<P> Finally , in 1903 , the Hay - Herbert Treaty between the United States and Britain entrusted the decision to an arbitration by a mixed tribunal of six members : three Americans ( Elihu Root , Secretary of War ; Henry Cabot Lodge , senator from Massachusetts ; and George Turner , ex-senator from Washington ) , two Canadians ( Sir Louis A. Jette , Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ; and Allen B. Aylesworth , K.C. , from Toronto ) , and one Briton ( Baron Alverstone ) . All sides respected Root , but he was a member of the U.S. Cabinet . Canadians ridiculed the choice of the obscure ex-Senator Turner and , especially , Lodge , a leading historian and diplomatic specialist whom they saw as an unobjective . </P>
<P> Finally , in 1903 , the Hay - Herbert Treaty between the United States and Britain entrusted the decision to an arbitration by a mixed tribunal of six members : three Americans ( Elihu Root , Secretary of War ; Henry Cabot Lodge , senator from Massachusetts ; and George Turner , ex-senator from Washington ) , two Canadians ( Sir Louis A. Jette , Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ; and Allen B. Aylesworth , K.C. , from Toronto ) , and one Briton ( Baron Alverstone ) . All sides respected Root , but he was a member of the U.S. Cabinet . Canadians ridiculed the choice of the obscure ex-Senator Turner and , especially , Lodge , a leading historian and diplomatic specialist whom they saw as an unobjective . </P>
which agreement settled a boundary dispute between british canada and the united states
which agreement settled a boundary dispute between british canada and the united states
Hay - Herbert Treaty
Hay - Herbert Treaty