Consequential Damages

JtLW XOEK, Blay G; Tlip ICr.ntid statos rlait ISirl Onvnvükj'ï response to the Amerioan proposición tp' the Ui-iti.sh. goverument to esthliflh an international principie Oovering the lia bilities oí' a neutral for eonsequeiitial damagus, was oonsidored at a moeting of the President, Cabiaet, and tbe Republi(.in.iniüibfis of the Cungressional Eoreign Comjuilti The pioposition of Earl Granville is as follows : That tbe Uuitod Status withdraw all uluiuis lor conseqaential daiaa)H'S from the Geawca tribunal, Great Britain still loaintáiniog that fchey are ■ outsidu of tUü provisions of the treaty ; that in future wars, wheuovor either ::ation is a belligerent, and the other a neutral, tho neutral shall not be huid responsibie tor indirect or cousequeatial da:uageH i:i .lüiiü.s ;tri.siuj; in a similar uanuer ari amdei' ánulwi ououmstaoces with the claims to which the treaty oí' Washington refere. This '.vas asuiiirise to tho !-': si - ident, who, finding ddplomany had failed, ealled on the íüciuburs oí' Coui'esúoual foreign committues, to whom ui sUitud bis auxiety tasüve tho tieaty, hui, not at the s icriüce of any priaciplë, and having failed to obtain such a proposal from England as he exp ctud, be was in favor of with Ira ing Üchouck's instruetions aiid leaving the wholo matter as it was at lirst, bwore tho Genova tribunal. The Bepublioan menvbeia ot' the House committue staíed that th:y th.uught the questiou of oonsequentiai damagmi never süould have been put iuto the case, but as thoy wero theie, and the honor of the nation tlius involveil, thecommitteo wcre wiilmg to do anything consistent with thoir position to strengthert tho Ereaident in the stand it may be necessary to take. The PVesideat said it was not for him to say what should be the final attitude of the country. Wbile rocognizing the authority conforred he was anxious that the iminodiate fepreaentativea of the peojl.- should know tho true condition of affairs,. and he relied ou tbo coininittees to stuiLi! l_v liim !i case it should btí necessary to abandon thu treaty. Iu response to a retoark as to tho extmordiuary uieasure of cailing tho coiamittee. Seoretary Fish said they wero not ealled ou for advico but support. Mr. Amblor, of Ohio, responded by , ing it' the Bttpport oxpeeted was just, the I)i.-m.ocratic mcmb-.-rs of tho Coniiniticc should also have been invitad, and he (Atnblor) would not imperil the interests of tito Iti'publicau party by advQcatiug a policy iuimical to the success of the Mr. "Willard afreed with 3tr. Arubler, t and positively declared the mistakes of] tbe a liiiinistration (iould not be ustoned : g on the Bepublicau party by any ïueasure of expediency. , This terminated tho interview. Aftor f their withdrawal thu President and rotary Fish iinally_ decided that Grani'illc's prepositiou was unacceptablo; that ivo canuc t secedo from our caee as prienic;d at Geneva, and a dispatch to that j ifleot was tele raphod to Minister ?clienek.. _