Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-19
Ratification IS
Asked Of SENATE
SENATOR MCt MBilR APPEALS
no HAVE TAFT ARBITRATION
TREArIlS PASSED.
increase FOR WAR FUNDS
Secs Bankruptcy and Paralysis iu
The knd-l'rcparcdnc-s l. No
Sure sian Of Seal Peace

WASHINGTON, Jan lS.- Senator
McCumber Of Nor,h Dakota, appeal,
ed to the senate to-day to immediate
ly raify President Tafrs arbitration
treaties witt England ana tranr,
without amendmcGN lie argued than
the terms of the treaties in no way
usurpod the constitutional rights %
the senate nor did they compel the
arbitration OF any fractional ques
ton Of the American poles, such as
The Monroe Doctrine or the control
Of immigration.
Ratification OF The treaties. Sem.
tor Mccumber declared, would give
to the cause OF arbitration such an
impetus mat like Treaties would soon
be made with all civilized nations.
Making for unncrsal Peace.
"When we have advanced civiliza
ton TO Il degree whore the ereat ma
tons will sign contracts where in they
recognize certain sacred rights Of
other weaker nations as non-assall.
able, said the senator, we have done
for peace of the world hundred
times more than is secured by the
mere submission Of minor differences
to arbitration.
with a treaty of This kind signed
by all the great nations the war with
TripOli would never have been hearo
Of, and the cries Of Persia for justice
and mercy would not now be ringinl
throughout the world. The time l.
coming when no great nation viii b.
able to borrow money from other NJ
tions to carry on an unjust war"
Appropriations on Increase.
Senator McCumber quoted statis-
ties 10 show that tae government.
appropriations for the army
navy had lncre-s,o -o0 per cent in
twenty years while the increase OF
population was A per cent.
England's war appropriations had
increased 115 per cent in twenty
years, he said. while her population
had been increasing 20 per cent,
who can fail to see what the real
end must be? Which country will
] first become bankrupt or paralyzed
in its further efforts, The nations Of
the old world are being pauperzed
to defend themselves against each
other This condition is crime
against civilization.
Sure Guaranty OF War.
You say preparedness for war is
the surest guarantee for peace. A.
between two nations Of equal power
with no contract or agreement or un
derstanding to bind them to a rule
of conduct that would be applied to
the citizens OF each, it may possibly
be true. AS against the small anG
weaker powers, however, it is tn,
surest guaranty Of war"
Senator McCumber took the posi-
ton that no construction Of the lam
guage of the treaties could bind the
United States to arbitrate a question
involving the Panama canal.
I'VE must properly say this is an
American question, not an Intern
tional one and one which could b
submitted to arbitration said he.
"For the same reason Great Britain
holds Gibraltar and the Suez canal
and for the same reason she guards
the Bosphorus and the Dardenelles. %
/ Senator McCjs Der took an oppo-
site view to the proposition that the
United States might have been com
PEELED to arbitrate its desire to re-
comfy abrogate the treaty of 1892
with Russia.
The detailed statement OF the ma
Jority of the foreign relations com.
mittee which proposed amending the
treaties, Senator McCumber took ur