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party, after liaviug been defeated iu tlie Tribunal of his own cLoice, 

 can call upon tbe other party to pay all its expenses for the pre])ara- 

 tion and argument of his case? 1 submit there is no such precedent, 

 and that this claim must be at once dismissed, and that it should be 

 found as a fact that Great Britain having gone to this Court, the 

 Supreme Couit of the TTnited States, of its own option and volition, 

 cannot now make any claim upon the United States. 



The claim for the money paid to British schooners is for moneys i)aid, 

 I think, after the submission. At all events, it is only in the Counter 

 Case, and it has come too late. 



I have nothing now to do in addition, but to thank the Court for its 

 kind and courteous and patient attention. 



The President. — Mr. Coudert, you have captivated our attention by 

 a remarkable display of talent, and we have to thank you for the great 

 ability, liveliness, and I may say, humor, with which you have carried 

 us over this otherwise rather dreary field of questions of fact. 



As a Frenchman, allow me to add, I have been happy to notice and 

 to see shine out in your manner some of the best characteristics of the 

 French nation. 



Mr. Phelps. — Before the Tribunal adjourns, and before the argu- 

 ment on the other side commences, I wish to say for the benefit of the 

 counsel on the other side, that in the concluding argument, I shall rely 

 upon all the authorities that will be finind referred to in the printed 

 argument of the United States between pages 130 and 190, and upon 

 all the points that are made in that part of the argument. Many of 

 these authorities have not been referred to, and it might possibly be 

 supposed that we were not intending to depend ui)on them in the con- 

 cluding argument. 



The President. — We will certainly take heed of your remark. 



The Tribunal thereupon adjourned to Wednesday, May 10, 1893, at 

 11.80 o'clock A. M. 



