The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-28
Herald Special Reports from
Geneva and London.
Highly Important Proceeding and Mo-
mentOus Decision Of the Arbitra-
ton Tribunal Yesterday.
Indirect Damages Ruled Out
Of Court.
GRAVE POINTS FOR NATIONAL PRECEDENT.
The British Case Presepted and EngaBd Aada
Amenable to ihs Jurisdiction,
Legal Consequences .Ae Plead
ing of the Crown.
Individual Opinion Of the Arbitrators on
the Indirect Claims Case.
Consultation, Judicial Deliberation and
Twenty-fOur Hours Adjournment.
HARMONY AND CONTENT ON ALL SIDES
Granville's and Gladstone's An
nouncements to Parliament.
Cabinet Chronology of the Case
to Its Conclusion.
Disraeli's Opinion of the Diplo-
matte Crisis.
HARMONY AND CONTENT ON ALL SIDES
Granville's and Gladstone's An
nouncements to Parliament.
Cabinet Chronology of the Case
to Its Conclusion.
Disraeli's Opinion of the Diplo-
matte Crisis.
TELEGRAMs TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

The following special dispatches to the
HERALD have been received from our CORE
spondents in Geneva and London
GENEVA, June ~, 1872.
The meeting Of the members of the Alabama
Claims Arbitration Court in this city to-day
was the most important assemblage of the
tribunal which has been yet held in Geneva.
The members met in the Hotel de Vile, at
the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
and adjourned at two O clock in the afternoon.
THE BRITISH CASE SUBMITTED.
The proceeding was dgnalized by the pro-
duction before the arbitrators of the Eng
lish argument in the case pending for
issue of settlement between the governments
of Great Britain and the United States How
much progress has been made since the first
organization of the tribunal in or towards the
final solution Of the many difficulties which
surround and cucumber the troublesome inter-
national negotiation may be inferred from this
small fact.
LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PLEADING OF THE
CROWN.
It Of course follows that England Is now
fully in Court, and it may be taken as on equal
and necessary consequence that the famous
indirect claims of the American government,
if not distinctly withdrawn from the cogni-
zance Of the arbitrators and Cabinets, are so
far neutralized by agreement of either side
that they are practically out of Court
The difficulty which existed in regard to in
direct claims was in truth overcome before
the English agent having charge of the case
on the part of Her Majesty Victoria con-
sented to lodge his argument in plea of
reply.
INDIRECT DAMAGES AND THE ARBrrRAroRs opH-
The exact point of the effect of this solu-
ton of the difficulty is that each one of the
arbitrators shall give written opinion on
the subject of the indirect claims, which will
thus be formally and judicially shut out from
consideration. 1t has already transpired, as
a matter Of diplomatic and press understand
ing, that the several members of the Arbitra-
ton Court held views and opinions incon-
sistent and at variance with the maintenance
of the American case for indirect claims COM
pensaton but it becomes certain to-day
that with the written opinion of the
five arbitrators on record there would
be, on this point formal and
positive verdict against the United States,
ruling out by the adjudication Of the Court
that portion Of the case to the very presenta-
ton of which England objected. No fair OPP
position could be made on the part Of the
United States to tribunal adjudication on
this point previous to the presentation Of the
English argument for the reason because 1t is
the opinion Of the counsel acting on behalf of
the Washington government that the aforesaid
British argument is, after all, only portion of
the whole continuous brief for pleading which
Great Britain may present or not as she
chooses.
BRITISH LIABILITY TO ABIDE BIZ THE RULING
In short, England is and has been in Court
before the arbitrators all the time and any
Judgment which is now made by the tribunal
is, md will remain, fully valid and Of force on
both naHons
DELIBERATIoN.
This very important point would have been
settled TODAY but for tho ax;atance IF n tachni