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Show SENATE RATIFIES TREATIES. Renews for Five Years Arbitration Agreement With Eight Nations. Washington. General arbitration treaties ratified by the senate Satur-dn Satur-dn renewed for live years agreements agree-ments with Croat Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal Portu-gal and Switzerland, and marked the first step In the policy of President Wilson to place the United States In a more advantageous position In the world of nations. Opponents of the treaties made no effort to delay the vote. I Tho treaties, briefly, provide for reference to The Hague tribunal of legal differences and questions relating relat-ing to the Interpretation of other existing ex-isting treaties which cannot be settled set-tled bv diplomacy. |