Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-09
ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1885.

It wal, and which was seized by the Britis
authorities. There are other miscellant
Gus claims which will come before th
second board.
The San Juan question will be referred /
the arbitration of friendly SOVEREIGN
s probably the Emperor of Brazil. From
the character Of The documents accom-
panying the treaty it is inferred that th
: decision cannot fail to be in favor of tn,
United States.
The treaty provides for the free nayi.
} gatonsot the st. Lawrence by the vessel
OF the United States and for the use OF
the Canadian canals, on the payment Of
the regular tolls.
: Ihe Lcndon Times to-day mistakes il
saying that the treaty must be ratified by
Doth houses OF Parliament, though it will
require legislation to carry some of its
provisions into effect.
Another VersiOn-~AuthOlita
OfficiaI,''
The following viii appear in the Wash
lngton National Republican tomorrow
morning. 1t is an authoritatively Off.
clal statement of the result of the lsbors
OF the Joint High Commission. The
treaty is to be known as the treaty at
Washington for the adjustment of the
claims for injuries alleged by the United
Ststes On account Of the escape of Con-
1eoerate cruisers from British ports. and
depredations committed by those vessels
during the late war in this country.
a tribunal of arbitration is constituted
to consist of five arbitrators, one appoint-
| ed by thu United 6JaUes, one by GreaJ
Britain and the other three, one each by
theidesignated Sovereigos of States, of Eu-
rope or America. The treaty establishes
special rules for neutrals' duty and obliga-
tions in addition to the generally received
| public law, which rules although not ad-
mitted by the British Commissioners to
have been in force at the time,
are yet, it is agreed, to restrict
and govern the decisions of the tribunal
of arbitration. This tribunal may either
award damages in detail or in gross at its
discretion, or it may refer this duty to a
Board OF Assessors sitting in the United
States; 1t shall also report from time to
time with payments to be made accord
ingly. The British government frankly
expresses its regret for the occurrences
incident to the complaint of the United
States.
For the adjudication of all other claims
OF the citizens of the United States
against Great Britain, and citizens of
Great Britain against the United States
during the same period, from the 18Th of
April, 1861, to the oh of April 1866, an
ordinary mixed Commission is provided
to sill at Washington, with an umpire to
be nominated if necessary by q designs.
ted friendly power. This limitation of
time is material in substance, for it con-
fines reclamation against the United
States to incidents of actual war. 1t is
accompanied also with declaration on
the part of the British Commissioners
excluding claims on account Of slave
property. Great Britain does not recOg-
nize the claims of subjects for seizure of
cotton in cases where they took up their
abode in the South, as they became sub
Ject to the contingencies of war.
In regard to the fisheries, in addition
to the liberty already secured them by
the treaty of 1918, the fishermen of the
United States shall have the liberty to
take sea fish on the sea coast and shores
and in bays, harbors and creeks of the
Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, and the colony of
Prince Edwards Island and the Islands
adjacent, without being restricted to any
distance from the shore, with permission
TO land upon such coast shores and lands,
and also upon Magdalen Island for the
purpose of drying nets and curing their
fish, subject, of course, in this
respect to the lgc2l rights of
private property, and the same
liberty is granted to British subjects
on the eastern seacOast and the shores of
the United States north of the seth ,yaral-
lei of latitude, this liberty not to include
in either side shell fish or salmon and
shad fisheries or other fisheries in rivers
and the mouths Of MYERS.
1t is further agreed that fish oil and fish
of all kinds, except the fish of inland
lakes and their rivers, and except fish
preserved in oil, the produce of fisheries
of the United States, or the Dominion of
Canada or Prince Edwards Island shall
be admitted into each country respectively
free of duty. The privileges thus con-
ceded to the United States are obviously
most important ones.
1t is asserted by the British Govern
ment, but not admitted by the United
States, that the privilege accorded to the
citizens of the United States are greater
in value than those accorded to the sub.
jects of Great Britain, and to prevent or
avoid controversy on this point, it is
agreed that a mixed Commission with
umpire to be appointed by a designated
friendly power shall determine whether
any compensation for such alleged &C.
cess of privileges, and how much ought
to be paid by the United States.
Next comes various questions of navi-
cation and commercial transit, which are
disposed of by declaring the navigation
of the river St Lawrence and the rivers
Yucan and POTcussiye and Itlline forever
free and open to the citizens or subjects
of both countries; by providing for the
equal use of the WelIand and st. Law
renee and other canals in the Dominion
on one hand, and Lake Michigan and the
st. Clair flats and canal on the other; by
providing for the free transit of mer-
chandise to and fro, as well in the British
possessions as in the United States, and
abolishing the Provisional export duty On
American lumber on the river st. John.
All these provisions concerning the
fisheries and commercial transit, are of
course made contingent upon being ap-
proved by the Congress of the United
States aud the British Parliament, the
Parliament of Canada and the Legisla-
ture of Prince Edwards Island.
By these stipulatiOns all privileges OF
fishing end navigation and transit, &C
corded to the United States by the treaty
of 1854, are once more obtained and in
better form and without the burdensome
conditions of that treaty in the matter OF
reciprocal importations.
In regard to the northwestern bounda-
~ line the treaty of 1916 runs it in the
middle of the channel which separated
the continent from Vancouver's Island,
but several such channels exist. Great
Britain contends that the channel of the
treaty is the Rosaris Straits, the United
States that it is the Canal Deparo, the
two channels being separates by the
island of San Juan. This quettiOD hav-
ing once been reported on by mixed
commission for survey of the line, the
United States are not content to refer it
to another such commission, nor has 1t
been deemed convenient even though
such tribunal be appointed by a friendly
sovereign.
Grant still Absent.
The President will not return to Wash
ington till tomorrow. He will probably
remain at Baltimore tonight.
Additional numbers of Senators have
arrived.
GEN. SHERMAN