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...been thought that the treaty would be passed early in the week, but debate dragged on endlessly. Secretary Kellogg's refusal to consider the addition of any interpretive or qualifying resolution, together with pacifist activities which linked the passage of the treaty with the defeat of the penning Cruiser Bill, made treaty opponents More than ever determined to put on record the Senate's understanding of various treaty provisos. Toward the close of the week Senator Bingham of Connecticut announced that he had circulated a round robin to which he had secured 20 signatures of Senators pledging themselves...
Work Done. Reconvening from the Christmas holidays, the Senate last week: ¶Heard Senator Hale speak on the Cruiser Bill (see below). ¶Debated ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty...
...Cruiser Bill. By agreement with Senator Borah, in charge of the Kellogg treaty, Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, in charge of the Cruiser Bill, opened the session with a Cruiser Bill speech. He argued that the proposed 15 cruisers do not constitute a "big Navy," but represent only the minimum additions required to keep the Navy at a respectable defensive strength. Immediately following this speech, the Senate took up the Kellogg treaty, indefinitely postponing debate on the cruisers...
...business before the Senate was the ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty, already signed by some 60 of the world's nations. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Borah had steered it through legislative tangles, had secured for it the right of way over the Cruiser Bill (see col. 2). Crowds gathered in the galleries; political correspondents prepared to hear and to record history. The Kellogg treaty was ready to go over in bursts of Borahtorical splendor...
Therefore the Cruiser Bill is of vital economic importance to industry, especially to Hardware, Metals and Allied Trades...