The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-14
The Washington Treaty About To b
Broken by I'm uation o
Mr.. GIadst0ne's Tortures.


England, at last, has decided that
the Treaty of Washington, if amended
only as the Senate of the United
States desires, does not suit her ideas of the
future Of international law on the subject of
for beligerent expeditions fitted
out within the territory of neutral. Conse-
quently, she has decided that if the United
States adhere to the amended supple
mental article as their ultimatum she will
withdraw from the arbitration, and possibly
throw in little of that billingsgate which John
Bull, in his angry moments, comes down from
his perch of solemnity to perpetrate. We are
assured that neither the President nor his Sec
principle commended for in the amended
article, and it may, therefore, be assumed,
unless England, like Falstaff, finds some
''loop or starting hole through which to
escape, that the Treaty of Washington will
pass tomorrow out of current history into the
already well-flled waste paper basket of dis
appointed hopes and high contactings. III
this, indeed, be the end of all this quibbling
|telegraphing, contradiction and backsliding, it
will not disturb Americas equanimity in the
slightest, and the verdict of history upon it
will be that it were better 80. The amount of
possible or probable damages left us by the
surrender of the indirect claims would not make
it On object for which it would be worth
sacrificing particle of right, and to England's
petto principH that the failure of the treaty lies
at our door we have only to say that America
in the endeavor to save the treaty, sacrificed
much more in the estimation of thousands of
citizens than strict regard for our national
honor warranted. We are ready to proceed
with our case at Geneva, and the onus of
breaking the treaty will be upon the Power that
iwithdraws -.'rt~- -.
In the meantime England, outside of it's
|agitated Cabinet trembling before vote of
want of confidence, remains in profound
ignorance of the tangled state of its treaty
affairs. In illustration of this we find that
while the treaty trembles on the edge of dis
|solution Parliament exercises itself over the
old issue Of the protocols of the original treaty
In the British House of Commons yesterday
Mr.. Horsman gave notice that he would soon
ask whether the document to be presented to
Parliament relative t9 the tiaosma claims
would explain why no record was kept of the
proceedings Of the Joint High Commission;
and, also, if said proceedings would embrace
|any communications wherein the American
government asserted that the withdrawal of
he indirect claims was only matter Of under
standing, and not Of agreement. From this Il ap-
pears that the Joint High Commission itself is
to be brought before the Commons for trial on
the charge or upon insinuations amounting to /
q charge of gross negligence or incompetency
touching the daily record of the proceedings
of said Joint High Commission while neeo-
tiating the Treaty of Washington.
1t will be seen, however, by reference to the
files of the New YORK HERALD, that there was
published in this journal, few days after the
ratification by the United States Senate of the
Treaty of Washington, the official record of
the proceedings of said Joint High Commits
sion from day to day, from the first meeting of
that body to the end of its labors;
that this official record, known as the proto-
co.'s details the progress, step by step,
Of the high contracting parties in the great
work upon which they were engaged that this
record is signed by J. G. Bancroft Davis and
Lord Tenterden as tho official Secretaries of
'aid Joint High Commission; and that this
record, so signed, embraces the official state
nent substantially that the British Commits
jlonQrS having declined tho pronaait;on q, r.