ALABAMA CLAIMS. Ill 



The completeness and exactness of this programme 

 are self-evident; and by these qualities it really im 

 posed itself on the Tribunal, in spite of all objection, 

 and of occasional temporary departures into other 

 lines of thought. There will be occasion hereafter 

 to remark on the precision and concision of the opin 

 ions of Mr. Stsernpfli. 



SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURVS CALL FOR REARGUMEXT. 



-Sir Alexander Cockburn then renewed his propo 

 sition for a preliminary argument by Counsel, set 

 ting forth analytically the various objects of inquiry 

 involved in the claims of the United States, and con 

 cluding as follows : 



&quot;That, looking to the difficulty of these questions, and the 

 conflict of opinion which has arisen among distinguished ju 

 rists on the present contest, as well as to their vast importance 

 in the decision of the Tribunal on the matters in dispute, it is 

 the duty, as it must be presumed to be the wish, of the Arbi 

 trators, in the interests of justice, to obtain all the assistance 

 in their power to enable them to arrive at a just and correct 

 conclusion. That they ought, therefore, to call for the assist 

 ance of the eminent counsel who are in attendance on the Tri 

 bunal to assist them with their reasoning and learning, so that 

 arguments scattered over a mass of documents may be pre 

 sented in a concentrated and appreciable form, and the Tribu 

 nal may thus have the advantage of all the light which can be 

 thrown on so intricate and difficult a matter, and that its pro 

 ceedings may hereafter appear to the world to have been char 

 acterized by the patience, the deliberation, and anxious desire 

 for information on all the points involved in its decision, with 

 out which it is impossible that justice can be duly or satisfac 

 torily done.&quot; 



&quot; To obtain all the assistance in their power to en- 



