Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-06-14
GOOD NEWS FROM SENATE

Evidence of crystallization of sentiment along national
lines in the United States senate at Washington is now
evident. The arms embargo resolution has been reported
out unanimously by the foreign relations committee with
the recommendation that it be made to apply to all ma
tons engaged in any international trouble If it is to be APP
piled at all.
The embargo resolution went to the senate from the
1se, authorizing the president to act In concert with
nations of the world to declare, if deemed advisable,
embargo against such country or countries as the pres
ldent might designate. Now the senate committee pro-
poses that such embargo, if it is applied, be applied to all
countries engaging in any particular outbreak of hostil-
tiles.
If we are to have a resolution authorizing the president
to proclaim an arms embargo, it is evident that the sem
ate committee plan is greatly to be preferred to the reso-
luton which came over from the house. With the senate
plan the United States in case of an outbreak of h%ostilities
would at least be able to maintain its neutrality if the
arms embargo was made to apply to all nations alike. LII,
however, the president were given the power to join other
nations after a Consultation to apply an embargo to
one nation and it's allies only, there would be a clear vio-
lation of neutrality and Uncle Sam could easily be pushed
into another World war without so much as a declaration
Of hostilities by congress.
Speaking of the one-sided arms embargo idea, Pro-
fessor Borchard of Yale, an eminent authority on inter
national law, declared before the foreign affairs commit
tee of the house:
cit is believed that the grant of such power to the
president is unconstitutional and dangerous. It gives the
president the power Il to make treaties with foreign
governments without the consent OF the senate; w to en-
ter into alliances without the consent of the senate; 81 to
violate the neutrality laws of the United States by en-
bargoing the shipment of arms to one of two or more bel
lgerents, and al in effect to declare war on the country
thus selected without the consent of congress. No such
power has ever been conferred on any president and it is
believed unwise, as well as illegal, for the house of repre-
s%entatives and senate thus to abdicate their c~onstitu-
tional functions"
In effect, such a resolution, if taken in conjunction with
q so-called consultative pact, would enable the president,
whoever he might be, to determine who in his opinion was
the aggressor IN any war which might break out, and join
other nations In placing an farms embargo' against such
nation for the purpose of furnishing it. Congress would
have no voice In the matter. And when we stop to re-
member that IN every war which breaks out it is difficult
to determine the aggressor, especially on the spur of the
moment we see just what sort of trouble the United
States might be letting itself in for.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that the United States. re-
mndfui OF the same part 1t has always played in the con-
adopts any arms embargo plan which, because of its abo-
htion of neutrality in case of trouble, might nlun0a tba