Olney, Illinois has gone so far as to give white
squirrels the right of way on all the streets in town, including a $500 fine for hitting one.
Several times, the U.S. had offered to arbitrate,
but in 1895 the new American Secretary of State Richard Olney upped the ante by arguing for the American"right" to arbitrate
on grounds of sovereignty on the continent(see the Olney interpretation as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine).