Speech #660188041

Reservations were attached to that treaty providing that no domestic question should be the subject of arbitration. The reservation further proceeded to declare that we would not submit to arbitration the question as to whether the question was a domestic question. I desire to say to my colleagues on this side of the Chamber that every Democrat in the Senate at that time voted for the reservation. providing that we would not submit to arbitration our domestic questions and would not submit to arbitration the question whether a question was a domestic question. and we proceeded then to name immigration as one of the domestic questions which under no circumstances we would submit to arbitration. In supporting this reservation I am simply following the policy declared by the Members on this side of the Chamber~ in 1912. and unanimously supported by them at that time when the treaty came from a Republican President. when the majority of the Senators were on the other side of the Chamber and when about onehalf of them joined with us on this side to put the reservation upon the treaty which saved our domestic problems from foreign interference or from arbitration* and saved us from letting any outsider determine for us what was and what was not a domestic question.