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long insisted that any arrangement in regard to the trade be- 
tween the United States and the British West Indies must be 
embodied in a treaty or convention ; it now submitted to Great 
Britain’s preference for an adjustment by mutual legislation. 
Obviously each country had surrendered certain points 
upon which it had once insisted. Broad-minded common sense 
on each side of the Atlantic had at length prevailed to remove 
a disagreement which had been an irritating source of sus- 
picion and jealousy between the two countries for almost a 
half-century. 
