150 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 



Treaty, and we jointly and severally compiled a 

 long cable message to the Thunderer which appeared 

 in its issue of February 18. It will suffice here to 

 reproduce one brief extract : 



" Mr. Chamberlain, when asked to express his 

 views on the result of the negotiations, said : ' I am 

 thoroughly satisfied with the result. I do not claim 

 to have gained a victory. No sensible man wishes 

 to obtain a triumph over friends. I have regarded 

 this difference as one between friends. But what I 

 do claim is that we have arrived at a just and honour- 

 able settlement, which, if considered on its merits, 

 will be accepted as satisfactory by all parties con- 

 cerned, and will terminate a controversy which has 

 lasted for a century, and has more than once 

 threatened the good relations of the two great 

 branches of the Anglo-Saxon race.' " 



The following paragraph appeared in one of 

 the local papers during our last week at 

 Washington : 



" The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain is about to 

 leave Washington, and I shall not be contradicted 

 if I say that a very considerable part of Washington 

 is sorry. Never has there been such a diner out, 

 and a giver of dinners, in this town as the gentleman 

 who is going back in a few days to his seat in the 



