Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-17 | Page 2 | Rayner Talks on Arbitration Treaties

f RA YHER TALKS M ARBITRATION TREATIES WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Senator Hnyner of Maryland, la a speoch today to-day on the arbltiatlon treaties with Great Britain and France, contended that after tho proposed Joint high commission had determined to submit a controversy to arbitration It would he useless to give tho senato the right to reverse tho commission's action Ho declared to the senate that tho treaties would become a mockery and a farce if such a resolution, permitting per-mitting arbitrators to decide u case, and thon giving the defendant right to roverao It If the,, award did not suit, were written Into tho ratification as proposed by Senator Lodgo "What is the use," he asked, "of having tho high commission, of paying pay-ing th enormous oxpense, and of investing in-vesting It with the power that it has. 'If Its judgment is not going to amount to anything whatever on tho faco of tho earth, and If the senate shall havo the right to sot aside whenever it suits them' To me the whole complicated system of the treaty trea-ty Is absurd, if you propose to tack a proposition of this sort onto it, - "It the state department has changed chang-ed Its mind and it appears that It has then lot us re-write the treaty and be frank with each other and strike out tho clause In the treaty which gives the commission the right to detcrmlno whether It shall send a controversy to arbitration. I am for tho treaties as they stand. I am perfectly per-fectly willing to abldo by tho decision decis-ion of the Joint high commission. But I am not willing to enact a comedy com-edy like this which places tho whole power In the hands of the senate, and thon leaves foreign countries to understand un-derstand that the power vested in the commission is genuine and that we intend to abide by It. "I have no objection to tho resolution reso-lution of Senator Root In tho formal ratifications. That Is the way the treaty ought to bo passed, and ought to ho adopted so as to make It perfectly per-fectly plain that we will not arbitrate arbi-trate questions Hko the Monroe doctrine,, doc-trine,, state Indebtedness or Immigration." Immi-gration." Senator Rayner added that the treaties did not mean an alliance with Groat Britain or any other country. "If they did." ho said, "I would rather seo tho treaties torn into shreds than accepted. The day will come when Germany will enter Into the compact and when that occurs the United States apd Great Britain and Germany and Trance sign and seal tho covenant, the era of universal univer-sal peace will dawn upon the world "