruther, the senior naval officer, who 

 expressed his approval of what he had done, and he, as I say, wa-s> an 

 intermediary between the United States fishermen and the natives at 

 the Bay of Islands, bringing about a relation of friendship and peace 

 and harmony that was fortunate. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK: Can you give me the reference to the 

 letter of instructions from the State Department, or the notification 

 to the Newfoundland Government? 



MR. ELDER: I think so. I cannot do it at this moment, however. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK : At any time ? 



MR. ELDER : I am confident that I can see that it will be handed to 

 you, Sir. 



Now, I wish to ask the Tribunal, before I take up Question 2, to 

 allow me to call attention to a matter that has twice been before the 

 Tribunal, and that is the position of the United States Government 

 in the Alaska Boundary matter, for the purpose of correcting what 

 we apprehend is a very grave and considerable misapprehension on 

 the part of counsel for Great Britain. The Tribunal will remember 

 that Mr. Ewart, who has just addressed the Tribunal, pointed out on 

 the charts which are presented with the British Appendix certain 

 alleged lines, or supposed lines, along which the United States was 

 claimed to have said that the political coast would run. 



I will ask the Tribunal to look at those charts again, so that I may 

 call attention to just what was said. 



(The charts mentioned were handed to the members of the 



Tribunal.) 



907 If the Tribunal will refer to chart No. 15, it will be noticed 

 that, beginning at Cape Spencer, there is a line drawn to Ya- 

 kobi Island, 9 miles, and then, following down along the coast to 

 Kruzof Island, we come to Sitka Sound, where there is another mark 

 9 miles across. Before I leave this chart No. 15 I wish to call atten- 

 tion to the position of the Lynn Canal, and the extent to which it runs 



