Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume II

No. 82.
Mr. Fish to General Schenck.

[Telegram.]

Washington, June 2, 1872.

Although by a literal construction of the Senate Article, cases of bad faith or willful misconduct may be held to be within its scope, it is inconceivable that such cases can ever be the subject of diplomatic correspondence with a view to pecuniary compensation between two Powers such as those now concerned.

FISH.