New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-10
THE INVESTMENT OF PARIS
Insurgents Advancing Toward Panama
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WASHINGTON.

| Extra Session of the Senate Cabinet
Meeting-COnfidence in Speedy Ratifi-
cati0n of the Treaty-WeatherS Synopsis
and PrObabiiifies-Result of Labors of
Joint High Commission-Semi.of O fficial
Statement.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The extra session
of the Senate cOnvenes tomorrow.
There was a full Cabinet meeting to-day,
except Secretaries Robeson and Belknap.
That confidence is felt in official circles of
speedy ratification of the treaty, is shown
by the fact that Mr.. Schenck and the
English members of the High Commission
have engaged passage on the steamer
leaving New York on the twenty-fourth
instant.
| The Court of Claims will hear no more
cases after the eighteenth instant, and will
adjourn about the first of June The
docket is nearly clear
The weather remains unchanged on the
Pacific coast. The low pressure which pre-
| vailed on Monday evening in the lower Mis-
| souri, valley has moved south and east into
Tennessee. The barometer is highest in
Wisconsin, and has risen on all the lakes.
1t has risen only to fall again on the gulf
and south Atlantic. Brisk north winds are
reported from Lake Michigan and Illinois,
elsewhere they have been fresh and light.
Cloudy weather and light rains have
spread from the Ohio valley eastward to
The Atlantic. Clear or partially cloudy
W Gather has prevailed on the lakes
1t is probable that the rain and clouds will
on Wednesday advance along the Atlantic
coast, with clear cold, weather ON the lakes
and cloudy and clearing weather in the in
terror.
The following is an authentic semi-official
statement of the results of the labOrs of
the Joint High Commission:
Co. 70 ha
of Washington.
The commissioners proceeded deliber-
ately, and in the spirit of national dignity
as well as in that of personal respect and
confidence, to discuss the points of differ
ence between the respective countries, and
they have at length concluded treaty
which it is confidently believed is honorable
to both nations, but especially worthy of
the cordial appreciation of the Senate and
the people of the United States for the ad-
iustment of the claims of the injured,
alleged by the United States on ac-
count of the escape of confederate cruisers
from British ports, and the depredations
committed by those vessels during the late
rebellion in this country. A tribune of ar
bitration is constituted, to consist of five
arbitrators, one appointed by the United
States, one by Great Britain, and the other
three each by designated sovereign State
of Europe or America Such tribunal so
composed, of so much elevation and char
acter, is without example perhaps in diplo-
matte history. 1t is signal step in the line
of international arbitration, and the conse-
quent interest of universal peace.
BY it's organization and character, it is
competent to satisfy the .susceptibilities of
both nations, and to do ample Justice to the
pretensions of the United States, but to
preclude all equivocation in this respect,
the treaty establishes special rules of neu-
trality, duty and obligation, III addition to
the generally received public law, which
rules, although not admitted by the British
commissioners to have been in force at the
time, yet it is agreed to retract and to
govern the decisions of the tribunal of
arbitration. The tribunal may either
award damages in detail or in gross at its
discretion, or it may refer this duty to
board of assessors sitting in the United
States who shall report from time to time,
with payment to be made accordingly, and
the generous power conscious Of its fame
and greatness, and of its capacity to speak
as well as to act independently and right
fully at all times.
The British government frankly expresses
its regret for the occurrence of the incl
dents complained of by the United States.
For the adjudication of all other claims of
citizens of the United States against Great
Britain or of the subjects of Great Britain
against the United States, during the same
period-that is, from the thirteenth of April,
1861, to the ninth of April, 1865-an ordina-
ry mixed commission Is provided, to sit at
Washington, with an umpire, to be nomi-
mated, if necessary, by designated friendly
power. This limitation of time is material
in substance, for it confines the reclama-
tions against the United States to the Incl
dents of actual war.
1t is accompanied also by declaration
on the part of the British commissioners to
the effect of excluding claims on account of |
slave property. Statements are made in
some. quarters exaggerating the amount of
such claims. If there could be cause, in the |
stipulation itself, to apprehend the presenta-
ton of claims against the United States of |
any considerable amount, all such appre- |
tensions would be dispelled by the consid- |
GRAFTON of the attitude of the British gov
in the matter of claims of British
subjects arising out of the war between |
and France. Lord Granville hay- |
ing, in accordance with the advice of the |
law officers of the crown, given notice to |
all parties that foreigners having property
in France are not entitled to any |
special protection therefor, or to exceptions |
to military contributions to which they |
were not liable in common with the inhab
tants of the place in which they resided or
n which their property might be situated;
mat tney were equally liable with sucn IN
labltants to have requisitions levied on
heir property by either belligerents; that
hey could have no claim for compensation
IN the ground of their being neutral for
,igners for losses which the necessities of
war brought upon them, in common with
he French, and that the British govern
nent can not make reclamation in the
premises in their behalf against Germany or
France
The doctrine of these dispatches, applied
IS it is to belligerent sovereigns, affords
ample protection to the United States in the
natter of any mere acts of war committed
,y the United States in the suppression of
he rebellion in the Southern States, and it
S to be noted also, that most of the claims
against the United States for the seizure of
cotton, many of whichIare being heard in
he Court of Claims, are of date subse-
guent to the limits of this treaty, and not
within its scope.
These treaty stipulations, SO just, so hon
,rable, so fair, and withal so favorable to
he United States, dispose of all the differ