No. 89.
General Schenck to Mr. Fish.
Opposition members in Parliament have strange and unworthy suspicions and fears that the last clause of the Article, although in the language of their own Government, is not explicit enough to prevent the indirect claims from being again brought forward. Might we not offer that if this Government will accept the Senate language for the expression of the rule, we will agree to the last clause of their form, as communicated to you in my telegram of the 31st May, adding thereto the words “but will thereupon abandon those several enumerated claims as a cause of difference between the two countries to be considered by the Arbitrators in making their award.”