100 THE ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 



contains no reservation of power in Great Britain to impose restric- 

 tions on the enjoyment of the servitude. Such a right conferred 

 without reservation is to be exercised by the dominant nation in- 

 dependently, and without interference by the servient nation. Any 

 limitation of the enjoyment of the right or burden placed upon it is 

 an interference not countenanced by international law. Recognized 

 authorities hold that it would be an illegal restraint upon the right 

 to impose taxes or other duties on the exercise of the right or to make 

 entrance into the servient territory dependent on conditions not ex- 

 pressly provided for in the treaty. 



Although international law does not recognize any legal right in 

 the servient state to impose any restrictions, nevertheless it contem- 

 plates that the comity, which prevails between nations, will enable 

 the dominant and servient states, by supplementary agreement, to 

 regulate the exercise of the right in any way that may be reasonable 

 and mutually acceptable. That is exactly what the United States has 

 always been willing to do. Secretary Root in his reply of July 20, 

 1906, to Sir Edward Grey's memorandum of February 2, 1906, said : 



The Government of Newfoundland can not be permitted to make 

 entry and clearance at a Newfoundland custom house and the pay- 

 ment of a tax for the support of Newfoundland light-houses condi- 

 tions to the exercise of the American right of fishing. If it be shown 

 that these things are reasonable the Government of the United States 

 will agree to them, but it can not submit to have them imposed upon 

 it without its consent. 6 



Chretien: Principe* de Droit International Public, Sec. 259, p. 268. 



F. De Martens : Traite de Droit International, Vol. I, sec. 93. 



Von Holtzendorf : Handbuch des Volkerrecht, Vol. 2, Sec. 52. 



Heffter: Le Droit International de VEurope, Sec. 43. 



Bluntschli: Droit International, Sec. 355, p. 212. 



Despagnet: Cours de Droit International Public, Sec. 190. 



Pradier Fodere: Traite de Droit International Public, European and Ameri- 

 can, Sec. 834, 838. 



Gareis: Institutionen de Volkerrechts, p. 205. 



Rivier: Principes du Droit des Gens, Sec. 58. 



Dlena : Principi di Diritto Internazionale, p. 125. 



Fiore: Diritto Internazionale Codificado, (4 Ed., 1909) Sec. 1096. 



Oppenheim: International Law, (1905) Sees. 203, 205. 



Clauss. Lehre von den Staatsdeinstbarkeiten, (1894) pp. 114, 198, 224, 227. 



Kliiber: Droit des Gens, moderne de I'Europe, pp. 194, 195. 



Heilborn: Des System Volkerrechts enticicTcelt aus den Volkerrachtlichen 

 Bergriffln (1896) p. 30, 34. 



Von Ullmann : Volkerrechts, (2 Ed., 1908) Sec. 99, 100. 



Vattel's Law of Nations, 1758 (Chitty's translation with notes by Ingraham) 

 Book 2, chap. 7, sec. 89, p. 168. 



Dr. Alphonse Rivier: Lerbuch des Volkerrechts, (2 Ed.) p. 192. 



Von Neuman : Grundrisa dea Hcutigen Europaischen Volkerrechts, (1885) 

 Sec. 13, pp. 31, 33. 



6 U. S. Case, 225. 



