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pate that there will be. I am only suggesting that if it should turn 

 out, upon a careful examination, that there is any observation which 

 might properly be made about this map, I should be at liberty to 

 make it, to send it afterwards to Mr. Root and let him see what is 

 said about it, and then forward it with his own observations to the 

 Tribunal. I thought that was a simple way of dealing with it. I 

 dare say there will be no observations to make at all. 



Senator Root: It is too simple. There must be an end some 

 time to argument. Any observation that the learned coimsel sees 

 fit to make regarding this map, which has been the subject of 

 repeated reference, which was referred to in our Counter-Case 

 and referred to in our Counter-Case Appendix, and which is in a 

 volume from which both parties have printed, and which was in 

 the volume that British cotmsel a month ago used in his argument 

 to the Tribunal — any observation the learned coimsel chooses to 

 make regarding that, before the conclusion of this oral argimient, 

 of course is entirely beyond objection. But there must be an end 

 some time to the argimient of this case. Personally I am about to 

 leave the city, when the argument of the case is completed, and 

 the other American counsel are in the same situation. We cannot 

 remain here for the purpose of receiving and examining, and per- 

 haps answering briefs or further printed arguments put in after the 

 conclusion of the oral argument. I think in that respect we must 

 stand upon the treaty, which is that Cases shall be exchanged within 

 a fixed time, and that Counter-Cases shall be exchanged within 

 a fixed time, that printed Arguments shall be exchanged within a 

 fixed time, and shall be delivered to the Tribunal within a fixed 

 time, and that then there shall be oral Argument, the oral Argument 

 to end the proceedings so far as the presentation of the Case is 

 concerned. 



I have made no objection, and shall make no objection, in view 

 of the fact that my Argument is the concluding one, to any obser- 

 vation or correction on the part of the Attorney-General of my 

 manifold shortcomings and inaccuracies. But I think that the 

 proceedings should close with the oral argument to-day, and that 

 we should not be subject to remain here for a further course of 

 proceeding after the conclusion of it. 



