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covered in effect all the points of the American “Case” 
and “ Argument,’”—-that is to say, it implied a com- 
plete reargument of the whole cause. It amounted 
to assuming or admitting that no sufficient or proper 
defense had yet been made by the British Govern- 
ment. ; 
We, in behalf of the United States, proceeded to 
prepare a reply to this motion. We took it up 
point by point, and showed by citation of pages that 
every one of the proposed points had been largely 
and amply discussed already by Great Britain in her 
“ Case,” “ Counter-Case,” and “ Argument ;” that noth- 
ing new could be said on these points; and that, in 
fact, the very object proposed was to reiterate ar- 
guments already adduced, but to do it in the inad- 
missible form of mere criticism of the American Ar- 
gument, And we cited the Treaty to show that the 
discussion proposed was contrary to the explicit con- 
tract of the two Governments. 
Meanwhile the Tribunal proceeded to decide, on 
suggestion of Mr. Adams, that the proposed argument 
was inadmissible, and that Counsel had no right to 
address the Tribunal unless required by it so to do 
for the elucidation of any point under the Sth article 
of the Treaty. 
At the next meeting of the Tribunal, on the 28th, 
Sir Alexander Cockburn presented a list of eight 
points covering in effect the points of the rejected 
motion of Sir Roundell Palmer, and moved that the 
Tribunal require of the Counsel of the two Govern- 
ments written or printed arguments on the said points; 
