limit the sum for the principal of said debt to ris, Hawley, Hay, Hays, G. W. Hazelton, Herndon. $25,000,000. No vote was taken upon it. 1871, April 10-Mr. KELLEY moved that the rules be suspended that he may offer, and the House pass, this resolution: Resolved, That this House reaffirms the resolution adopted on the 12th of December, 1870, by the House of Representatives of the Fortieth Congress, declaring that the true principle of revenue reform points to the abolition of the internal revenue system, which was created as a war measure to pro vide for extraordinary expenses, and the con tinuance of which involves the employment, at a cost of millions of dollars annually, of an army of assessors, collectors, supervisors, detectives, and other officers previously unknown, and requires the repeal at the earliest day consistent with the maintenance of the faith and credit of the Government of all stamp and other internal taxes; and that properly adjusted rates shall be retained on distilled spirits, tobacco, and malt liquors so long as the legitimate expenses of the Government require the collection of any sum from internal taxes. Hibbard, Holman, Kellogg, Kendall, King, Lamison, NAYS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Barry, Beck, Bev- Duty on Pig Iron. 1872, February 26-Mr. Cox moved to suspend the rules and pass this resolution: Whereas it appears by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, page 4, that during the first six months of the calendar year 1871 there was an increase of one hundred and twenty per cent in the quantity of pig iron, which result, as well as the increase of revenue therefrom, was produced by the reduction of the tariff on that article under the act of the 14th July, 1870; and whereas iron is an article of general use and consumption: Therefore, Which was agreed to-yeas 130, nays 21: YEAS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Ambler, Archer, Arthur, Averill, Barber, Barry, Beatty, Blair, Braxton, G. M. Brooks, Buffinton, Burdett, Carroll, Coburn, Comingo, Conger, Creely, Crossland, Davis, Dawes, De Large, Dickey, Du Bose, Duke, Eames, Edwards, Eliott, Ely, Farwell, C. Foster, Garfield, Golladay, Griffi h. Handley, Hanks, Harper, Havens, Hawley, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, Hereford, Hibbard, Hill, Hoar, Holman, Hooper, Kelley, Kendall, Ketcham, King, Lamison, Lamport, Lansing. Leach, Lewis, Lowe, Lynch, Manson, Maynard, MeClelland, McCormick, Me Henry, McIntyre, McJunkin, McKee, McKinney, Mercur, Merriam, Merrick, B. Resolved, That in the judgment of this F. Meyers, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Niblack, Orr, House a bill should be passed reducing the Packard, Packer, Palmer, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, E. Perry, Platt, Poland, Por- tariff on pig iron to five dollars per ton or less, ter, Randall, E. H. Roberts, W. R. Roberts, J. Rogers, and that the Committee of Ways and Means Rusk, Sawyer, Scofield, Seelev, Sheldon, Shellabar- be instructed to bring in a bill for that purpose. ger, Sherwood, Shober, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, J. A. Smith, Snyder, T. J. Speer, Sprague, Stevens, Storm, Which was disagreed to-yeas 74, nays 99: Stoughton, St. John, Thomas, W. Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Tyner, Waddell, Wakeman, Walden, Beck, Bell, Beveridge, Biggs, Bird, J. G. Blair, YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Archer. Arthur, Beatty, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, Wells, Wheeler, White-Braxton, Bright, Caldwell, Campbell, Comingo, Conley, Williams of Indiana, Williams of New York, ner, Cotton, Cox, Crebs, Critcher, Crossland. Darrall, J.T Wilson, Wood. Young-130. Hale, Hambleton, Hancock, Handley, G. E. Harris. Du Bose, Duke, Dunnell, Eldredge, Ely, Golladay, J. T. Harris, Hay, Hays, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, Holman, Houghton, Kendall, Kerr, King, Lamison, Lewis, Manson, Marshall, McCormick, McHenry, McIntyre, Me Neely, Merrick, Morgan, H W. Parker, Potier, Read, E. Y. Rice, W. R. Roberts, Roosevelt, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, Stevens, Stevenson, Terry, Tuthill, Van Trump, Vaughan, Walden, Warren, Whitthorne, Winchester, Wood, Young-74. NAYS-Messrs. Bell, Bird, Bright, Buckley, Burchard, Caldwell, Campbell, Cotton, Cox, Donnan, Dunnell, Finkelnburg, Garrett, G. E. Harris, Kerr, E. Y. Rice, Roosevelt, Shanks, Taffe, Terry, Vaughan-21. Buty on Salt and Coal. 1872, February 19-Mr. HALE moved to suspend the rules and pass this resolution: Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be, and the same is hereby, instructed, whenever it shall report a bill changing any import duties, to place-sait and coal upon the free list Which was disagreed to-yeas 102, nays 86, (two-thirds not having voted in the affirmative:) NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Ames, Banks, Barber, Bigby, Bingham, A. Blair, Boles. G. M. Brooks, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, R. R. Butler, Cobb, Donnan, Duell, Eames, Finkelnburg, H. D. Foster, Coburn, Coghlan, Conger. Crocker, Dawes, Dickey, W. D. Foster, Garfield, Garrett, Getz, Griffith, Haldeman, Halsey, Hawley. G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, Hill, Hoar, Kelley, Ketcham, Killinger, Lamport, Lowe, Lynch, Maynard, McClelland, McGrew, McJunkin, Mercur, Merriam, B. F Meyers, Monroe, Morphis, L. Myers, NegYEAS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Arthur, Barber, ley. Packard, Packer. I. C. Parker, Peck, PenBarnum, Beatty, Bell, Biggs, Bird, Braxton, G. Mdleton, Perce, A. F. Perry, Platt, Porter, Prindle. Sargent, Sawyer, Scofield. Seeley, Sessions, Shanks, Brooks, Buckley, Caldwell, Campbell, Coburn, Cogh- Shellabarger, Sherwood. Shoemaker, H. B. Smith, lan, Cotton, Cor, Crebs, Critcher, Crossland, Dounan, Snapp, Snyder, R. M. Speer, T. J. Speer, Sprague, Dox, Du Bose, Duke, Dunnell, Eames, Eldredge, Starkweather, Stoughton, Sutherland. Taffe, Thomas, Farnsworth, Forker, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Halde-W. Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Tyner, Upson, man, Hale, Handley, Hanks, G. E. Harris, J. T. Har- Wakeman, Waldron, Wallace, Wheeler, Whiteley, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wilson, J. T. Wilson-99. *Forty-First. XVII. RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. Treaty between the United States and exchanged their full powers, which were found Great Britain-Claims, Fisheries, Navi- to be in due and proper form, have agreed to gation of the St. Lawrence, &c., Amer- and concluded the following articles: ican Lumber on the River St. John, Boundary-Concluded May 8, 1871; ratifications exchanged June 17, 1871; proclaimed July 4, 1871. ARTICLE I. Whereas differences have arisen between the Government of the United States and the Government of her Britannic Majesty, and By the President of the United States of still exist, growing out of the acts committed America. A Proclamation. by the several vessels which have given rise to the claims generically known as the "Alabama claims;" And whereas her Britannic Majesty has authorized her high commissioners and plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly spirit, the regret felt by her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels: Now, in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims, which are not admitted by her Britannic Majesty's Government, the high contracting parties agree that all the said claims, growing out of acts committed by the aforesaid vessels and generically known as the "Alabama claims," shall be referred to a tribunal of arbitration to be composed of five arbitrators, to be appointed in the following manner, that is to say: one shall be named by the President of the United States; one shall be named by her Britannic Majesty; his Majesty the King of Italy shall be requested to name one; the President of the Swiss Confederation shall be requested to name one; and his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil shall be requested to name one. Whereas a treaty, between the United States of America and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, concerning the settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, was concluded and signed at Washington by the high commissioners and plenipotentiaries of the respective Governments on the 8th day of May last; which treaty is, word for word, as follows: The United States of America and her Bri tannic Majesty, being desirous to provide for an amicable settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, have for that purpose appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States has appointed, on the part of the United States, as commissioners in a joint high commission and plenipotentiaries, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State; Robert Cumming Schenck, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain; Samuel Nelson, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts; and George Henry Williams, of Oregon; and her Britannic Majesty, on her part, has appointed as her high commissioners and plenipotentiaries the right honorable George Frederick Samuel, Earl de Grey and Earl of Ripon, Viscount Goderich, Baron Grantham, a baronet, a peer of the United Kingdom, lord president of her Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, knight of the most noble order of the Garter, &c. ; the right honorable Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, baronet, one of her Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, a member of Parliament, a companion of the most honorable order of the Bath, &c.; Sir Edward Thornton, knight commander of the most honorable order of the Bath, her Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States And in the event of the refusal or omission of America; Sir John Alexander Macdonald, for two months after receipt of the request knight commander of the most honorable order from either of the high contracting parties of of the Bath, a member of her Majesty's Privy his Majesty the King of Italy, or the President Council for Canada, and minister of justice of the Swiss Coufederation, or his Majesty the and attorney general of her Majesty's Dominion of Canada; and Montague Bernard, esq., Chichele professor of international law in the University of Oxford. And the said plenipotentiaries, after having In case of the death, absence, or incapacity to serve of any or either of the said arbitrators, or, in the event of either of the said arbitrators omitting or declining or ceasing to act as such, the President of the United States, or her Britannic Majesty, or his Majesty the King of Italy, or the President of the Swiss Confederation, or his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the