No. 43.
General Schenck to Mr. Fish.
Lord Granville has this moment sent a message requesting me to telegraph you immediately that a Cabinet will be held this morning, and that he wishes me to meet him afterwards. This looks like reconsideration of what he said yesterday. I have come to the conclusion that they have two reasons for their conduct: One, an unwillingness on the part of Mr. Gladstone to seem to retract the extreme position he took at the beginning as to the interpretation of the Treaty; the other, an actual unwillingness to adopt any rule to limit claims against neutrals in the future, their only object being to get rid of a portion of the demands of the United States.