The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-20
SENATE INOULGES IN HOT AR GUMENT OVER GENERAL AR
 EXPIRATION TREATIES.
ROOT AND O'GORMAN CLASH
Latter Attacks Carnegie Peace Foun. dalton Fund as Move for Private Gain-Vcte Postponed on, Account of Senator Bacon's Funeral

Washington, Feb. 19.-Extension of general arbitration treaties with for
 eign nations as the first move in the general policy of the administration to rehabiitate foreign relations of the United States seemed assured to- night, after the senate had taken up
 consideration of expired treaties and
 had closly defined issues involved in
 the situation confronting the nation. Before the debate in the senate be- gan on treaties with Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, | Portu gal and Switzerland, President Wilson had conferred with senators and representatives about the treat | es, as well as the paramount issue of
 Panama canal tolls. He was assured 1 that leaders of both houses would
 vote to repeaI the tolls exemption for 1 American ships after the treaties had
 been ratified.
 During the conferences the presi- dent explained that it was the univer- l sal view of European nations tha. 1 the United States had violated the | Hay-Pauncefote treaty by the exemp-
 tion clause in the Panama canal act- He said no official representation to | that effect had been presented; ir fact, that there had been no protest from Great Britain during the pres
 ent administration, but that he knew l the impression was broadcast in Flu
 rope that the United States was be-
 coming remiss in the keeping of her
 treaty obligations
 In the senate the lines of demarc- ation as to the foreign policy of the government were drawn sharply when Senator Chamberlain of Oregon sub.
 mitted d general amendment to all pending treaties which would exempt from arbitration by The Hague trib-
 unal the following subjects:
 Admission of aliens into the Unitss States.
 Admission of alien children into the schools of the various states Gnvolv-
 ing the Japanese question on the Pa
 cifc coasU.
 All questions arising from the Mon-
 roe doctrine.
 Provision of the Panama canal act exempting American coastwise ship
 ping from tolls.
 Discussion of the subject enliyened the senate behind closed doors, as it had not been moved in many days, and a clash between Senators O'Gor-
 man and Root of New York marked the climax of heated debate. Sena- tor O'Gorman assailed the Carnegie endowment for international peace of which Senator Root is president, de
 claring it's prime motive was a cor
 rupt one; that it did not seek to pro mote international peace, but to cre- ate an international alliance between Great Britain and the United States for the benefit of individuals who would profit from such a consumma
 tion. Senator Root, taking the re-
 marks of his colleague as personal
 offense resented them in vigorous
 language and precipitated long dis | cussion.
 Senator Shively, acting chairman Of
 the foreign relations committee, call
 ed up the treaties when the senate
 had proceeded to consultation Of eS ecutive business and in a speech out lining the importance of restoring the
 Relationship of the United States with other great powers of the world, ap- pealed to the senate to disregard io- cal issues for the common welfare. ilHe offered a resolution that the treaty with Spain. waich had expired after five years of existence, be extended
 without amendment This was in ac' cordance with the plan of the com mittee to have threshed out all the | issues before a vote is taken on any
 of the treaties. it being the purpose
 to leave the British and Japanese treaties until the last. After the eX' acutiye session Senator Shively and
 others asserted that the situation was
 well in hand and predicted ratlnca-
 ton of all the treaties by a commit ice by a comfortable majority
 Senator Chamberlain opened the
 fight against the treaties on behalf
 of democrats who are opposed to re-
 peal of the free tolls provision of the Panama canal act He declared op-
 position to all arbitration paets on