Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-09
FARM AID AHEAD
OF WORLD COURT.
BORAK DECLARES
Unfair to People to Waste
Short Session Without
Relief, He Says

WASHINGTON, Dec. - " bile
anxious to bring the world court
/ proposal before the senate, Chairman
| Borah, of the foreign relations com
mittee, declared TODAY he was unwill-
ing to put discussion of that long.
pending issue ahead of farm relief
legislation.
In the first formal statement issued
since his elevation to the post so
long held by Senator Lodge, the
Idaho senator said that to pass the
appropriation bills and then spend
the remainder of this short session
in discussing the world court and
kindred questions, adjourn and go
home for year without doing any
thing on domestic legislation would
be unfair and unjust to the people
Senator Borah's personal judgment
is that there can be no final action
on the court at this session because
of the press of other business. He
said today that it would take some
time to work out a program which
would divorce the court from the
League of Nations and that spea king
for himself, it was vital that this be
done.
League Friends Eager
Senator Swanson, of Virginia, the
ranking Democrat on the foreign
relations committee, and other pro-
ponents of American adherence to
the world court, are preparing to
press for decisive action before this
congress expires by limitation next
March 4. They believe President
CoOlidge's recommendation for a res
ervation under which the United
States would not be bound on ques-
tions of domestic nature not vol
unfairly presented to the court win
operate to remove much of the OBJ
lection to the court proposal in the,
senate.
Even these senators are con
Vinced, however, that there will be
a pressure of a determined char
acter for domestic legislation and in
view of the fact that the annual APP
preparation bills have the right of
way they are not over sanguine
that the court issue can come to a
vote at this session.
Il am quite willing Is chairman to
help" Senator Borah said in discus
sing the proposal to call up the
court matter fromathe senate calen-
dar where it was placed at the last
session. Indeed am anxious to
brinS before the senate the world
court just as. soon as the appropria-
lion bills. which. have the righr~ of.
way, and agricultural legislation
have been disposed Of | am not
who sent us back here"
willing personally to put the world
court discussion, which will be pro-
longed, ahead of agricultural legis-
latiOn.
Unfair to Voters
To pass the appropriation bin
and then spend the rest of the short
session in discussing the world court
and kindred subjects, adjourn and
go home for a year without doing
anything on domestic legislation
would be unfair and unjust to the
people who sent US back here; n vio-
lation of every pledge made by all
the political parties in the last cam
paisn.
at will take some time to work
out a program which divorces the
world court from the league and
make it an independent judicial
body. And, speaking for myself, it
is vital that we do that l have
favored for 90 years a world court.
But | would regard the effort to es-
tabhsh an effective judicial tribunal
as wholly fruitless if such a trib-
unal were left so that it would in
evitably be drawn into international
politics. When / vote for world
court L would like to feel that /
have voted for something that will
be an aid to world peace"