Mr. President. an eminent philosopherpoet has left for our consideration the suggestion that Falsehood upon the wings of Mercury will take its course. in winding ways. and proclaim itself all virtueand with such rapid strides find abiding places. and from these herald posts hiss its mists of deadening miasma. while Truth. with her leaden heel and slow approach. will move so slow behind the masked cavalcade that she will never overtake to convert to right the legions who. trembling with alarm and disturbing concern. are fixed breathless in fear. The European press. flashing its continental sensation. makes free to announce that the eminent spokesmen of the great nations of Europe. whose representatives have had the honor of being lately in consultation at Washington with the distinguished President of the United Statesthese renowned envoys were received with that courtesy which becomes. of course. the everhospitable manners of the United States and the welcome of its people to the strangers within our gates--sirs. we today have it reported that these ambassadors of international unity proclaim that there was an agreement made between those who represented a European national situation with the President of the United States that the United States and its people will enter into a "consultative pact ". that this socalled "consultative pact" binds the United States to become a party to whatever controversy should arise between those foreign nations as between themselves. or as between themselves and the Asiatic countries. should such arise. The impress is very clearly qonveyed to affirm that the United States is on the eve of closing Into some form of understanding which the writers characterize and the parliamentary spokesmen in public assemblages define as a pact in which the United States will. upon invitation. enter into the consideration of whatever controversy or conflict there is pending or threatened between any countries of Europe. or that of any countries of Europe and Asia. It is asserted that under this compact we will adjudge which of these in contest or conflict is the aggressor nation.