ARGUMENT OP ELIHU ROOT. 1967 



and the vessel fishermen should be turned over entirely to the deter- 

 mination of either one of them. 



There was a series of statutes, I have said, and we have 



THE PRESIDENT: The exclusion from the shores of the Magdalen 

 Islands was reported at the Halifax Commission by the United 

 States agent himself? 



SENATOR ROOT: Yes. 



THE PRESIDENT: In the course of the argument. 



SENATOR ROOT: Of course counsel there were dealing with a prac- 

 tical situation, and it was their tendency to minimise as much as 

 possible what was coming from Great Britain. 



THE PRESIDENT: Those tactics were observed on both sides. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK : There was a tendency to exaggerate on 

 one side and minimise on the other. 



THE PRESIDENT: Yes. 



SENATOR ROOT: As to all this long series of statutes, Sir James 

 Winter has told us how they were made. 



I turn to p. 3427 of the typewritten copy of his Argument [p. 568, 

 supra], where he says: 



" Newfoundland has such legislation as it considers desirable, after 

 having considered the matter most carefully, and after having had 

 the experience and the opinion of the best qualified authorises in 

 the country." 



That is in the country of Newfoundland. Then he proceeds, after 

 an interval, to say : 



"Among other things, those who are entrusted with these powers 

 and duties" 



That is, of legislation. 



" have come to the conclusion that in certain places bultows are ob- 

 jectionable, that they have a bad effect upon the fishing operations of 



these localities, and the result is, without going into details, 

 1191 as has already been stated, at certain places which are marked 



on the maps, which I believe are being put in for the informa- 

 tion of the Tribunal, these regulations against the use of bultows 

 are in force." 



Let me observe that " bultow " is a corruption of the English word 

 " bulter," a long line to which shorter lines with hooks and bait are 

 attached. I saw one of them the other day out on the pier at Sche- 

 veningen, and there were a number of them there. I saw one of 

 them drawn in from the sea. It had been carried out to a distance, 

 and this long line stretched out into the water, and at intervals of a 

 few inches only there were little short lines depending with hooks 

 on them, that had been baited; and as the man drew it in, for the 

 amusement of the people resorting there, there was a long row of 



