No. 117.
Mr. Schenck to Mr. Fish.
Davis telegraphs me to send you the following:
[Mr. Davis to Mr. Fish.]
Lord Tenterden will say this day to Tribunal, Her Majesty’s Government finding the communication on the part of the Arbitrators recorded in the Protocol of their proceedings of the 19th instant nothing to which they cannot assent consistently with their view of the interpretation and effect of the Treaty of Washington, hitherto maintained by them; and being informed of the statement made on the 25th instant by the Agent of the United States, that the several claims particularly mentioned in that statement will not be further insisted upon before the Tribunal by the United States, and may be excluded from all consideration in any award that may be made, and assuming that the Arbitrators will, upon such statement, think fit now to declare that the said several claims are, and from henceforth will be, wholly excluded from their consideration, and will embody such declaration in their Protocol of this day’s proceedings, they have instructed the undersigned, upon this being done, to request leave to withdraw the application made by him to the Tribunal on the 15th instant for such an adjournment as might enable a supplementary convention to be concluded and ratified between the High Contracting Parties, and to request leave to deliver the printed argument now in the hands of the undersigned, which has been prepared on the part of Her Britannic Majesty’s Government, under the fifth Article of the Treaty. With reference to the other claims to the consideration of which, by the Tribunal, no exception has been taken on the part of Her Majesty’s Government.