The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-25
HOAR'S PLAN ADOPTED.
Senate Will Voteon Arbitration Treaty
Amendments Next Thursday.
Davis Endeavored to Have
Day Set For Final Action.


Washington, March 25.-In the senate
yes'erday the agricultural appropriation
Dill was reported and placed on the
calendar. Mr.. Cullom giving notice that
ne would ask consideration of II at an
early date. gsI|l,I
Mr.. Cullom introduced a bill for a
monument to Abraham Lincoln at Get
tysburg, Pa.
Mr.. Allen followed up his attack on
civil service by the Introduction of a
bill to repeal and annul the civil SER
vice act. all acts supplementary to it
and all executive orders issued there
en-. ~
In executive session, Senator Davis,
chairman of the senate committee on for
eign relations. made a determined effort
to secure unanimous consent to fix day
when the final vote should be taken on
the arbitration treaty, but only sue
ceded TO the extent Of securing an agree
ment to time for q vote on the miscel-
laneous amendments. Considerable
time was spent in contention oventhe
effort to secure a time for a vote, and II
was only after decided controversy that
the opponents Of ratification agreed to
q date for voting on the amendments.
They based their opposition on the fact
that there were q good many absentees
whom they considered 1t desirable to
have In the senate when the vote should
be taken.
The understanding as to the vote on
the amendments was reached on plan
outlined by Senator Hoar. II provides
that the general discussion on amend
p.ents shall continue until 2 o'clock
on Wednesday Of next week, when a vote
is to be taken on those which may be
pending at that time; that in case any
OF the amendments are agreed to, the
treaty as amended shall be printed and
returned to the senate, and shall still
be opened to amendment, but that the
be open to amendments, but that the
final vote on the amendments shall be
taken at 4 o'clock the following day,
Thursday.
The main debate Of the day was upon
the Chiffon amendment, providing for
submitting all agreements for arbitra-
tion, made under the treaty, to the SEN
ate for it's approval before entering
upon course Of settlement. Senator
Morgan supported the amendment. He
announced himself as opposed TO the
treaty In any shape, but said that IL IL
was TO be ratified at all, the amendment
should by ali means be accepted; other
wise the treaty would be subversive of
some of our most cherished American
ideas.
Senator Lodge made a strong plea for
the treaty without further amendment.
He said that while always a warm ad-
vocate of the principles of arbitration,
he had from the first contended for
amendments which would render the
treaty acceptable to the American pub
lie. He felt satisfied, he said. that the
notifications made in committee had
accomplished completely this purpose,
and that the document. as amended, was
one that would commend itself to every
supporter of peaceful methods for the
agreement of disputes, and every friend
of humanity.
no cessary. He also held that the COM
mittee amendments would, in effect, re-
quire the submission of all agreements,
under the treaty, to the senate.
Senator'S 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
will accomplish, though in more Dip
lomatic phraseology, the end sought TO
be attained by the Chiffon amendment.
Several senator's, among them Messrs.
Thurston and Spooner. askedi 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.