Letter
Granville to Robert C. Schenck, April 29, 1872
[Inclosure 1 in No. 21.]
Earl Granville to General Schenck.
16 Bruton Street, April 29, 1872.
[Confidential.]
My Dear General: I send you in a rough state a paraphrase of your proposed draught. Please return it to me when you have taken a copy.
The Cabinet were of opinion that it was for the United States to make the proposal officially as well as confidentially, but they are prepared to concede on this point in the spirit which you recommend.
They insist upon the words in the first half of the third page as preferable to those you have taken from the message of Mr. Fish.
The other alterations are for the purpose of clearness, and in the hope that some of them will be more acceptable to your Government.
Yours, &c.,
GRANVILLE.
Notes
1.
u201cThat the Arbitrators are not to have regard, in any award that they may make, to the above-mentioned claims.u201d (See Inclosure 2.)
2.
u201cThe United States shall not press for a pecuniary award of damages before the Geneva Tribunal on account of the claims respecting which,u201d &c. (See page 478.)
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.