People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — DIDN’T DO A THING TO IT. [ARTICLE]

DIDN’T DO A THING TO IT.

Senate Amendment* to the Ah*io-Am«r-lcan Arbitration Treaty. Washington, Feb. 3.—The text, of the changes made in the general arbitration treaty by the senate committed on foreign relations are as follows: Assent to the senate article I reads as followj: “The high contracting parties agree to submit to arbitration in accordance with the provisions and subject to the limitations of this treaty all questions in difference between them which they may fail to. ad just by diplomatic negotiation.” • _ The senate committee to this add the following: “But no question which affects the foreign or domestic policy of either of the high contracting parties, or the relations'bf either to any other state or power, by treaty or otherwise, shall be a subject for arbitration under this treaty except by special agreement.” Article VII in the original treaty read as follows: “Objections to the jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal constituted under this treaty shall not be taken except as provided in this article. If before the close of the hearing upon a claim • * * either of the high Contracting parties shall move such tribunal to decide, and thereupon it shall decide, that the determination of such claim necessarily involves the decision of a disputed question of principle of grave general importance affecting the national rights of such party as distinguished from the private rights whereof itt is merely the international representative, the jurisdiction of such arbitral* tribunal shall cease and the same shall be dealt with by arbitration under article VI.” Articles VII as amended by the comr mittee is as follows: “If at any time before the close of the hearing upon any matter except territorial claims submitted to an arbitral tribunal constituted under this treaty, either of the high contracting parties shall declare that the determination of such matter necessarily involves the decision of a disputed question which is excluded from arbitration except by special agreement by the operation of article I, then the jurisdiction of such arbitral tribunal over such matter shall cease.” The committee struck out entirely, and without inserting anything in its place, article X which provided that King Oscar of Sweden should have the naming of the umpine in case of dispute.