. Review of reviews and world's work. esof their body. They determined, finally, toamend the treaties by the substitution of theword treaty for the word agreement in thesecond section. President Roosevelt wrote aletter to Senator Cullom, chairman of the ForeignRelations Committee, pointing out the objectionsto such a change, and making it plain that toamend the treaties in this way would be regard-ed as equivalent to a rejection rather than anapproval of the arlntration scheme. The amend-ment was, however, adopted, and the treatieswere approved by the Senate on February position taken b
. Review of reviews and world's work. esof their body. They determined, finally, toamend the treaties by the substitution of theword treaty for the word agreement in thesecond section. President Roosevelt wrote aletter to Senator Cullom, chairman of the ForeignRelations Committee, pointing out the objectionsto such a change, and making it plain that toamend the treaties in this way would be regard-ed as equivalent to a rejection rather than anapproval of the arlntration scheme. The amend-ment was, however, adopted, and the treatieswere approved by the Senate on February position taken by the Senate is a highlytechnical one, and is wholly inconsistent withwhat has been the time-honored practice of theGovernment. The treaties, as drawn, merelyprovide a way for the settlement of a limitedclass of questions liable to arise in the course ofbusiness between governments. They authorizethe Executive to use arbitration as a furthermeans of doing ])usiness in precisely those mat- 264 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REI^ SENATOR CULLOM, OF ILLINOIS. (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.) ters wliicli the Executive has authority at presentto settle by diplomatic negotiation. It is a far-fetched and overstrained notion that would re-gard an arrangement to arbitrate some deadlocked little diplomatic dispute as an exerciseof the treaty-making power in the sense intendedby the Constitution. It is a mei*e after-thought. The practical difficulty witli the Sen Senates ates plan (requiring that every in Inefficiency, g^g^j^^g q^ guch an arrangement must be put inthe form of a special treaty and sub-mitted for ratification) lies in the fact that theSenate has no rules and no method of doingbusiness. A single member of that body caneffectually block all action if he so was decided by the Executive not to offer theamended treaties to the countries with whichthe original conventions had been signed. Evenas amended, however, these agreements woul
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