The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-05
NEBRASKA SENATOR
| DE|vDuNCES TREATY
|Charges the Administration
With Blundering Into En-
tangling Alliance.
SENATE LOSING POWER
Gilbert M. Hitchcock Takes q
Firm Stand Against the
Arbitration Policy.
|sENATE LOSING POWER

WASHINGTON, Jan. charging
,,t the administration was bluuder-
IA into an cntaugliug alliance With
c,.,t Britain. Senator Hitchcock Of
y,hraska on the floor Of the senate
,,i.y denounced the proposed arbl-
,stiou treaty with That country. He
;,l,rcd the plan TO permit the presi-
,rt 10 appoint commissioners to Il
~ court of arbitration without the
,.,put of the senate was revolution
N and dangerous.
fTs proposed treaty. he said. would
~ out this nations time hopored
.rle making plan and would result
tfually in the adoption of the system
g,diccl by the monarcbial powers.
The president could authorize three
r5missiouers TO name aud submit DIFF
f.ppees 10 arbitration without consult
jrr Constitutional representatives of
he people of the United States, ne in
s;isd. "Tbat is the legitimate and
honest Interpretation OF this treaty.
That is what the Joint high commits
,iop is for. That is the trap IN this
frestv. IL is device TO permit an en-
f,pgnc alliance by empowering our
erecntire 20 negotiate 2 treaty without
rfstraiut from The senate. With the
|eoyernInept of Great Britain, and in
M opinion, Mr. President, it must lead
ID an sntauglement OF the United States
h tbe foreign policy Of Great Britain. -
Extract From Gray's Speech.
10 support of his assertion. Senator
Hitchcock read au extract from
seerh OF Sir Edward Gray. secretary
of the committee Of foreigu affairs, in
N, house of commons on March Is last,
rhep be said:
'iBu,. supposing it took place, and
Two Of the greatcst nations IN the world
tere to mako II clear TO the whole
yorld that by agreement. such as that,
sbat IN no circumstances were going to
var again. ] venture 10 say that the
effect Oh the world at large of the ex-
ample would be one which would be
bound 10 bsvo beneficial consequences
II is true that the two nations who
did that might still be exposed to an
attack from third nation which had
not entered into such agreement I
think it would probably lead to their
following it up by an agreement that
ihsy wonId Join with each other in any
tsss 10 which thew only had quarrel,
With third party by which arbltra~
ion was refused.
"Mr. President, that is very siguifi
ant language the senator resumed,
Lolding ibr document alott.
s'lt throws n flood Of light upon this
proposed transaction between the
lmtsd States and Great Britain.
e"At tho time these words of Sir
Edward Gray were uttered the rela
lions between Great Britain and Ger
NAM were strained and they sre
slralncd even todal, as all the world
Knows and the talk of possible war be-
iEeeu Great Britain and Germany is
almost constant IN hoth these countries
When, therefore. Sir Edward Gray re-
'er,ed to The possibility Of a quarrel
Fllh third power, which refused arbi-
TATTOO, II is hard to escape the con-
eInaon that he referred 10 Germany,
ana i is easy TO see why under such a
s'osnditlou he would desire TO follow up
'oe pending treaty by an agreement
nrgh the United states to Join Great
b1faIn in her quarrel, If Germany re
Used arbitration.