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 tain, however, is, that, with the interior distributing-points well garri- 
 soned, discrimination might go very far toward turning the commercial 
 current against the maritime races. Supposing such discrimination to 
 succeed, and China to be closed, the centre of exchanges might move 
 east from the Thames ; and then London and New York could hardly 
 fail to fall into geographical excentricity. Before the discoveries of 
 Vasco da Gama, Venice and Florence were relatively more energetic and 
 richer than they. On the other hand, if an inference may be drawn 
 from the past, Anglo-Saxons have little to fear in a trial of strength ; 
 for they have been the most successful of adventurers. They have risen 
 to fortune by days like Plassey, the Heights of Abraham, and Manila; 
 and although no one can be certain, before it has again been tested, that 
 the race has preserved its ancient martial quality, at least aggression 
 seems a less dangerous alternative than quiescence. The civilization 
 which does not advance declines : the continent which, when Washing- 
 ton lived, gave a boundless field for the expansion of Americans, has been 
 filled ; and the risk of isolation promises to be more serious than the risk 
 of an alliance. Such great movements, however, are not determined by 
 argument, but are determined by forces which override the volition of 
 man. 
 
 Should an Anglo-Saxon coalition be made, and succeed, it would alter 
 profoundly the equilibrium of the world. Exchanges would then move 
 strongly westward ; and existing ideas would soon be as antiquated as 
 those of a remote antiquity. Probably human society would then be 
 absolutely dominated by a vast combination of peoples whose right wing 
 would rest upon the British Isles, whose left would overhang the middle 
 provinces of China, whose centre would approach the Pacific, and who 
 would encompass the Indian Ocean as though it were a lake, much as 
 the Romans encompassed the Mediterranean. Bkooks Adams. 
 
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 In a letter to Talon, the Intendant at Quebec, Colbert, always in 
 advance of his time, expressed a desire to see friendly relations prevail 
 between the colonists of New France and the "English of Boston." It 
 was advisable, he said, that the two peoples should trade with each 
 other, that the English should have the same privileges in* the French 
 fishery as they granted in their fishery to the subjects of France, and 
 that they should be allowed to traffic with the Indians of Pentagouet 
 (the Penobscot River region) to the same extent as they permitted the 
 French to trade with the Indians round about Boston. Talon, in short, 
 should do his best to arrange " un traitement r^ciproque" all round. On 
 another occasion he observed that this was probably the only way to 
 preserve peace on the frontier: and peace was most desirable; for it 
 would be a grave business if France, with so many weighty cares in the 
 Old "World, were exposed to the risk of war on account of disputes 
 between her colonists and their English neighbors in the New World. 
 
 England's position in North America to-day is quite as embarrass- 
 ing in that respect as Colbert's. In the two hundred years that have 
 passed, the English of Boston have become a mighty nation, the larger 
 half of the English-speaking race, the commimity, above all others in 
 the world, with which England, 
 
 " Bearing on shoulders immense, 
 Atlanteitn, the load, 
 Well-nigh not to be borne. 
 Of the too vast orb of her fate, " 
 
 desires in her own interest to be at peace. But, owing to the friction 
 continually arising between these powerful kinsmen and her present 
 North American colonies, it is not always easy to maintain peace. With 
 the exception of the Venezuela controversy, which soon subsided, all the 
 disputes that have taken place between England and the United States 
 since the Geneva Award, that is to say, in the last five and twenty years, 
 have been disputes of Canadian or Newfoundland origin. One of Sir 
 Julian Pauncefote's predecessors declared that, but for Ottawa, he would 
 have had a sinecure. The points at issue, too, are, from the nature of 
 
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 the case, of little or no interest to Englishmen. More than once since 
 1818 war between England and the United States has been imminent 
 because of a disagreement between Americans and Canadians over such 
 distant and wholly unimpressive matters — so at least Englishmen must 
 have considered them — as the right of a Massachusetts skipper to sail 
 through the Gut of Canso in pursuit of mackerel, or to buy bait and 
 molasses at a Cape Breton store. The Seal Question has been on the 
 boards for ten years, and has led to the exchange between London and 
 Washington of reams of vehement despatches; including the famous 
 "shirt-sleeves" missive, which a generation or two ago would assuredly 
 have precipitated war. Yet the aggregate tonnage of the British Colum- 
 bia sealing-fleet, which is causing all the trouble, does not exceed 3,500 
 tons ; while it is tolerably safe to say that, outside official circles, the 
 merits of the controversy are not understood by a half-dozen persons in 
 the United Kingdom. 
 
