Abstract

Jay's Treaty

It happened, by an odd coincidence, that dinners were given on Thursday evening by commercial bodies in New York and Boston, Massachusetts, to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the treaty negotiated by jurist John Jay with Great Britain. These celebrations were arranged several weeks before, and therefore had no reference to, the late explosion at Washington City, in which U.S. President Stephen Grover Cleveland presented himself in such marked contrast to U.S. President George Washington. Jay's treaty, although it had other interesting features, was a commercial treaty in the main. The then President Washington signed the treaty and proclaimed it as a part of the supreme law, and now, one hundred years later, public meetings of business men are held to celebrate the ratification of Jay's treaty.