States, to the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva, to have been sustained in the loss in the transfer of the American Commercial marine to the British flag; the enhanced payments of insurance; the prolongation of the war, and the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the suppression of the rebellionfirstly were not included in fact in the Treaty of Washington, and further, and secondly, should not be admitted in principle as growing out of the acts committed by particular vessels alleged to have been enabled to commit depredations upon the shipping of a belligerent, by reason of such a want of due diligence in the performance of neutral obligations as that which is imputed by the United States to Great Britain, and Whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty has also declared that the principle involved in the second of the contentions, hereinbefore forth, will guide their conduct in the future; and set Whereas the President of the United States, while adhering to his contention that the said claims were included in the Treaty, adopts for the future the principle contained in the [commercial American] [payment] [in] [want] [performances of the] [the United States has contended that the said claims are included in the treaty; and Whereas both governments adopt for the future the principle that claims for remote or indirect losses should not be admitted as the result of failure to observe neutral obligations] second of the said contentions, so far as to declare that it will hereafter guide the conduct of the government of the United States, and the two countries are therefore agreed in this respect: In consideration thereof, the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, consents that he will make no claim on the part of the United States, in respect of indirect losses as aforesaid, before the Tribunal Geneva.1 of Arbitration at [both governments in their relations with each other; now, therefore,] [consent] 1 For. Rel. of U. S., Geneva Arbitration II, 500. (A star BIBLIOGRAPHY *) indicates that the work includes a bibliography). American State Papers, etc. Accounts and Papers, State Papers. History of the United States of America from the Adoption of the Federal Constitution to the end of the Sixteenth Congress* (Rev. ed. 1877-1880). Richard Hildreth. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (1906). J. F. Rhodes. History of the United States of America during the first Administration of James Madison (1891). Henry Adams. The Monroe Doctrine (1885). G. F. Tucker. The Inter-Oceanic Canal and the Monroe Doctrine (1880). Alfred Williams. Thirty Years' View (1862). T. H. Benton. The British Empire and the United States (1914). W. A. Dunning. The United States and International Arbitration (1892). J. B. Moore. The Pride of Britannia Humbled, etc., (1815). William Cobbett. The Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams (1857). W. H. Trescott. Digest of International Law (1906). J. B. Moore. American Diplomacy (1905).* J. B. Moore. American Diplomacy (1915). C. R. Fish. A Century of American Diplomacy (1900). J. W. Foster. The United States as a World Power (1908). A. C. Coolidge. Historia de la Diplomacia americana, política internacional, de los Estados Unidos (1904). M. G. Mérou. Diplomatic Relations of the United States and LatinAmerica (1900). J. H. Latané. The United States in our own Times, a History from Reconstruction to Expansion (1903). E. B. Andrews. American Diplomatic Questions (1901). J. B. Henderson, Jr. Common Sense in Foreign Policy (1913). Sir Harry Johnston. Treaties, etc., . . . United States of America and other Powers (1776-1909). Sen. Doc. 357, 2 Sess., 61 Cong. Id. (1910-1913), Sen. Doc. 1063, 3 Sess., 62 Cong. Nouveau Recueil général de Traités. G. F. de Martens. Studies in International Law (1898). T. E. Holland. Treaty-making Power of the United States (1902). C. H. Butler. The Westward Movement (1897). Justin Winsor. The British Evacuation of the United States (1896). H. C. Osgood. Canadian Violation of Treaty of Washington, Sen. Reports, 1 Sess., 53 Cong., vol. 10 (1890). The Neutrality of the American Lakes and AngloAmerican Relations (1898). J. M. Callahan. War Vessels on the Lakes. H. R. Doc. 471, 1 Sess., 56 Cong. (1900). Use of Welland Canal. H. R. Ex. Doc. 118 and 406, 1 Sess., 50 Cong. (1888). Interoceanic Canals. Sen. Rep. 1337, Part 3, 2 Sess., 56 Cong. (1900). |