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might lead to a deadlock, and might put Great Britain in a most 

 disagreeable situation, because she has got this colony behind her, 

 pressing always for extreme views and extreme action, we make this 

 agreement, under which, if we cannot agree upon what ought to be 

 put into force, we will go to The Hague Tribunal, and we will have 

 an arrangement, perhaps a more convenient and practical arrange- 

 ment, proposed by the Tribunal, for determining whether they ought 

 to be put into effect or not. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK: Or the parties can arrange it them- 

 selves ? 



SENATOR ROOT: Certainly; and they will arrange it. There is no 

 trouble about making the arrangement. The great trouble is, and 

 the best thing that can be done for Great Britain I know my friends 

 on the other side will smile at me when I say it, but I say it not 

 proposing to arrogate to myself the position of a guardian for Great 

 Britain the best thing that can be done for Great Britain is to give 

 a line of right here so that she will not be in the position of having 

 either to assent to unjust and extreme positions taken by her colony, 

 in the spirit that has been exhibited here, against her own feeling 

 of what is really due to us on the one hand, or to over-rule them and 

 have her colony feel that she has been unkind towards the colony, 

 and has been deciding against it of her own will. 



The only way in which to bring about a practical solution of these 

 difficulties is to fix this line of right, and give to Great Britain the 

 protection of an obligation imposed by the award to have a just 

 judgment upon the proposed regulations before they are put into 

 effect. 



[Thereupon, at 4.15 o'clock p. M., the Tribunal adjourned until 

 to-morrow, Friday, the 5th August, 1910, at 10 o'clock A. M.] 



THIRTY-SIXTH DAY: FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910. 



The Tribunal met at 10 o'clock A. M. 



THE PRESIDENT: Will you please continue your argument, Mr. 

 Senator Root. 



SENATOR ROOT: Before the adjournment I had referred to the 

 question of the continuance of the arbitration provision in article 4. 

 I refer to it rather for the purpose of precluding the question than 

 of arguing the question. The Tribunal has already observed, of 

 course, that this Special Agreement under which we are now pro- 

 ceeding is in terms a 



" Special Agreement for the submission of questions relating to 

 fisheries on the North Atlantic Coast under the general treaty of 



