Correspondence Respecting the Geneva Arbitration Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...the Tribunal has jurisdiction over all the claims which have been put forth. Under these circumstances the President is compelled to adhere to the opinion that it is within the province of the Arbitrators at Geneva to consider all the claims and to determine the liability of Great Britain for all the claims which have been put forward by the United States. No. 24. General Schenck to Mr. Fish. Telegram. LONDON, May 5, 1872. Your telegram of yesterday received to-day. Will endcavor to see Granville to-night or early to-morrow. Will urge him to modify his proposal in accordance with your views. Will you examine it, including introductory paragraphs as given in my telegrams of April 30 and May 3, and, taking it for a basis, suggest exactly what modifications would make it possible for the President to assent to it Also give me draught of such reply as you would be willing to make. I am confident this Government will not agree to the last paragraph of your telegram of April 27. They may agree that if the United States will engage not to press for award for indirect damages, nothing need be said about any modification of the original Case, nor whether such agreement is a withdrawal or not a withdrawal of any part of that Case. Rather than agree to submit the indirect claims to the judgment of the Tribunal, I apprehend this Government, backed by Parliament, would cease negotiation and make an absolute declaration against proceeding with the arbitration. Could the President assent to their offer if I can get the following substitute for what I telegraphed April 30 Her Majesty s Government are now ready to state that if the United States will and do agree not to press for a pecuniary award before the Tribunal of Arbitration...