. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ish Government in 1869, but this arrange-ment was unsatisfactory to the Senate, whichbody refused to ratify it. Two years later the matter was revived,and in 1871 a joint high commission, com-posed of a number of distinguished publicmen, appointed by the American and BritishGovernments, met at Washington, andarranged a settlement known as the treaty ofWashington, which was ratified by bothGovernments. This treaty was ratified bythe Senate on the twenty-fourt
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ish Government in 1869, but this arrange-ment was unsatisfactory to the Senate, whichbody refused to ratify it. Two years later the matter was revived,and in 1871 a joint high commission, com-posed of a number of distinguished publicmen, appointed by the American and BritishGovernments, met at Washington, andarranged a settlement known as the treaty ofWashington, which was ratified by bothGovernments. This treaty was ratified bythe Senate on the twenty-fourth of May, andprovided for the settlement not only of the Alabama claims, but of all other questionsat issue between the United States and GreatBritain. The Alabama claims were referred by thetreaty of Washington to a board of arbitra-tion composed of five commissioners selectedfrom the neutral nations. This board metat Geneva, in Switzerland, on the fifteenth o(April, 1872, and the American and Englishrepresentatives presented to it their respectivecases, which had been prepared by the mostlearned counsel in both countries. On the. HUMUOLDT PALISADES, PACIFIC RAILWAY. twenty-seventh of June the board announcedits decision. The claims of the United Stateswere admitted, and the damages awarded tothat Government were ;^i6,250,000. Thesewere paid in due time. In our account of the administration ofMr. Buchanan we have related the disputebetween the United States and Great Britainconcerning the possession of the Island ofSan Juan, growing out of the uncertainty asto the true course of the northwestern bound-ary of the Union. This had been an openquestion all through the civil war. By the 8o6 ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. thirty-fourth article of the treaty of Washing-ton the two countries agreed to refer thisdispute to the friendly arbitration of theEmperor of Germany. Soon after the awardof the Geneva conference was made theboundary question was decided by the Emper-or Willia
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