The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-20
THE QUESTION In WASHINGTON.
Further Changes In the Supplemental Article
Not Likely To Be Considered Position
Of Our Government-How to Deal
with "Wilful" Violations.

land for an adjournment for eight months,
to enable her captious and hypercritical
statesmen to decide finally what they really
do want-and there is an impression that the
application will be granted, especially as our
agents at Geneva have not been very strenu-
GUS in their oppostion-it is question of
the highest interest and Importance to learn
whether in that event our government will
agree to
| ANY FURTHER VERBAL OR OTHER AMENDMENTS
to the treaty that may be proposed by Great
Britain. have endeavored to sound our gov
eminent on this subject and as the result of
my investigation l think can safely say that
our government will not bulge another inch
from the line of principles they have assumed
in the late discussions. In this whole bust
ness our government feels that it has acted in
entire good faith. 1t believes it has made con-
cessions of form and phraseology to accom-
modate Great Britain. It considers that it has
gone to the extreme limit in this respect con-
sstent with national honor and self-respect
further it will not go. The objections
raised by England to the phraseology Of
the supplemental article as amended by the
Senate are somewhat difficult to understand
without having the exact language of that
| oSti n cr1rt1 II hou rN~
saying that the substantial meaning of it was
that in future
NEITHER NATION WOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE
for the indirect or remote consequences grow
ing out Of the escape of vessels from the ports
Of either nation. The Senate at the sugges-
ton Of Secretary Fish, changed the language
of the article, making it broader and more
comprehensive SO that it would cover not only
the cases of damage by vessels, but also all
other infractions of neutral obligations owing
to lack Of educ diligence" though without
wilfulness or culpable completely on the part
of the government In other words, our gov
4 W pIOCSCt I'd lIOiu lluUlllty
that might very we'll be urged hereafter, if not
specifically settled now, for indirect conse-
quences Of violations Of neutrality along our
land borders, as we'll as along our seacoast.
THE TREATY WAS SILENT
on that point. To this England objected, on
the ground that unless it should be limited as
originally it might be urged that the escape Of
vessels to depredate on the commerce of either
nation in future might under the Senate Ian
guage be construed as the indirect result Of
violation of neutral obligations, and so
AMERICA WOULD HEREAFTER BE PROTECTED
if she performed actions similar to those Eng
land had committed during our civil war. Our
government replied that this new objection
was based on the hypothesis that the United
States might act in bad faith-a hypothesis
which could not be entertained for q moment.
1t instructed our Minister at St. James to tell
Earl Granville that this objection was hyper
critical and that any more verbal or other
amendments would not be accepted by the
Senate; that the supplemental article, as
amended by the Senate, could be ratified in o
few minutes, but that it was
IDLE TO EXPECT ANYTHING MORE.
A second objection to the Senate's amended
article was that it did not provide for cases of
"wilful as well as unintentional violations Of
to this that the President could not make any
treaty to provide for such cases wilful viola
American mode of seeking redress for such Vi
oations would be of another kind. This was
very broad diplomatic way, it must be ad-
mitted, of saying that the United States would
settle wilful violations
by WAR AND NOT by THE HUMDUGGINe PROCESS
of treaty making. Here you have the exact
situation up to the present moment. have
reason to believe that, on the question of ad-
iournment, our government yesterday sent
dispatches to Mr. Davis to pursue exactly the
line Of procedure indicated in my dispatches
yesterday. Up to four p NJ. to-day no furtne,
advices were received from Geneva, but un
foubtedly, during the night, the result of the
motion to adjourn and the decision of the ar
bitrators will be known to the authorities here
APACHES EN- ROUTE TO WASHINGTON,
CHEYENNE. w. T.. June ia 1872
Special Indian Commissioner General .. O. How
ard passed through this city to-day, m route 70