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Excerpt from Fur Seal Abitration, Vol. 15: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened at Paris, Under the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain Concluded at Washington February 29, 1892, for the Determination of Questions Between the Two Governments Concerning The
Mr Phelps. I congratulate the Tribunal, Mr President, on its ap proach, at no very long distance I hope, to the end of this debate; and I cannot express my regret that my duty compels me at this late day to continue it. It has had much to commend it to your attention; it has pre sented some important and interesting questions; it has been dignified by the occasion and the circumstances that have attended it; it has been adorned as well as elucidated by the distinguished Advocates who have preceded me; but it is impossible not to feel now that it has been pro longed beyond all our anticipations, and that the whole subject has become a weariness. The inexhaustible patience, the more than kindly courtesy which you, Sir, and your eminent Associates have accorded to us, have been mentioned in appropriate terms by my learned friends on the other side. It is not for them, it is not for us, to thank you; the acknowledgment should come, and will come, no doubt, in due time, from the great Nations at whose invitation and for whose benefit you have undertaken this onerous task. To that patience and kindness l have still to appeal, most reluctantly perhaps at some length. It would be a poor compliment and a very undeserved compliment to the able argu ments that we have listened to during these twenty-eight days from my learned friends on the other side to assume that they could all be brushed hastily aside. They must be followed.
The discussion, Sir, has taken a wide range. I do not complain of it; I have no right to complain of it. It is not for me to assume to set bounds to the limits of this subject, or to prescribe the considerations upon which it has to be determined. That is a matter entirely for the better and less partial judgment of this Tribunal. It is for me, however, and it will be my endeavour, to recall the discussion to the real ques tions that we conceive to be involved and to the real considerations upon which, as we believe, its determination must proceed.
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