| Show Ni ARBITRATION R I I TREATIES I IN St SENATE A Tt tot tor to If They ulicy Ar AM Emasculated President PresLin in 10 dent Roosevelt Will VIII With Withdraw Withdraw draw Them I SOME SENATORS OPPOSE THEM lell c Do Not Wish Wl Ish h Their States Involved by hy Tei Te T CI Honda Horid Held Abroad Alroid and nI Which Have Jac lice Keen hit Washington Jan UIt the dit treaties now pending before the tha th Pi pi Pio United senate nr are r I o Q the president will withdraw them from tnt mt consideration lot let Jov O q i this thu be understood today At the tha conference n Ld Id h t him and prominent of or tho thu sen senar wc we weHe He Ue J Jj ato nto and house ho Informed the tho senu I tore ton he h desired tho tha arbitration treaties to 10 bo be ratified In III l hl hI opinion such action is le of at the highest Import Importance thi 1111 hi I ance ol ij rIo Tho treaties now pending Il wore l 1 by RelY Bery Hay with tho thu reports report ru rn ruton 4 of or tha thu and nil alt ot of them w wiro ro tl ton Ott III In lol r Tho rho conventions Into Inlo ero eroc I i with France Great Britain I iC c Portugal and Mi Ph Milot tot lot ItC j flu rte and H cy Hay felt In III Inn th thor SI n I t 1111 tho treaties that a it I or ft Stol step toward universal arbitration and ug 1 consequently CUll universal pencil poco had bw r I Hoth have havo of o that an all attitude Inimical to the tho con eon H should havo been assured by It some Homo of ot the Hie lie senators sella tor on i I Tho rho ha has ImPressed ed upon members of ot Congress particularly ot of V W tho th he wards H the Iho arbitration ti lr tina tion and a ft formidable us ar artho na naHe n tho best ireM assurance of or tho th United He lie States could havo have Ic I Thu committee on foreign re TO relations reo 10 10 lations I today continued consideration con of ut I i i tile the arbitration treaties 1 r t 1 Fire Tho treaties are opposed In IBI I form torm by southern senator who tIo til ith i do du nut not wish to have havo their states in involved In Involved 01 by hy of bonds hold abroad jr J j and winch have havo been repudiated by the i e cc I fr I treaties will bo he taken up at nt tha Ihl th id III I next meeting The Tho president ha In ad rid addressed II III dressed tho the following folio 11 I letter to Senator ll II rid J J Cullom chairman o 0 the nho committee on ondo rut rid ridda da rio datil i i tor relations l My floor t notice til th tilot tho the arbitration I In connection with general ot l hi tion treaties now before the tho senate that J have been made that under 1 t tire the effect of ot them thom It might ho bo i I to consider as all a matters for arbitration i claims dainis against certain states of at tho the thoU tt tl i Union In reference to certain state Uto U H I write rItO to say what of ot course r I I you OU personally know that under no noId nold sE B conceivable nonce circumstances circumstance could any Id ld J Hunt BUch construction of at the tho treaty be for forn rorI to tp I I 1 I n moment entertained by any ny 0 o I Tire fh holders ler of ot state debt utako rl rt u l them thell with full rull knowledge of ot the eon con tl U limitations upon their re recovery reo rev covery through tire the action of the tho nu nn nitI wr w v t solee government and Ind must rely sole ole solely i ly Iy on Oil credit Buch n I lalm cc eo vi vl e against n state could under no condi conditions tl u be he submitted by the general gov goy government Vi eminent us its u a n matter for tor arbitration any more than Iran such a I claim a It if I county or municipality could bo be thus thusel el 11 submitted for tor arbitration The rho objection to tho tire proposed y i f amendment on the tho subject Is la that It IH Is J 1 tho the matter m lter of or surplusage and that It tt Is Ie very Sery undesirable when the tho form of ot c these theo treaties has already been agreed 1 il 0 to by th the several I powers power concerned I It ly to add certain definitions which affect our Internal policy only tf re g which deal with a matter of or the tho rela relation cIa I t tion of ot tIre the federal government to the Iho thet H t states which It Is of or course courso out of ot tho the ii i question to 10 ever over submit to 10 the tha arbi arbitration X 1111 o I of any ony outside OUI ho tribunal and I ii y I which It Is certainly absurd probably pro probably I ably mischievous to treat trent as a to bo ho recommended by tIre the president or any foreIgn power i iR No one would ever think of such a 1 ae e R t matter as liS being belo one ono tot for arbitration or orone one oils for tor any uny diplomatic whatever Moreover these thele treaties run 1 only for tor II a term of five nn year yoa Until the I end of that period they will certainly I bo ho Interpreted In III accordance with the view above bove 1 expressed d J |
