Mr. S. J. Elder, Yale '73, will lecture on "The Fisheries Arbitration at the Hague" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union.
Mr. Elder is a well-known Boston lawyer and was one of the senior counsel for the United States at the arbitration proceedings at the Hague last summer.
In his lecture, Mr. Elder will describe the composition of the Hague Tribunal, and the rules for the presentation of cases. He will then outline the fishing rights of the United States and Canada under the Treaties of 1783 and 1818, and will give the details of the various controversies that have arisen about the fisheries question from the Revolutionary War down to the present time, with particular reference to the doctrine of exclusion from bays. The lecture will close with a discussion of the seven questions brought up for settlement before the Hague Court last summer, and an explanation of the significance of the Tribunal's decision in each case.
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