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DEBATE FOR THURSDAY, MAY 1.Resolved,- That the United States have a right to exclusive jurisdiction in Behring Sea...
...United States possess such a right by legal and historical title. (a) At the time that Russia acquired the title to Behring Sea to was possible and customary to make such acquisitions. (b) She did acquire it by discovery, by uninterrupted possession, and by prescription. Annual Register, 1821. Correspondence of Poletica and Adams. For. Rel., vol. v., p. 652 et seq. Art. 4 of Convention with Russia of 1824. U. S. Treaties. (c)) The United States bought all the Russian rights in the purchase of Alaska. Convention with Russia of 1867, U. S. Treaties. Sumner's speech in Cong. Record...
...United States having legally acquired the exclusive jurisdiction of Behring Sea, has never lost it by any definite act, and must, therefore, still possess...
...open sea cannot be appropriated; dominion over the seas can exist only as to those portions capable or permanent possession from the shore. See all the leading authorities on Int Law.- e.g., Abdy's Kent, L. 97; Halleck I., ch. 6 13; Wildman, I., 70; Marters, 40 (ed. 1864); Huntefenille, Tome I., tit. i., ch. 3 S 1; Kluber, 130 (ed. 1861); Ortolor I., 145; Baron de Cussey I., tit. 2, SS40.41; Heffter...
...Behring Sea is clearly an open sea. (a) No authorized definition of a closed sea can apply to it: Vid. authorities cited above...