 The recent agreement between the United States and England for 
 the appointment of an international commission to settle the various 
 questions now at issue between the United States and Canada is char- 
 acterized by a European diplomat as the " first-fruits of the close friend- 
 ship that has sprung up between England and the United States since 
 the war with Spain. " Perhaps I may be allowed to add that Sir Wilfrid 
 Laurier began paving the way for a commission when he took office two 
 years ago, and that his efforts, and those of the Liberal party of Canada, 
 to promote a more cordial understanding between the United States and 
 England date even further back. 
 
 Canadian Liberals have always insisted that an increase of commer- 
 cial intercourse between Canada and the United States would tend to 
 do away with the controversies — petty but irritating, like a cinder in 
 the eye — which grow out of the enforcement of a high tariff on each 
 side of the boundary, or, to speak more correctly, out of the unneighborly 
 spirit which Protection is apt to generate. If, they said, England's trade 
 with Canada should suffer, as it most likely would, she would profit 
 immensely by the removal of causes of difference with the United States. 
 
 Sir Wilfrid Laurier' s desire to see an adjusting commission appointed 
 would have come to nothing, but for the support it received at Washing- 
 ton. Mr. McKinley may have been influenced by Britain's friendly 
 attitude toward the United States in the present war: it is natural and 
 proper, I suppose, that he should. But he hails from a border State, 
 and, as a man of affairs, must perceive the worldly wisdom of cultivat- 
 ing better relations with a neighbor who, though only five millions 
 
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 strong, is now the third-best customer the United States has. One can 
 fancy him saying : " The Eepublican party has taken a lot of trouble to 
 extend trade with Central and South America. Why should we ignore 
 Canada, a country which we can talk with by telephone, and reach by 
 rail or water in a few hours, which last year bought more American 
 goods, the product of American labor, than Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, 
 Chili, Colombia, Argentina, and the Central American States all put 
 together?" 
 
 In his accovmt of the causes which brought about the formation of 
 the Prussian Zolherein, Kanke wrote in 1835 : — 
 
 " We should not have complained that all our markets were overflowing with 
 English manufactures, had not England, while she was inundating us with her pro- 
 ductions, insisted on closing her markets to ours. England told us we were to buy, 
 but not to sell. We were not willing to adopt reprisals : we vainly hoped that a 
 sense of her own interest would lead to reciprocity. But we were disappointed ; and 
 we were compelled to take care of ourselves. " 
 
 Canada has been undergoing a similar experience. Not to go further 
 back, in the ten years, 1888-97, she bought from the United States for 
 home consumption merchandise of the value of $545,000,000. The 
 duties amounted to $76,000,000, or about 14 per cent; a good propor- 
 tion of the goods being free raw materials and food-stuffs. During the 
 same period Canada's purchases from England were $385,000,000, on 
 which $84,000,000, or over 20 per cent, was paid in duty. On the 
 other hand, while Canadian exports to Britain have been steadily grow- 
 ing, amounting in those ten years to $580,000,000, Canadian exports 
 to the United States, harassed by onerous duties at the frontier, have 
 amounted to only $420,000,000. 
 
