THE ALABAMA TREATY.
The following is the text of the additional clause, which late telegrams via Suez’tell us has been accepted by the Governments of both countries “ Whereas the Government of Her Britanic Majesty has contended in the recent correspondence with the Govern* ment of the United States, as follows, namely That such indirect claims as those for National loss shall stand in the cases presented on the part of the Government of the United States to the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva, to have been sustained by loss in the transfer of the American commercial marine to the British flag, enhanced payments of insurance, prolongation of the war and the addition of a large sum to the ’ cost of the war and the suppression of the Rebellion, firstly were not included in the Treaty of Washington ; and further and secondly, it should not be admitted by us that any particular vessels alleged to have been enabled to commit depredation# upon
the shipping of a belligerent, were enabled so to do by reason of such want of dilligonce in the performance of the neutral obligations as that which is imputed by the United States to Groat Britain ; and, whereas, the Government of her Brittanic Majesty has also declared that the principle involved in the second clause of the contention hereinbefore set forth will guide their conduct in the future; and whereas, the President of the United States, while adhering to his contention that said claims are included in the Treaty, adopts for the future, the principle contained in the second of said contentions, so far as to declare it will hereafter guide the conduct of the Government of the United States, the two countries are therefore agreed in this respect. In consideration thereof, the President of the United States, gby and with the advice and consent of the enate thereof, consents that he will make no claim on the part of the United States in respect to indirect losses, as aforesaid, before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Genova.
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Evening Star, Issue 2927, 6 July 1872, Page 3
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338THE ALABAMA TREATY. Evening Star, Issue 2927, 6 July 1872, Page 3
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