222 Tin: treaty of Washington. 



tlic present occasion, -we liave the proof in two most 

 coinj)lete and most convincing arguments which he 

 addressed to tlie Emperor of Germany. 



The Agent on tlie part of Great Bi-itain was Ad- 

 miral James C. Prevost, wlio had been tlie Commis- 

 sioner of liis Government, in association with ^h: 

 Archibald Cami)belJ, Commissioner of the United 

 States, for determining and marking the line of bound- 

 ary ])iescribed by the (reaty, and who, of course, pos- 

 sessed all the special knowledge recpiisite for tho 

 preparation of any possi))le argument in HU])port of 

 the pretensions of (treat Britain. 



The Emperor, it appears, referred the arguments on 

 both sides to three 'experts, Dr. Grimm, Dr. Kiejiert, 

 and Dr. Goldschmidt, personages among the most 

 eminent of his subjects in jiu'isprudcncc and in sci- 

 ence, ui)()n whose report he decided on tho 21st of 

 October, 1.S72, in the terms of the reference, that tho 

 claim of ilie United States to have the line drawn 

 through the Canal do Ilaro is most in accordance 

 with the true interpretation of tho treaty concluded 

 on the l^th of June, 1S4G, between Great Britain and 

 the United States. 



"This Award," says the President's i\Iessage of De- 

 cember 2, 1872, "confirms the United States in their 

 claim to tlio important archipelago of islands lying 

 between the* continent and Vancouver's Island, which 

 for more than twenty-six years [ever since the ratifi- 

 cation of tho treaty] Great Bi'itain had contested, and 

 leaves us, for the jird time in the lti)<tonj of the United 

 States as a nation, without n (picstiou of disputed 



