62 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
passed away, leaving the great question unsettled, in 
what manner ultimately to deal with the claim for 
national losses preferred by the United States. 
NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL TREATY. 
A new series of events then happened, which occu- 
pied the period intervening between the 15th of April 
and the 15th of June. 
It occurred to the two Governments that the diff- 
culty might be disposed of by the exchange of diplo- 
matic notes, which, in laying down a definite rule of 
reciprocal international right on the subject of such 
losses, should reserve or leave unimpaired the present 
pretensions of both Governments. The British Gov- 
ernment would not admit that it was the intention 
of. the Treaty to cover national losses; the United 
States insisted that it was, and refused to do any act 
incompatible with this construction of the Treaty; 
and, therefore, they would not withdraw any part of 
the American Case, nor disavow the opinion that it 
was within the province of the Arbitrators to consid- 
er all the claims, and to determine the liability of 
Great Britain for all the claims, which had been put 
forward by the United States. But the American 
Government had not asked for pecuniary damages in 
its “Case” on account of that part of the claims called 
the indirect losses; it only desired a judgment there- 
on, which would remove them for all future time as a 
cause of difference between the two Governments. 
To hold that this class of claims was not disposed of 
by the Treaty, is, Was not a subject for the con: 
