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 GROVER CLEVELAND 287 $500,000 or less were to be settled by three arbi trators, consisting of two jurists of repute and an umpire, the latter to be appointed by the king of Sweden in case the arbitrators should not agree upon one. All other claims, except those involving territory, were to go first before such a tribunal, but in case the decision should not be unanimous it was to be reviewed before a similar tribunal of five. Boundary questions were to go to a special court of six members three U. S. judges and three British judges. The treaty was to continue in force for five years, and thereafter until twelve months after either of the contracting parties should give notice to the other of a desire to ter minate it. On February 1 the foreign relations committee of the senate reported favorably on this treaty with amendments that were regarded by the friends of the treaty as making it practically of no effect. Even in this form the treaty, on May 5, failed to receive the two-thirds majority necessary for con firmation, the vote being 43 to 26. It was gener ally believed that personal hostility to Mr. Cleve land had much to do with the rejection. There had been for some time a feeling in the senate that the president and his secretary of state had not de ferred sufficiently to the rights of that body in matters of foreign policy. Mr. Olney s statement in the Cuban matter, noticed above, had much to