INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS TO ENFORCE PEACE HEARING BEFORE THE 26 схо SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS TO ENFORCE PEACE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1917. UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met in the room of the Committee on the Judiciary in the Capitol at 10.30 o'clock a. m., when there was present: Senator Overman, chairman. The subcommittee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of Senate joint resolution 131, which was introduced by Senator Shafroth and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on May 18, 1916, and by them referred to this subcommittee on December 13, 1916, and January 15, 1917, as follows: (1) JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, authorizing the creation, with other nations, of an international peace-enforcing tribunal or tribunals for the determination of all international disputes. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That the following amendment to the Constitution of the 4 United States be proposed to the several States of the Union, 5 with recommendation that they adopt the same by vote of their respective legislatures: 6 9 7 "The President is authorized to negotiate and, after ratification by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, to sign a treaty or treaties with all or a part of the other sovereign 10 nations of the world, engaging the United States to submit 11 for final determination all its international disputes threaten12 ing war to an international tribunal or tribunals, and also 13 engaging the United States to assist in supplying funds for (2) 1 the support of said tribunal or tribunals and of any inter2 national civil and military establishment, to be controlled 3 by an international authority, that may be required by the 4 treaty or treaties as a sanction for the execution of the 5 |