 Last year the Canadian people concluded that the time had come for 
 a change. It was scarcely fair, they reasoned, to do most of their buy- 
 ing from a neighbor who, witness the Dingley BUI, was not over- willing 
 that they should sell, to the neglect of the mother-country, whose mar- 
 kets are wide open to everything they choose to send. Beginning, there- 
 fore, on August 1 of this year, there wQl be a reduction in the Canadian 
 tariff of 25 per cent in favor of British goods and articles from certain 
 British colonies, — i.e., such goods will pay rates of duty less by 25 per 
 cent than the rates imposed on goods coming from the United States 
 and other foreign countries. Economically speaking, this may not be a 
 sound move. But there it is — the germ, perhaps, of a British Zollverein. 
 
 It is hard to make people believe that those who tax their wares up 
 to the hilt are not animated by ill-feeling toward them. Americans, of 
 
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 course, bear no ill-will to Canada. When they think about her at all, 
 they regard her as a country destined in the fulness of time to fall into 
 the Union from sheer force of the law of attraction, and to be a source 
 of health and strength to it ; offsetting less desirable acquisitions which 
 events seem to be thrusting upon the Republic. Yet, while none are 
 more ready than Americans to strike back when they are struck at by 
 the Tariff legislation of other countries, they do not make sufficient 
 allowance for the feelings of those who writhe under their own heavy 
 boots. There is no denying that Canadians have for years felt hurt at 
 the treatment meted out to them by the Tariff Acts of Congress ; and 
 when the Dingley Bill became law, there was a well-nigh universal 
 demand for giving British goods a preference. But if they wish to get 
 the same tariff rate as Britain, to retain their export trade with Canada 
 and to enlarge it, Americans can easily do so by being a little more lib- 
 eral in their treatment of the Canadian farmer, lumberman, fisherman, 
 and miner. They can lose nothing by making the experiment ; for trade 
 will not grow between the United States and Canada, or elsewhere, 
 unless it is mutually beneficial. At present each Canadian man, woman, 
 and child buys twelve dollars' worth of American goods annually — more 
 fer capita by a good deal than any other people on this continent. I 
 do not suppose that the Commission will do more than make a begin- 
 ning of Reciprocity ; selecting a few articles, natural and manufactured, 
 for reduced duties or for the Free List. But, as a matter of fact, there 
 is nothing to hinder the American export trade with Canada from being 
 augmented from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year— nothing but the 
 unwillingness or timidity of Americans themselves. Certain persons are 
 raising the cry of "Canadian cheap labor," although surely it is demon- 
 strable that the well-paid American artisan, with his energy and intel- 
 ligence and elaborate machinery, and with the huge home market which 
 enables the specialization of his labor and machinery to be carried to 
 the extremest limits, is the cheapest producer in the world ; reckoning 
 cost of production, as we ought to do, by the cost per yard or per pound. 
 Mr. Blaine used to insist that Canada should be shut out of the 
 United States market till such time as she elected to enter the Union : 
 he was sure "the eagle would do well not to fatten the lion's whelp." 
 It goes without saying that exclusion from the American market is a 
 serious loss to Canada : it hinders, as nothing else could, the develop- 
 ment of her resources, and the settlement of her vast areas of virgin 
 land. Between exclusion from the United States market and the com- 
 petition of French bounty-fed cod, Newfoundland, England's oldest col- 
 
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 ony, has been reduced to bankruptcy ; and the British West Indies have 
 suffered a like fate through exclusion from the United States market and 
 through the competition of boimty-fed beet sugar. 
 
 But the loss is not all on one side. One of the earliest instances of 
 harsh fisc<al legislation was the refusal of the Romans to allow their 
 transalpine allies to grow olives or vines. They did this to keep up 
 the price of oil and wine in Italy. The old colonial policy of England, 
 France, and Spain was based on the same sophism. But no modem 
 statesman who looks into the thing can believe that his country derives 
 nothing but benefit from a policy which impoverishes its neighbors. If 
 Canada has suffered, manifestly the United States has suffered too in 
 being deprived through all these years of just so many consumers of 
 American iron, pork, and com. As for the political effect, — Mr. Blaine's 
 object apparently being to starve Canada into the Union, — it is a fact 
 that the feeling in favor of annexation was more widespread in Canada 
 during the life (1854-66) of the Elgin-Marcy Reciprocity Treaty than it 
 has been at any time since. Of all people Americans have the best 
 right to know how hateful coercion is to men of English blood. It has 
 never been applied successfully to an English-speaking commimity, nor, 
 for the matter of that, to any commimity worth having. 
 
