278 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering such 
waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section, and he shall also 
cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruize said waters, 
250 and arrest all persons and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been, 
engaged in any violation of the Laws of the United States therein.’ 
“And the House agree to the same.” 
(Signed) POINDEXTER DUNN, 
BENTON McMIL1IN, 
CHARLES N. FELTON, 
Managers on the part of the House. 
(Signed) JOHN SHERMAN, . 
J. T. MORGAN, 
GEORGE F. EpMUNDS, 
Managers on the part of the Senate. 
The following is the Statement accompanying the Report under the Rule: 
STATEMENT. 
“The effect of the amendment is to leave out of the House amendment the words 
that are descriptive of the boundaries of the waters of Alaska.” 
(Signed) POINDEXTER DUNN, 
BENTON MCMILLIN, 
C. N. FELTON, 
Managers on the part of the House. 
The Conference Report was adopted. 
Mr. Dunn moved to reconsider the vote by which the Conference Report was 
adopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the Table. 
The latter motion was agreed to. 
Salmon Fisheries of Alaska. 
Mr. Sherman.—I ask that the action of the House of Representatives on Senate 
Bill 3993 be laid before the Senate. 
The Resolution of the House of Representatives was read as follows: 
“TN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 2, 1889. 
** Resolved, that the House concur in the Report of the Committee of Conference 
on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to the 
Bill (8.3993) to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska.” 
Mr. Sherman submitted the following Report: 
‘““The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
amendments of the Senate to the Bill (S. 3993) to provide for the protection of the 
salmon fisheries of Alaska having met, after full and free conference have agreed to 
recommend, and do recommend, to their respective Houses as follows: 
“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 include and apply to all the dominion 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 in at least one newspaper (if any such there be) published in each United 
States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said 
waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section, and he shall cause 
one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruize said waters, and arrest 
all persons and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been, engaged in any violation 
of the Laws of the United States therein.’ 
‘‘And the House agree to the same.” 
(Signed) JOHN SHERMAN, 
JOHN T. MORGAN, 
GEORGE I. EDMUNDS, 
Managers on the part of the Senate. 
(Signed) POINDEXTER DUNN, 
BENTON MCMILLIN, 
C. N. FELTON, 
Managers on the part of the House. 
251 The President, pro tempore.—If there be no objection to the present consider- 
ation of the Report, the question is upon concurring in the same. 
The Report was concurred in. 
