High Chancellor. London, 1898. Chapter x, The Treaty of Washington; XI, The Geneva Arbitration: The Indirect Claims; XII, Geneva, Our Companions - The Arbitrators The Final Award. XV. International Courts of Arbitration, by Thomas Balch. Philadelphia, 1899. XVI. Charles Francis Adams, by his son, Charles Francis Adams. (American Statesmen.) Boston and New York, 1900. XVII. The Alabama Arbitration, by Thomas Willing Balch. Philadelphia, 1900. XVIII. Lee at Appomattox, and Other Papers, by Charles Francis Adams. Boston and New York, 1902. II. Treaty of Washington; Before and After. Second Edition, enlarged, 1903. XIX. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, by George S. Boutwell. 2 volumes. New York, 1902. XX. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, by John Morley. London and New York, 1903. XXII. The Life of Granville George Leveson Gower, Second Earl Granville, K.G., 1815-91, by Lord Edward Fitzmaurice. London and New York, 1905. 2 vols. XXIII. History of the United States, from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877, by James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., Litt.D., Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Volume VI, 1866-1872. New York, 1906. 1 Chapter XXXVIII, Foreign Affairs- Alabama Claims - Charles Francis Adams, the Hero of the Tribunal. XXIV. The History of Twenty-five Years, 18561880, by Sir Spencer Walpole. Vol. III. London, 1908. REMINISCENCES OF THE GENEVA TRIBUNAL CHAPTER I SECRETARY TO CALEB CUSHING It was my fortune early in 1872 to accompany Caleb Cushing from New York to Paris, and later to Geneva, as his private secretary. Mr. Cushing had been appointed senior member of the American Counsel for the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration, created under the Treaty of Washington, to dispose of the so-called " Alabama Claims,” that had been in dispute between the United States and Great Britain. In this capacity I naturally came into possession of some facts of more or less interest relating to the conduct of our Case at Geneva. These facts, it seems to me, are worthy of being put upon record, since they throw a sidelight of no little value upon what was done in that memorable affair, and are thus helpful to history in reaching a just and impartial verdict. It may be well enough for me to explain how I happened to be situated so as to be able conveniently to accept, at short notice, an invitation to go abroad with Mr. Cushing. Six years previous, I had been admitted to the bar, whereupon I had opened a law-office in Court Square, Boston. Clients are proverbially slow to discover hidden talent; and Boston enjoyed the reputation of being probably the most difficult locality in the whole country in which a young lawyer could get a footing. But by sticking closely to my office, and attending carefully to what little business was put into my hands, I approached by slow degrees the point where a fair prospect had opened for a steadily increasing income. But in the summer of 1870, certain symptoms admonished me that the climate of Boston was not suited to my health. Taking the advice of the best-qualified specialist in town, as well as one of the noblest and kindest of men, Doctor Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, I closed my law-office temporarily, and perfected arrangements to spend a year in the dry, bracing air of Minnesota. I went out to St. Paul, and thence to Minneapolis. Here, by spending a large part of each day out of doors, riding horseback, and taking long walks, I passed a happy winter, with the result that every sign of weakness of the lungs completely disappeared. During the summer of 1871, the problem presented itself for solution whether upon the whole it was safe to resume practice in Boston. Doctor Bowditch again applied his stethoscope, and pronounced the verdict that it was better for me not to venture to live in Boston. Accordingly, I closed my law |