 The Alien Labor Laws in force in the two comitries will be consid- 
 ered by the Commission, with the view of reaching some satisfactory 
 modification. It wiU be remembered that some years ago Congress 
 passed an Act imposing a head-tax on immigrants, and excluding con- 
 victs, Imiatics, and persons imable to take care of themselves. This 
 law was favorably regarded in Canada, which often receives immigrants 
 of an imdesirable sort. But, when Congress went further and, in conse- 
 quence of what had occurred in Pennsylvania, — where European laborers 
 had been imported to take the place of strikers, — added a provision 
 excluding foreign laborers and mechanics who, previous to embarkation, 
 had entered into contracts to work in the United States, trouble at once 
 arose at points like Buffalo and Detroit, where quite a number of Cana- 
 dian mechanics were stopped and sent back. The Canadian labor organ- 
 izations are affiliated with the labor organizations of the United States ; 
 and when non-union men were hired in Canada to supplant strikers in 
 the United States, the inspector on the American side got a hint, and 
 arrests followed. By and by an Alien Labor Law was demanded in 
 Canada; and one was recently passed containing pretty much the same 
 provisions as the American enactment. The man in the United States 
 who hires over there to come to Canada is now treated as contraband. 
 
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION. 657 
 
 Both laws, however, are readily evaded. There is nothing in either to 
 prevent an American or Canadian laborer from crossing the line to work, 
 provided he makes his bargain with the employer on his arrival in the 
 other country, and not before. At the same time much ill-feeling is 
 caused by arrests. In some cases — as, for example, where a servant-girl, 
 leaving Canada with her mistress, was stopped at the frontier on the 
 groimd that she had left under contract — the law has been set in mo- 
 tion by malevolence. American laboring-men complain of the French- 
 Canadians who work in the United States in summer and return home 
 in winter — a class known in French Canada as hirondelles. They admit 
 that European laborers come and go in the same way. In Canada there 
 are complaints against Italian navvies, who come from the United States 
 to work on new railways, and return with their savings. 
 
 The dispute over the boundary between Alaska and the Canadian 
 Yukon, which the Commission will endeavor to settle, has become an 
 important one, owing to the Klondike gold discoveries. The United 
 States having obtained title to Alaska by purchase from Eussia, the 
 boundary between Canada and Alaska is governed by the convention 
 entered into between Great Britain and Eussia in 1825. The Boundary 
 articles of this convention are as follows : 
 
 " 3. The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting 
 parties upon the coast of the continent and the islands of America to the northwest 
 shall be drawn in the manner following : 
 
 Commencing from the southernmost point of the island called Prince of Wales 
 Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54° 40' north latitude, and between the 
 one hundred and thirty-first and one hundred and thirty-third degrees of west longi- 
 tude (Meridian of Greenwich) , the said line shall ascend to the north along the chan- 
 nel called Portland Channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 
 fifty-sixth degree of north latitude ; from this last-mentioned point, the line of de- 
 marcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as 
 far as the point of intersection of the one hundred and forty -first degree of west lon- 
 gitude (of the same meridian) ; and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the 
 said meridian line of the one hundred and forty-first degree, in its prolongation as 
 far as the frozen ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British posses- 
 sions on the continent of America to the northwest. 
 
 4. "With reference to the line of demarcation laid down in the preceding article, 
 it is understood : 
 
 (a) That the island called Prince of Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia. 
 
 (6) That wherever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction par- 
 allel to the coast, from the fifty-sixth degree of north latitude to the point of intersec- 
 tion of the one hundred and forty-first degree of west longitude, shall prove to be at 
 the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the 
 British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above men- 
 tioned, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which 
 shall never exceed the distance of ten mariae leagues therefrom." 
 
