ARBITRATION TREATIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 11 March 1912, Page 5

ARBITRATION TREATIES

REFERRED BACK TO FRANCE AND ENGLAND. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Washington, .March 8. Without the clauses limiting the treaty-making powers of the Senate, the Anglo-American and Franco-American Arbitration Treaties were ratified by a vote of 76 to 3. President Taft did not comment on the Senate's action. The treaties will now be referred back to France and England. MANGLED BY THE SENATE. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. Washington, March 9. The opinion in Government circles is that the Senate's action with regard to the Arbitration Treaties inclines to the belief that the treaties are not likely to be offered either to Britain or France in consequence of the mangling nature of the amendments carried. The Senate consented only to- pass the treaties with provisos that the following should not be submitted to arbitration: Admission of aliens, the territorial integrity of the several States or the United States itself, the Monroe Doetrine, or any question involving the maintenance of the traditional attitude of the United States concerning purely American questions. Such wide exceptions are regarded as rendering the Ar- I bitration Treaties useless.