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Show PREACHES PEACE AND AfijlATiON President Continues Campaign Before People on Behalf of Treaties. URGES PUBLIC TO USE ITS INFLUENCE Executive Has Prerogatives as ' Well as Members of Senate, He Says. OCEAN GROVE N. J., Aug. 15. President Taft continued -his campaign before tho people in behalf ot tlio British and Franco general arbitration arbitra-tion treaties here tonight. Speaking before the Ocdan Grove Camp Meeting Meet-ing association, the president reviewed the terms and meaning of the pacts; urged the people to use their influence to press the treaties, and declared that ho did not fear tho effect of delay. Tho longer the senate holds these treaties and ho does not expect action ac-tion upon them at the special session the president argued. the4 greater will be the opportunity tor him to preach the gOBpel of peace and arbitration, and tho greater will grow the sentiments senti-ments for the agreements. "The senate, he said, "or any members of it, thinks that its powers arc greater or less than they are, and the limitations they insist upon interfere inter-fere with progress toward pence, or any other groat national or international interna-tional policy; the question whether they are rignt or not must ultimately be referred back to the people whosu representatives the members of the senate are. "If I am wrong in my judgment, and. I do not claim infallibility, T am (juite willing to abide by the ultimato judgment or tho people, but; I deem it my duty until' T shall receive an adverse ad-verse decision to urge my views upon the sennte and to invoke the attention of the people to these questions and Bitch expressions of opinion from them as shall influence a ratification of the treaties as they were signed." Thousands Hear Address. Thousands of people stood around tho auditorium in the downpour to catch a glimpse of the president. The hall is saicl to hold S000 people, and hundreds were standing when the president presi-dent arose to speak. . The president left. Ocean Grove late tonight for Washington. In his address he said, in part: "If we are afraid to submit to an fmpnrtial tribunal, lest wo may lose our case, then we would better go hack to war as the only means of settling the international controversies when negotiations nego-tiations fail. When we enter into an arbitration, or an agreement, to submit sub-mit our differences to an impartial tribunal, we must 4 play the game.' 1 "It is generally quite impossible for a court' to decide a case so that both shall like the dpcisjont. and j Qour.t,.to decide between nations cannot, fiud it any more easy than a domestic cdurt to "do this. "If we aro going into the arbitration game, if I may call it Buch, we must pla' it. through to tho end. and wc must take our hard knocks with equanimity, as we expect others to tako theirs, with the hopo and knowl-.edgo knowl-.edgo that, the, disadvantages that, may accrue to each party can never equal the horrible losses, tho cruelty and tho wickedness of war." Joint Commission Decides. . Personally the president said ho would have .been willing to provide that all differences of opinion of international inter-national rnattcrs should bo submitted to a court of arbitration for decision, but since public opinion perhaps was not so advanced as this, the plan was devised by which tho question of the arbitrable character of the controversy was loft to adjoint commission, consist ing of three representatives of each party. , 'Now. I freely concede that it is within tho power of the senate in its function of advising and consenting to the treaties, either to reject them or to amend thorn. They do not amend the treaties, strictly s'peaking; they merely continue the negotiations by suggesting another form to bo submitted sub-mitted to tho other party to the treaty, and that, I understand, is what the foreign committee of the senate has done, to wit: It has stricken out the third clause, vesting the commission of six commissioners., three from each side, with the power to dotermino whether differences nre- arbitrable within the meaning of tho first section, and to bind both countries when the .vote is five ouUof six ip the commission commis-sion to the acceptance of a judgment by arbitration upon each issue. "I think this a very important part of tho treaty. I think it is one of these pledges of good faith in entering enter-ing into the treaty that is essential to mako it a step forward in the adjustment adjust-ment of international controversies. When we agree that wo will submit all justiceable controversies to the judgment judg-ment of an arbitration tribunal and docline to allow anybody to decide what iB justiceab except ourselves, we give little sanction or pledge in advance of our willlnguess and anxiety to settle all possible controversies by arbitration." Executive Has Prerogatives. Regarding tho argument that, tho senate, in ratifying the treaties, would abdicate some of its functions, the president said he had very little sympathy sym-pathy for this claim, as the powers of tho Konato in making treaties remain unchanged. He added: "When the prerogatives of the son-ato son-ato are spoken of, the term 'proroga tive' does not make the power which it intonds tho senato has any mord" sacred than the power of tho exocu-tivo exocu-tivo in respect to tho samo subject matter. If the senate and executive, acting together, may make a contract of submission to arbitration, thoro is very little limitation upon tho scope of .the questions which they have power to submit, "1 hoped that the treaties, whon Bitbmittrcl to tho senate, would meet with early ratification and concurrence. In this X havo .been disappointedt but I do not wish to bo put in an attitude of expressing impatience at a proper deliberation by tho senate on matters of so great importanco as this. On tho contrary, I urge such delay and deliberation, de-liberation, because I am convinoed that longer consideration will satisfy the members of tho senate that the chiof objection which seems to bo made to tho &ird clauso of tho treaty has no weight whatever." |