10 THE TRUE ISSUES. 



Mr. Bayard in- On the 2d of March, 1888, Mr. Bayard again 



vites interna- ^ 



tionai coopera- insisted on the necessity of protecting the seals 

 "by an arrangement between the governments 

 interested, without the United States being called 

 upon to consider what special measures of its 

 own the exceptional character of the property in 

 question might require it to take, in case of the 

 refusal of foreign powers to give their coopera- 

 tion." 1 At pages 168 to 194 of Volume I of the 

 Appendix to the Case of the United States will 

 be found the correspondence relating to the pro- 

 posed international measures. 

 Mr. Blaine's On the 2 2d of January, 1890, Mr. Blaine, Sec- 



statement 01 the •> ' ' ' 



lssues - retary of State, wrote to Sir Julian Pauncefote, 



Her Majesty's Minister: "In the opinion of 

 the President, the Canadian vessels arrested 

 and detained in the Behring Sea were engaged 

 in a pursuit that was contra bonos mores, a 

 pursuit which of necessity involves a serious 

 and permanent injury to the rights of the Gov- 

 ernment and the people of the United States. 

 To establish this ground it is not necessary to 

 argue the question of the extent and nature of 

 the sovereignty of this Government over the 

 waters of the Behring Sea; it is not necessary to 

 explain, certainly not to define, the powers and 

 privileges ceded by His Imperial Majesty the 



1 Appendix to Case of the United States, Vol. I, p. 175. 