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 With respect to the interpretation of this description, it is asserted 
 on behalf of Canada: (1) Tliat the point of commencement is Cape Cha- 
 con, at the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, in latitude 54° 
 42' or thereabouts. The line does not begin from a parallel of latitude, 
 but from a point on an island. (2) As to its course from this point, it 
 is believed that a more consistent reading of the convention will be 
 arrived at by omitting the words " called Portland Channel" : for, to reach 
 Portland Channel, it is necessary to go nearly due east from the point 
 of beginning ; and this channel does not reach so far north as the fifty- 
 sixth degree of latitude. The line, accordingly, should run from Cape 
 Chacon northward along Clarence Strait and Ernest Sound ; reaching the 
 continent at the fifty-sixth parallel on the shore of the narrow strait 
 called Seward Passage. 
 
 It is thought the United States will claim that the line is to follow 
 the parallel of latitude 54° 40' due east to the entrance of the inlet called 
 on the charts Portland Inlet; thence to follow that inlet and Portland 
 Canal to its head ; and thence in a straight line to the point which may 
 be decided upon as the initial point of the boimdary-line north of the 
 fifty-sixth degree. On behalf of Canada it is claimed that, if the words 
 "Portland Channel" in the convention are applied to Portland Canal on 
 the present charts, the line, to reach Portland Canal, is not to go by 
 Portland Inlet, but to the north of Wales and Pearse Islands. " From 
 this last-mentioned point," that is, the point at which the line drawn 
 according to the preceding portion of the description reaches the fifty- 
 sixth parallel, the line of demarcation should follow the summits of the 
 mountains alongside of and nearest to the coast, as far as the one hun- 
 dred and forty-first degree of longitude. "The coast" here means the 
 ocean coast; that is, the mainland looking toward the ocean, and not 
 the shores of inlets. 
 
 It is believed that the contention of the United States in this par- 
 ticular will be that the shores of the inlets, however far they may run 
 into the interior of the continent, are to be taken as the coast; and again, 
 that on account of the extreme irregularity of the mountain ranges in 
 that region, the tracing of a consistent line along the summits of the 
 mountains parallel to the coast is impossible, and that, therefore, re- 
 course must be had to the alternative line of the convention — a line 
 parallel to the sinuosities of the coast, and ten marine leagues distant 
 from tidewater. 
 
 Pending the final location of the boundary, the United States occu- 
 pies the coast Irom the Lynn Canal to Portland Canal; leaving Canada 
 
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION. 659 
 
 dependent for access to the Klondike from the seaboard on a circuitous 
 land-and-river route from Observatory Inlet or Alice Arm. The true 
 commercial route to the Klondike is that via the Lynn Canal ; and no 
 doubt railway commimication will soon be established from there to 
 Selkirk and Dawson City, provided the two Governments can agree as 
 to the bonding privilege. 
 
 The bonding system in general will be discussed: but the Com- 
 mission is not likely to disturb the existing arrangement, which rests on 
 legislation by the United States and Canada; the bonding provisions of 
 the Washington Treaty of 1871 having, it is held, lapsed." In the 
 Treaty of 1794 between the United States and England it was provided 
 that " no duties shall be payable on any goods which shall merely be 
 carried over any of the portages or carrying-places on either side" of the 
 boundary between the United States and Canada, " for the purpose of 
 being immediately reembarked and carried to some other place." This 
 was the germ of the bonding system. As the development of the two 
 countries proceeded, the system grew more complex. Upper and Lowei 
 Canada, now known as Ontario and Quebec, had access in summer to 
 the Atlantic by the St. Lawrence ports of Montreal and Quebec ; but in 
 winter they were cut off. This led them to ask for the privilege of 
 using ports on the American seaboard in winter, which was conceded 
 by the United States. Subsequently the Western States were allowed 
 by Canada to send their products in bond by the Lakes and the St. 
 Lawrence to Montreal, as well as to Oswego and Ogdensburg, and to 
 bring goods from Europe and from the Eastern States the same way. 
 In 1856, with the completion of American railways running to the 
 boundary, the transit of goods in bond by rail from Unfted States places 
 through Canada to other United States places — States-to-States traffic — 
 was permitted by Canada; while the United States permitted goods to 
 be carried in bond from one Province to another through American 
 territory. ' 
 
