Bancroft Davis to Hamilton Fish, June 19, 1872

No. 113. Mr. Davis to Mr. Fish.

The Counsel write me as follows:

We are of the opinion that the announcement this day made by the Tribunal must be received by the United States as determinative of its judgment upon the question of public law involved, upon which the United States have insisted upon taking the opinion of the Tribunal. We advise, therefore, that it should be submitted to, as precluding the propriety of further insisting upon the claims covered by this declaration of the Tribunal, and that the United States, with a view of maintaining the due course of the arbitration on the other claims without adjournment, should announce to the Tribunal that the said claims covered by its opinion will not be further insisted upon before the Tribunal by the United States, and may be excluded from all consideration by the Tribunal in making its award.