New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-31
THE ALABAMA FAILURE.
AN IMPORTANT REPORT FROM ENGLAND.
From The Worn Of today.

AN IMPORTANT REPORT FROM ENGLAND.
From The WorH Of today.
LONDON Thursday, May 30, 1877.
The British Government considers that the nego-
tiations with the American Government with regard
to the Treaty of Washington have failed. The Gov
eminent win inform Parliament that it will with
draw from the Arbitration at Geneva.
NEGOTIATIONS PRACTICALLY AT AN END.
HELPLESS CONDITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION
OPINIONS OF EMINENT STATESMEN on TIE
EFFECT OF THE FAILURE-ALL OUR CLAIMS
DIsHONoRED-A NEW ARGUMENT FOR
CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATIONS.
GBY TELEGRAPH TO TIRE TRIBUSEI
WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 90. 1874.
The conviction is almost universal in Washington
tonight that the Treaty has failed and though cor
respondence the subject is not yet closed it is
continued with little hope that any understanding
can be arrived at. The Administration is to-day in
more helpless condition regards the Treaty than
at any previous time the action OF the Senate
having tied its hands, and prevented il from
entertaining any new propositions from the
British Cabinet Before the matter was sent to the
Senate if one plan of settlement did not succeed,
another could have been tried but now the United
States has bound itself TO the form of treaty agreed
to by the Senate just firmly though the vote Of
Saturday evening had been on the question of rat-
fication. The form have submitted does not suit
Granville. He will not accept it, we cannot modify
it, and therefore, negotiations with any hope Of sue
cess are believed to be at an end
Already has the pub ic attention been turned FROM
the Treaty to the effects of its failure. prominent
Senator, who has given much study to international
law and to the questions on which the United States
and England have been divided, said, this evening
that the failure of this Treaty will bo disastrous in
many ways In the first place. it has dishonored
H. oIo.,o NH all alop
against England. This remark applies not
only to the indirect damages which, after
pressing most explicitly in Case" have dis
gracefully abandoned. but to our claims for direct
| losses which have been weakened and iTreparably
| injured. In the next place, we have brought the
principle of arbitration, the establishment of which
| by the Treaty of Washington was hailed with
| iov. not only in the United States and Great
| Britain, but by every civilized nation on
! the globe, into disrepute. Hereafter it will
| be the more difficult to induce nations
to submit their differences to friendly arbitration,
because Of the disastrous termination Of our pre-
sent attempt under such favorable auspices. Again
| the nation stands dishOnored before the world.
| We are in the positian Of a Government having
made demands which it was unable TO sustain, and
which it was Obliged to withdraw at the dictation
of Great Britain. Having SO far Inundated
Us
indignity of seeing its surrender rejected
by England, and its humiliation come to naught
The course we ought TO have taken, said the Sem
ator was to have said to England: There is tho
| Treaty you have signed, there is our Case. We
stand by that. We shall go to Geneva and abide
by the decision of that tribunal We protest against
anyattempt to change the Treaty, and we will not
modify our Case. If you with
draw from the arbitration because you are
displeased with our case in this particular, we
might withdraw because we were displeased with
your method of presenting your side OF the question.
and treaties would have no binding force. j would
then have held up England as refusing to. stand by
her solemn agreement and if the treaty had failed
we should have stood before the world In an honor
able and dignifed light"
An eminent publicist now in Washington, remarked
tbs EVENING" 81 presume that the Treaty has failed
and / now have grave doubts if England ever in
tended to accept any proposition that we could
make am not sure" he added, that we shall lose
anything by this failure. The Treaty was made IN
the interests Of begerent nations and, as OF the ~
wears since we have been nation we have been
30 wears neutral doubt if it will not be better OH
the whole that this Treaty should not stand"
The effect of the failure ON the Administration, Il
is believed will be very damaging. With any ordin-
ary President it is said Fish could not remain in tho
Cabinet week. Under this = ninistration nobody
knows what will be DONE Again, it is said
that the people must see in this failure
new and very strong argument in favor
of change of Administration. Great
Britain can never negotiate another Treaty with US,
or conclude any settlement of the questions at issue,
as long as the present Administration remains at tho
head of the Government and the reelection of Grant
must therefore necessarily be to postpone their adj
justment at least four years longer.