 A glance at the map will show that these arrangements were, so to 
 say, forced upon the two countries by the physical configuration of t'/.e 
 upper part of the continent. In winter, when the St. Lawrence, is 
 frozen, the nearest seaports to Montreal and Toronto are Portland, I/'S- 
 ton, and New York. On the other hand, the Province of Ontario pro- 
 jects for four hundred miles into American territory ; parts of it are chat 
 
 ' President Cleveland's Message on Relations with Canada, August 23, 1888 ; 
 and President Harkison's, on the Transportation of Imported Merchandise etc., 
 February 2, 1893. 
 
660 THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION. 
 
 much south of a straight line drawn from the top of Minnesota to the 
 top of Maine; the inhabited portion lies directly in the path of com- 
 munication between Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan in 
 the West and New York and New England in the East ; so that, as the 
 Senate Interstate Commerce Committee has observed, the traffic over 
 the Canadian railways " has been of inestimable value to the New Eng- 
 land States and of vast importance to the Northwestern States, and es- 
 pecially to Chicago." 
 
 The Michigan Central runs through Ontario on its way from the 
 Detroit to the Niagara Eiver. The Canadian Pacific runs through Maine 
 and Vermont on its way from the St. Lawrence to its connections with 
 Boston and to St. John and Halifax ; in the West, subsidiary lines enable 
 it to reach Diduth and Minneapolis from Sault Ste. Marie, and to pen- 
 etrate through Dakota; whilst it uses an American line of steamers to 
 convey freight from its British Columbia termini to San Francisco and 
 other points on the Pacific. The Northern Pacific owns lines within 
 Canadian territory, which have received a subsidy from the Manitoba 
 Government; a line controlled by Americans runs from Spokane Falls 
 into the Kootenay district of British Columbia ; and the Great Northern 
 enters British Columbia as far as New Westminster by a line from 
 Seattle. The Canadian roads exchange freight and passengers along 
 the international boundary with some tliirty American railways. The 
 bridges over the Niagara Eiver, those over the St. Lawrence, — including 
 the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, — and the tunnel under the St. Clair 
 River form part of the network of intercommunication. The transpor- 
 tation interests of the two countries are, in fact, inextricably woven 
 together along the whole length of the boundary from Maine to Michi- 
 gan, and are rapidly becoming interlaced in the newer regions between 
 the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean. 
 
 It has been asserted that the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk — 
 th«'. Canadian Pacific more particularly — make a great deal of money 
 out of their States-to-States traffic, and that, as they are not subject to 
 the\ Interstate Commerce Act, and have been subsidized out of the 
 Canadian Treasury, their competition with American railways for that 
 traflyc is unfair. From a circular recently issued by the United States 
 Trea(5ury it appears that in 1897 5,350,000 tons of States-to-States 
 traffic were carried by rail through Canada. I do not know what the 
 aggret.^ate interstate tonnage of all the railways in the United States 
 may be; but obviously 5,350,000 tons cannot be more than an unim- 
 portant fraction of it. It turns out that all of it was not carried by the 
 
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION. 661 
 
 Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk : the Michigan Central, an Amer- 
 ican line, carried very nearly one-half. Published returns of the Cana- 
 dian Pacific show that the States-to-States business done by that road 
 in 1897 did not amount, all told, to more than 350,000 tons, the earn- 
 ings from which, it has been pointed out, did not equal the sum spent 
 by the Company in the purchase of American plant and material. 
 
