362 FISHERIES ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE 



Of course the final speech is intended to be a speech dealing 

 finally with the evidence before the Tribunal, and is not intended 

 to be a speech in which new evidence may be put in. There are 

 many passages of different documents of a bulky character which 

 have been put in evidence. That does not mean that the whole 

 document is treated as being part of the evidence. I have no 

 objection to anything being done which may facihtate the Case for 

 the United States on the point, but one must have the means of 

 deaHng with them one's self in some fair and rational way. 



Senator Root: Of course there is not the slightest objection to 

 the Attorney-General calling attention to any matter which he 

 thinks worthy, of attention in regard to this book which I have 

 handed to the Tribunal. I am merely calhng attention to the very 

 book, portions of which were printed in the American Counter- 

 Case, and from which the British counsel have read. Surely I am 

 entitled, when this book has been produced here, and the attention 

 of the Tribunal called to certain features of the proceedings, to 

 call the attention of the Tribunal to other features of the same 

 proceedings in the same book. 



The Attorney- General: By all means, provided of course 

 that the passages to which my learned friend refers are passages 

 which he proposes to put in as evidence, and which, therefore, are 

 material; but I must have the opportunity of considering them. 



Senator Root: I am not putting in any new evidence whatever. 

 The map was distinctly referred to in the Counter-Case Appendix 

 of the United States, and this map was referred to in the Counter- 

 Case of the United States at p. loi : 



"A reference to the accompanying map will show that the coast, the 

 entire freedom of which for fishing purposes has thus been acquired by the 

 United States," etc. 



The Attorney-General: That does not put in the map. It 

 refers to the map, but the map has not been one of the documents 

 put in. 



It is unnecessary to trouble over a matter which may turn out 

 to be quite unimportant. I have not seen the map, and it may be 

 that there is nothing at all to which I object in it. I do not antici- 



