The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-25
ARBITRATION
TREATY UP !
Vote on the Amendments to be Taken
Next Thursday.
THE FINAL VOTE STILL A FAR OFF.
Friends Of the Treaty Endeavor to Secure
Date For Final Disposition of the
Treaty, But without Success.
An Extended Executive
Session.

Washington, March Ex-senator Da-
Wis, chairman of the senate committee
on foreign relations, made a determin-
ed effort yesterday to secure unani-
nous consent to fix a day when the
final vote should be taken on the arbi-
tration treaty, but only succeeded to
the extent of obtaining an agreement
to a time for a vote on the mscel-
laneous amendments. The executive
session continued from 1880 until s
o'clock. Considerable time was spent
in contention over the effort to secure
time for a vote, and II was only after
decided controversy that the opponents
Of ratification agreed to a date for
voting on the amendments. They based
their opposition upon the fact that
there were a good many absentees
whom they considered desirable to
have in the senate when the vote
should be taken.
The understanding as to the vote on
the amenaments was reached on
plan outlined by Senator Hoar. 1t pro-
vides that the general discussion on
amendments shall continue until 2
o'clock on Wednesday of next week,
when vote is to be taken on these
which may be pending at that time;
are agreed to the treaty as amended
shall be printed and returned to the
senate, and shall stnl be open to
amendment, but that the final vote on
the amendments shall be taken at 4
o'clock the following day, Thursday.
The final vote is thought to be afar
Off.
The main debate of the day was upon
the Chiffon amendment providing for
submitting all agreements for arbitra-
tion made under the new treaty to the
senate for its approval before entering
upon a course of settlement Senator
Morgan supported the amendment He
announced himself as opposed to the
treaty in any shape, but said that if
it was to be ratified at all the amend
ment should by all means be accepted
otherwise the treaty would be subver-
sive of some of our most cherished
American ideas.
Senator Lodge made a strong plea
for the treaty without further amend
ment He said that while always a
warm advocate of the principle of ar
bitration, he had from the first con-
tended for amendments which would
render the treaty acceptable to the
American public. He felt satisfied, he
SAID, that the notifications made in
committee had accomplished this pur-
pose, and that the document as amend
ed was one that would commend it.
self to every supporter of peaceable
methods for the adjustment of dis
putes and to every friend of humanity.
He thought no other amendments were
necessary. He also held that the com
mittee amendments would in effect re-
quire the submission of all agreements
under the treaty to the senate.
Senators Davis and Hoar made brief
speeches, practically taking the same
ground. 1t was apparent during the
session that the friends OF the treaty
hold that the committee amendments
win accomplish, though in more dip
lomatlc phraseology, the end sought to
be attained by the Chiffon amend
ment. Several senators. among them
Messrs. Thurston and Spooner, asked
if this were the case why it should not
be explicitly stated, as in the Chiffon
provision. They advanced the idea
that the adoption of this language
might have the effect Of preventing
future misunderstanding