The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-16


there is any desire to have fixet
Judges for the determination of thes,
matters. l understand 1t is advocated
for league Of nations that certain
persons shall be selected upon eact
side and the odd man determined by
lot If he can not be agreed upon, and
the matter is then submitted to them
MR. BORAH. Mr.. President, OF
course, do not know whether the sen.
ator has reduced his proposition tc
form or not. but the only forms have
seen SO far are those for a tribunal
of permanent nature, with power
to decide and power to enforce.
MR.. SHAFROTH. understand
they are not to be
MR.. BORAH. The senat tor says he
understands. From whom does he un-
derstand?
MIR. SHAFROTH. That this is the
situation now at The Hague. 1t is
the manner in which they are selected
there.
MIR. BORAH. The Hague has been
rejected and put aside, and we are
now dealing with another proposition.
Mr.. SHAFYROTH. 1t is an advanced
stage over what has been in the way
of arbitrating matters. For instance.
If you have a controversy between
Belgium and the United States it
seems to me that Belgium could Sc
lect three judges of her own and the
United States select three judges of
her own, and let the six select the
seventh. Surely that would be a fair
tribunal, and it would not be subject
to the decision of six judges rec
ognize that there is great difficulty in
getting judges Of different nations
who are to determine matters. I un-
derstand that decree made by tri-
bunal of this kind is a final decree
subject to no change or modification
whatever, and that being the case the
little nation as well as the big nation
Is fairly treated. If you have as a
basis justice and right, which will pre-
vail in the case of controversy of
that kind, you are not going to have
the incentive to war which it gives in
ordinary times.
MR.. BORAH or course j do not
know from whom the senator under
stands this program. If it has official
sanction back of it. of course, it is
an interesting proposition. But the
proposition that has been submitted
to the country does not contemplate
that kind of a program at all.
Mr.. President, we have seen in the
discussion of this league to enforce
peace that very few, if any, have been
willing to say that they are willing
to create a experimentation court
with power to render judgment, and
a police force to enforce it. There are
very few who are willing to say that
they are willing to submit the vital
matters, those matters which involve
the life and death of a nation, to the
court. Now. there come the other ex-
ceptions, and let US deal with them
for a few moments. and I will close.
The able senator from Illinois (Mr.
Lewis) says he does not understand
that this league to enforce peace, the
membership of which will be COM
posed of all the nations of the earth,
will in any way interfere with the
doctrine which was announced by the
Father of his Country in his Farewell
Address, to-wit, that there should be
no entangling alliances on the part OF
this country with the governments OF
Europe, his idea being that Washing
ton had in mind an entangling alli-
ance with some particular one nation
as against some other nation OF
Europe that as this league will CON-
prise all the nations of the world ii
will not be subject to the inhibition
which was given to us by washington
in his Farewell Address. have never
understood that to be the construc-
ton of Washingtons Farewell Address
I have never read it in that light.
do not know OF dHyOie eloc o"S0P'
the able senator from Illinois who has
Let us see If. it will bear that con-
struction. He says:
THE great rule Of conduct for uE
in regard to foreign nations Is In eX'
tending our commercial relations u
have with them as little political con
nection as possible. So far as W.
have already formed engagements, lie
them be fulfilled with perfect goo'
faith. Here let us STOP"
To what did he refer? He referre
to our treaty arrangements VIII
France, the only treaty Of alliance W.
ever had, and that was treaty Wit
one nation. He said, so far as Uni
particular treaty was concerned, or
for as our former engagements ar
concerned. let them be fulfilled wit
perfect good faith. Here let us sto
with all foreign nations. NO alliance
with foreign nations. Let there D
commercial alliances, commercial uh
derstandings, and commercial agree
ments, but all political connections
all political arrangements or under
standings are prohibited by the adVie
Of the Father of his Country