Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

Secretary Kellogg confidently antici-
pates prompt Senate rati1cation OF MS
fnutilateral pacts for outlawing war.
| There is every indication that the upper
house will break all records and give its
| constitutional advice and consent
without anything like the usual opposi-
ton which treaties from foreign powers
| encounter on Capitol Hill.
The two-thirdS vote necessary Tor rat
| ification is considered at the State De-
| partment to be we'll assured. 1t viii be
made up of large majority of both
Republican and Democratic Senators.
Some Republican Progressive members
may oppose the treaties, and handful
of irreconcilable Democrats of the Jim
Reed persuasion may indulge in fiery at
tacks on Mr. Kellogg's ENHANCEMENT of
| the United States in q world alliance
! for peace, but by no possibility is it
! thought that ratification vote can be
prevented.
Early in 1929, barring complications
now unforeseen, both in Washington
and other capitals, the remuneration of
war treaties should be part OF the law
of the world.
Kept Senate Informed.
One of the reasons why the Kellogg
treaties face smooth sailing In the Sem
ate is that the Secretary of State took
counsel at every step of their i1egotia-
ton with the Senate leaders. From the
correspondence with the French govern
ment in June. 1897, Mr.. Kellogg kept in
constant touch with Senator Borah,
chairman of the Senate foreign relations
committee, and with other influential
members of 1t.
Senator Moses of New Hampshire, a
leading Republican member of the COM
mittee was frequently consulted. Among
the Democratic colleagues of Messrs.
Borah and Moses, Kellogg conferred
periodically with Senators Swanson of
Virginia. ranking minority member of
the committee. and with Walsh of Mon
tana and Pittman of Nevada. There
even came to the Secretary of State
the assurance that his old-time Mime
sofa political rival. Senator Shipstead
Farmer-Labor member Of the commit
tee, Sympathized with the administra-
tons outlawry-of-wa program and
would support 1t In the Senate when
thu time came.
MFR Kellogg. as former Senator and
foreign relations committeeman, has
Systematically taken the members of
the UppcT mousse 1Ilt0 has CONFIDENCE on
international affairs. As a survivor of
the Versailles treaty revolution in the
Senate, Kellogg knows the susceptible
ities-and all the other ropes--of that
mercurial and temperamental body.
Expects Senate Approval.
He decided at the outset of the most
ambitious international program at
tempted during his regime at the State
Department to march toward its realiza-
ton shoulder to shoulder with the legis-
lative branch of the Government. whose
90 K" is necessary on all treaty occa-
sions. Accordingly, he has no reason
TO fear that Senate approval win be
withheld from the pacts shortly to re-
ceive the signatures Of the United States
and ID other governments.
Still another assurance that the
treaties win receive bipartisan support
in the Senate is seen In the fact that
both the Republican and Democratic
parties, at their recent national conven-
tons, approved them either in fact or
In principle The Republicans &C Kansas
specifically Endorsed Secretary KEiRgg's
plans The Democrats at Houston,
without mentioning the n1tiitiiateral
diplomatic negotiations categoricaliy,
went squarely on record In favor Of the