The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-04-25
Foreign AdviCeS.
THE ALABAMA QUESTION IN PARLIAME

Foreign Advices.
THE ALABAMA QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, April lin the House Of
Commons this evening, Rathbone, member
from Liverpool, asked whether the Govern
nent had sent or intended to send its
counter-caSe respecting the Alabama claims
to the Geneva Board.
Gladstone replied that the case had been
prepared and dispatched to Geneva.
Touching The contents of the document, he
would say that there was nothing relative
TO the CLAIMS for indirect damages. A
note accompanied the case containing a
declaration on the part of the Government
for the purpose of reserviug all rights APP
pertaining TO the Queen in this arbitration,
SO that III future the Government would
not be tettered by any implied compromise.
Schencl, the American Minister, had been
duly Informed OF the course taken, and
notified Lord Granville that there was no
objection to 1t on his part. The Ameri-
can counter case would be presented to the
Geneva tribunal without prejudice to the
rights OF their party. Schenck informed
Lord Granville that the Government of the
United States concurrei in the view that
the presentation Of the counter case would
not affect the position assumed by Great
Britain on the question OF indirect claims.
DIsraeh wanted TO have the papers
produced and asked whether Lord Chief
Justice COckburn was to resume his duties
as n member of the Geneva Board.
To The later question Gladstone replied
atirmatNely. lie promised that the Brit
ISL counter case viii be laid before Parla-
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House and the people of England for their
forbearance and the people ana Congress of
the United States tor retaining from at
tempting to embarrass the question. The
last note which was sent to Washington
had not been answered. When the reply
was received no one would be more wiling 9
to make the House completely acquainted
with the details of the negotiations than
himself.
pisraeli said he wanted to impress on the
government that the country was desi-
rous of clearly understanding the conditions
under which the government sent its counter
case to Geneva. This very fact admitted
on the surface the justice of the American
claim for indirect damages
Gladstone made no further reply but
again promised that TIE documents should
be speedily forthcoming.
Granville, in the House of Lords to-
night, made replies IN substance the same
a. those OF Gladstone, 10 questions pat by
Lord Stanhope. Care had been taken, he
said, to frame the counter case and accom-
panylng documents SO Us to leave to Great
Britain the right to withdraw from the ar
bltratiun should the difference on the sub
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Earl Russell thought the government had
failed to escape the difficulty He declared
that they ought not, under any circum-
stances, To consent to consider an atom of
the claims for indirect losses.
Lord Russell then gave notice that on
the 22nd inst, he should bring in IA motion
for an address to the Queen, that instruc-
tons be given that all proceedings before
the arbltrators at Geneva be suspended
till the United States withdraw their
claims for indirect damages.
The Duke of Richmond wanted to have
an understanding, 50 that there would be
no possibility Of the arbtrators saving to
England, "lou compiled with the treaty:
You entered your case, therefore we shall
proceed to a decision
Granville suggested that whether the
counter case was presented or not, the ar
bItrators might - on with the business of
the arbitration.
Lord c>thury wanted the Jurisdiction
f the Geneva tribunal determined.
Granville reiterated that he had been
careful to point out that England would
not be compromised III the matter of indi-
rect c.aIm>, and that the United States
government had signitied its agreement to
this un. .trtaklng.
The Marquis of Salisbury regretted that
the Government had abandoned the last
chance OF protecting against the exercise
10y the Geneva Board of jurisdiction ever
the indirect claims, because the arbitrators
might award Il sum without specification.
The Duke of Somerset said the Govern
mems course seriously imperilled the
conntry's position. The Government
should have refused to present its counter
case until the claims for indirect damages
we're withdrawn. This, he declared, was
the intention of the nation.
Lord Penzance gathered from what
Earl Granville had said that the Govern
ment WAS free to Withdraw from the srbi-
ration = the reply OF the American Gov
crnm Mt To the noble Lor,i's last note per
sisted in the determination to present indi
rect claims. This, Lord Penzance con-
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