The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENT.

The between the president and the senate
arbitration treaties that will easily
discussion of the protocol with Santo Domingo,
in the senate, will to keep it alive.
Briefly position is that it
constitution, give the executive
blanche arbitration other treaties in force
under the of By striking out the word
agreement and inserting the word treaty it said in
every Individual instance of arbitration under
treaty would have back to the senate
be ratified. president declines submit
the ground that they which do
not accomplish anything He already mas the power
negotiate particular point
telling countries by of general treaty
would future time, with the of the
senate negotiate special treaties with them.
In his letter to Senator Cuon the president said that
forward in the of general but step
backward and the president by the record to
been right in using these words
n 1S4S States concluded with Mexico
containing arbitration claim which ratified
the with amendments and which is today in
useful, for under it's arbitration provision
the president three years ago submitted TO Inc hague "
dispute the so-caed Pous fund. If the
right its action then the treaty with
Mexico than half century old is unconstitutional
Yet senate has protested against the executives
making of that treaty.
would though the Mexican treaty was an
emnently sensible arrangement 1t laid down line of
negotiation within which the executive might act and no
heard whisper of it's provisions being nim
ca to the constitution 1t was ratified by the senate at
constitutional questions much mooted
than they and Wnen there were as great consu
lawyers there in that body today
Assuming treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo was con-
situiona attitude of the senate is step
backward because impossible just such
this which has worked we'll and preserved the
this country and Mexico since the war OF
1916.
Besides, senate five years ratified The Hague
or treaty which provides that in
countries arbitrate difference between tnen
they shall first make agreement which Will denne
clearly difference it. Obviously what the president
arbitration treaties clearly dehned
authority and make such agreements as o1teh
would arise And just as clearly the senaes re
give this authority nulies its former actlon IN
ratlfylng the hague convention. from . ~. W. o,d
president this is another backward STEP we "ouo
better never have gone The Hague convention than
to have in with string to our adhesion ON ;
lines to principle arbitration in the interest OF uni
peace 1t cannot but prove discouraglng TO ne
other sgnatory find that the OF the
United States means nothing by its action .
The senate the horns of dilemma Either II
slept it's post and permitted the ratification o! liega
treaties and protest against them since or
suddenly awakened to new and acute sense
of its constitutional obligations
action the treaties intended 10 De
president? Viewed in connection with SEN
Hales vicious assault upon the president III
the naval bill an assault after the treaty
discussion which the president was coarsely ac
for bullying other nators Wouio
seem plausible have deliberately set out
to uphold rights in treaty even at the
| expense o precedents.
has thus opened war upon MI Roosevelt
we may be another motive back of the
warfare The alleged the executive encroach
ments upon prerogatives be nothing
but blind accused of being very much un
the naence of certain great Industrial interests
the president vigorously attacked under the law
against president mas asked for addltlona Ia"
that he might make for the people
ANY encroaching president has done has been
the direction enforcing the laws against these com
whose defiance existing statutes is fragrant
unblushing and felonious.
The people may afraid of an encroacning president
but the that they afraid OF an en-
croachng encroachng oil trust and an en-
croachng If the senate as active as
the president reducing these bloated monopoes to
state decency-nay if known to be at ali in
pathy with presidents efforts to curb themhe people
listen with patience to its plea for its speca
constitution the matter of treaties
Probably directly by the people wouls
not have so jealousy the president abroad MOI
show such indifference to his appeals for help at home