. Review of reviews and world's work . eferred to in the above sen-tences were afterwards more specifically statedby individual senators to be arbitration withChina and Japan, or other Asiatic nations inmatters of labor and immigration, and thegeneral national policy of the Monroe Doc-trine. Answering these objections. SecretaryKnox, in an interview given out on August 6,contended that there would be no abdicationof power by the Senate, since if it is agreed that the difference is one for arbitra-tion, or, failing to agree, it is decided to be arbi-trable by the commission, then the arbitratio
. Review of reviews and world's work . eferred to in the above sen-tences were afterwards more specifically statedby individual senators to be arbitration withChina and Japan, or other Asiatic nations inmatters of labor and immigration, and thegeneral national policy of the Monroe Doc-trine. Answering these objections. SecretaryKnox, in an interview given out on August 6,contended that there would be no abdicationof power by the Senate, since if it is agreed that the difference is one for arbitra-tion, or, failing to agree, it is decided to be arbi-trable by the commission, then the arbitration isto be conducted under a special agreement to besubmitted by the President to the Senate for itsadvice and approval, in the same manner as isprovided in the existing arbitration treaties of 1908. Pre ident President Taft and Secretary Tafts De- Knox, in several public speeches, fense defended the arbitration principle and the treaties already concluded with Britain and France. In a speech at Ocean 274 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. Copyright by Harris Sz Iiwinij, Washington HON. CHARLES PAGE BRYAN, OUR NEW AMBASSA-I DOR TO JAPAN Grove, New Jersey, on August 15, the Presi-dent spoke in glowing terms of the progressmade in the arbitration idea during recentyears. He extolled the merits of the treatiesin question, and expressed regret that theSenate should regard its prerogatives as anymore sacred than those of the Executive orany other branch of the the President nor Secretary Knox be-lieves that under these treaties the MonroeDoctrine or any other national policy couldbe arbitrated out of existence. Their positionis that national policies cannot be held to bejusticiable. A number of leading Senators,however, fear that while the doctrine itselfwould never openly come to the point ofarbitration, particular cases involving the])olicy might do so, and, in effect, the policymight thus be condemned and abrogated bythe arbitral award. It was not expected lastmont
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