Springville Herald | 1943-12-02 | Page 4 | Treaties will be Ratified by a Majority

TREATIES WILL ! BE RATIFIED i BY A MAJORITY i To prevent "the destruction of ' peace through the stubborn opposition oppo-sition of a wilful minority," Henry Breckenridge, former assistant Secretary of War, proposed immediate imme-diate passage of a constitutional amendment transferring peace-approval peace-approval power from two-thirds of the Senate to a majority of both Houses of Congress. The Colonel points out that a ; majority of one in the Houses of Congress can "plunge this nation into bloody war," but that representatives repre-sentatives of less than a tenth of the population in the Senate alone "can destroy any peace." The constitutional provision requiring re-quiring a two-thirds vote of the Senate to ratify treaties undoubtedly undoubt-edly gives to a minority absolute veto power upon the foreign relations rela-tions of the United States. There is a widespread feeling, : throughout the country, that this I is dangerous and that some meas-; meas-; ure should be taken to permit a i majority of the Senate or of both j houses, to ratify treaties.