2222 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL : That does not put in the map. It refers 

 to the map, but the map has not been one of the documents put in. 



It is unnecessary to trouble over a matter which may turn out to be 

 quite unimportant. I have not seen the map, and it may be that 

 there is nothing at all to which I object in it. I do not anticipate 

 that there will be. I am only suggesting that if it should turn out, 

 upon a careful examination, that there is any observation which 

 might properly be made about this map, I should be at liberty to 

 make it, to send it afterwards to Mr. Root and let him see what is 

 said about it, and then forward it with his own observations to the 

 Tribunal. I thought that was a simple way of dealing with it. I 

 dare say there will be no observations to make at all. 



SENATOR HOOT : It is too simple. There must be an end some time 

 to argument. Any observation that the learned counsel sees fit to 

 make regarding this map, which has been the subject of repeated 

 reference, which was referred to in our Counter-Case, and referred 

 to in our Counter-Case Appendix, and which is in a volume from 

 which both parties have printed, and which was in the volume that 

 British counsel a month ago used in his argument to the Tribunal 

 any observation the learned counsel chooses to make regarding that, 

 before the conclusion of this oral argument, of course is entirely 

 beyond objection. But there must be an end some time to the argu- 

 ment of this case. Personally I am about to leave the city, when the 

 argument of the case is completed, and the other American counsel 

 are in the same situation. We can not remain here for the purpose 

 of receiving and examining, and perhaps answering briefs or further 

 printed arguments put in after the conclusion of the oral argument. 

 I think in that respect we must stand upon the treaty, which is that 

 Cases shall be exchanged within a fixed time, and that Counter- 

 Cases shall be exchanged within a fixed time, that printed Argu- 

 ments shall be exchanged within a fixed time, and shall be delivered 

 to the Tribunal within a fixed time, and that then there shall be oral 

 Argument, the oral Argument to end the proceedings so far as the 

 presentation of the Case is concerned. 



I have made no objection, and shall make no objection, in view of 

 the fact that my Argument is the concluding one, to any observation 

 or correction on the part of the Attorney-General of my manifold 

 shortcomings and inaccuracies. But I think that the proce><liii>r< 

 should close with the oral argument to-day, and that we should not 

 be subject to remain here for a further course of proceeding after the 

 conclusion of it. 



THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL: I can assure my learned friend that I am 

 not suggesting that we should remain here. That is the very last 

 alternative that I desire to submit to the Tribunal. I understood my 



