Excerpt from Argument of the Honorable Elihu Root, on Behalf of the United States, Before the North Atlantic Coast, Fisheries Arbitration Tribunal, at the Hague, 1910, Edited With Introduction and Appendix Instances must indeed be rare, if not wholly unknown, in which the statesman who raised and framed the issue appeared as counsel and argued the case before an International Tribunal. These unusual circumstances met in the person of Senator Root who, as Secretary of State, raised and framed the issues in the North Atlan tic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, and argued the case thus raised and made as leading counsel for the United States before the Special Tribunal of the Permanent Court at The Hague in 1910. If Mr. Root did not speak the first word in this historic controversy, which may be said to antedate the recognition of our independence, he nevertheless spoke the final word, so far as the present is concerned. His argument is therefore of more than passing interest, and the case, bearing as it does the impress of a single mind, is well worth careful study and analysis. 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.