ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7

ARBITRATION.

A NEW FRANCO-AMERICAN TREATY. NO LIMITS MENTIONED. BY TELKGIUm—HIES3 ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. NOW York, February 11. : The United States Secretary of State, the Hon. Elilm Root, and M. Jusseraml, French Ambassador, have signed the projected troaty agreeing to arbitration on any isstte arising botweeii Franco.and America;

UNLIMITED TREATIES. If this cablegram is to be read literally, a very • great departure has. been maue. AO arbitrate on "any issue arising,, would oe absolute arbitration, in' contradistinction to ,tlio "limited arbitration''set up by so ninny other treaties. ' Groat Britain and, Franco; lea : the way on October 14, 1903, when they signed tlio treaty of; arbitration and conciliation on which- subsequent -,'international arbitration treaties, have.oeon modelled. This treaty provides for the reference to the Permanent Court nt tho Hague of "all differences of a judicial, order, and not involving vitalinterests or national honour." . -.The.: reservation ( is all-' '•>fc"cording; tor'"Hazell's Annual,•"•the Netherlands and Denmark, on Juno ,0. lflOl, and Italy arid Denmark,' on December.lG, 1905, concluded 'an? unlimited treaty' of arbitration, and the'former treaty contained a clause leaving it open for,, other, Powers to join. ,It would 'seem; therefore, that no • treaty of unlimited "arbitration exists '' between-itwo great Powers, and if ,'tliis treaty is what, the cablegram savs it is, France and the United States are pioneers-'Treaties similar to .the AngloFrench one of 1903,' holding B°°d for. fivo years, have been .'signed by .many of i tho European Powers inter se.' : '