ALABAMA CLAIMS. Ill 



The completeness and exactness of tliis 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 thoudit. There will be occasion hereafter 

 to remark on the precision and concision of the opin- 

 ions of Mr. Staemplli. 



SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN'S CALL FOR REARGUMEXT. 



Sir Alexander Cockburn then renewed his propo- 

 sition for a preliminary argument by Counsel, set- 

 ting forth analytically the various o])jects of inquiry 

 involved in the claims of the United States, and con- 

 cluding: as follows : 



"That, looking to tlie difficulty of these questions, and the 

 conflict of opinion Avhich has arisen among distinguished ju- 

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

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

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

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

 in their pOA<-cr to enable them to arrive at a just and correct 

 conclusion. That they ought, therefoi-e, 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 learning, so that 

 arguments scattered over a mass of documents may be pre- 

 sented in a concentrated and appreciable foi-m, and the Tribu- 

 nal may thus have the advantage of all the light which can be 

 thrown on so intricate and difficult a matter, and that its pro- 

 ceedings may hereafter appear to the world to have been char- 

 acterized by the patience, the deliberation, and anxious desire 

 for information on all the points involved in its decision, Avith- 

 out which it is impossible that justice can be duly' or satisfac- 

 torily done." 



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



