Washington Treaty 1871 Dealt With The Alabama Claims Arbitration Of

the San Juan boundary; North Atlantic fisheries; navigation of certain

rivers and canals and of Lake Michigan; system of bonded transit;

exemption from duty of United States logs floated down the St. John

River. An attempt was made by Sir John A. Macdonald, who represented

Canadian interests in the negotiation of the treaty, to revive the

provisions of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, but without success. The

other Brit sh commissioners were Earl de Grey, Sir Edward Thornton, Sir

Stafford Northcote, and Professor Montague Bernard. The United States

representatives were Hamilton Fish, General Schenck, Judge Nelson, Judge

Hoar, and Senator Williams. The treaty was duly ratified, and brought

into operation by proclamation, July 4, 1871. It was terminated, at the

instance of the United States, July, 1885. =Index=: (Sir John A Macdonald era) History of,

165-192; questions arising out of American War of Secession, 165;

questions of special interest to Canada--San Juan boundary, Fenian Raid

claims, inshore fisheries, reciprocity, 166-167; Joint High Commission,

168-169; personnel of commission, 169; Macdonald a member, 169;

difficulty of his position, 172; outcome of negotiations, 174-178; San

Juan boundary referred to arbitration, 178-180; settlement of fisheries

question, 181-183; Macdonald signs treaty in interests of empire,

184-185; meets storm of opposition in Canada, 185-186; defends treaty in

Parliament, 186-190; Halifax Commission and award, 190. (George Brown Era) Brown's

mission of 1874, and abortive Reciprocity Treaty of same year, a direct

result of, 225. =Bib.=: Pope, Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald;

Houston, Constitutional Documents; Hertslet, Treaties and

Conventions; Messages, Despatches, and Minutes of the Privy Council

Relative to the Treaty of Washington, Ottawa, 1872; Cushing, The

Treaty of Washington; Adams, Before and after the Treaty of

Washington.