Ben Harrison: “As these vacancies could not be filled immediately, the business of the courts would seriously suffer.”

The statutes relating to the transportation of merchandise between the United States and the British possessions should be the subject of revision

The question whether Article XXIX is still in force depends, so far as the construction of the treaty goes, upon the meaning of the words 'the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII'

If this article of the treaty is in force, the obligations assumed by the United States should be fully and honorably observed

We have not stipulated in the treaty that we will permit merchandise to be moved through Canadian territory from one point of the United States to another at the will of the shipper