case may be, may forthwith name another person to act as arbitrator in the place and stead of the arbitrator originally named by such head of a State. Emperor of Brazil, to name an arbitrator either to fill the original appointment or in the place of one who may have died, be absent, or incapacitated, or who may omit, decline, or from any cause cease to act as such arbitrator, his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway shall | ferring to the evidence upon which his Gov. be requested to name one or more persons, as the case may be, to act as such arbitrator or arbitrators. ARTICLE II. ernment relies; and the arbitrators may, if they desire further elucidation with regard to any point, require a written or printed statement or argument, or oral argument by counsel upon it; but in such case the other party shall be entitled to reply either orally or in writing, as the case may be. ARTICLE VI. The arbitrators shall meet at Geneva, in Switzerland, at the earliest convenient day after they shall have been named, and shall proceed impartially and carefully to examine and decide all questions that shall be laid before them on the part of the Governments arbitrators, they shall be governed by the folIn deciding the matters submitted to the of the United States and her Britannic lowing three rules, which are agreed upon by Majesty respectively. All questions considered by the tribunal, including the final the high contracting parties as rules to be award, shall be decided by a majority of all taken as applicable to the case, and by such principles of international law not inconsistEach of the high contracting parties shall ent therewith as the arbitrators shall determalso name one person to attend the tribunaline to have been applicable to the case: as its agent to represent it generally in all matters connected with the arbitration. the arbitrators. ARTICLE III. The written or printed case of each of the two parties, accompanied by the documents, the official correspondence, and other evidence on which each relies, shall be delivered in duplicate to each of the arbitrators and to the agent of the other party as soon as may be after the organization of the tribunal, but within a period not exceeding six months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty. ARTICLE IV. Within four months after the delivery on both sides of the written or printed case, either party may, in like manner, deliver in duplicate to each of the said arbitrators, and to the agent of the other party, a counter case and additional documents, correspond ence, and evidence, in reply to the case, documents, correspondence, and evidence so presented by the other party. The arbitrators may, however, extend the time for delivering such counter case, documents, correspondence, and evidence, when, in their judgment, it becomes necessary, in consequence of the distance of the place from which the evidence to be presented is to be procured. If in the case submitted to the arbitrators either party shall have specified or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession without annexing a copy, such party shall be bound, if the other party thinks proper to apply for it, to furnish that party with a copy thereof; and either party may call upon the other, through the arbitrators, to produce the originals or certified copies of any papers adduced as evidence, giving in each instance such reasonable notice as the arbitrators may require. ARTICLE V. Rules. A neutral Government is bound First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use. Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties. Her Britannic Majesty has commanded her high commissioners and plenipotentiaries to declare that her Majesty's Government cannot assent to the foregoing rules as a statement of principles of international law which were in force at the time when the claims mentioned in Article I arose, but that her Majesty's Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries, and of making satisfactory provision for the future, agrees that in de ciding the questions between the two countries arising out of those claims the arbitrators should assume that her Majesty's Government had undertaken to act upon the principles set forth in these rules. And the high contracting parties agree to observe these rules as between themselves in future, and to bring them to the knowledge of other maritime Powers, and to invite them to accede to them. ARTICLE VII. The decision of the tribunal shall, if possi ble, be made within three months from the close of the argument on both sides. It shall be the duty of the agent of each party, within two months after the expiration of the time limited for the delivery of the counter case on both sides, to deliver in duplicate to each of the said arbitrators and to the agent of the other party a written or printed argument showing the points and re-assent to it. It shall be made in writing and dated, and shall be signed by the arbitrators who may The said tribunal shall first determine as to each vessel separately whether Great Britain bas, by any act or omission, failed to fulfill any of the duties set forth in the foregoing three rules, or recognized by the principles of international law not inconsistent with such rules, and shall certify such fact as to each of the said vessels. In case the tribunal find