The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-14
THE TREATY
Goes DOWN
Will Get No More Consideration
This Session.
THE STRENUOUS OBJECTIONS OF
SENATOR'S MORGAN, DANIEL,
MILLS AND CAMERON HAVE
THE EFFECT OF INDEFINITELY
POSTPONING ACTION LOOKING
TO ARBITRATION-A SERIOUS
BLOW TO HUMANITY.

Washington, Feb. 13.--.The meeting of
the Senate committee on foreign citations
this morning made it apparent that no
agreement could be reached on general
treaty of arbitration with Great Britain
that would bring the contending factions
either i'll committee or i'm the Senate to.
.ether.
While Mr. Sherman was not told so i'm
exact words, the inference to be drawn
from what Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Daniel and
Mr.. Cameron said was that under no cir.
cumstances could this Treaty be ratified
ut the present session. 1t is believed
that with the executive session of this af-
ternoon Mr.. Sherman will cease t. press
the consideration OF the convention and
permit other Legislative business to have
the right of way.
After an hour and n half spent in dis
cussing it the committee this morning
framed an amendment along the lines in
dictated in the dispatches of the Southern
Associated Press. 1t is framed upon
lines of the amendment of which MIR.
Morgan gave notice and puts into Ian.
ninye the interpret alton placed upon the
convention by Mir. Turpie
1t provides that all subjects to be sub
mitted to arbitration under this general
treaty must he submitted, after the man
ner and in the form provided for the sub.
mission and ratification of treaties orig.
ihally.
This removes the objections aimed Mt
the treaty Ivy Mr.. MORGAN and others, to
he effect that the submission of all sub.
ects to arbitration under the treaty ms
now worded would be left entirely to the
President. If it is amended as suggested
by the committees action of this morn
ing, only such matters as have been
agreed by the full treaty-making power
OF the United States, the President and
Senate acting jointly, can be submitted
to arbitration.
The power to negotiate and conclude
treaties in Great Britain is lodged entire
~ in the crown and is exercised for the
crown by the premier There has been
no suggestion that the British treaty
making power has been changed by the
terms of this treaty, and Mr. Turpie's
contention was that in like manner the
full treaty making power of the United
States was to sit on all subjects that were
to he taken before this high tribunal of
arbitration.
The Senate did not agree with Mr.. Tur.
pie, hut found the way to u possible solll-
ton to the problem in giving expression
To that Interpretation in the text of the
convention With such an amendm ent
the treaty is safeguarded absolutely, and
the friends of the instrument say there
should not he dissenting vote in ratify.
ing 1t for the reason that every question
would then cone up before the existing
Senate rs an original proposition.
The action of vhe committee in adopt
ing the amendment did not bring about
harmony On the contrary, the more the
whole subject was discussed the more
evident it became that the differences
were irreconclable. Morgan, Daniel,
Mills and Cameron refused to consider
the treaty in II favorable light even after
they had voted for the amendment. They
opposed the convention on general
grounds and said it was impossible fol
them to believe that the country woult
be benefited by it's ratification, mt the
present time ut least. They refused to
listen to the pleading of Mr.. Sherman
and his associates and declined to even
admit that the amendment had accom-.
plishcd what had been sought.