ORAL ARGUMENT OF SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, Q. C. M. P. 195 



Secretary of State, construes it. I take the language in which the 

 diplomatic correspondence construes it. 



1 was going to say I propose to deal briefly with this because of the 

 views which have been put. The i)oint where my friends and I differ — 

 materially differ, I mean — here, is as to what the meaning of this ques- 

 tion is. I have already told the Tribunal I am not going to assume my 

 meaning is the correct one. I propose to argue it also on the basis that 

 their meaning is the correct one. That I will presently come to; but I 

 must take it step by step. 



The President. — Do you mean to argue it at some length? 



Sir Chaiiles Eussell. — I have four or five authorities; but they 

 are authorities upon points which I conceive not to be disputed. 



The Tribunal thereupon adjourned until Tuesday, May -'ii, 1893, at 

 11:30 o'clock a. m. 



