those intrusted with the British counter case, and to stating that it is so completely convinced that the Niagara should not be placed among the United States cruisers in List A, Appendix 4, that without hesitation it recommends that she should be considered wholly inadmissible for the conditional arbitration under the treaty. In short, from the very beginning of the Niagara's cruise until she followed the Stonewall to the Havana, the committee believes she was (with the exception of the short period she was in pursuit of the Georgia, then an unarmed merchant vessel) wholly engaged in duties connected with watching "the iron-clads and the clipper ships adapted for warlike purposes" then believed to be building in France for the confederates. The Sacramento was at Cherbourg on the 13th July, when she must have heard of the sinking of the Alabama, instead of on the 26th of that month, as the committee had allowed at page 76, Appendix 3, so that the claim on her account should be further abated 11 days, amounting to $6,535.70. [111] *The final results of these further abatements in reference to paragraph 50 of our report would stand thus: The total admissible claim for the whole of Class 1 could not exceed.... $1,509, 300 74 1,427, 685 03 F. J. F., Secretary. H. Ex. 324-70 81, 615 71 A. M. |