that Great Britain has failed to fulfill any duty or duties as aforesaid, it may, if it think proper, proceed to award a sum in gross to be paid by Great Britain to the United States for all the claims referred to it; and in such case the gross sum so awarded shall be paid in coin by the Government of Great Britain to the Gov ernment of the United States, at Washington, within twelve months after the date of the award. The award shall be in duplicate, one copy whereof shall be delivered to the agent of the United States for his Government, and the other copy shall be delivered to the agent of Great Britain for his Government. ARTICLE VIII. Each Government shall pay its own agent and provide for the proper remuneration of the counsel employed by it and of the arbitrator appointed by it, and for the expense of preparing and submitting its case to the tribunal. All other expenses connected with the arbitration shall be defrayed by the two Governments in equal moieties. ARTICLE IX. The arbitrators shall keep an accurate record of their proceedings, and may appoint and employ the necessary officers to assist them. ARTICLE X. In case the tribunal finds that Great Britain has failed to fulfill any duty or duties as aforesaid, and does not award a sum in gross, the high contracting parties agree that a board of assessors shall be appointed to ascertain and determine what claims are valid, and what amount or amounts shall be paid by Great Britain to the United States on account of the liability arising from such failure, as to each vessel, according to the extent of such liability as decided by the arbitrators. The board of assessors shall be constituted as follows: one member thereof shall be named by the President of the United States, one member thereof shall be named by her Britannic Majesty, and one member thereof shall be named by the representative at Washington of his Majesty the King of Italy; and in case of a vacancy happening from any cause, it shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made. lations as they may prescribe, to the investigation of the claims which shall be presented to them by the Government of the United States, and shall examine and decide upon them in such order and manner as they may think proper, but upon such evidence or information only as shall be furnished by or on behalf of the Governments of the United States and of Great Britain, respectively. They shall be bound to hear on each separate claim, if required, one person on behalf of each Government, as counsel or agent. A majority of the assessors in each case shall be sufficient for a decision. The decision of the assessors shall be given upon each claim in writing, and shall be signed by them respectively and dated. Every claim shall be presented to the assessors within six months from the day of their first meeting, but they may, for good cause shown, extend the time for the presentation of any claim to a further period not exceeding three months. The assessors shall report to each Government at or before the expiration of one year from the date of their first meeting the amount of claims decided by them up to the date of such report. If further claims then remain undecided, they shall make a further report at or before the expiration of two years from the date of such first meeting, and in case any claims remain undetermined at that time they shall make a final report within a further period of six months. The report or reports shall be made in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall be delivered to the Secretary of State of the United States, and one copy thereof to the representative of her Britannic Majesty at Washington. All sums of money which may be awarded under this article shall be payable at Washington, in coin, within twelve months after the delivery of each report. The board of assessors may employ such clerks as they shall think necessary. The expenses of the board of assessors shall be borne equally by the two Governments, and paid from time to time, as may be found expedient, on the production of accounts certified by the board. The remuneration of the assessors shall also be paid by the two Governments in equal moieties in a similar manner. ARTICLE XI. The high contracting parties engage to consider the result of the proceedings of the tribunal of arbitration and of the board of assessors, should such board be appointed, as a full, perfect, and final settlement of all the claims herein before referred to; and further As soon as possible after such nominations engage that every such claim, whether the the board of assessors shall be organized in same may or may not have been presented to Washington, with power to hold their sittings the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before there, or in New York, or in Boston. The the tribunal or board, shall, from and after members thereof shall severally subscribe a the conclusion of the proceedings of the trisolemn declaration that they will impartially bunal or board, be considered and treated as and carefully examine and decide, to the best finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadof their judgment and according to justice and missible. equity, all matters submitted to them, and shall forthwith proceed, under such rules and regu ARTICLE XII. The high contracting parties agree that all The high contracting parties hereby engage to