Mr. President. I think we are all agreed that among the questions which are not justiciable are the questions that have been raised here relating to the Monroe doctrine. relating to the admission of immigrants to our territory. relating to a great number of other. questions. it is possible to think of scores and scores of them. Questions about our relations to Cuba. questiors about the relations of Cuba to the Bahama Islands. questions about our relations to the Philippines. are all questions of national policy and have no place whatever in a court. any more than the framing of statutes which we pass here can be submitted to the discretion of a court on any other claim than that they are inconsistent with the predominant rule of the Constitution. I have put upon the record this statement of the Secretary of State in order that there may never be any question as between the United States and England or France under this treaty about our understanding that questions of this kind are not justiciable. in order that the most open and public and unequivocal declaration may be made known to England and to France before they ratify the treaties themselves that we do not intend to submit to arbitration under these treaties questions of this description.
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