THE PEACE TREATY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 19 November 1912, Page 7

THE PEACE TREATY.

' PRESIDENT TAFTS REGRETS. - fey. Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ' ":.'./ . New York, November 17. I ■ President Taft, speaking at the Lotus ■dub, said Ms thief regret in relinquishing, office wa? that ho would be unable to influence the. Senate to pass.the AngloTreaty Bill. THE SENATE AND. .THE TREATIES, , On March 7 last the Senate, by unanimous consent, brought to an end the de-bate-on the. general arbitration treaties with Great Britain'and Prance. Then by avote of 42 to 40 the paragraph relating to the Joint High Commission was eliminated, and mother changes.made curtailing the scope of the operation ,of : the agreements. ,Aa amended the treaties were ratified by a vote of 76 to' 3.' The amendment offered by Senator Bacon, :of Geor- . gia, qualifying the consent of the, Senate ' to' the treaties' -, operation, which • was adopted by a'vote of 46 to 36,' follows: "Resolved, That the Senate advises and consents'; to the ratification of the/said treaty with tlho understanding, to- be made &-part of suoh ratification, thatfhe treaty ides not authorise-the submission to arbitration of any question which affects the Admission of aliens into the United States, or the admission of aliens to tho educational institutions of. the ■ several States, or tho territorial integrity of the several Statea or of the United States, or concerning the question of fflie alleged indebtedness or moueyed'obligation of any State of .the United States, or any question whwh, depends upon or involves the maintenance of-the'traditional attitude of the United States concerning American questions, commonly described aa ~ti. ■» Monroe Doctrine, or other purely 7 ; vtinmental policy." ; Tho' discussion was on the treaty with Great, Britain, but later it was unanimously, decided that 'all-votes on the Bri-tish'-treaty should bo made to apply'atso to the one intended for Prance; President Taft .'regarded the amended Treaties as w different from' the'original that he did not'submit them for ratification by tlio Powers' concerned.' The opponents of the Treaties in their original form regarded the permission for the Joint High Commission as invading the Senato's. r'ghta. They' also contended that existing aibitration • agreements are sufficient for all practical purposes.