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MR. CHAMBERLAIN TALKS 

 HE SEES THE NEWSPAPER MEN AT THE ARLINGTON 



Commercial Union not likely to be discussed at the Con- 

 ference — A Peaceable Solution of the Fisheries 

 Dispute looked forward to. 



At five o'clock yesterday evening Mr. Chamberlain, 

 one of the English Commissioners for the settlement 

 of the questions in dispute between the English Gov- 

 ernment and the Government of the United States, 

 especially the question in regard to the rights of 

 United States fishermen in Canadian waters, gave 

 a reception to the newspaper reporters of Washington 

 and the Washington correspondents of the principal 

 newspapers in the country. About forty represen- 

 tatives of the press accepted the invitation, and were 

 punctually in attendance at the Arlington. Mr. 

 Bergne, of the British Foreign Office, who arranged 

 for the interview, received the reporters in the large 

 parlour on the second floor of the Johnson annexe of 

 the Arlington. There were sofas and chairs enough 

 for all, and in the middle of the room stood a large 

 table well supplied with boxes of cigars, bottles of 

 various kinds with favourite labels on them, and 

 several syphons of seltzer water for those who 

 preferred to take it mild. When all had been 

 welcomed by Mr. Bergne, and seated around the 

 hospitable table, Mr. Chamberlain entered by a side 

 door, dressed in a closely buttoned black Prince 

 Albert coat and light grey trousers, after the most 