 I cannot deal here with the construction subsidies paid to the Cana- 
 dian Pacific and Grand Trunk, except to say that they have been seri- 
 ously, though quite unintentionally, exaggerated by Senator Elkins. 
 The answer of these two roads to the charge, that they do not observe 
 the Interstate Act, is that they observe it on their American as well as 
 on their Canadian lines as faithfidly as the purely American roads, and 
 are ready at any time to submit their books to inspection at Washing- 
 ton. One thing is tolerably clear : the American shipper is benefited by 
 having access to the Canadian lines, or he would not use them, — from 
 which we may conclude that the demand for their exclusion from States- 
 to-States traffic is not put forward in his interest. 
 
 A revision of the agreement of 1817 respecting gunboats on the 
 Great Lakes may be attempted by the Commission ; and an effort wUl 
 be made to establish joint regulations for the protection of fish in the 
 Great Lakes and on the seaboard. Something will be done, too, toward 
 getting rid, once for all, of the North Atlantic Fishery Question, which 
 has for so long been a source of irritation. Canadians contend that, by 
 Article 1 of the Treaty of 1818, Americans renoimced forever the right 
 to enter Canadian ports, except to procure wood and water, to obtain 
 shelter, and to make repairs. Eminent American authorities, notably 
 Senator Hoar, maintain that prior to 1818 no American vessels, whether 
 employed in fishing or in commerce, had a right to enter a Canadian 
 port; consequently everything stipulated in the Treaty in behalf of 
 American fishing- vessels was a clear gain, favoring them above all other 
 American vessels. But now, by the Canadian interpretation, these same 
 fishermen are treated as if they had no part in the humane and liberal 
 policies of later times. 
 
 For many years the British Government enforced the Canadian inter- 
 pretation by her ships of war; American vessels being seized for enter- 
 ing Canadian ports for purposes other than those named, or for fishing, 
 or preparing to fish, within the three-mile limit or within certain bays, 
 or for hovering in Canadian waters without being in need of shelter or 
 repairs, wood or water. But early in 1871, the Washington negotia- 
 tions being at hand, England adopted a different view, and warned the 
 
662 THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION. 
 
 Ottawa Government that, while the exclusion of the Americans " might 
 be warranted by the letter of the treaty," it was, nevertheless, an " extreme 
 measure, inconsistent with the general policy of the Empire." Canada, 
 however, insisted on the interpretation, and placed cruisers of her own on 
 the sea, except while the Fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty were 
 in force, and her fish had free entry to the American market. When those 
 clauses lapsed, she again began seizing American vessels; and things 
 went from bad to worse until 1888, when the Bayard- Chamberlain nego- 
 tiations took place. The treaty drafted at that time failed to pass the 
 United States Senate ; but a modus vivendi was established whereby on 
 payment of an annual tonnage-tax American fishermen were allowed to 
 enter Canadian ports to purchase bait, ice, seines, and all other supplies, 
 to ship crews, and to transship their catch in bond to Canadian railways 
 or to steamers bound for the United States. 
 
 This is how the matter stands at present. Aside from the meaning 
 of Article 1, whatever it may be, Americans hold that, inasmuch as 
 they permit Canadian fishing- vessels to enter American ports free of 
 charge for bonding and all other commercial purposes, it is not fair for 
 Canadians to refuse the same privilege to them, — more especially since 
 Canadians concede it to the fishermen of the Miquelon Islands, whose 
 cod receive a bounty, and whose country, France, levies prohibitory duties 
 on fish, and performs no neighborly service at all for Canada. American 
 fishermen contend, furthermore, that if the bonding system between the 
 two countries is to be preserved, it must, at least, be administered equi- 
 tably, and that they are as much entitled to bond fish as is the Ontario 
 farmer to bond wheat or potatoes. The bonding privilege has sprung 
 up since the Treaty of 1818, and must be held to supersede any restric- 
 tions in that venerable parchment. It is the firm belief of the Amer- 
 ican fisherman that the "cussedness" of Canadians in this matter is due 
 to a belief that, if they continue to worry him. Congress will give them 
 free access for their fish to the United States market in order to buy 
 them off. He does not want to share in their in-shore fisheries, which 
 they prize so much, but merely to bond in Canadian ports the fish he 
 catches in the deep sea, so that he may save tlie time now lost in run- 
 ning to and fro between the Banks and Gloucester. 
 
