International Arbitration

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1250, 14 February 1905, Page 2

International Arbitration

—« — American Attitude The Senate Hullifies the Treaties Press Association.—Copyright. Washington, February 13 The Senate, by fifty-nino to nino, has amended the Arbitration Treaties Bill, which now urovides that whonovcr a controversy suitable for arbitration arises a special treaty muse be Demounted instead of mere argument, and that the excutivo Government and the Sonata must ratify the treaty before arbitration. The Senate assert that they aro merely protecting their constitutional rights, and are not hostile either to the principle of iirbitratian or to any Power, least of *ll England-

President Roosevelt asserts that the amendment nullifies the treaties, and says it is useless to ratify them, a* the amended treaties amount to a specific pronouncement against the wholo prinoiple of the general arbitration tnaty.