ARGUMENT OF CHARLES B. WARREN. 1021 



" It is agreed, that the People of The United States shall continue 

 to enjoy unmolested the right to take Fish of every kind on the 

 Grand Bank and on all the other Banks of Newfoundland; also in 

 the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the Sea." 

 614 What is the reason that the Gulf of St. Lawrence is men- 

 tioned specifically? 



MR. WARREN: Mr. President, there was no important reason for 

 designating it, because the language that follows it was " all other 

 places in the sea " and they might have left it out. I cannot see the 

 importance of their having put it in. They perhaps had in mind 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence and wished to mention it. 



THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps there may be another explanation of it, 

 and it may be that they wished to make a distinction between the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence and the other bays. In the second branch of 

 the article there is a reference to bays and creeks. Perhaps there 

 was a reason why they specifically mentioned the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, and it may have been that on account of its great extent it was 

 not to be treated as a bay. Therefore, the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 was put in the first branch of the article, and the other bays were put 

 in the second branch. I do not know whether that is the explana- 

 tion or not. 



MR. WARREN : If the Tribunal please, I will read the question put 

 by the President and later undertake to clear it up, because my atten- 

 tion has never been directed to the reason why the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence was specifically mentioned. In any matter of importance it 

 seems immaterial because the treaty referred to " all other places in 

 the sea." 



THE PRESIDENT: It may be mere inadvertence as you suggest, but 

 there may be some reason. We shall continue at 10 o'clock A. M. on 

 Thursday. 



[The Tribunal, at 4.5 o'clock p. M., adjourned until Thursday, July 

 7, 1910, at 10 o'clock A. M.] 



TWENTIETH DAY : THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1910. 

 The Tribunal met at 10 A. M. 



MR. WARREN (resuming) : Just preceding the closing of the last 

 Session of the Tribunal, I had stated the logical result of the conten- 

 tion on the part of Great Britain to be that the inhabitants of the 

 United States were, by virtue of the terms of this renunciatory clause, 

 not only excluded from fishing within the exclusive territorial waters 

 of Great Britain adjacent to her possessions in North America, but 

 that in accordance with the position taken here, except on the coasts 



