Sunday, December 9, 2012

For Anglo-American Claims.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 9, 1912:
United States and England Agree on Tribunal to Arbitrate Them.
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.— Great Britain and the United States have agreed upon the composition of the tribunal for the arbitration of pecuniary claims, as provided in the special arrangement recently ratified by the two Governments.
    Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, Chief Justice of Canada, and the British member of the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration Tribunal, at The Hague in 1910, will represent Great Britain. Chandler P. Anderson, counselor of the Department of State, will represent the United States. These two will select a third member, who will act as umpire, and will be a subject of neither Great Britain nor the United States. The third member has practically been agreed upon, and his name will be announced later.
    Cecil J. B. Hurst of the British Foreign Office, will be chief counsel for Great Britain. Edmund L. Newcombe, Canadian Deputy Minister of Justice, will be associated with him. Severo Mallet-Prevost of New York will be chief counsel for the United States. He was one of the counsel in the Venezuela boundary arbitration, Robert Lansing, one of counsel for the United States in the fisheries arbitration and the Alaska boundary arbitration, will be associated with him.
    A schedule of claims for submission to arbitration has already been agreed upon, and the amount claimed on both sides is altogether about $4,000,000. It is understood that a supplemental schedule of claims is likely to be agreed upon before the tribunal meets.

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