The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03

T~ARDY recognition is given number Of worthy
claims by the action OF the government last
August in negotiating convention for the arbitration
of pecuniary claims between the United States and
Great Britain For the first time in many years Uncle
Sam had agreed to submit these claims to arbitration
under chapter of The Hague convention. The claims
submitted under this arrangement from indemni
ties asked for strawberries picked by recruits for the
spanish American war from patch of British sub.
@ lsst at It claim involving the payment Of
Africa valued than $2000,o00, which Ameri
There are in this batch of British American pccunary
claims some that arc based on grants Of lands TO In
These are only some Of the tores of " VentmTe gea
fortunes made and lost captivity, deprivation and suf
ferlng, even OF humor figuring in the story of the
claimant laying his appeal before Uncle Sam at Wash
ington,
Amcng the claims 10 be adiudicatcd in the British
american pecuniary arbitration the Webster claim
for wrongs committed by New Zealand cheftains the
the Brown South African mining claim, the Samuel
Clark Indian claim, dating back to l7s4 the Home
hut tax, collections the Cayuga Indian claim, also
century old; the Rio Grgnde international dam claim
THIS Frederick Gcrring claim has been kcylog in
Il the Jam that has until now held back all the
CLAIMS just submitted under the agreement TO arbtrate
the tishAmerican pecuniary differences The late
John Hay and Senator Lodge have for years been try
ing TO secure justice for American fishing boat
tain whose craft was seized in this
Inc :; captain vas Edward Morris broken
saved up $4,000 in good round American bucks and
put them into staunch craft, the Frederick Gerring
Inns vessel was cruising In Canadian waters, met n
British cruiser and asked: cam | all rights Am [
outside the threc-mile extra territorial limit ~
:. You are, - responded the British cruiser captain
Aye, aye, SIR smiled the Gloucester fishery cap
tain, and sailed Later tho Frederick Gcrrine was
seZed by the British patrol for being within the three
mile limit. Captain Morris had not moved from the
anchorage which the British cruiser had declared with
out the limit 1t developed that the claim of being
within the limit was based measurements from a
sunken reef several miles seaward instead of from
courts and was lost. Morris could appeal to the prvy
council That must be done within sixty days. He
did not know it, The sixty days passed. Meanwhile
his craft tied to the wharf for years. until it rot
ted and the sails fell apart 1t broke the old man
completely Everything he had was tied in that YES
sci He cut out the fisheries and went to work with
his hands In Gloucester. No redress was obtainable
tor the captain So Senator Lodge planted himself on
the floor OF the senate against allowing tho payment
or any claims of British subjects against the United
States: This held up the pecuniary claims Of both
countries, The agreement to include the Frederick
Gerring claim among those to be adiudicatod in the
Forthcoming arbitration loosenod the key-log and
claimants on both sides have chance, of ad Judi
years to get the from congress for such dam
ages as may be awarded the Americans
The William Webster claim is for seizure and sale
by Now Zealand authorities Of large tracts Of land in
New Zealand To which Webster had acquired title bv
purchase from native chiefs. and OF which he had
possession before the acquisition New Zealand bv
Great Britain In 1S40. and for other wrongs The
claim is for $50O,000. The claim has been before tho
senate since 1855.