The Ouachita telegraph., 1871-06-03
Tic Treaty With Great Brit,1iu-.-'fhc Let.
Down OF tho Administrations.
Froui tho Cincinnati Emo 1uircT.

treaty which Grant has concluded with .
Great Britain Ii before the people. 1t !
will be remembered that in tho heginn- !
ing Of his Administration wc were given /
to understand that the Alabama claims |;
would bo collected, if necessary, at the !
cannon's mouth. There was to hc no !;
arhitinncnt Of the matter, such ~ Pres !
ident Andrew johnson, through, his !
Minister, Iteverly johnson, had, ns it |;
was said, weakly consented to, and !,
which trenty had been unanimously !
rejected by the senate. We We're SIM F.;
ply to present our bill as an uttiu,tfttm
to John Bull, and if he did not settle it
we were to take Canada instead, and
very s,mmnrily push him off this Con-
tincnt. Now, after delay OF two years,
what has the Grant Administration
agreed TO? Why, to leave the question
OF whether Great Britain shall pay the
Alabama claims to five arbftrators--:,nc
to be appointed by each of the contract
Ing parties. one by tho King of Italy,
another by the Swiss Confederation,
and the third by the Emperor Of Brazil.
The arhitrators are 10 meet at Geneva,
Switzerland. and there, after hearing
arguments and taking testimony, Il ma
jority OF thonl nlnS make Il final award.
1t is agreed that the arbitrntors shall
DtA SoNfitlCtl ny llle'St -NeutIih1
powers are bound to Use due diligence
| to prevent the fitting out OF armed
cruisers. and to prevent their ports from
| being used for that purpose. These
! rules the British Government declares
! were not in force at the time tho Ala
. banla claims arose, but, nevertheless,
| they will be governed by them now.
! The knotty and important question still
ren,ai1sS ns to what ''duc diligence is,
and whether it was exercised by Great
Britain In the Alabama business. But
! the cCOmrnission is not simply to declare
whether Great Britain owes us, but
they are to adjudicatc the claims which
| are to bc presented against us by that
power.
! These claims arc those of British cit
| izenS for dan,ngc to property from the
! 18th OF April, 1861, to the 9th of \ pril
| 1860. sustained ut the hands OF the Uni
ted States authorities And troops during
the war. Three new arbitrntori are TO
settle upon tfekl--ot1c appointed by the
| United States, one by Great Britain.
and another by them jointly. If they
don't agree. on the third man, he is 10
be named by the King Of Spain. These
claims may exceed in amount those of
the Alabama, and leave us u debtor to
Great Britain as the net result of the
investigation. In the mean time it viii
probably take two or three years before
! the arbltr.tol>s arc ready to make, in
| either instance, their report. Thus on
| this question what have we better than
the KcVcruy johnson treaty of S,:,. so
unanimously spurncd by the Senate:
! Now como scnnc stipulntions in ree,a ri
TO American fishing on the coasts of
! British America. Here, i'll addition to
our old privilege that we have enjoyed
since. 1918, we may now catch all kinds
; of fish, except shad, without restriction
as to- distance from shore, and viii, prr-
fnission to land for the purpose of cur
ing them. This is an extension of our
fishing privilege, bat "it is understood
that it is to apply to sea fishing alone ;
that tho salmon and shad fisheries, and
all other fisheries in rivers Or the mouths
Of rivers, are preserved cXcluSiH ely for
British iishcrincn.' In case we have Il
dispute ss to our fishing rights. it is to
hc settled by another commission silni-
lar to that of 1854. For this concession
we have to pay by allowing British
subjects TO fish in our waters north OF
the 39th parallel: and II the privileges
that we grant are no; as valuable rs
those granted by Great Britain, then a
commission will determine how much
| money we ought to hand over to the
aforesaid John Bull.
, Great Britain cetles5 to uS the nnNig:l-
ton of the 81. Lawrence equally VIII,
her own citizens, subject, however. to
the lnntcrini restriction that ii Shnif bC.
upon such regulations OF Great Britain
and the Canada Dominion as are not
:. inconsistent with the prerog,,tivc gran
ted. Great Britain engages, to allow uS
tho navigation of the Wciinnd Canal
upon terms OF equality with her citizens
and w" agree that her citizens shall
have "uuhl rights in tho 81. Clair Flats
Canal. The United States, in addition
throws iii the full navigation OF Lake
Michigan upon the same conditions. In
addition to these arc some mutual con-
crSsionS in regard to the shipment of
goods through each othcr', territory
with no material advantage in the at.
rrGnt" to either Inrty. The fishing and
free navigation articles arc to be in force
tor ten years. subject then to be renewed
or not, at either iarty's option. 'rhc
question of whether the little island 0.
San .Iuun, on the northwest Oregon
coast, belongs to the Cuitcd States or
Great Britain, il referred for arbitration
to tn" Emperor of Germany
i This is the treaty, ana the whole of it
1t is arbitration and 4,tiH pro I,tr from
first to tnst. As we have sniu, no one
will soc in ii any blaze OF that '.ripo-
rouS foreign policy" on Grants part
! that was to entrance Us and -t:trtle the
; world. He comes, after MI the fuss,
! upon the ground which Great Britain
; has over occupied, and ncc,Sicss To hcr