Gunnison news-champion., 1919-06-06
THE REPUBLICANS UP AGAINST
THEIR OWN ARGUMENTS

4 AA' ana consent OF
ne senate are used in the cons. itr-
tion with reference 20 the sen..ts'S
| participation in tn making Of a tr.aty.
and are well translated l.. the w,id
taufica;ion' popularity uscd IN this
Connection
The president negotiates tn. treaty
- begin with. He may employ su1h
agencies as he chooses TO negotiate
tho proposed treaty He m1y en,-
ploy the ambassador, If there b. ure
or a minister or g charge i'a..aires.
Or he may use person in privat. i'fe
who, he thinks, by his skill or knowl-
c''pc Of the language or peopls .. The
country with which he is about TO
deal is best fitted 20 negotiate the
{ treaty.
He may issG- TO the agent eros n
By hir1-and neither congress nor The
senate has any concern as 20 ..hJm
he choose-such instructions as seem
% him wise. He may vary them
frorr day 10 day. That is his ocn-
c. Ia. The SENATE HAS No RIGHT
Tc DEMAND THAT HE SHALL
/ UNFOLD TO TIE WORLD or TO
Il, EVEN IN kXECU1IEI, rs.
SION. HIS INSTRUCTIONS OR
The PROSPECT OR PROGRESS
or THE NEGOTIATION. gsa'd
right ] use that word advisedly in
o der to illustra,. what all men Mho
have studied the subject ar, wiling
TO concede-tha- UNDER THE CON
slITUTION THE ABSoLu re .'uW-
ER OF NEGOTIATION is IN THE
PRESIDENT AND THE MEANS
OF NEGOTIATION SUBJECT
WHOLLY TO HIS WILL AND HIS
JUDGMENT.
"When he shall have negotiated and
sent his proposed treaty to the sen
ate the jurisdiction of this body at
tachcs and its power begins.
THE president is so supreme under
the constitution in the matter of
treaties. excluding only the Senate's
ratification. that he may negotiate
treaty, he may send it TO the sem
ate, 1t may receive by way of advice
and consent the unanimous judg-
ment Of the senate that it is in the
highest degree for the public inter-
est, and yet the president is as free,
when il is sent back to the White
House with resolution of ratification
attached, to put it in his desk, never
again to see the light of day, as he
was free TO determine in the first in
stance whether he would or would not
negotiate it."
The above definition of the presi-
dents powers in respect to the ne
| gotiations of treaties was made by
John c. Spooner, REPUBLICAN SEN
ator from Wisconsin, and admittedly
one of the ablest constitutional law
yers who ever sat in either house If
congress, on January %, 1906.
l Oh n -, .
REPUBLICAN leader, of the senate.
was SO impressed by Senator Spoon
ers argument that, in the course of a
speech made the next day on the
same subject, he said:
"Mr. President, i am entirely
conscious of the great difficulty
involved in following the senator
from Wisconsin in the discussion
of the important subject upon
which he spoke to the senate
yesterday. l quite realize that,
after the manner in which he
dealt with those questions, any
thing that | may say is great
danger of being an anti-climax.
Where the senator from Wiscon-
sin has reaped there is very little
left for anyone else to CLEAN"
But, to make sure that there could
be no possible doubt of his complete
approval of the Spooner argument,
Senator Lodge added:
"We have no possible right to
break suddenly into the middle
of negotiation and demand from
the president what instructions
he has given to his representa-
tive. That part of treaty-mak-
ing is no concern Of onys
These words of republican wisdom
in respect to the treaty-making of
the United States are respectfully
submitted to those republican sena-
tors who are demanding that the
president submit TO them at once
treaty Of peace that has not yet been
negotiated, and are also threatening
to Intervene in the Paris negotiations
by framing amendments of their own
and sending them to the peace con-
ference.
Such action on the part of republi-
can senator's might be very helpful to
the Germans as evidence that the
treaty-making power of the United
States government is divided and null
lifted. Il might well serve to embar-
rass the conference, which is still
struggling over the most difficult
problems that diplomacy has ever
been called upon to solve. It might
greatly stimulate the bolshevild, to
whom it would be further proof that
no peace can be expected from cap
italistic government" But it could
serve no other ends except demon
strate the insane partisanship Of GER
tain republican senator's and their
willingness to plunge the world into
anarchy in order to crafty their per-
sonal hatred Of the president of the
United States.
Until there is concrete proof Of the
fact, we shall refuse to believe that
the United States senate has gone
crazy.
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