The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-16
BREACHES PEACE
AND ARBITRATION
President Continues Campaign
Before People on Behalf
of Treaties.
URGES PUBLIC TO
USE IT'S INFLUENCE
Executive Has PrerOgatives as
Well as Members of Senate,
He Says.

10 press the treaties. and declared that
he did not fear the effect Of delay.
The longer the senate holds these
treaties-and he does not expect nc
tion upon them at the special session
the president argued, the greater will
be the opportunity for him to preach
the gospel Of peace and arbitration,
ments for the agreements.
"The senate he said, cor any
members of it, thinks that it's powers
are greater or less than they are, and
the limitations they insist upon inter
ferc with progress toward peace, or
any other great national or interna-
tional policy; the question whether
they are right or not must ultimately
be referred back to the people whose
representatives the members of the
senate are.
and. I do not claim infallibility, l am
quite willing to abide by the ultimate
judgment Of the people, but | deem it
my duty until shall receive an ad-
verse decision to urge my views upon
the senate and TO invoke the attention
of the people to these questions and
such expressions of opinion from them
as shall influence ratification Of the
treaties as they were signed.
Thousands Hear Address.
Thousands Of people stood around the
auditorium in the downpour to catch
glimpse of the president. The hall
is said to hold 5000 people, and
hundreds were standing when the presl-
dent arose TO speak,
The president left Ocean Grove late
tonight for Washington.
In his address he said, in part:
impartial tribunal. lest we may lose our
war as the only means Of settling the
international controversies when nego
tiations fail When we enter into an
arbitration, or an agreement, to sub.
NIT our differences to an impartial
tribunal, we must play the game
"It is generally quite impossible for
court TO decide case so that both
shall like the decision, and a court. to
decide between nations cannot fnd it
any more easy than q domestic court
to do this.
elf we arc going into the arbitration
game, if I may call 1t such, we must
play it through TO the end. and we
must take our hard knocks with
equanimity, as we expect others to
take theirs, with the hope and knowl-
edge that the disadvantages that may
accrue to each party can never equal
the horrible losses, the cruelty and the
wickedness of war;
Joint Commission Decides.
. Personally the president said he
would have been willing to provide
that all differences of opinion of inter
national matters should be submitted
to court of arbitration for decision.
but since public opinion perhaps was
not so advanced as this, the plan was
devised by which the question of the
arbitrable character of the controversy
was left to a.joint commission, consist
ing of three representatives Of each
party; 1tNo s-,,,, , .. ;. :.
within the power Of the senate in its
function of advising and consenting to
the treaties, either to reject them
or to amend them. They dc not amend
the treaties, strictly speaking; they
merely continue the negotiations by
suggesting another form to be sub
mitted to the other party to the treaty,
and that, I understand, is what the
foreign committee of the senate has
done, to wit; It has stricken out the
third clause, vesting the commission of
six commissioners. three from each
side, with the power to determine
whether differences are arbitrable
within the meaning of the first section
and to bind both countries when the
vote is five out. of six in the commits,
sion to the acceptance of a judgment
by arbitration upon each issue,
II think this very important part
of the treaty. I think it is one OF
these pledges of good faith in enter.
ing into the treaty that is essential to
make it step forward in the adjust.
ment Of international controversies
When we agree that we will submit all
justiceable controversies to the judr.
ment Of an arbitration tribunal and
what is iusticeab1e except ourselves,
we give little sanction or pledge in
advance of our willingness and anxiety
to. settle all possible controversies by
arbitration. -
Executive Has Prerogatives
Regarding the argument that the
senate, in ratifying the treaties, would
abdicate some Of its functions, the |
president said he had very little sym
pathy for this claim, as the powers of
the senate in making treaties remain |
He added;
When the prerogatives of the sen
ate are spoken of. the term fpreroga
tive does not make the power which |
II intends the senate has any more
sacred than the power of the execu-
tive in respect to the same subject |
matter. If the senate and executive,
netting together. may make contract |
of submission to arbitration, there is
very little limitation upon the scope
Of the questions which they have power
10 submit.
"I hoped that the treaties. when
submitted to the senate, would meet |
with early ratification and concurrence
In this I have been disappointed, but
do not wish 20 be put in an attitude
Of Expressing impatience at proper
elaboration by the senate on matters
If so great Importance as this, On the
contrary, I urge such delay and de-
liberation, because I am convinced that
longer consideration will satisfy the
members of the senate that the chief
objection which seems to be made to
the third clause Of the treaty has no
weight whatever.