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 2240 CON YEN TION—IN TERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. Oor. 18, 1907. _ Umm SMU tiaries of the United States of America. under reserve of the declaration made by them to the International Peace Conference at its session of October 16, 1907, as follows: "Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to re uire the United States of America to depart from its traditional poilicy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or_ entangling itself 1n the political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state; nor shall anything contained in the_sa1d convention be construed to imply a re inquishment by the Un1ted States of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions; " _ U§,§§j,"g§,'}§, §Q,,,§§‘,,f And whereas the Senate of the United States, by its resolution_of _ April 2, 1908, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein) did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Convention with the followin understanding and declarations, to wit: "Res0Zvedg further, as a, part of this act of ratwfcatirm, That the United States approves this convention with the understanding that recourse to the permanent court for the settlement of differences can be had only by agreement thereto through general or special treaties of arbitration heretofore or hereafter concluded between the parties in dispute; and the United States now exercises the option conaua, p. me tained in article fifty-three of said convention, to exclude the formulation of the ‘compromis’ by the permanent court, and hereby excludes from the competence of the permanent court the power to frame the ‘com romis required by general or special treaties of arbitration concfiided or hereafter to be concluded by the United States, and further expressly declares that the ‘compromis’ required by any treaty of arbitration to which the United States may be a party shall be settled only by agreement between the contracting _ parties, unless such treaty shall expressly provide otherwise." R¤*m°*m°°· And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified by the Government of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and b the Governments of Germany, Austria-H ary, Bolivia, China, Uenmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia,uS1s5vador, and Sweden, and the ratiications of Ame, p. za:. the said Governments were, under the provisions of Article 92 of the said Convention, deposited by their respective plenipotentiaries with the Netherlands Government on November 27, 1909; r·m·am.aa¤. Now, therefore, be it known that I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof, subject to the reserve made in the aforesaid declaration of the Plenipotentiaries of the United States and to the aforesaid understanding and declarations stated and made by the Senate of the United States in its resolution of ftpril 2, 1908. h n testimon w ereof, I have hereunto set m h mr of are Umied sara to be emma. y rd rd °”"S°d °h° Done at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sean] ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H TAFT ‘P C Kxox Secretary of State.
 * i¢S¢*"¤‘*°¤ by And whereas the said Convention was signed by the Plenipoten-