The Van Buren press., 1871-05-16
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
special Dispatch to the Republican,


Especial Dispatch to the Republican,
WASHINGTON, May, s.
PARTICULARS OF THE TREATY.
The following will appear in the Wash
ington National Republican tomorrow
morning. 1t is an authoritative and Of
ticial statemeot of the result of the labors
Of the joint high commission:
The treaty is to be known as the trea-
ty Of Washington for the adjustment Of
claims for injury alleged by the United
States on account Of the escape of con.
federate cruisers from British ports and
depredations committed by these vessels
during the late rebellion in this country.
A TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION.
A tribunal of arbitration is constituted
to consist of five arbitrators, one ap.
pointed by the United States, one by
Great Britain and the other three each
be designated sovereigns of the states of
Europe or America, The treaty estab-
lished special rules for neutrals, duty and
obligation, in addition to the generally
received public law which rules, although
not admitted by the British commission
ers, to have been in force at the time, are
yet, it is agreed, to retroact and to gov
ern the decision tribunal of arbitration.
This tribunal may either award damages
in detail or in gross at its discretion; or
il may refer this duty to a board of as
SCISSORS sitting in the United States also
shall report from time to time with pay
ment to be made accordingly. The Brit.
ish government frankly expresses its re-
gret for the occurrence Of the incidents
complained of by the United States for
adjudication.
OTHER CLAIMS.
For all other claims of the citizens of
the United States against Great Britain
and against the United States during the
same period, that is from the 18th of
April, 1861, to the 9th of April 1865, an
ordinary mixed commission is provided
to set at Washington with an umpire, to
be nominated Unnecessary, by desgna
ted friendly power. This limitation Of
time is the material substance, for it con-.
fines reclamation against the United States
to incidents of actual war 1t is accom-
panied, also, with a declaration on the
part Of the British commissioners to the
effect of excluding claims on account of
slave property. Great Britain does not
recognize the claims Of her subject for
the seizure of cotton in cases where they
took up their abode in the South as they
became subject to the contingencies of
war.
THE FISHERIES.
AS regards the fisheries, in addition TO
the the liberty already secured to 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 the bays, harbors and creeks
in the provinces Of Quebec, Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick, and the colony of
Prince Edwards Island, and islands ad-
jacent, without being restricted to any
distance from shore, with permission to
land upon such coast. shores and islands,
and also upon Magdalen islands, for the
purpose Of drying their nets, and curing
their fish, subject, Of course, in this res
pect, to local rights and private property,
and the same liberty is granted to Brit
ish subjects on the eastern sea coast and
shores of the United States north of the
thirty ninth parallel of latitued. This
liberty is not to include on either side
shell fish or salmon and shad fisheries or
other fisheries in rivers and mouths OF
rivers 1t is further agreed that fish oil
and fish OF all kinds, except fish in the in.
land lakes and their rivers, and except
fish preserved in oil, the produce of the
fisheries Of the United States or of the
Dominion of Canada or Prince Edward S |
Island shall be admitted into each coun-
try respectively free of duty The privi
leges thus conceded to the United States
are obvious y most important ones. 1t
is asserted by the British government, but
not admitted by the United States, that
the privileges accorded to the citizens of
the United States are of greater value
than those accorded to the subjects Of
Great Britain, and to prevent or avoid
controversy on this point it is agreed that
a mixed commission, with an umpire to |
be appointed by a designated friendly |
power, shall determine where any com.
pensation for such alleged excess OF priv.
ilege and how much ought to be paid by
the United States. Next comes various
questions Of navigation and commercial
transit, which are disposed Of by declar.
ing the navigation of the river ST. Law
renee, and the rivers Yucan { p Porcu-
pine and Stillne forever free and open
to citizens or subjects of both countries.
CANAL NAVIGATION.
BY providing for the equal use Of the
Weland and st. Lawrence and other
canals in the Dominion, on the one hand
and of Lakes Michigan and st. Clair fats
and canal, on the other, by providing |
for the free transit of merchandise to and |
fro, as well in British possessions as in
the United States and abolishin the pro
visional export duty or American lumber
on the river St John. All their provis-
ions concerning the fisheries and com
mercial transit are of course made con-
tingcnt upon their being approved by
the congress of the United States, and !
the British parliament, the parliament Of
Canada and the legislature of Prince Ed
wards island. BY these various stipula-
tons, all the privileges of fishery, navi-
cation and transit, accorded to the Unit
ed States by the treaty of 1854, are once