§ MR. GOURLEYI beg to ask the Under Secretary for State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government have recommended, or intend recommending, the Government of Canada to extend the modus vivendi of the Chamberlain Treaty of Washington relative to the North Atlantic Anglo-American fishery disputes; whether they will recommend that the modus vivendi arrangement shall continue, pending a final interpretation and adjustment of the Treaty of 1818; and, when he expects to be able to place upon the Table of the House all correspondence relative to this and the Behring Sea fisheries?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONThe modus vivendi in regard to the Canadian fisheries can only be renewed by an enactment of the Parliament of the Dominion, which is now sitting, and which it is understood will consider the question during the present Session. Negotiations are proceeding in regard to the Behring Sea fisheries. Under the circumstances, no pledge can be given as to the date of the presentation of Papers.