. Review of reviews and world's work. contemplated the intervention of the party cau-cus. Under caucus rule, it is not necessary towin over one-third of the Senate in order to])revent the ratification of any treaty. It hasbeen pointed out by the Xew York Sun that a THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 261 minority party of thirty-one can hold a caucusin which sixteen .Senators can decree that if two-thirds of tlie caucus.—that is, twenty-one Sen-ators.—oppose the treaty the entire tliirty-oneshall vote against it under the coercion knownas party discipline. Thus, the treaty is rejectedby these twenty-on
. Review of reviews and world's work. contemplated the intervention of the party cau-cus. Under caucus rule, it is not necessary towin over one-third of the Senate in order to])revent the ratification of any treaty. It hasbeen pointed out by the Xew York Sun that a THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 261 minority party of thirty-one can hold a caucusin which sixteen .Senators can decree that if two-thirds of tlie caucus.—that is, twenty-one Sen-ators.—oppose the treaty the entire tliirty-oneshall vote against it under the coercion knownas party discipline. Thus, the treaty is rejectedby these twenty-one opposing votes, and not bythe thirty-one votes required by the Constitutionfor rejection. In any view of the situation,such minority dictation must be regarded as aviolation of the spirit if not the letter of theconstitutional provision for the ratification oftreaties. Senator Patterson, of Colorado, earlyannounced his independence of caucus dictationin the Santo Domingo mattei-, and his purposeto support the Presidents Copynght by J. E. Purdy & Co., Boston. REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, OF OHIO. ... ... White House weddings have not been A Wedding . ^^^ . .^ , . at the frequent m \\ ashmgton history ;White House, j^ence, it is not strange that for a partof last month all legislative and administrativeproblems yielded place in popular interest to themarriage of Miss Alice Roosevelt, the Presi-dents daughter, and the Hon. Nicholas Long-worth, of Ohio. Never before have foreignpeoples and potentates displayed so keen an in-terest in an American social event. Gifts forthe bride came from many distant lands, and theoccasion served to accentuate the growing spiritof internationalism which marks our time. Truly,America is no longer an isolated nation. All
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