The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-16
ARBITRATION GETS D|SAPPR0VAL STAMP Committee Labels Treaty "A Breeder of Bitter
 ness and War;

Washington, August l5.--Almost in the l same hour that the Senate committee on l foreign relations reported today to the Senate it's conviction that the recently nehofii. o6 | A-ni-.a3sn 6eu 2 att. 1 this county and Great Britain and France were breeders of bitterness and
 war;" Germany, through her ambassador
 here was announcing its desire to be a party to a similar arbitration compact with the United States.
 Germany made known to Secretary of State Knox through Ambassador Won Bernstorff it's acceptance of the general principles of the arbitration as laid down in the secretary's draft recently sub mitted.
 A few exceptions were noted, however, and Count yon Bernstorff will sail Sat
 urday for Germany to consult his gov ernment further. He will return in Oc- tober.
 While the conference was pending in
 the state department the committee on
 foreign relations reported to the Sen
 ate that pending conventions with Great Britain and France similar to the one proposed with Germany would provoke war rather than peace if conssumated
 in their present form.
 The attack upon the treaties centered
 on the question of the Senate giving it's consent to the investiture of the joint
 commission with authority to determine,
 without consulting the Senate, whether
 matter of dispute is justifiable and subject to arbitration.
 l The report was presented by Senator | lodge of Massachusetts and the minority | os the committee was granted week
 to present it's views.
 1 Declaring the unselfish attitude of the ] Senate, and contending that it was the
 duty of that body under the iconstitu- , ton to defend it's own 'prerogatives, the | committee, report said: ] ",rhe inclusion of the Senate as a part of the treaty making power was provided upon mature consideration in the constitution and was deemed to be adapted to our system of govern : ment It has on the whole proved of the highest usefulness for the pre- yention of nasty and ill-considered lagreements with other powers and for preseryation of the interests of all and every part of the American peoples
 So long as that duty rests upon us We must continue to perform 1t with cour- age and firmness and without evasion or solicitation. .fss Hs s5.
 There are certain questions at the present stage of human development
 the report concluded" which If thus forced forward for arbitration would be reflected by the country anected, without regard whether in so doing they broke the general arbitration treaty orl not. In the opinion or the committee it should not be possible under the terms of any treaty for sucli deplorable situation to arise. Noth- ing ought to be promised that we are not absolutely certain we can carry out to the letter. X
 If the third clause of article } re- mains in the treaty it is quite possi- ble that the unhappy situation just de- scribed might ,arise and the treaty would then become, not what we fond ly hope it will be-. a noble instrument of peace, but an i'll omened breeder fl bitterness and war. Fors'that reason as well as on constitutional grounds and
 in the best interests of peace, and ar bitration itself, the committee rec 2 ommends that this clause be stricken from the treaty.'lft tiRt i7.lr