Robert C. Schenck to Hamilton Fish, May 30, 1872

No. 74. General Schenck to Mr. Fish.

Sir: Inclosed with this I send copies of all written correspondence which has passed between Lord Granville and me since my No. 239. These notes taken in connection with the several telegrams which have passed between you and me, of which copies are also forwarded to you with another dispatch to-day, will bring up the history of what has taken place here for the last five days in relation to the proposal for a supplementary Treaty. Your telegram of the 28th, declining, on the part the United States, to agree to the proposed altering of the supplementary Treaty, was received in the night and communicated to Lord Granville very early yesterday morning. I would give you, with these documents, some narrative and comments, and it was my intention to do so, but your long telegram in answer to the observations of Lord Granville, contained in his note which I telegraphed to you in full at midnight of the 28th, has this moment arrived and requires to be deciphered and to have my immediate attention, so that it will not be possible to give any other communication by the mail which is made up for Queenstown to-day.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

Proposed preamble to supplemental Treaty.

Her Majesty the Queeen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, having resolved to conclude a Convention in the terms of the Articles hereinafter set forth, in order that the same may be communicated to the Tribunal of Arbitration appointed under the first Article of the Treaty signed at Washington, on the 8th of May, 1871, for the guidance of the proceedings of that Tribunal, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say______