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they actually decided, the immediate effect of the De- 
cision, and the general relation thereof to Great Brit- 
ain, to the United States, and to the other Govern- 
ments of Europe and America. 
REVIEW OF THE DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL ON NATIONAL 
LOSSES. 
To begin, let us see what was the true thought of 
the Tribunal regarding the class of claims, as to which 
the British Government displayed so much superfiu- 
ous emotion subsequently to the publication of the 
American Case, and which the Tribunal passed upon, 
in effect, without previous decision whether they were 
or were not embraced in the Treaty. 
I have already called attention to the fact that no 
consideration of direct or indirect, immediate or conse- 
quential, appears in that opinion of the Tribunal. 
The Arbitrators express a conclusion, not the reasons 
of the conclusion, We might, it is true, easily infer 
those reasons from the language in which the conclu- 
sion is expressed. That language excludes all such 
trivial questions as whether “direct” or “indirect,” 
and invokes us to seek for the unexpressed reasons 1n 
some higher order of ideas. Meanwhile we have, at 
length, in the final “Decision,” means of ascertaining 
the whole thought of the Tribunal. 
The Arbitrators had to pass on a claim of indemni- 
ty for the costs of pursuit of Confederate cruisers by 
the Government :—a claim admitted to be within the 
jurisdiction of the Tribunal, and which the Tribunal 
rejects on the ground that such costs “are not, in the 
