The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1912-03-08
ARBITRATION
Is AMENDED
SENATE RATlFlEs TREATIES BUT
RESERVES CONSTITUTIONAL
TREATY MAKING POWER.
Treaties Must Be Ratified by England
and France in Amended Form
President Taft Declines to Com
ment on the Action.

Washington, March Stripped OF
the clause which it was maintained
would invade the constitutional
treaty making power OF the senate
and with many other limitations add
ed the general arbitration treaties
between the United States and Eng
land and France, proposed by Pres.
dent Taft and Secretary Knox as fore
runners of universal peace, were rat
flied by the senate today by vote OF
&c to g. The senators who voted
against the ratification were Iorimer
MARITIME and Reed. The latter two
are democrats.
President Taft tcaight before leav-
ing for his speaking trip to Toledo
and Chicago, did not comment upon
the senate's action. II is known he
had hoped TO see the treaties passed
unamended. He had declared public
ly, however, that certain amend.
ments would not be Objectionable.
Virtually the treaties, by the SEN
ate's action, are up in the air" In
their modified form they must be rat
flied to England and France.
BY the terms of an amendment pro-
posed by Senator Bacon of Georgia,
a. .oUota 1a,,eoptad 90 tlo rotifica
tion of the treaties with the distinct
provision that they do not authorize
the submission TO arbitration of any
question which affects to admission
of aliens into the United States, OF
the admission of aliens to the edu-
cational institutions. Of the several
states, or the territorial integrity
ed States, or any question which de-
pends upon or involves the maintens
ance of the traditional attitude of the
U.nited States concerning Americans
questions commonly described as the
Monroe doctrine, or purely govern
mental policy.
AS amended the treaties provide
THAT all differences with the excep
tion OF the subjects named in the Ba
con amendment, which it has not been
possible to adjust by diplomacy and
which are justicable IN their nature,
shall be submitted to arbitration
with The Hague tribunal.
Senator Lodge and others who
fought the senates action today de-
clared that the alteration of the much
discussed clause 8 of article 3, would
imperil the success Of the treaties
No official expressions were made
at the state department.
Diplomats pointed out what they
claimed was a parallel to the. SEN
ate's action today and in that case
the treaties under consideration nev-
er became operative.
In 1905, under President Roosevelt,
Secretary Hay negotiated arbitration
treaties with England and other pow
ers which provided that questions OF
vital interest, national honor and
those affecting third parties. were not
to be arbtrated. The senate by
vote OF more than five to one amend.
ed the treaties to provide that any
special agreements for arbitration
were to be presented for its advice
and consent. The treaties were pig
eon-holed in the state department.
Three years later Secretary Root
now Senator Root negotiated about
25 arbitration treaties which the sen.
ate ratified, but in each of these the
advise and consent of the senate to
arbitration was expressly provided
for. Diplomatists think the situations
much alike
AMBASSADOR Bryce did not comment;
neither did Jules Jusserand. the am
bassador from France
Senator Bacon and his colleagues
who forced the modification. declared
that nothing had been lost in the
cause of peace because As nations
were now parties to The Hague con-
vention, having in mind. they said,
also the treaties negotiated by secre-
tary Root.
The final action came at the end of
a long day of debate and following
ballots on numerous amendments.
The administration senators though
figuring on a close vote on the third
clause, and closely following the roll
call were surprised and confused y
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