Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-31
LEAGUE COVENANT
UNACCEPTABLE IN
ITS PRESENT FORM
Continued From Page One)

Contemporaries W~<I~ISSS~-cOO~~--~-
mediately after March A. "to perform
its duty" of discussing the project
pointing out that with the president
and Secretary Lansing members of
the American delegation, there would
be no executive official to supervise
the negotiations from the usual want
age point of the president and Secre-
tary of state passing upon the WORK
of subordinates attending an internal
tiOnal COnclave.
The former seeretary's suggested
amendments, annexed to his letter 20
Chairman Hays, follow:
Strike out article XIII (relatng
to arbitration) and insert the follow
ing:
The high contracting powers agree
to refer to the existing permanent
court of arbitratnnTyat The Hague, or
to the court of arbitral justice pro-
posed at the second Hague confer
ence, when Established, or to some
other arbitral tribunal, all disputes
between them Gncludins those at
fecting honor and vital interests)
which are of a. hsticiable character,
and which the powers concerned have
failed to settle by diplomatic meth
DDS The movers so sreferrinp 10 ar
+ filtration tffn1iee ;1o Atccept and give
/, effect to the awansaJf the tribunal.
Disputes Of a justiciable character
are defined as disputes as to the in
depreciation of a treaty. as to any
question of international law, as to
the existence Of any fact which if es-
tahllshed would constitute a breach
Of any international ob1gatlon, or rs
to the nature and extent or the re-
paratlon to be made for any suen
| breach.
Any question which may arise as 10
whether a dispute is of a justiciable
character is to be referred for deci-
sion to the court of arbitral justice
| when constituted or. until it is con-
Stituted to the existing permanent
court of arbitration at The Hague.
Add to article XIV the follow
inc paragraph.
rrho eyecrtiyo oo,,noiI sbau COLL =
,,ena,,i co,fo,onco nf tho nowars -
Moot not lass than two vo,,,s ~. moro
th,n fivo ,,oors ,fto, tho signing Of
his convantinn far tho nurnnee If
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tionai law ana NJ agreai,,g ,,non anil
stniinu !, nn+bn,iIati,n fnrn, tho
nrinrinIos and rnlas, thereof
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that nurnosa eb9u he oolIad ANA bajd
at stated tinas 49,
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, - ~ , ~, ~ III
sort no fnIlnn,in,l ronor',ati3n. III
iuie'S american questions
lnasmueh as in becoming mem
Der of the league the United States
ofi America is moved by no interest
or WISH TO lhlfude upon or mterfer-
ence with the political policy or IN
ternal administration of any foreign
state, and by no existing or antieipat-
ed dangers in the affairs of the Amer
lean continents, but accedes to the
wish of the European states that it
shall join its power to theirs for the
preservation of general peace, the
representatives of the United States
of America sign this convention with
the understanding that nothing there
in contained shall be construed to
imply a REIMBURSEMENT by the United
States of America of its traditional at
ttude towards purely American ques-
tons, or to require the submission of
its policy regarding such questions,
including therein the admission of