New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Fifteen
Main Sections

The famous treaty is divided into
fifteen main sections, and represents
the combined product of over thou
sand experts working continuously
through a series of commissions for
three and half months, since Janu-
airy 18th.
1t is printed in parallel pages of
English and French, which are recog-
nized as having equal validity. 1t does
not deal with questions affecting
Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey except
in SO far as binding Germany to accept
any agreement reached with her former
allies.
When the ratified treaty is placed
in the State Department archives, It
will be by far the most important of
the many treaties now reposing in the
treaty room of the State Department.
some in plain wooden cases, others in
cylinders and boxes, some in port
folios, and one, Chinese production,
in a bag.
The most important treaty ever
signed by the United States was the
one signed with Great Britain, giving
US our independence. The first and
! last pages of this historic document
are shown above. The next most i'm
portant treaty in the curious collection
of faded documents is the treaty signed
by the United States and Spain at the
conclusion of the Spanish American
War in 1898. The first and last pages
of this treaty, together with President
McKinley's proclamation of signing
the treaty, are also shown above.
The first treaty ever negotiated b.
the United States was with France IN
1776, before our national independence
had been established. King LOUIS
signed it on behalf Of France and
Benjamin Franklin, Silas Dean and
Arthur Lee signed as commissioners
Of the Continental Congress. The copy
on file in the State Department Is
written on parchment. A blue and gold
cord attaches to it the seal Of brown
wax enclosed in round box Of solid
silver. The private seal of the French
king is on the top of this silver seal
box. 1t is written In French and
English.
The English copy of the treaty clos
ing the revolutionary war is written
in plain business hand. beginning.
'In the name of the most Holy and
/ HaI ply Nv i -
George r. Its ribbons are finished
off with tassels of red silk and gold
cord, and are fastened together with
wax seal inclosed in silver box six
inches in diameter.
The treaty soon to be signed at Yer
rallies will not be signed by King
George of England but by his duly az
thorized representative, Lloyd George,
the strong man from Wales
Our treaty Of 1914 with Great Britain
is much more ornate than the one
signed at the close OF the revolutionary
war 1t is bound in cover Of red
velvet, with the crest Of the Prince Of
Wales embroidered on it in gold cord.
The seal is inclosed in silver gilt
box more than seven inches in
diameter. ornamented on the lid with
the seal of Great Britain. This con-,
pact, which closed the fruitless and
destructive conflict of 1912, was nego-
tiated in the historic Flemish city Of
Client. The American peace commits
sioners were John Quincy Adams,
James Bayard, Henry Clay, who had
left the Speakers chair in the house
to serve on this mission, Jonathan
Russell and Albert Gallatin. The Brit
ish delegates were Lord Gambler.
Henry Goulburn and William Adams.
Copyright 1919. Otis F. wooa)