MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS. I99 



Minister, Sir Frederic Bruce, as umpire between us 

 and the United States of Colombia. And at tlie same 

 period of time, Great Britain accepted Mr. B.R. Curtis, 

 of Massachusetts, as umpire under the Treaty for set- 

 tling the claims of the Hudson's Bay Company against 

 the United States. And in this case, be it remember- 

 ed, the Commissioners, just men both. Sir John Eose 

 and Mr. Alexander S.Johnson, agreed on their award 

 without troubling Mr. Curtis. 



Under the previous claims' Treaty between Great 

 Britain and the United States, the two Governments 

 in the first instance agreed on ex-President Van Buren 

 as umpire, and, on his declining, they chose Mr. Bates, 

 an American Banker residing: in London. 



Under the claims' Treaty between the United States 

 and New Granada, an American, Mr. Upham, of New 

 Hampshire, was umpire ; and another American, Dr. 

 Francis Lieber, of New York, under the recent Treaty 

 between the United States and the Mexican Eepublic. 



Strongest of all is the case of the Treaty between 

 Paraguay and the United States, which submitted 

 their controversy to an American citizen, Mr. Cave 

 Johnson, of Tennessee, as sole arbiter, and he decicted 

 ao-ainst the United States. 



Is it possible to misapprehend the moral of'such 

 facts ? In all these various aspects of the subject, do 

 we not perceive the sense of justice tending every 

 day to penetrate deeper and deeper into the councils 

 of nations, and the voice of reason, of which interna- 

 tional laxo is the expression, influencing more and 

 more the action of Governments ? 



