COMMISSION, a joint international commission appointed in 1898 by the United States and Great Britain for the negotiation of a plan for the settlement of all controversial matters between the United States and Canada. The subjects submitted for the consideration of the commission were offi cially determined as follows: °The Behring Sea sealing question, reciprocal mining regulations, the preservation of the fisheries of the Great Lakes, the north Atlantic fishery question, the boundary question, the alien labor laws, and reci procity of trade." Lord Herschell, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis H. Davies and Mr. J. Charlton, a member of the Dominion Congress, were appointed British commissioners. The American commissioners were United States Senators Fairbanks and Gray, Congressman Dingley, Reciprocity Com missioner Kasson and ex-Secretary of State Foster. The commission met at Quebec, 23 August, Lord Herschell being chosen chairman
W. C. Cartwright, of the Foreign Office, and H. Bourassa, member of Parliament for La belle County, Quebec, were chosen British sec retaries and C. P. Anderson United States secretary. Later in the year an adjourned ses sion was held in Washington, D. C., which ad journed without practical results.
a term applied to those members of the Anglican communion whose beliefs and religious forms most nearly approach those of the Roman Catholic Church. Ritualists, as Anglo-Catholics arc frequently called, lay especial emphasis on the °Catholic principles" of apostolic succession, regeneration in baptism, the Eucharistic real presence and the authority of tradition.
the name officially adopted in 1911 by the British government in India for those born in that country of mixed descent, in other words, a half-breed betwen a European and an Asiatic parent These were formerly styled Eurasians.