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ister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic. Mr. Root and 

 Mr. Bryce are believers in a permanent court, and they were anxious 

 to select judges from the permanent panel who either had had experi- 

 ence in international tribunals, or who were lawyers by profession. 

 Professor Lammasch had been a judge in the arbitration at The Hague 

 between Venezuela and the Allied Powers in the Venezuelan Preferential 

 Cases, in 1904, and had been President of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 in the Maskat controversy between Great Britain and France in 1905. 

 Dr. Lohman had served acceptably as arbitrator in the Pious Fund Case 

 in 1902 and in the Maskat controversy. Dr. Drago had not previ- 

 ously sat on The Hague Court, but was a lawyer of large experience in 

 the Argentine Republic, where he had held judicial position, and as the 

 author of the Drago Doctrine his name is familiar to all students of 

 international law. The tribunal was agreed upon early in 1909 and the 

 judges were notified of their selection on March 4, 1909, the last day of 

 President Roosevelt's Administration. The tribunal assembled on Jime 

 I, 1910, at The Hague and deUvered its award on September 7, 1910.' 



Question I 



In delivering its judgment upon the first question submitted to 

 arbitration, the tribunal admitted that it was influenced by "the form 

 in which Question I is put," and it is therefore necessary to quote the 

 exact language of the question in order that the peculiar form which 

 influenced the Tribunal may be clearly vmderstood. The text of Ques- 

 tion I, therefore, follows in full: 



' For details concerning the presentation of the Case, Counter-Case, and Written 

 Argument, and additional right to demand a revision of the award, see Articles VI, VII, 

 VIII, IX, and X of the Special Agreement, Afpendix, pp. 486, 487; Appendix, U. S. Case, 

 p. 3; Appendix, British Case, p. i. 



Agent and Counsel of the United States : 



Ageni: The Honorable Chandler P. Anderson. 



Counsel: The Honorable Elihu Root, Senator of the United States from the State of 

 New York, formerly Secretary of State and Secretary of War of the United States; The 

 Honorable George Turner, formerly a Senator of the United States from the State of 

 Washington; The Honorable Samuel J. Elder; The Honorable Charles B. Warren; The Hon- 

 orable James Brown Scott, SoUcitor for the Department of State of the United States; The 

 Honorable Robert Lansing. 



Secretary of the Agency: Mr. Otis Thomas Cartwright. 



Agent and Counsel of Great Britain: 



Agent: The Honorable Allen B. Aylesworth, K.C., Minister of Justice of Canada. 



Counsel: The Right Honorable Sir William Snowdon Robson, K.C., M.P., His Majesty's 

 Attorney General; The Right Honorable Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay, K.C., M.P.; The 

 Honorable Sir Edward P. Morris, LL.D., K.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland; The Hon- 

 orable Donald Morison, K.C., Minister of Justice of Newfoundland; Sir James S. Winter, 

 K.C.; Mr. John S. Ewart, K.C.; Mr. George F. Shepley, K.C.; Sir H. Erie Richards, K.C.; 

 Mr. A. F. Peterson, K.C.; Mr. W. N. Tilley; Mr. Raymond Asquith; Mr. Geoffrey Lawrence; 

 Mr. Hamar Greenwood; Messrs. Blake and Redden, Solicitors; Mr. H. E. Dale, of the British 

 Colonial OfiSce. 



Secretary oj the Agency: Mr. John D. Clarke. 



