Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-14
The Treaty.

New York, II, The Herald's Washington
special says the following note, addressed to
Mr.. Schenck, yesterday, was the result of
long Cabinet session in London on Mr.. Fish's
last instructions to Schenck
Sir Her Majesty's government under
stand that the government of the United
States decline any further agreement between
the two governments unless the government
OF Her Majesty consent TO sign the supple
mental article as altered by the Senate, to
which her Majesty's government have stated
their objections or unless they agree without
any declaration as to their doing SO SUP modo,
to take further steps in the proceedings,
while misunderstanding exists as to what
both parties agree to submit to the arbitra-
ton.
Mr.. Fish states to you that the government
of the United States have no reason to ask
for an adjournment of the arbitration at &C.
neva. The reason which actuated Her Mai
esty's government in proposing it, was to OBJ
tain time for the conclusion of an agreement
at which both parties had already nearly ar
rived. Her Msjesty's government will have
now to consider what may be the course most
consistent with the declarations they have
heretofore made most respectful to the tribu-
nal of arbitration, and the most courteous to
the United States. The British arbitrator
will repair to Geneva, and at the meeting OF
the tribunal the British agent W ill be directed
TO present them a statement to the following
effect:
England to the arbitrators. Her Muiesty's
government regret to be under the necessity
of informing the arbitrators tina. the differ
ence between Her Majesty's government and
the government Vf the nited States, re-
ferred to i'll the uote which accompanied the
presentation of the British counter case on
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moved. Her Majesty's government have,
however, been engaged in negotiations with
the government OF the United States. which
have continued down to the present time for
the solution of the difficulty which has thus
arisen, and they do not abandon the hone
that if further time were given tor that pur-
pose such solution might be found practical
Bile. Under these circumstances the course
which Her Majesty's government would re-
specially request the tribunal to take is to
adjourn the present meeting for such period
as may enable the supplementary convention
to be still concluded and ratified between the
high contracting parties. In the meantime
the high contracting parties not being in ac-
cord as to the subject matter of the reference
TO arbitration, Her Maiesty's government re-
greet to find themselves unable TO deliver the
written arguments which their agent is direct
ed TO put in under the fifth article Of the
treaty, although that article has been duly pre-
pared and is in the hands of their agent or to
take any other step at the present time
in the intended arbitration. 1t will of course
be understood. that Her Majesty's govern
ment, while they would consider the tribunal
to have full power to proceed at the end Of
the period of adjournment, if the difference
between the high contracting parties should
then have been removed, notw outstanding
1aIt ali 4, g.l.a
by the British agent, continue, while re-
questing this adjournment to reserve all Her
Majesty's rights in the event of an agree
ment being finally arrived at in the same
manner as was expressed in the note which
accompanied the British counter case.