2206 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



sailing under the flag of the grantee of the right, but who were not 

 qualified themselves personalty. The decisions settled the law of Eng- 

 land that they could. 



My friends on the other side, in their Argument, quite covered up 

 the real point of these decisions, and the real point to which those 

 statutes are cited, which is, that while the right is granted to one 

 class of persons it may be exercised for them by employees who them- 

 selves have no right whatever, but who are coming in and acting 

 under the right of their employer. 



The President called attention to a similar characteristic in a Dela- 

 ware statute or a Maryland statute which was referred to some time 

 ago. There was a prohibition against fishing, except by citizens of 

 the State. When somebody came with a vessel to fish the require- 

 ment was that the master should make an affidavit, and what he had 

 to swear to was that the vessel was fishing in the interests of the 

 citizens of the State. He did not have to swear that the men who 

 were doing fishing were citizens of the State, but that the vessel was 

 fishing in the interests of the citizens of the State. It carries that 

 same idea, you see. 



My learned friend, the Attorney-General, has exhibited great dis- 

 quietude lest we should flood the coasts of Newfoundland with 

 Orientals. He apprehends that the United States fishing- vessels will 

 stop in the various Oriental countries that intervene between Passa- 

 moquoddy Bay and Newfoundland and will collect great hordes of 

 Mongols and, to use his own words, will inundate the waters of New- 

 foundland with them. He fears that we will make of the treaty 

 waters " multitudinous seas incarnadine " with Chinamen. Perhaps 

 his view is that these fishing-ships, these little bits of fifty or sixty, 

 or one-hundred-ton boats may sail away ten thousand miles to the 

 other side of the globe and collect Asiatics to come and fish on the 

 coast of Newfoundland. 



I cannot really think he was serious about it, but sometimes, par- 

 ticularly when treating of Far-Eastern matters, we are apt to fail to 

 appreciate the true effect of what may be said. Yet I prefer to 

 believe that my learned friend, who has a very pretty wit, was really 

 playing with us a little about the danger of inundation by Orientals, 

 particularly in view of the fact that he contended that it was all ri<jht 

 for the Newfoundlanders to employ them themselves no objection 

 to that seems to exist. They may be allowed to come ashore and 

 enter into the life of the country and mingle with the people of the 

 country, but, when there is a possibility of our bringing some unfor- 

 tunate Chinese laundrynian there on a fishing- vessel, we are to be re- 

 garded as making a sort of gurry ground of the coastal waters for 

 the disposal of Mongols. 



