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Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: Or the parties can arrange it them- 

 selves ? 



Senator Root: Certainly; and they will arrange it. There 

 is no trouble about making the arrangement. The great trouble 

 is, and the best thing that can be done for Great Britain — I know 

 my friends on the other side will smile at me when I say itj but I 

 say it not proposing to arrogate to myself the position of a guardian 

 for Great Britain — the best, thing that can be done for Great 

 Britain is to give a line of right here so that she TviU not be in the 

 position of having either to assent to imjust and extreme positions 

 taken by her colony, in the spirit that has been exhibited here, 

 against her own feeling of what is really due to us on the one hand, 

 or to over-rule them and have her colony feel that she has been 

 unkind towards the colony, and has been deciding against it of her 

 own will. 



The only way in which to bring about a practical solution of 

 these difficulties is to fix this line of right and give to Great Britain 

 the protection of an obHgation imposed by the award to have a 

 just judgment upon the proposed regulations before they are put 

 into effect. ^ 



The President: Will you please continue your argument, 

 Mr. Senator Root? 2 



Senator Root: Before the adjournment I had referred to the 

 question of the continuance of the arbitration provision in Article 

 4. I refer to it rather for the purpose of precluding the question 

 than of arguing the question. The Tribunal has already observed, 

 of course, that this Special Agreement rnider which we are now 

 proceeding is in terms a 



"Special Agreement for the submission of questions relating to fisheries 

 on the North Atlantic Coast under the general treaty of Arbitration con- 



^ Thereupon, at 4.15 o'clock, p.m., the Tribunal adjourned until to-morrow, 

 Friday, the sth August, 1910, at 10 o'clock a.m. 



' Friday, August $, 1910. The Tribunal met at 10 o'clock a.m. 



