The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-04-26

VI NllC NOull.
Arbltrators 49, on the part of the
United States, Associate Justice John
NJ Harlan and United States Senator
John T. Morgan; on the part of Great
Britain, Lord Hammer and Sir John S.
ID. Thompson; on the part of France,
Baron dc Courcel; on the part of Italy,
Marchese Emilio Visconti-Venosta; on
the part Of Sweden, Judge Gregero W.
w. Gram These are the Judges of
the court of arbitration, while the com
missioners are these For the United
States, Professor T. c. Mendenhal
and Dr. G. Hart Merriam; and for
Great Britain, Sir George Baden.Poweli
and DIR. George NJ. Dawson. The
officers of the court are as follows: For
the United States-agent, Mr.. John w.
Foster; counsel, Messrs E. J. Phelps,
II. W. Blodgett, and Frederic X. Cou-
dert; assistant counsel, Messrs. William
Williams and Robert Lansing; dis
bursting officer, Maj + +. w, Halford,
III. S. A. Besides these there are a
number of secretaries, clerks, and
stenographers. On the part of Great
Britain the agent is Mr.. Charles H.
Topper, and the counsel Sir Charles
Russell Sir Richard Webster, and Mr..
Charles Russell, the latter having been
appointed to take the place of Mr.. w.
H. Cross, who recently died.
| The present interest in this country
in the personnel of this court of arbi.
tratiOn centres aboutthe American mem
bers. Associate Justice Harlan is a
large ine-looking man, native of
| Kentucky, and now in his sxtieth year.
He has been a member of the Supreme
| Court since 1870 when he was ap
pointed to the place by President
Hayes, after serving on the Louisiana
Commission. Previous to this he had
been the Colonel of Kentucky regi
ment on the Union side during the
var, a judge of county court, and
Acknowledgement Of his State. He
first attracted national notice at the
Cincinnati Republican Convention in
1876, when he appeared as the chief
advocate for the nomination of General
Benjamin H. Bristow, whose law part
ner he was in Louisville.
The other American arbitrator is
Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama,
who has served long on the Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and has
always taken a prominent part in the
debates as to measures affecting the
relations of the United States with
other governments Mr.. Morgan is
nine or ten years Justice Harlan's
senior, and is a native # Tennessee,
although he has lived in Alabama since
he was a child. He was a Breckenridge
Presidential eleCtcr in 1860, and a
member of the session convention in
1861. During the war he entered the
Confederate service as a private, and
rose to be a Brigadier General and the
commander of division. After the
war he practised law in Alabama, till
his election to the Senate in 1876. He
has been member of that body ever
sinCe, and of recent years has been a
lprominent DICTATOR on the Democratic
side.
The senior American counsel is Mr..
Edward J. Phelps, of Vermont Mr.
Phelps is in his seventy-seCond year,
but he does not look nearly so old
He was Second Comptroller of the
| Treasury during the administration of
President Fillmore. He was President
of the American Bar Association in
1880, and was chosen Professor of Law
at Yale the next year. This professor
ship he has held ever since and still
holds, though he did not officiate during
the four years of Mr., Cleveland's first
administration, when he was United
States Minister in LondCn, where he
succeeded James Russell Lowell. Diff,
cult though it was for any one to fill
such post with credit after so gifted a
predecessor, Mr.. Phelps succeeded
entirely, bearing himself with so much
tact, and speaking with so much elo-
quence and wit, that many Englishmen,
through the native disposition to gen,
eralize, came to the conclusion that all
Americans were learned and witty and
eloquent Judge Henry W. Blodgett,
of Chicago, the second of the American
counsel, has long presided over the
2 United States Court for the Northern
District of Illinois Mr.. Frederic X.
Coudert is prominent lawyer in New
York, of French, extraction. Mr.
Coudert is President of the Manhattan
Club and an active Democrat.
Mr.. John w. Foster, the American
agent, prepared the case on the Amer
lean side. He is a native of Indiana
, During the war he served in the army
| under General Grant, and became q
. Colonel, After the war he was an edi,
: tor in Evansville, Indiana, and Their
= postmaster of that city. He has servrC
] as Minister to Mexico, Minister tc
: Russia, and Minister to Spain. While
! in Spain he negotiated treaty, which
: was never ratified, as Mr. CLEVELAND
$ withdrew it from the Senate. During
the last Democratic administration Mr.
, Foster praCtised before the State De
t partment as counsel for foreign lega
5 tons in Washington. When Mr.. Blaine
r retired from the State Department
} Mr.. Foster was appointed to the post