The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

tinue to insist that a Senate which has
thirty obstructionists and enemies of arbi-
Qnd)
The Senate has acted in a way that will
displease and disappoint many and that
will please and satisfy many others But
in either view of the case it has acted
within its rights, and with due regard for
It's responsibilities as a part of the treaty
making or FREDERICKSBURG power.--New
York Tribune (RepD
The apathy of senator's was shown by
the fact that over one-half of them failed
to vote at all The apathy of the public
is equally conspicuous Meanwhile it still
remains true that the best sort or arpltra-
ton in the future will besa defensive ability
on our part equal to the offensive ablllty
of Great Britatn.-Chicag Tribune (Rep.)
The ideas underlying this attempt to ad-
vance civilization will not be banished from
the popular thought by so manifestly I'M
representative a result as this They will
continue i'm spite of the rejection OF the
treaty, to guide and control country that
loves peace and believes in reason as d
better argument than brute tOrce.-NeW
York World (Dem.)
In the end the process of amendment was
carried to an extreme, and in freeing the
treaty from objection on one side 1t was
left open to objection on the other. Never
theless with its faults it was still move
ment forward in the pathway OF peace, rea-
shade on the good name of the Republic
Philadelphia Press (Rep)
After the treaty had been emasculated
as it was by the committee on foreign af-
fairs, it established no vital difference as
to the actual progress in the direction ION OF
peace whether the treaty was ratlned or
not But the record which is thus estab-
lished of repudiating a policy 10 Whlch
the United States has long been pledged
discredits the Nation IN the lace Oh the
world-Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.)
The cause of arbitration is too important
to be allowed to languish. There is danger
that the people of Great Britain will con-
strue the vote in the Senate to mean that
the people of the United States are not
in favor of arbitration. This would be far
earnestly in favor of the principle of arbi-
traton, and this vote does not change their
attitude.-Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep)
In time the profound desire of the Ameri-
can people for unbroken friendly relations
with England will find expression in some
such Anglo-American treaty as that which
the Senate amended to death and then cast
out; but it will have to be when the SEN
ate is made up of men of greater states
manship and wider view than those who
have undone the splendid achievement of
the State Departments of the two nations
Detroit Free Press (Dem.)
The people, the men and women who in
the end are the government of this Ma
ton, have spoken their approval of this
beneficent and far-reaching compact of
peace and while its terms may not be for
the time placed upon the statute book, they
are written where they will be Tar more
abiding and forceful. The Senate, in rend-
ing and trampling upon this great cove
nant has only exhibited its own impotence
and folly and at the same time emphasized
it's degeneracy. - Chicago T1meS-Herald
(Rep.)
How can future advances from our gov
eminent in the interest of the arbitration
idea be taken seriously by other powers,
now that a concession to our urgent re-
quest in this behalf has been hurled back,
accompanied by contumely and insult, at
the nation that made it? Happily, nothing
that the Senate can do will alter the facts
the peoples Of the English-speaklng world
in increasingly closer bonds Of friendship
and of sentimental, social and commerclal
union.-Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
The unfavorable criticisms were not con-
fined to Lingo senator's, y but were made
by men of high reputation for knowledge
of international law. In the endeavor to
guard against possible dangers by amend
ments new difficulties became apparent ana
the chances of ratification diminished we
repeat the principle of arbitration mas not
been affected by the rejection OF an omnl-
bus arbitration agreement. Every dlfhcuity
that arises can still be arranged by dlplo-
matic negotiations, and when this ta1lS a
sneciaI agreement for arbitration may be
made as observation-disclosures Ram
Dealer Dem.)