IV PREFACE 



in handy and permanent form, but regretted that it was impossible 

 to include within the compass of a single volume the arguments of 

 the other American as well as of the British counsel. He also felt 

 that an introduction should be prefixed to the argument which 

 would give the case its necessary historical setting, and asked the 

 editor to furnish it. It seemed advisable to test the award in the 

 light of admitted fact and principles of law which were thought to 

 be applicable. The recent statement by Dr. Lammasch, President 

 of the Tribunal, that the judgment in the case "contained elements 

 of a compromise," seemed to justify, if it did not require, a more 

 detailed exposition than was originally contemplated, and the intro- 

 duction has therefore assumed larger proportions. For the views 

 expressed in this part of the work Mr. Root is in no way responsible, 

 but the appendix of documents has had the stamp of his approval. 



Important as the award is in itself as showing by a concrete 

 example how easily nations may settle long-standing and vital 

 disputes by judicial means, if they are only minded to do so, the 

 good feeling which marked every step of the proceedings at The 

 Hague, and the personal intercourse of counsel which laid the 

 foundation of personal friendship, happily shows that judicial settle- 

 ment not merely avoids the bitterness engendered and perpetuated 

 by war, but draws official representatives and the nations them- 

 selves closer together. 



Were it not presumptious to dedicate such a trifle, the editor 

 would like to inscribe it to the agents and counsel of Great Britain 

 and the United States who labored so patiently and successfully 

 at The Hague to settle by judicial means a controversy which 

 diplomacy had failed to adjust. 



Washington, D.C., James BrOWN ScOTT 



September 7, igii. 