 The Bering Sea Question is another topic on which the Commission 
 will strive to reach an agreement. Congress has paid the amount 
 ($470,000) awarded by Judge Putnam and Mr. Justice King as damages 
 for the seizure by United States vessels of British Columbia sealers prior 
 to the reference of the general case to the Paris Tribunal. The United 
 
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 States wishes to see pelagic sealing still further restricted, and, if pos- 
 sible, stopped. But the Canadian sealers cannot very well be prevented 
 by the Canadian Government from carrying on an industry sanctioned 
 by international arbitration. The sealers aver that, as it is, their indus- 
 try is restricted to death. They are excluded from the three-mile limit 
 along the coast of the United States in the North Pacific ; they may not 
 approach the Pribilof Islands within a zone of sixty miles ; they may 
 not use firearms of any kind in Bering Sea, nor rifles in the water-area 
 lying north of 35° north latitude and eastward to the one hundred and 
 eightieth degree of longitude till it strikes the water-boundary described 
 in the Treaty of 1867, following that line up to Bering Strait, about 
 5,000,000 square miles. They are precluded from using nets and 
 explosives in that area, and from taking seals in it in any manner 
 between May 1 and July 31. Further, they may not take seals within 
 a zone of thirty miles round the Kommandorski Islands, nor within a 
 zone of thirty miles of Eobben Island, Okhotsk Sea, nor within a zone 
 of ten miles on any of the Eussian coasts on the mainland in the North 
 Pacific. Last, but not least, their sealskins are now excluded from the 
 United States market. The only way apparently of putting a stop to 
 pelagic sealing is to buy out the Canadian sealers, whose fleet, in conse- 
 quence of these restrictions, has dwindled to fifty-four vessels, aggregat- 
 ing 3,400 tons. Edwaed Faeeek. 
 
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY UNDER THE REIGN OF FRANCIS 
 
 JOSEPH.— II. 
 
 As already shown, the compromise of 1867 did not reestablish the 
 Personal- Union of the old territorial system. On the contrary, by its 
 provisions, the actual union between the two divisions of the Empire was 
 maintained, and, with this union, that unity and uniformity of system 
 as to essentials which had been introduced by Schwarzenberg. This was 
 true in a still higher degree of each half of the Empire 'per se. Upon the 
 whole, it may be said that the uniformity of government consummated 
 under Bach has been maintained to the present day. In Hungary, indeed, 
 the idea of centralization has been more strongly accentuated ; while in 
 Austria, despite the abolition of absolutism, questions of central impor- 
 tance are no longer submitted to the crown lands and their parliaments. 
 
 By reason of the compromise with Hungary, Austria proper on De- 
 cember 21, 1867, framed a new constitution in place of that of 1861. 
 According to this new constitution, the Imperial Diet and the various 
 federal departments at Vienna are empowered to exercise jurisdiction 
 in the following matters and departments; viz., international treaties; 
 Department of Army Reserves (these reserves in Austria, as in Germany, 
 are recruited from the regular army) ; the Department of Finance ; the 
 Department of Direct and Indirect Taxes ; the control and supervision 
 of accounts ; the national debt ; money, weights, and measures ; postal 
 and railway systems ; shipping ; banks ; sanitary legislation ; laws affect- 
 ing the national and civil qualification of citizens ; the police system for 
 the surveillance of foreigners, and the Department of Passports; the 
 Census Department; religious affairs; the privileges of societies, and the 
 right of public assemblage ; censorship and copyright ; the Department 
 of Education; the Departments of Criminal and Civil Law; legislation 
 affecting the organization of the courts and of the administrative depart- 
 ments ; the administration of the laws affecting the general rights of 
 citizens; and, finally, all affairs affecting the relations between the vari- 
 ous crown lands of Austria. Although all other matters are controlled 
 by the legislative bodies of the several kingdoms, lands, and munici- 
 pal corporations, it will readily be seen that the power vested in the 
 
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