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SENATE s Teeth
IN TREATY
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acknowledgment Of the sovereignty
Of Cuba over the Isle Of Pines, to
| which one more or less wades out
| from the Cuban shore. The Cubans
maintain that the Isle Of Pines is,
| and always was, a part OF the
| Cuban domain and that when the
| United States promised to set Cuba
| free and did set Cuba free, 1t there
by equally freed the Isle Of Pines
from all foreign domination and re-
linquished it to the new free Cuban
government.
The opponents Of the treaty, on
the other hand, claim that our ar
rangement with Spain at the end of
| the Spanish war made q distinction
between the Cuban mainland and
the Islands" belonging to Spain in
the West Indies and that we more
or less have the right to keep the
Isle Of Pines even as we kept Porto
Rico.
Get No Compensation.
1t Is further maintained that in
any case compensation should be
| provided for the Americans who in
vested money in the Isle of Pines
on the understanding or theory that
! their properties would rest under
the stable protection Of the Stars
and Stripes. The treaty does not
give them any compensation.
1t seemed likely today that the
Senate in the end might send the
treaty back to the State Depart
| ment with the request that the
treaty be abandoned, but that ne
| gotiations be entered into with
Cuba for a cession of the Isle of
Pines by this country to Cuba
with compensation for American
| settlers.
In that case nothing final would
be accomplished regarding the Isle
| Of Pines in this session of the
Senate; and the Isle of Pines prop
osition would thus add itself to the
| German commercial treaty PROPOSE
/ ton and the League World Court
| proposition as one of the series of
good-by negatives given by the
Senate to Secretary OF State
| Hughes.
Others Not to Survive.
1t did not seem today that either
| the German commercial treaty or
| the League World Court resolution
| would be able to survive the oppo-
sition to them in the Senate in this
session.
The German commercial treaty is
getting killed by the opposition to
Il of Senators who want to retain
the right for this country to levy
on foreign ships in our ports diff
ferent burdens from those which
we levy on our own ships-a right
| which the treaty surrenders.
The League World Court resolu-
ton is getting gradually killed by
| the growing resentment Of Sena-
tors against the league protocol
recently adopted at Geneva, which
Is thought even by Senators for
merly favorable to the League World
Court to be highly obnoxious and
dangerous to the United States.
| Strange Deadlock.
Thus we arrive in the matter OF
foreign relations at the following
| strange deadlock:
The President and the State De-
partment have sent three important
treaties to the Senate, and the
chat, man Of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the Senate is not
really for any Of them; and the
Senate is likely to reject them all;
but meanwhile the chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, Sena'
tor Borah, loudly advises the Prest-
dent and the State Department to
call an international economic con-
ference for the settlement of Eu-
ropes economic troubles; but the
President and the State Depart
ment refuse to do so and are as
deaf to Senator Borah's plea for his
ideas as he is to theirs.
| So not much new action at this
time about foreign affairs today
seemed likely.
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