Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-28
FALL WISHED To
RECOGNIZE STATE
ALREADY EXISTING
Gives Out Statement Declaring
That In His Resolution To
Declare Peace He Wished
to Restore Trade.

Senator A. b. FAN gave the follow
ing statement to the New York Times
when he introduced in the senate al
resolution declaring the war with
Germany ended.
Senator FAN in a statement said:
War is a status of relations be-
tween nations. 1t is not status that
ordinarily is produced by legislation
or specific acts, but is condition
which is recognized as existing as We
recognized it to exist when it was
thrust upon us by Germany. That
state of war has ceased to exist. |
propose, therefore. by resolution, to
recognize the cessation of that status
precisely as formerly we recognized
its existence.
mo treaty is necessary to make
peace, which is simply II condition;
Just as no declaration to make war
The writer's on international law rec
ogni2e at least three ways in which
peace can be produced.
IF, now, we declare a declaration of
peace, peace in fact being restored,
we return to the old status of rela-
tiOnship. The treaty that is being ne
eOtiated in Paris is not an ordinary
peace treaty at all. I know of no doc
ument like it that has been negotiated
for the purpose of making peace be-
tween nations. Ordinarily peace
treaty presCribes the conditions un-
der which the nations are to live in
the relationsOf peace. 1t specifies the
terms under which navigation and
commerce shall be carried on. But
there is nothing of that sort in the
treaty they are making at Paris.
"The purpose of my resolution and
of the amendment | have offered to
the appropriation bill is simply to rec
ognize formally the fact that the stat
us of peace has returned. The return
of that status is a return of the rela-
tionship as to commerce and naViga-
ton which existed before the state OF
war was declared to exist.
"It must be remembered that while
Clemenceau, Lloyd George and the
others az Paris are engaged in actu-
ally making peace, President Wilson
is not making peace. He is merely
negotiating it. After the negotiations
it will not become peace until 1t IS
ratified here and the ratifications are
deposited The point is that the other
nations have processes by which they
arrive at peace more quickly than we
can because our procedure includes
ratification by the senate.
America at Disadvantage.
"As a result, the European nations
will be at peace with Germany before
we can, unless by such resolution as
this we formally declare the status of
peace to be resumed. The treaty in
cludes the provision that when three
of the major helligerents opposing
Germany shall have deposited their
Publications, the peace Will be ettec-
tive as between those three countries
and Germany.
That would mean that while we
were still discussing the treaty in the
senate those three nations would have
returned to peace and would be free to
resume their ordinary commercial re-
lations to the great disadvantage OF
American business. Our business men
would still be barred from Germany
while their competitors would be get
ting the advantage Of early entrance
TO the field My resolution aims to
give our.American business the advan-
tage of an even start and equal oppor-
tunity.
at is to he remembered also that
there is going to be a good deal OF op-
Dosition to the treaty of peace, as DIS
tinguished from the league of nations
I covenant The treaty does nothing to-
ward re-estab blishing the relation or
peace among the countries. The unit
! cd states gets absolutely nothing out
of the treaty. In effect. all it does is
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