The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-21
THE HAGUE PEACE TREATY
SUBMITTED BY THE president no
THE SENITE.
ofIts Traditional PO1tcies--NOt to In
trude or EntanSIe Itself AbrOad-Nor
is Its Attitude Toward Purely Ameri-
can Questions RelinqmishcdS

! Washington, Dec. 20-The presiden'
to-day sent to the senate the treaty ne
gotiated by the powers at The Hague
last July for the pacific settlement Oh
disputes between nations and the dec
laration to prohibit for five years the
launching of explosives from balloons
The senate Immediately removed the
injunction of secrecy. The president
message was formal letter of trans
initial, except that it invited attention
to an accompanying representation
from the secretary Of state urging i'm
mediate action by the senate. The sec
retary's report Is as follows:
ITO the President-The undersigned,
secretary Of state, has the honor to lay
before the president, with view to
their transmission to the senate to re-
ceive the advice and consent of that
body to their ratification, a copy of a
convention for the pacific settlement of
international disputes signed at The
Hague on July 20, 1899, by the plenipo-
tentiaries Of the United States, Belgium,
Denmark Spain, Mexico, France, Mon
tenegro, The Netherlands, Persia, Por-
tugal, Roumania, Russia, Siam, Swe-
den and Norway and Bulgaria. and a
copy Of declaration to prohibit for a
term of five years, the launching of pro-
jectiles and explosives from balloons, or
by other new methods of similar ma
ture, signed at The Hague on July 49,,
1899, by the plenipotentiaries of the
United States and the plenipotentiaries
of the powers represented at the inter-
national peace conference at The
Hague.
THE original of each of these two in
struments was signed in single copy,
which remains in the archives of The
Netherlands government. The depart
ment of state is advised by the minister
of the United States at The Hague that
since July 20 the following signatures
have been attached to the convention
for the further settlement of interna-
tional disputes: BY the plenpotentia-
ries of Italy on October IL, 1899; by the
plenipotentiary of Austria Hungary on
October II, 1899; by the plenfpotentiary
of Luxembourg on October 26, 1899; by
the plenipotentiary Of Servia on Novem-
Der II, 1899.
In signing the convention the fol-
lowing declaration was made by the
Of the United States:
Nothing contained in the convention
shall be so construed so as to require
the United States Of America to depart
from its traditional policy of not in
truding upon, interfering with or en-
itself in the political questions
or policy or internal administration of
any force states; nor shall anything
in the said Z convention be
to imply a REIMBURSEMENT by
the United States of America of its ira
ditional attitude toward purely Ameri-
can questions.
II respectfully recommend that the
attention of the senate be called to the
Importance Of immediate action being
taken on the convention / know the
fact that sufficient number Of ratifi-
cations will soon be obtained to author
ze the organization of the tribunal and
he large part taken by the United
States in the preliminary work renders
t desirable that this country should not
a secondary place
Respectfully submitted,
John Hay"
Accompanying the treaty is a signed
agreeing to prohibit, for a
erm of five years, the launching of |
,rojecties and explosives from balloons
II by other new methods of a similar
nature. 1t also provides the method of |
Ipproving or denouncing the conven- |
ion. The provisions of the treaty were |
published at the adjournment OF the |