Show THE TREATY IS SIGNED against war the event of the he nineteenth century secretary olney and km fin ban nador attach tittle their mig signatures natures to the 4 engral Arb arbitral itra tion alon treaty between great orcut brit and nn tile the united washington jan ti secretary 01 ney on behalf of the UnIted Stat states egand nl sir julian Patince forte on the part of 0 ireal britain today affixed their signatures nat fires to a new treaty by which for a term of fi five ve years the two english speaking nations agree to abide in pence peace and without a resort to arms all possible questions of controversy being referred to a court of arbitration with the single exception that neither nation surrender its honor and dignity to 0 the judgment of the arbitration late in the day Pre president cleveland sent the treaty and a message earnestly approving it to the senate the treaty consists of twelve articles and in print would fill about one newspaper column one of tile the last pants paints to be decided was that king oscar 11 II of sweden and norway Is to act as the arbitrator in car case e the others fall to agree on the final member of the court the acceptance of the king and the final agreement on that detail was not cabled to lV washington until late sunday night and even then one small detail remained to receive the approval of tile the british foreign office offrice at li it this morning a cablegram from lord salisbury removed this last question and left the way clear for the formal execution of the instrument sir julian fote accompanied by lord gough first secretary ot of the embassy proceeded to the state department they were met it in the Secre Secrets rys private olice office by mr olney there were few formalities as the signatures sg natures were but the culmination of a negotiation covering fr many n y week 4 uia during which a complete understanding de tn din had been reached on every phrase ot of the me subject the diplomatic bureau had prepared two copies of the document they were not in any tense rense ornate the articles of 0 the agreement were engrossed in a fair hand on the simple red margin parchment paper ordinarily used for or treaties by the S state te department t the copies were laid upon the secre desk and then occurred a very formality the british ambassador produced a formidable looking document signed by lord salisbury bu certifying that he the e was authorized to sign for the british government a treaty bearing on the subject specified secretary olney rc plied by showing a letter president cleveland delegating to him authority to sign the proposed convention having thus satisfied themselves that everything was being conducted in the regular order the principals proceeded to the signature ot of the duplicate treaties sir julian tote fote had the I 1 honor of s signing gning I 1 first secretary 01 ney handed him the pen and he signed one copy secretary olney signed it first and sir julian fote signed after him this is the united states copy and likewise will remain in the possession of our government after the senate had passed upon it a copy will be made of our original and this will be used in the final exchange 0 of f of ratifications later on |