I909-] ATLANTIC FISHERIES QUESTION. 341 



As in the case of the Blaine-Bond Convention of 1891, the Hay- 

 Bond Convention of 1902 provided that the American fishing ves- 

 sels should fish in the Newfoundland waters subject to the local 

 Newfoundland regulations regulating Newfoundland fishing vessels. 

 The convention also provided for reciprocal free trade concessions, 

 whereby Newfoundland gained vastly more than she gave.^^ 



The Hay-Bond Convention remained in the Senate Committee 

 on Foreign Relations unacted on, for three years. On June 15, 

 1905, the Newfoundland government enacted an act intended to 

 hamper the American fishing vessels in their lawful occupation of 

 taking fish under the provisions of the first article of the Treaty 

 of 1818.^- In the autumn of 1905, Premier Bond notified Secretary 

 Hay of certain concessions he was willing to have inserted in the 

 Hay-Bond Convention in the form of senate amendments. After 

 these amendments were added by the Committee on Foreign Rela- 

 tions, the Senate as a whole made further changes that it was so 

 clear would not be satisfactory to Newfoundland, that the conven- 

 tion as amended was never brought to a vote in the Senate and so 

 never became a treaty. 



In view of the probable serious interference by the Newfound- 

 land authorities with the American fishing vessels in taking fish in 

 those territorial waters of Newfoundland on the southern coast of 

 Newfoundland from Cape Ray eastward to the Rameau Islands, 

 and up along the western coast of the island from Cape Ray and 

 round on the north coast to Quirpon Islands as guaranteed to them 

 by the Treaty of 1818, Mr. Root, the American Secretary of State, 

 wrote on October 19, 1905, to Sir Mortimer Durand, the British 

 Ambassador at Washington, an expression of some of the views 

 held on the fisheries question by the American government. Reas- 

 serting once again the view of the American government of the 

 right of American fishing vessels to fish in the treaty waters unham- 

 pered by the local regulations of Newfoundland, he said:^^ 



" Speech of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, April 2, 1903. 



" " Supplement to the American Journal of International Law," James 

 Brown Scott, chief editor, January, 1907 ; " An Act of Newfoundland Respect- 

 ing Foreign Fishing Vessels," p. 22. 



'^"Foreign Relations of the United States," sgth Congress, ist Session, 

 1905. House Documents, Vol. I., Washington, 1906, p. 491. 



