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oe Salmon Fisheries of Alaska. 
The President, pro tempore.—Reports of Committees are now in order, 
Mr. Sherman.—I am instructed by the Committee on Foreign Relations to report 
back the Bill (S. 3993) to amend section 1963 of the Revised Statutes, and to provide 
for the better protection of the fur seals and salmon fisheries of Alaska, and for other 
purposes, with the House amendment, with a recommendation that the House amend- 
ment be disagreed to. I ask for its present consideration. 
The Presiding Officer (Mr. Chace in the chair).—Is there objection to the present 
consideration of the House amendment to this Bill? The Chair hears none. 
The title of the Bill was read. 
The Presiding Officer.—Does the Senator wish a Conference? 
249 Mr. Sherman.—I ask that the amendment of the House be disagreed to, and 
then I shall ask for a Committee of Conference. 
The Presiding Oficer.—It is moved by the Senator from Ohio that the Senate disa- 
gree to the amendment of the House of Representatives. 
Mr. Morgan.—Has this Bill passed the Senate? 
Mr. Sherman.—It is a Senate Bill which has passed the House with an amendment. 
We now report disagreement to the House amendment. 
Mr. Morgan.—Aud the question is on disagreeing to the amendment of the House. 
Mr. Sherman.—Yes, sir. 
Mr. Morgan.—I wish to say just this: That in the Report made by the Committee 
the rights of the Government of the United States were not considered, and not 
intended to be considered. We only arrive at the conclusion that the question pre- 
sented in the amendment of the House isof such a serious and important a character 
that the Committee on Foreign Relations would not undertake at this time to pro- 
nounce that kind of judgment upon it which is due to the magnitude of sucha 
question. 
I desire that the Bill as it passed the Senate originally should pass, because it 
protects the salmon and other fisheries in Alaska, about which there is no dispute; 
but this particular question is one of very great gravity and seriousness, and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, or at least a majority of the entire Committee, did 
not feel warranted in undertaking to consider it at this time. 
Mr. Sherman.—I intended, when the amendment was properly before us, to say to 
the Senate that the Committee on Foreign Relations were of the opinion that while 
there was no objection at all to the Senate Bill as it passed, it being for a clear and 
plain purpose, the question proposed by the House in the form of an amendment 
was a grave one, and had no relation to the subject-matter of the Bill, and ought 
not to be connected with it, had no connection really with it, and involved serious 
matters of international law, perhaps, and of public policy, and therefore it ought 
to be considered by itself. 
I was directed by the Committee to state that the subject-matter, the merits of 
the proposition proposed by the House, were not before us, and not considered by 
us, and we-are not at all committed for or against the proposition made by the 
House. We make this Report simply because it has no connection with the Bill 
itself, and it onght to be disagreed to and abandoned, and considered more carefully 
hereafter. I therefore ask for a Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes 
of the two Houses. 
The Presiding Oficer.—The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the House 
of Representatives. 
The amendment was not concurred in. 
The Presiding Oficer.—The Senator from Ohio now moves that the Senate ask for a 
Conference with the House of Representatives on the disagreeing votes, 
The motion was agreed to. 
Alaska Salmon Fisheries. 
Mr. Dunn.—I submit the following Conference Report. 
The Clerk read as follows: : 
“The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
amendments of the Senate to the Bill to provide for the protection of the saimon 
fisheries of Alaska having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recom- 
mend to their respective Houses, and do recommend: 
‘‘That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House, 
and agree to the same, with an amendment to read as follows: 
“« Section 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is 
hereby declared to inelude and apply to all the dominions of the United States in the 
waters of Behring’s Sea, and it shall be the duty of the President at a timely season 
in each year to issue his Proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one 
month at least in one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United 
