The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-04
Already Tn ere Have
Been Mutterings of
Dis pproval
P r E SID E MT is
NON-COM INITIAL
Fate of Agreements Between
United States, Great Britain
and France Likely to Be De-
cided Before Special Ses-
sion of Congress Ad-
journs-Historic Scene.

Washington, August a-President
Taft will send to the Senate tomorrow
the general arbitration treaties be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and the United States and
France signed for this government
for Great Britain here to-day and
signed in Paris for the government OF
France.
70 the Senate were written and signed
by the President to-day. and to-mor-
row IL Will lie with the United Statas
Senate TO ratify what has been term id
the greatest step toward the abolition
OF warfare that tho world thus far has
taken.
Already there have been mutterinys
from the Senate over these treaties
President Taft IS -committal, but,
was anxious to put them before hat
body betoIe the adjournment OF tie
special session.
The ceremony o, signing the treaties
took place in the Presidents library
n the White House Small Formally
ATTENDED the ceremony. Secretary
OF State Knox. British Ambassa.io or
Bryce, Counselor Chandler Anderson,
OF the State Department: Osmund
Overy. second secretary OF the British
embassy; the Vicomte Saint Phalle.
OF the French embassy; two members
OF the Cabinet; score of newspaper
men and three photographers We're
present.
The treaty with Great Britain was
signed at $40 this afternoon. y
Cameras Click.
Secretary Knox and Ambassador
Bryce signed duplicates at the same
moments. while the photographers
clicked their cameras in accampani-
mec< 10 the scratching pens. The
French treaty was signed by Mr.. Knox
one minute later. The treaties out
OF the way, President Taft took his
laid the two messages TO the Senate.
He affixed his name. and then. so FAR
as the executive end OF the govern
ment Is concerned. the matter was con-
cluded.
The Presidents library bad been
cleared for the occasion. Only fiat
top mahogany desk vas left standing
that looks out over the White hSise
grounds ana he Potomac River
On the desk were the treaties the
messages to the Senate. an Ink vel!
with a golden eagle with outstretched
wings on an onyx base, two pens and
vase filed with goldenrod the ma
tional flower of the United States. 4
few minutes after 5 o'clock Secretary
Knox took his seat on one side OF the
desk and Ambassador Bryce found his
place just opposite. President Taft.
Mr.. overly, Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagel. Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson. Secretary to the Presi-
dent C. D. Hilles, Major a. w. Butt,
the Presidents aide, and Counselor
Anderson stood in a group at one side.
Mr.. Knox looked at the photogra
piers. took up a pen and waited.
"Ali right" said the camera men.
The secretary and the ambassador.
pens filled with ink, set TO work on
the instant simultaneously there was
a great clicking OF camera shutters.
Mr.. Bryce left the desk after sign
ing and Mr.. Knox remained alone.
Signs French Treaty.
The French treaty was passed to
him. and as Vicomte Phalle looked or
he once again wrote his name in
bold hand
"I think you ought to have that pen.
Mr.. President" said Mr.. Knox as he
finished.
NO. YOU had better keep 1t, Mr..
Secretary" said the President.
MIR. Knox carried that pen away.
and the one used by Mr.. Bryce was
taken BY a White House attache.
Ten minutes after the ceremony was
over Mr.. Bryce was walking down the
capital streets through the rain, ard
the President and Secretary Knox we..e
planning to play golf together AZ
Crevv Chase.
The British ambassador left this
evening for his summer home at Seal
Harbor. Me
American Initiative Crowned.
Paris, August 3.-American Initiative
in Unrestricted arbitration was
crowned to-day by the signing of a
treaty of permanent peace. bv the
terms of which France and the United
States agree to submit to a neutral
court all differences that may arise
between the two governments. even
though the dignity. honor and vital in
terests of either republic may he in
volved
The ceremony of afiixing the sigma
ture to the unprecedented document
was simplicity itself. but marked with
solemnity reflected in the faces of
those who had the homer to take part
They met at the ministry of foreign
affairs, in the office of y. Mollard chief
of the protocol. The treaty was signed
for France by Jean Jules L>,ssnrant,
the French amba ssador to the united
States. and in the presence o. Robert
Bacon. American ambassador al Paris:
arthur marcy B!aHcHaTu' secretary or
the American embassy: Eugene Pierre.
secretary general of the president OF
the French Chamber on Deputies. and
CASTOR Douchement, assistant chief of
the protocol, who officiated In the alb
sence of NJ. Mollard.
A copy OF the treaty as sigend Will
be forwarded Immediately to Wash
!ngton. IN exchange for a copy signed
at the American capital this after
noon by Ph!lander G Knox, the amer
lean Secretary of State.
An official note Issued at the foreign
JContInued on Second pagaC