The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-01-26

foreigner for its final determination.
Finally, however, rather than open the
possibility of tie and the failure of ar
bitrator, King Oscar was agreed upon IN
case the others did not agree in choosing
a final arbitrator. By this means not
only is arbitration secured, but arbitra-
ton which will be effective and final.
The period of five years was fixed as
the limit of the treaty as a means of OBJ
serving the efficacy of the arrangement,
permanent If the five years trial brings
the good results contemplated.
Aside from the agreement made today,
this is felt to offer plan of arbitration
as a substitute for war which will attract
the attention of European powers gener-
ally. and may lead to further exten-
sion of the plan.
The treaty was delivered to the SEN
ate at o'clock today. Afterward, in ex-
ecutive session, it was transferred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations, and,
without being read, was ordered to be
printed. The Presidents message trans
mitting the document was read.
Senator Morgan suggested that the
treaty should be made public, but Sem
ator Sherman, as chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, replied that
il should be examined by the committee
10 which 1t had been referred before be-
ing published. This suggestion was ac-
cepted, with the understanding that the
committee should have the privilege of
making the treaty known.
Following is the Presidents message
transmitting the treaty:
ITO the Senate:
u transmit herewith a treaty for the
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain. The provisions of the treaty are the
result of long and patient deliberation
and represent concessions made by each
party for the sake of agreement upon the
general scheme. Though the result
reached may not meet the views of the
advocates of immediate, unlimited and ir-
revocable arbitration of all international
controversies, it is nevertheless conf
IDENTIFY believed that the treaty cannot fail
to be everywhere recognized as making a
long step in the right direction, and as
embodying the practical working of a
plan by which disputes between the two
countries will reach a peaceful adjust
ment as a matter of course and in ordi-
nary routine.
I'm the initiation of such an important
movement, it must be expected that some
of its features will assume a tentative
character looking to a further advance,
and yet ii is apparent that the treaty
which has been formulated not only
makes war between the parties to it a
remote possibility, but precludes those
fears and rumorS of war which of them
selves too often assume the proportions
of national disaster.
1T is eminently fitting, as well as fort
unate, that the attempt TO accomplish re-
suits so beneficial should be initiated by
kindred peoples, speaking the same ton
que and Joined together by all the ties
of common traditions, common institu-
tions and common aspirations. The eX-
pertinent of substituting civilized meth
DDS for brute force as a means of set
tling international questions of right will
thus be tried under the happiest auspices.
Its success ought not to be doubtful,
and the fact that its ultimate ensuing
benefits are not likely to be limited to the
two countries Immediately concerned
should cause it to be promoted all the
lesson furnished by the successful opera
tion of this treaty are to be felt and
taken TO heart sooner or later by other
nations and will thus mark the beginning
of a new epoch in civilization.
Profoundly impressed as / am, there
fore, by the promise of transcendent gooo
which this treaty affords, do not hest
the expression of my earnest hope thai
it may commend itself to the favorable
consideration of the Senate.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Executive Mansion, January II, 1891
The Alaska boundary question will not
as expected, come before the general ar
bitration tribunal. No specific reference
is made to the subject in the treaty, bu
il is stated that this matter will be set
tied separately. By thus removing thu
Alaskan controversy Secretary Olney ha!
disarmed the formidable opposition to tn,
treaty that was developed among Sena
tors from the Northwest, and improved
the prospects for the ratification of th'
convention by the Senate.