184 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
ers were permitted to pervert the privilege of hospi- 
tality into making a base of operations of Nassau or 
of Melbourne. The recognized fault in the matter 
of the Shenandoah was mainly the augmentation of 
her crew at Melbourne, and the addition of equip- 
ments, without which she could not have operated as 
a cruiser in the North Pacific. In the case of the 
Alabama, and especially that of the Floréda, the 
fault was in allowing them to come and go unmolest- 
ed, and even favored, in the Colonial ports, when the 
British Government could no longer pretend to be 
ignorant of their originally illegal character, nay, 
when it was now fully aware of what Mr. Adams 
calls the “continuous, persistent, willful, flagrant false- 
hood and perjury,” and the “malignant fraud,” which 
attended the equipment of the Confederate cruisers 
in Great Britain. It was this class of facts, and not 
any such secondary consideration as the supply of 
coal, which turned the scale against Great Britain in 
the opinions of the Arbitrators. 
No: neither the Treaty of Washington, with its 
Rules, nor the Decision of the Tribunal of Geneva, 
has inaugurated any new policy of neutrality in the 
United States, nor created for them any rights or 
any duties not previously possessed by and incum- 
bent on the Government. 
WHAT THE UNITED STATES HAVE GAINED BY THE AWARD. 
What, then, it may be asked, have the United 
States gained by the Treaty of Washington, and by 
the Arbitration ? 
