SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLE TO THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON.

Southland Times, Issue 1604, 12 July 1872, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLE TO THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON.

The following: is the text of the supplemental article introduced into tbe Treaty of Washington, at the instance of the British Government, with the view of I settling the disputed question of the inj direct claims : — " "Whereas the Government of England has contended in recent correspondence with the United States that such indirect claims as those for national losses stated in the case 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 insurance payments by the prolongation of war, and tbe addition of a large sum to the cost of the war, and the suppression of rebellion, firstly, were not included in the Treaty of Washington ; and further, and-secondly, should not be admitted in principle as growing out of acts committed by particular vessels to have been enabled to commit depredations on shipping of a belligerent by reason of such want of due diligence in performance of neutral obligations as that which ia imputed by the United States to Great Britain ; and 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 second of the said conI tentions, as far as declaring 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 thereof the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, consents that he will make no claim, on the part of the United States, in respect of the indirect losses as aforesaid before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva."