THE NEWFOUNDLAND VIVENDI.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 9

THE NEWFOUNDLAND VIVENDI.

Sir Robert Bond states that'the terms of;, '~.;. the now modus yivendi are virtually , with-' those- of last year's; The' Premier clares'thc new agreement to be "a disgrace' , ..",", , to British diplomacy.'and a shameful sacrifice of the' interests of the people of the colony." , ' ;'; He asserts 1 that his protests'during th'o •tiations'iin London, after the Colonial Confer- ./.!",],' encp,' alone prevented tho British Cabinet „' from concluding an infinitely worse contract with tho United jStatesi: and embodying in it ' :a clause unHeralimg to serving of .. ■ legal processes'by tho Colonial authorities on .^, pi British' subjects'- on"'board American vessels' , .';" 1 ;' in the'British 1 colony's territorial waters.' " "', r * : Sir-Robert Bond" says''he 'hopes 'that" his J.'"correspondence' with the Imperial Cabinet pn"i|' ' .this subject will be produced 'boford. Parlia- '■'V.' mentV He declares that his Ministry has 'un-'<:. /; wavcTirigly ""protested/ against the modus .yi-'., ( '/. •vendi, and tliat it w.-is'ho wlio first suggested J "" roferring al It-he disputes ■: arising; ironr tho Treaty of 1818 to tho Haguo Arbitration Tribunal. Both , :thb',British' and;;tholUnited States Cabinets agreed-to this, whereupon he offered, if tho terms of reference woro promptly,settled, colonial fisher- , ..U men to" sell herring's to American vessesls in Treaty, waters, as- has•' hitherto';been; allowed.-;'''"' Tlio '. lA'meripan's'. refused, //.pYeforring;, r .4he,-.iv l : greater privileges,'conKrr.ed in.t)io.modus, yi-. vii ..vendi, enabling, shippers to: hire'.;,!'- , .! ■Newfoundlanders Jor work on -board : -their s >.■: vessel's!'' '<:.. .''..,.' . • . ■ •■>'.'■■ .-•■>. - ; '•'$ '""Tho Premier declares that the Ministry mil 'v..: still resist the modus, viveudi by every cpusti-- '' tutional-muans, and .'will uphold the sovo-.'j'.'-j roignty ofthe.law s.of.the colony. . Thevclaiin.,ir.;i' lia'v,o wpntlie support of tho.;l3ri-:■•■:■< tish 'press," the majority, of Parliament, -and •••"■>■ tlio support ,pf .the. Premiers of .all- the auto--iW nomous, colonies.. ' '!,Thcy, havo further," heif-'-'i-concludes," forced; referenco of. tho •-wholo '" ■= question to The Hague and- havo so- : 'j curedian admission oh the part-of-the.-Impe-•>"""• vial -Cabinet, that it; must bp: clearly under- r.;.s 'stood.tliat tho modus vivendi confers : iio im- '">'•'.. muhity' d'n "Newfoundland fishermen to dia- ' fi- 1 ' obey,:-tho 1aw5. , . , .. . .-. ~- ■.■■.-•. "iV -' iL,v .