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answer to our contention be set up by the other side, and if new mat- 

 ter is introduced, it will devolve upon counsel who follow me to deal 

 with such questions. I thank the Tribunal for the patient hearing 

 they have given me. 



THE PRESIDENT: The Court will adjourn until 2 o'clock. 



[The Tribunal, at 11.55 o'clock A. M., took a recess until 2 o'clock 

 p. M.] 



599 AFTERNOON SESSION, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1910, 2 P. M. 



THE PRESIDENT: Please begin your Argument, Mr. Warren. 



AEQUMENT OF THE HONORABLE CHARLES B. WARREN ON 

 BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES. 



MR. WARREN : Mr. President, the duty has been assigned to me of 

 presenting, in behalf of the United States, its submission relating to 

 and bearing upon the 5th Question of the Special Agreement be- 

 tween the United States and the Government of Great Britain under 

 which this High Tribunal is convened. 



Before undertaking to perform this duty, however, I desire to 

 associate myself with the sentiments so well expressed by the hon- 

 oured president of this Tribunal at its first session. 



Inasmuch as the Tribunal has manifested a desire that this sub- 

 mission proceed rapidly I shall not take this occasion to express, in 

 rny own behalf, sentiments to which I should desire to give expression 

 were these hearings not already of long duration, and were it not 

 evident that they must of necessity continue days longer. 



The fact that this controversy, however, which, in the matters at 

 least that touch its history, reaches back before the beginning of the 

 Government of the United States of America and of the Dominion of 

 Canada, and before the beginning of local government in the colony 

 of Newfoundland, and which has continued while the Dominion of 

 Canada has been growing to such great proportions, is now, after 

 having been for many years the subject of diplomatic controversy and 

 dispute, submitted to this Tribunal for arbitration, entitles the two 

 Governments here represented to be known to all the world as advo- 

 cates of the principle of the settlement of international disputes by 

 arbitration. 



Inasmuch as this is an arbitration between two nations, and the 

 adjustment of differences between states by arbitration is on trial, 

 it seems important to the counsel for the United States 'that every 

 fact and every principle of law which might have a bearing on the 

 award should be fully presented and argued, in order that, whatever 

 the result may be, the world will know that these two nations fully 

 presented this submission, and that justice was done between them. 



