ORAL ARGUMENT OF SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, Q. C. M. P. 77 



ing^s of fact and counter findings suggested respectively by my learned 

 friends and by ourselves. I am glad to think that you Avill not be 

 troubled so far as any disagreemoit is concerned. Of course tlie find- 

 ings will be on the responsibility of the Tribunal; but we have in fact 

 agreed, and 1 do not think the Tribunal will find there is any difference 

 between us as to the findings of fact iu relation to the question of dam- 

 ages. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — Do you mean that the two papers agree, or 

 that you have since come to an agreement? 



air Charles Eussell. — We have agreed upon a via media which 

 will be handed in at a later stage. 



Now, Mr. President, I have concluded all I have to say in discharge 

 of my duty on this question of regulations ; but I do pray the Tribunal 

 to bear in mind that I have tried to follow the plan which I outlined 

 at the commencement of my argument, and I have not built up and 

 reinforced the points I have been submitting with at all that detail or 

 reference to evidence which 1 might have done. 1 have tried to out- 

 line, with the consent and co-operation of my friends, the general 

 scheme of argument upon the subject of regulations. Having done 

 that, I leave to my learned friends the task which they are well fitted 

 to discharge of going into the justification of that scheme in detail. 



I will ask the Tribunal to believe that not the British Commissioners 

 only but the counsel who are representing directly Great Britain in this 

 matter have approached the question of regulations with an honest 

 desire to do something to aid the Tribunal in coming to a system of 

 regulations which should be just in themselves, in view of the common 

 interests at stake, and which should be efl'ective to the object in view. 

 We have addressed ourselves to that task in all seriousness, and 1 

 would ask you to believe, in all honesty of purpose, too; and I hope the 

 Tribunal will think we have done something which may be of help to 

 them in the formidable task which they have to discharge. 



It remains for me only to express to each member of this Tribunal my 

 sense of the extreme courtesy and patience with which, taxing them to 

 a very large extent, I have been treated during this argument. 



The President. — Sir Charles, we appreciate your kindness and your 

 efforts in this direction. We are certainly thankful for all the trouble 

 you have taken. 



[The Tribunal here adjourned for a short time.] 



