 | Appellate courts - 1915 - 736 pages
...whose hands were first intrusted the seals of this department declared that "the simplest rule will be that the vessel, being American, shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such." Fifty years' experience, the utter failure of many negotiations, and a careful reconsideration now... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - United States - 1915 - 414 pages
...the principle for which the United States had consistently contended : " The simplest rule will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board of her are such." The principle was never accepted by any British ministry. The practice of impressment... | |
 | William Charles Henry Wood - 1915 - 220 pages
...the subject of impressment, or ' Sailors' Rights,' he was clearer still : ' The simplest rule will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board of her are such.' This would have prevented the impressment of British seamen, even in British harbours,... | |
 | Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro - International law - 1916 - 540 pages
...incipient steps to become American citizens, do not apply to them. "The rule laid down by the distinguished person who first held the office of Secretary of State,...by one of the most eminent of American statesmen, one of my predecessors, that 'in every regularly documented merchant vessel the crew who navigate it... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Political Science - 1918 - 508 pages
...service of the ' enemy. "The simplest rule," declared Jefferson, when Secretary of State, " will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such." Efforts were repeatedly made by the United States to adjust the controversy, but in vain. President... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - International law - 1922 - 896 pages
...hands were first intrusted the seals of this department declared, that 'the simplest rule will be, that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such. ' Fifty years ' experience, the utter failure of many negotiations, and a careful reconsideration now... | |
 | Charles Edward Hill - History - 1922 - 434 pages
...American argument. He repeated the principle laid down by Jefferson, that "the simplest rule will be, that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such. " Webster continued: " Fifty years' experience, the utter failure of many negotiations, and a careful... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - International law - 1922 - 888 pages
...hands were first intrusted the seals of this department declared, that 'the simplest rule will be, that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are siich.' Fifty years' experience, the utter failure of many negotiations, and a careful reconsideration... | |
 | Charles Ghequiere Fenwick - International law - 1924 - 694 pages
...open to the gravest objections, and that, in the language of Jefferson, "the simplest rule will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such." Moore, Digest, II, § 317. 1 See Moore, Principles of American Diplomacy, 275. •See below, p. 204.... | |
 | Louis Martin Sears - United States - 1927 - 668 pages
...advocated long before, that in a question concerning the nationality of seamen "the simplest rule will be, that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such." He emphasized the importance of a dispassionate adjustment of the issue at a time of general peace... | |
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... the simplest rule will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such. 
