The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-03-14
ARBITRATION PASSED
TAFT-KNox FORERuNNERS OF
UNIVERSAL PEACE RATIFIED
BY VOTE OF 76 TO 8.
R MADE.
Clause 8 of Article 8 Is Stricken Out.
Pacts Must Now Be Referred
Back to Great Britain
and France.


the clause, which it was claimed
would invade the constitutional treaty
making power of the senate and with
many other limitations added, the
general arbitration treaties between
the United States and England and
France, proposed Is President Taft
and Secretary Knox as f~orerunners OF
universal peace were ratified by the
senate by a vote of &c to 3. The SEN
ators, who voted against the ratifica-
tion, were Lorimer, MARITIME and Reed.
The latter two are Democrats.
Treaties Are "Up in the Air"
Virtually the treaties by the SEN
ate's action are up in the air" as
in their modified form they must be
referred to England and France.
BY the terms of an amendment pro-
posed by Senator Bacon Of Georgia,
the senate consented to the ratification
of the treaties with the distinct pro-
vision that they do not authorize the
submission ito arbitration of any
question which affects the admission
of aliens into the United States or
any question which depends upon or
involves the maintenance of the ira
ditional attitude of the United States
concerning American questions, COM
monty described as the Monroe doc
trine' or other purely governmental
policy"
AS amended the treaties provide
that all differences, with the exception
of the subjects named in the Bacon
amendment, which it has not been pos
sible to adjust by diplomacy and
which are justifiable in their nature,
shall be submitted to arbitration at
The Hague tribunal.
No official expressions were made at
the state department. Diplomats point
ed out what they claimed was a paral-
lei to the senate's action yesterday and
in that case, the treaties under con-
s%ideration never became operative. In
1906 under President Roosevelt, Secre-
tary Hay negotiated arbitration treat
les with Eng land and other powers
which providing that questions of vital
interest, national honor and those af-
fecting third parties, were not to be
arbitrated.
The senate by a vote of more than
five to one amended the treaties to
provide that any special agreements
for arbitration were to be presented
for its advice and consent. The treat
les were pigeon-holed in the state de.
partment.
Three years later, Secretary Root
now Senator Root, negotiated about
% arbitration treaties which the sen.
ate ratified, bat in each of those the
advice and consent of the senate to
arbitration was expressly provided for.
Diplomatists think the situation much
alike.
Washington, ID. c. Dinner par
ties were raided, hotel Hobbies invad-
ed and many theater parties broken
up as the result of a day-long filibust-
er against the private pensions bill
in the house.
The sergeant-at-arms and his assist
ants were the raiders and more than
so absent members were arrested and
hailed before the house to record their
votes. Among those was Mckinley OF
Illinois, manager of President Taft's
campaign. The bill was completed and
passed by the house.
Raw Wool on the Free List.
Free raw wool to follow free sugar
was reported to be the program OF
the house Democrats. Although Chair
man Underwood of the ways and
means committee has been for a down
ward revision bill, such as was pass
ed last summer and vetoed by the
president. it is declared that a majori-
ty of the Democrats of the committee
that a free raw bill be sub
to the caucus and indications
are that such a bill will be raifed.
With the $53,O00,000 e which
would be lost from sugar, provided for
by the proposed excise tax. the Dem
ocrats are free to provide a duty on
silk or rubber for the SIC, 000, 900
loss by placing raw wool on
the free list.
Washington, d. C. - Proposing to
rename the Democratic free sugar bill
IAN act TO surrender revenue. destroy
competition and create monopoly" the
Republicans of the ways and means
committee of the house submitted a
minority report on the Underwood bill
which will be the next tariff bills en-
acted by the house. The report was
by Representative Fordney
of Michigan. 1t charges that there is
union between the sugar trust and
the Democratic party and that the
free sugar measure Is designed to
catch tho votes of the consumer and
will In time deliver the coss>mer to
the mercy of the sugar trust.