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Show CIIAMIZAL VERDICT !S COMPROMISE Mexico and United States Each Giren Part of Disputed Dis-puted Ground. XL PASO, Tax, June 16. Too In-ternatlonal In-ternatlonal boundary commission, consisting con-sisting of Oan. AnaoD MlUa, American -commissioner; Ssoor - Pug a, Mexican oonunlsatonar, and Eon. Eugene Lav fluar of Montreal, Can, presiding commissioner, com-missioner, today handed down ita decision de-cision ia tha Chamiial arbitration. Tha question aubmitted to tha com mission was aa to" tha international title of the Oharoiial tract, a body of accretion land lying between tha' pros eat channel of tha Rio Grande and the obliterated and abandoned channel of the river aa surveyed by tha boundary commission ia Us52. The tract ia and always haa been physically and geographically a part of ine riiv or r.i rasa. About own or the 4,000 inhshitsnts of El Paso liva apoa tha tract. Results Indecisive. The opinion and award of the com mission ara indecisive. The net result of tha opinions of tha three commissioners, commis-sioners, which agree only at certain pointa of contact, is an attempted di-viaioa di-viaioa of the tract between tha United Slatea and Mexico, tha suggested divid ing line being tha channel of tha river as it ran in 1864, a line which tha commission com-mission does not attempt to re-locate and which ia impossible of re location. Tha decision marks a aotabla departure. depar-ture. It is tha drat attempt so fsr as ia known in tha history of juriapradenee to divide land upon tha theory that slow erosion would chsnga tha boundary boun-dary Una and that rapid eroeioa would not. A vigorous dissenting opinion was k.v .l- a i - . 4. which be takes the ground that the eommiesioa exceeded ita jurisdiction in attempting to divida the tract: that it failed to apply the rule of law prescribed pre-scribed by tba tresty between the United States and Mexico of ISM, and Anally, that the award it uncertain in ita terms and . impoasibla of applica-tioa. applica-tioa. Not Judicial Determination. ' In concluding ' bis opinion be aaid that the award "-breathed tha spirit of uaaonseious but nevertheless unauthorized unauthor-ized compromise rather tnaa a judicial determinstion. " - The Mexican commissioner also filed a dissenting opinioo. Tha agent of the United States, upon bis own motion and Subject to the eon-eidarstion eon-eidarstion and action of. tha United Statee government, filed a suggestion of protest oa the ground that the commission com-mission hsd departed from the terms of tha submission that tba award waa uncertain and impossible of application; applica-tion; that tha presiding commissioner on certain pointa had failed to atate hia reasons aa required by tba convention conven-tion submitting the case, and because ef aasential error of law and fact. |