consider the decision of the commissioners as absolutely final and conclusive upon each claim decided upon by them, and to give full effect to such decisions without any objection, evasion, or delay whatsoever. claims on the part of corporations, companies, | to hear, if required, one person on each side, or private individuals, citizens of the United on behalf of each Government, as counsel or States, upon the Government of her Britannic agent for such Government, on each and every Majesty, arising out of acts committed against separate claim. A majority of the commisthe persons or property of citizens of the sioners shall be sufficient for an award in each United States during the period between the case. The award shall be given upon each 13th of April, 1861, and the 9th of April, 1865, claim in writing, and shall be signed by the inclusive, not being claims growing out of the commissioners assenting to it. It shall be acts of the vessels referred to in Article I competent for each Government to name one of this treaty; and all claims, with the like person to attend the commissioners as its exception, on the part of corporations, com- agent, to present and support claims on its panies, or private individuals, subjects of her behalf, and to answer claims made upon it, Britannic Majesty, upon the Government of and to represent it generally in all matters conthe United States, arising out of acts com- nected with the investigation and decision mitted against the persons or property of sub- thereof. jects of her Britannic Majesty during the same period, which may have been presented to either Government for its interposition with the other, and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within the time specified in Article XIV of this treaty, shall be referred to three commissioners, to be appointed in the Every claim shall be presented to the comfollowing manner, that is to say: one commissioners within six months from the day of missioner shall be named by the President their first meeting, unless in any case where of the United States, one by her Britannic reasons for delay shall be established to the Majesty, and a third by the President of the satisfaction of the commissioners, and then, United States and her Britannic Majesty con- and in any such case, the period for presentjointly; and in case the third commissioner ing the claim may be extended by them to any shall not have been so named within a period time not exceeding three months longer. of three months from the date of the exchange The commissioners shall be bound to examof the ratifications of this treaty, then the ine and decide upon every claim within two third commissioner shall be named by the years from the day of their first meeting. It representative at Washington of his Majesty shall be competent for the commissioners to the King of Spain. In case of the death, decide in each case whether any claim has or absence, or incapacity of any commissioner, or has not been duly made, preferred, and laid in the event of any commissioner omitting or before them, either wholly or to any and what ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in extent, according to the true intent and meanthe manner herein before provided for making ing of this treaty. the original appointment; the period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy. The commissioners so named shall meet at Washington at the earliest convenient period after they have been respectively named; and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity, all such claims as shall be laid before them on the part of the Governments of the United States and of her Britannic Majesty, respectively; and such declaration shall be entered on the record of their proceedings. ARTICLE XIII. ARTICLE XIV. ARTICLE XV. All sums of money which may be awarded by the commissioners on account of any claim shall be paid by the one Government to the other, as the case may be, within twelve months after the date of the final award, without interest, and without any deduction save as specified in Article XVI of this treaty. ARTICLE XVI. The commissioners shall keep an accurate record, and correct minutes or notes of all their proceedings, with the dates thereof, and may appoint and employ a secretary, and any them in the transaction of the business which other necessary officer or officers to assist may come before them. Each Government shall pay its own commissioner and agent or counsel. All other expenses shall be defrayed by the two Governments in equal moieties. The commissioners shall then forthwith proceed to the investigation of the claims which shall be presented to them. They shall investigate and decide such claims in such order and such manner as they may think proper, but upon such evidence or information only as shall be furnished by or on behalf of the respective Governments. They shall be bound to receive and consider all written documents or statements which may be presented to them by or on behalf of the respective Governments in support of or in answer to any claim, and The high contracting parties engage to con The whole expenses of the commission, including contingent expenses, shall be defrayed by a ratable deduction on the amount of the sums awarded by the commissioners, provided always that such deduction shall not exceed the rate of five per cent. on the sums so awarded. ARTICLE XVII. |