ARBITRATION TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION TREATY

BRITAIN AND UNITED "STATES. IVBKSS ASSOCLvnO*.] v LONDON, ipnl 9. - The Foreign lUlationg CoDimittea of the United States Senate has reported ■faywatly on the arbitration treaty be■fcween Britain and tlw United States. This ci-suref ratification. Thw Mo-ruing Post'a Wasfcingtoix corjnespondfnt sends thy text of thetreaty, T»hioh has a currency cf five jears _TJj?v treaty, like the treaty between the United States and Francxn, provides that before any question is submitted to> the Hague- CVtfweution. a special ■agreement must be concluded defining 1 the mottor of the dispute and other •fpnvaJHies, but embodies two important additions. - The first is that vc such preliminary qgreftuient shall by binding in respect •of Britain until the Urms are approved •by tho Stoiet** and accepted by Britain <throjugh ea change notes. The steend provision, is Ktill more • ampartflint, namely, Britain reserves tho right, before concluding it, special agreement, in any matter affecting tke intpraste of *a Relf-governing dominion, to obtain the concurrence therein of the Government of that Dominion. Tho Morning Posi says . that This clause constitutes Wcorae recognition cf the position of the. autonomous members of the Eniphe, tut ctnpha . &ißes the net-d of sonic organisation within the Empire lc-present'ng unity of aim in policy between Britain .and other jiations and States