The record-union., 1897-02-03
THE TREATY OF ARBITRATION.
MATERIALLY CHANGED IN MANY
RESPECTS
Since 1t Has Been Taken in Hand by
the Senate Committee on For
eign Relation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-The text Of
the changes made in the general arbi-
tration treaty by the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations is as follows:
Assent to Senate Article / to read as
follows The high contracting parties
agree to submit to arbitration in ac-
cordance with the provisions and sub
ject to the limitations of this treaty
All questions in difference between them
which they may fail to adjust by dip
lomatic negotiations"
The Senate Committee to this added:
But no question which affects the for
eign or domestic policy Of either of the
high contracting parties or the relations
of either to any other State or Power, by
treaty or otherwise, shah be a subject
for arbitration under this treaty, ex-
cept by special agreement"
Article is amended by giving each
Government two instead of one jurist Of
repute, and the following is stricken
from the article: In case they shall
fail to agree upon an umpire within
three months of the date of an appli-
cation made to them in that behalf by
the high contracting parties, or either
of them, the umpire shall be selected in
the manner provided for N Article 10.
In Article v the following has been
stricken out: In case they shall fail TO
agree upon an umpire within three
months of the date of an application
made to them in that behalf by high
contracting parties, or either of them,
the umpire shall be selected in the
manner provided for in Article X"
Wherever the word person" is used,
meaning the fifth member of the tri-
bunal, person" is stricken out and
umpire" inserted.
Article of the original treaty reads
as follows: OBJECTIONS to jurisdiction
of arbital tribunal constituted under
this treaty shall not be taken except
as provided in this article. If before
the close Of hearing upon the claim
submitted to arbital tribunal cOnsti-
tuted under Article , or Article >, either
of the high contracting parties shall
move such tribunal to decide and there
upon it shall decide, that the determin
alton of such claim necessarily in
wolves a decision of the disputed ques-
ton of a principle of grave general i'm
portance, affecting the national rights
of such party as distinguished from
l
| international representative the juris-
diction of such arbital tribunal over
such claim shall cease, and the same
shall be dealt with by arbitration under
! Article q.
Article I was amended by the COM
mittee as follows: reflections TO the
| jurisdiction Of the arbital tribunal con-
| stituted under this treaty shall not be
| taken except as provided in this arti-
| Gle. If at any time before the close of
| the hearing upon the matter, except
| territorial claims submitted to the ar
| bitral tribunal constituted under this
| treaty, either of the high contracting
| parties shall declare that deternina-
| ton of such matter necessarily in
| wolves decision of the disputed ques-
| ton which is excluded from arbitration
| except by special agreement by opera
| ton of Article ], then the jurisdiction
| of such arbitral tribunal over such
matter shall cease"
| The cOmmittee struck out entirely.
and without inserting anything in It's
place. Article 10, which provided that
| King Oscar of Sweden should have the
naming of the umpire in case Of dis
| pute.