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The completeness and exactness of this programme 
are self-evident; and by these qualities it really im- 
posed itself on the Tribunal, in spite of all objection, 
and of occasional temporary departures into other 
lines of thought. There will be occasion hereafter 
to remark on the precision and concision of the opin- 
ions of Mr. Steempfili. 
SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN’S CALL FOR REARGUMENT. 
Sir Alexander Cockburn then renewed his propo- 
sition for a preliminary argument by Counsel, set- 
ting forth analytically the various objects of inquiry 
involved in the claims of the United States, and con- 
cluding as follows: 
“That, looking to the difficulty of these questions, and the 
conflict of opinion which has arisen among distinguished ju- 
rists on the present contest, as well a8 to their vast importance 
in the decision of the Tribunal on the matters in dispute, it is 
the duty, as it must be presumed to be the wish, of the Arbi- 
trators, in the interests of justice, to obtain all the assistance 
in their power to enable them to arrive at a just and correct 
conclusion. That they ought, therefore, to call for the assist- 
ance of the eminent counsel who are in attendance on the Tri- 
bunal to assist them with their reasoning and learning, so that 
arguments scattered over a mass of documents may be pre- 
sented in a concentrated and appreciable form, and the Tribu- 
nal may thus have the advantage of all the light which can be 
thrown on so intricate and difficult a matter, and that its pro- 
ceedings may hereafter appear to the world to have been char- 
“acterized by the patience, the deliberation, and anxious desire 
for information on all the points involved in its decision, with- 
out which if is impossible that justice can be duly or satisfac- 
torily done.” 
“To obtain all the asszstance in their power to en- 
