New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-06
AMERICAN VIEWS OF THE TREATY.

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AMERICAN VIEWS OF THE TREATY.
THE TINE WHEN THE AMERICAN CASE WAS RE
CEIyRD BY TIE BRITISH GOYERNMENr-THE
ATTITUDE OF GREAT BRITAIN DIFFICULT 10
UNDERSTAND
The London Times, in its issue of Feb. ID,
publishes third letter from MIR. Geo. W. smaloy' aS
follows:
arr ask leave TO reply in your columns to personal
attack by The Saturday Recie,e. based upon the two
letters mine which you we're so good as 70
Nv reply would be very brief II all the remarks Of The
Saturday Revie had taken the form Of dect
with which direct assertion may DO mel Ine Saraov
the ss. sTt Of detraction BY innuend the sake Of
pointing Islander. it has brought forward THE
S i the advocate Of Fenanism and the CON
sstent enemy Of England and that am It's nc repre-.
an advocate of Fenanism and the consistent enemy OF
England. for The TRIBUNE II t. chooses 10 notice
of itself aud IL of duty to volunteer an IN
needed defense OF the leading journal OF
TO Justify its charge by some evidence but nobody eI
An Allegation or since that IA impossible to ackn0wi-
edge that IL has uttered a wanton caluinny.
II further ams that have written OF an Engsn n
matters in tone Of contemptuous acrimony, whch 10
remarkable even proceeding from All American CORE
spondent" THIS again Is one OF .n4sg
what seems cOntemptuous acrimony 70 one person may
not so to % Hs' shne eadeT
" b9 know best what IL meant by writing
English matters the tone In wGfcSr ~ bh
gible and definite and but be answered by saying
stronger word to the astounding assertion that i'm
puted to the English Commissioners fraudulent
pcity with the understanding tney nave publicly repu-
thought said ANYTHING of the Kind nor made an i'm
putaon of any kind on the honor or good faith of tho
English Commissioners
But dotoin you too long personal matter and I
U0sing the calculated malevoencc of RerieD whose de-
sire to make mischief between England and America has
swer TO the question lately put often yOur columns
and in others You have referred great many times to
the in the House OF Lords the 18th OF June
Earl Russell's mOsOn. and w the declaration OF Earl
Granville with respect to the exclusion of indirect claims
from the Treaty. Gen. SChenck say, sat In the gal
iery, and through him. otherwise, our Government
must have become that the British Government
the American construction Of It. Why. them you ask
did the United States at give notice to England
Now this question Involves the first place. an as
sumption that there rested on the American Government
an obligation TO take official notice OF unofficial
declaration 1t will hardly be commended that such
obligation he inferred from the methods in which
business IA commonly carried between two Govern
ments You must moan therefore. that something had
occurred which required the American Government to
depart from the OF diplomatic transactOns
and TO take q step for which the only possible jusca-
ton would have been an apprehension on its part that
the Treaty just signed was In peril and that the arb
traton for which 1t provided was likely to prove "a
failure.
the kind To begin WITH Gen. Schenck whose actual
presence 80 much stress has been laid left the House Of
and his only waa SsS saa about S
newspaper reports Furthermore, reference TO your
report will show that very small part of the debate
there only incidental illusions Other portions Of
the Treaty. and especially the phraseology and purp0rt
OF the new rules far fully discussed and at
that time 1t was about them and their meaning and
scope that both Governments were most con.
cerned. But assuming that the attention Of
Government
Granvle's statement, what would have been their
tsc6ed to this point any greater than seemed
To BIO attached to 1t IN the debate: They had lately
lions sterling an excess of not much moro than two
millions the computed amount Of the direct claims
With proposal fresh in their recollection there
suppose that the question about indirect claims
would in their minds the gigantic proportions
months What them could Mr.. Fish have said TO him.
self and his colleagues but this-that IL there should DO
their admission exclusion under the Treaty would
question for the arbitrators, and at proper time
In the present mood Of the English public this Wow
may not seem TO them material or reasonable, but
YOU VIII perhaps allow me ~ remind YOU through what
period OF time and by what processes and influences
the British public was brought into Its present mood.
Tho American Case handed tothe British Consul at
Geneva the 18th OF December. copy forwarded
70 the Foreign Office ba special o messenger who reached
sent Il printed and bound copies to the Foreign
ONCE; seven weeks less thrse days before Lord
and moro than seven weeks before Mr.. Glad.
stone stated Parliament that though no believed the
Case had been In the Foreign Office about month he
hirnsef had had copy only fortnight and others Of
about during those seven weekst What were your
counsel dongi AS for the latter have been told that
they hard work getting up their to the
American Case Neither 70 them to tho Government
NO have evidence did the idea Of refusing
20 proceed with the arbitration those claims occur for
mt least month. II IL did not occur TO them with tho
American Case in their hands, you think
full 1t did mot TO the American Government last
Summer while tho negotiations wero still warm, and
while faith In your purpose TO execute the Treaty
W ~ unshakenf
But this not all The English prosa being In posses
sion OF copies OF Case. had early expressed some
alarm at finding tho indirect claims included, good
deal of discussion went Public attention was drawn
TO the facts that these dreaded claims moro stared
you in the face. Yet 80 late the 30th Of January
Ondon newspaper, understood 10 be In intimate rela-
lions with the Prime Minister scoed at the excitement
In leading article the prospects OF the coming
who appauded last year the Treaty Of Arbitration with
huerica have found TO their horror and surprise
hat the counsel the United States deficient in
I'M IA rtiaty snh mako statements that cannot be-
proved" Moro than that Tho day before the public
An rjety had thus been held UP to ridicule SENT o.
6sI journal you yourself had not made up your mind
b withdraw peremptOrily from the arbitration In con-
,luding your leader Of Jan 70 ask What shall We
40 and you nnswer Our rst duty both 70 the United
the claim for Indirect damages put forward In the
,bnittod by thom and TO crave decision upon
protest nv tho Tribunal Of Arbitration before oonsontDg
10 carry the reference 10 subsequent stages" You do
II Inopose 10 retire unless they eide against you
THIS tbon tho str0D9ost Wow hcld In England by