The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-12
SENT TO THE SENATE.
Treaty Submitted With Message
From the President.

w WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE ar
bltratiOn treaty between this country
and Great Britain was delivered to the
senate at o'clock today. Afterwards
in executive session it was referred to
the committee on foreign relations and
without being read was ordered to be
printed. The presidents message
transmitting the documents was read
1t was as follows
The following is the text of the pres
ldentS message transmitting the gen
eral arbitration treaty to the senate:
| transmit herewith a treaty for the arbi-
tration of all matters in difference between
the United States and Great Britain. The
provisions of the treaty are the result of long
and patient deliberation and represent con-
lessons made by each party for the sake
CT agreement upon the general scheme
Ihough the result reached may not meet
the views of the advocates of Immediate
unlimited and irrevocable arbitration of ali
International controversies, it is nevertheless
confidently believed that the treaty cannot
rail- to be everywhere recognized as making
a long step In the right direction, and as
embodying practical working plan by
which disputes between the two countries
will reach a peaceful adjustment as matter
of course, and in ordinary routine.
In the initiation of such an important move
ment 1t must be expected that some of the
features will assume tentative character,
looking to a further advance and yet it is
apparent that the treaty which has been
formulated not only makes war between
the parties to 1t remote possibility but
pTeciudes these fears and rumors of wars
which Of themselves too often assume the
proportions OF national disaster.
1t is eminently fitting as well fortunate
that the attempt to accomplish results so
beneheent should be initiated by kindred peo-
pies, speaking the same tongue and Joined
together BY the ties of common traditions
common institutions and common aspirations
The experiment of substituting civilized meth
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international questions of right will thus be
tried under the happiest auspices. Its sue
cess ought not to be doubtful. and the fact
that its ultimate benefits are not likely to
be limited to the two countries Immediately
concerned should cause it to be promoted
all the more eagerly. The example set and the
lesson furnished by the successful operation
or this treaty are sure 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. .,..-t-
Profoundly impressed as I am therefore
by the promise of transcendent good which
this treaty affords, / do not hesitate to &C.
company its transmission with an expression
of my earnest hope that it may commend
itself to the favorable consideration of the
senate. Grover Cleveland
Senator Morgan suggested that the
treaty should be made public. but SEN
ator Sherman as chairman of the COM
mlttee on foreign relations, replied that
it should be examined by the commit
tee TO which 1t had been referred be-
fore being published. This suggestion
was accepted with the understanding
that the committee should have the
privilege of making the treaty known.
The two treaties providing for the
mutual extradition of criminals be-
tween the United States and the Argen-
tine republic and the United States
and the Orange Free, State were rati-
fed after being amended in phraseo-
logy so as to conform to similar trea-
ties with other countries