222 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



tlie present occasion, we have tlie proof in two most 

 complete and most convincing arguments wliieli he 

 addressed to tlie Emperor of Germany. 



The Agent on the part of Great Britain was Ad- 

 miral James C. Prevost, who had been the Commis- 

 sioner of his Government, in association with Mr. 

 Archibald Campbell, Commissioner of the United 

 States, for determining and marking the line of bound- 

 ary prescribed by the treaty, and who, of course, pos- 

 sessed all the special knowledge requisite for the 

 preparation of any possible argument in support of 

 the pretensions of Great Britain. 



The Emperor, it appears, referred the arguments on 

 both sides to three experts. Dr. Grimm, Dr. Kiepert, 

 and Dr. Goldschmidt, personages among the most 

 eminent of his subjects in juris2:)rudence and in sci- 

 ence, upon whose report he decided on the 21st of 

 October, 1872, in the terms of the reference, that the 

 claim of the United States to have the line drawn 

 throufrh the Canal de Haro is most in accordance 

 with the true interpretation of the treaty concluded 

 on the 15th of June, 1846, between Great Britain and 

 the United States. 



"This Award," says the President's Message of De- 

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

 claim to the 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 the treaty] Great Britain had contested, and 

 leaves us, /(9r the first time in the history of the United 

 States as a nation^ without a question of disputed 



