INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
ATTITUDE OF THE AMERICAN SENATE. Prcsa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, WASHINGTON, February 13. (Received Feb. 13, at 10.23 p.m.) The Senate, by 59 to 9, amended tilie Arbitration Treaties providing that whenever a controversy proper for arbitration arose a special treaty must be negotiated, instead of a mere agreement. Tire Executive Government and the Senate must ratify a treaty before arbitration. Senators assert that they are merely protecting tlrcir constitutional rights, and are not hostile either to the principle of arbitration or any Power, least of all England. President Roosevelt asserts that :the amendment nullifies the treaties, and it is useless to ratify them. As amended the treaties amount to a specific pronouncement against the whole principle of a, general arbitration treaty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13207, 14 February 1905, Page 5
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