Lanterna Rally

Author: Alexander Bliss

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-18

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781331724094

Excerpt from A Review of the Halifax Fishery Award: How It Strikes a Private Citizen The announcement in November last of the award of the Fishery Commission was received with genuine and universal surprise throughout the United States. Many no doubt then first learned that a Commission had been sitting at Halifax, having the subject under consideration; others were aware that some points left undetermined by the treaty of Washington of 1871 had, as stipulated by that treaty, been referred to arbitration, but had no idea of their possible magnitude; while even the best informed, including the very negotiators of the treaty of 1871, and those most nearly connected with the Commission itself, were, it seems, wholly unprepared for the result - an award of $5,500,000 against the United States. While the public prints teemed with denunciations of the chief arbitrator and virtual umpire, and of the fact and manner of his selection, it was astonishing how little curiosity they expressed to learn the grounds upon which a decision so unexpected was based, and how little was said to satisfy the curiosity the public night naturally feel on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.