432 INDEX OF COUNTER CASE. 



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Bechtel, A. J., a citizen of United States 132 



Bering Sea: 



Alleged to be summer habitat of fur-seals 100 



Bancroft's views as to protection of, from whalers 25 



Captain Hooper's investigations in, in 1892 83 



Catch in, not included in proposed close season 127 



Control exercised over 18,19,26,29,30 



Cruisers in, in 1892 51 



Distinction between, and Pacitic Ocean 17 



Distribution of fur-seals in 48 



Independent seal herds in, alleged 109 



Intermingling of Russian and Alaskan seal herds in 48 



Jurisdiction over. (See, also Control exercised over. ) 7 



No Territorial rights claimed over 19 



Not included in term Pacific Ocean 20 



Pelagic catch in. (See Pelagic sealing). 



" sealing in, compared with that in North Pacific 84 



Percentage of cows taken in 85 



Prohibition of sealing in, by United States 129 



Right to fish in, does not include right to take seals in 25 



Russian cruisers in 27-30 



Russia's title to shores of, undisputed 17 



Time of entrance of, proposed to be limited 127 



Visits of whalers to 24,26-28 



" ' ' not inconsistent with position of United States 28 



Warning of vessels out of 129 



Whalers visiting, closely watched 26 



Bering Sea Commission 43 



Organization of 44 



(See British Commissioners.) 



Birth rate, effect of pelagic sealing on 66 



Black Diamond, American ownership of 130 



Boscowitz, Joseph: 



A citizen of United States 13^ 



Ownership of, in vessels seized 131 



Relations of Warren, Cooper, and 131 



British case : 



As originally presented 2 



Chapter I of 16 



Chapter IV of 23 



Consists now of original Case and Report 2, 3 



Deals, With what matter 7 



Diplomatic correspondence resulting from, as originally presented 2 



Fails to distinguish between Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean 17 



Incompleteness of 2 



Misconceives character of control claimed over Bering Sea 18 



Reply of United States to 7 



Supplement thereto 2 



British claims for damages, reply of United States to 129 



British Commissioners 43 



Concede nothing by proposed time to enter Bering Sea 127 



Curtailment of Elliott's statement as to size of harems by 74 



Did not first see dead pups on the rookeries 87 



" visit alleged new Asiatic rookeries .„..„,,. .,.,..,,, 110 



