so FISHERIES ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: There was a tendency to exaggerate 

 on one side and minimize on the other. 



The Preshjent: Yes. 



Senator Root: As to all this long series of statutes, Sir James 

 Winter has told us how they were made. 



I turn to p. 3427 of the typewritten copy of his Argument 

 [p. 568, supra], where he says: 



"Newfoundland has such legislation as it considers desirable, after having 

 considered the matter most carefully, and after having had the experience 

 and the opinion of the best qualified authorities in the country." 



That is, in the country of Newfoundland. Then he proceeds, 

 after an interval, to say: 



"Among other things, those who are entrusted with these powers and 

 duties" — 



that is, of legislation — 



"have come to the conclusion that in certain places bultows are objectionable, 

 that they have a bad effect upon the fishing operations of these locaHties, and 

 the result is, without going into details, as has already been stated, at certain 

 places which are marked on the maps, which I beUeve are being put in for the 

 information of the Tribunal, these regulations against the use of bultows are 

 in force." 



Let me observe that "bultow" is a corruption of the English 

 word "bulter,"— a long line to which shorter lines with hooks 

 and bait are attached. I saw one of them the other day out on 

 the pier at Scheveningen, and there were a number of them there. 

 I saw one of them drawn in from the sea. It had been carried out 

 to a distance, and this long line stretched out into the water, and at 

 intervals of a few inches only there were little short lines depending 

 with hooks on them, that had been baited; and as the man drew it 

 in, for the amusement of the people resorting there, there was a 

 long row of httle lost soles hanging on to these short hues. That 

 is the "bulter" — what they call in Newfoundland the "bultow"— 

 a long line, which has short Unes depending from it, with hooks and 

 bait, and which is weighted down so as to run nearly to the bottom, 

 and which is coimected with a line at the surface which is buoyed 

 up; and the vessel puts out these long lines, of tremendous length, 



