ALABAMA CLAIMS. HI 



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 thouglit. There uill be occasion hereafter 

 to remark on the precision and concision of the opin- 

 ions of Mr. Staimpfli. 



Sril ALEXAXDEIl COCKDURN'S CALL FOR REARGUMENT. 



Sir Alexander Cockburn then renewed his ])ropo- 

 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: 



"That, looking to tlic tlitliculty of tlicsc questions, ami the 

 conflict of opinion Avliich has arisen among distinguislicd ju- 

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

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

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

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

 in their power to enable them to anivc 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 learnincr, 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 ditlicult a matter, and that its pro- 

 ceedings may liereafler appear to the Avorld to have been cliar- 

 acteri/.cd by the jiatience, 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." 



" To obtain all the assistance iu their power to en- 



