The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-05
FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

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LONDON, June AIN the House OF
Lords this evening there was q full at.
tendance OF the peers and the galleries
were crowded.
Earl Russell made long and i'm.
pending address to the Queen praying
her Majesty to cause instructions to be
given her representatives to retire from
the Board OF Arbitration In the Geneva
claims Tor the indirect damages not with
drawn by the United States goyernmept.
He also spoke at great length on the sup
port OF his motion. he reviewed the
events Of the war in the United States,
and the circumstances OF the Alabama
claims and subsequent claims. He said
he should remember that England had
never admitted the justice Of indirect
claims. What was the meaning OF this
delay, this mystery, this hesitation? The
nation was in the same state Of uncer-
tainty as when the treaty was ratified.
The honor Of the government required
that 1t should speak plainly. II should
say to the United States, withdraw the
indirect claims or there can be no arbitra.
ton. There was no form Of extra repug-
nance which was not to be found In the
American case. He held that the English
negotiators were responsible for the con-
tracted conduct OF the British government
in rellnquishng the Fenian claims on the
American government This government
must feel humiliated by the manner
in which these negotiations had been
mismanaged in the business. He compli-
ments the Canadians on the loyal spirit
In which they had acted on the treaty,
and concluded as follows: The nation
must show as it has before, that II Is jeal-
GUS Of the honor Of the British crown.
1t must treat the United States as It treat
ed them in the Trent case. [Cheers.
Earl Granville followed. He defended
the right of the American Government to
place Its own construction On treaty Of
Washington and to introduce indirect
claims as the only way to escape from the
consequences ot the opposite interventions
put up with by tho government was the
supplemental article, and Of which this
government had availed itself, therefore
Earl Russsells proposition did not touch
the point at issue. He defended the Com.
missioners who negotiated the treaty,
those who acted for the United States as
well as those who acted for Great Britain.
1t was all very well to pick the bones
which, when first published, was gener.
ally approved Of The British Commis-
missioners believed the indirect claims
would be withdrawn and the Commission
ers had so admitted the aspersions on
the government, and that they were un.
founded and unjust. he rebuked Russell
Tor his allusOn TO the Trent affair,
declaring that it would be the cause OF
incalculable ill.feeling should the treaty
fail, an event by no means certain. Eng
land would stand better for having ex-
hausted the means OF removing the mis-.
understanding. The government had
been legally advised that the supplement
tai artlcleswas ample andsutficient. II their
Lordships arogated to themselves the
treaty !making spower. they Iwouid have
an enormous responsibility II they re-
quired the President Of the United States
to do that which Disraeli said in his Man
chester speech, was impossible for him to
do. They would destroy all chances of
settlement. He warned their Lordships
there was no good, but much harm In
certain expressions and resolutions. Earl
Gray remarked that Il the negotiations
proceeded as at present, the country
would be committed to any mistake the
government made. Lord Denman thought
their Lordships were needlessly alarmed
even If the indirect claims wero passed.
He doubted whether the Commissioners
would pay the bill.