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Show 152 In <mother case while debating for the Sf. Lawrence StiO-WOY he extended this contention further. ,I think I have attempted. much ., Gny other member of th·e ie-nete sinse f came here to soy that $0 long CIS the prevition remains in the Constitution with regan:! to treaties, the Sanot. has th.l.t wc:rd wirh respect to treeties. I think it should olso have a first word flOW and the.n. There II Q prov;slofl In the Constitution of the United States which ,Iv. the Pr.ldent the power, with the advice and consent of two thir. of the Senute to entel' into the treaties with foreign govemments. The thing which hod made the treaty system not work in our cOUAtry has been ·the intetpretotJon of the advice and consent provision In the Constitution. Almost since Woshington's time there h. not been retort to the advice feoture In regerd to nego tiating. treaties. It is extremely interesting to (.ad In OM of the latest books by one of our seeretari .. of $tate, thot he ac:tuelly tolks .bout G treoty ,.a·lving the "eonsent' of the Senate. There is not Q word about gdvice. That tendency hoi gone on, and it is going on. It WQ5 becouse that ten dency hos gone so for that when we reorganized the Con o:re. of the United States we did something about it. We 011 know that when the Senate was established it WGS, with ref.rene. to for.is" relotions, to b.e Q eounc:lI of state to advise the President. We all know that our first President d.id not get Glonl very well when'" sought advice and that' therefore he did not return for anymore. The next president f.llowed suit, which course eontin,ued down through our history, until we have reached the point where consent is probQbly the onl v thing that Is asked of the Senate. The executive sends up to us the names of persons to serve In the Gov8mme:nt. He asks for our con sent but he does not oak our Gavlee. He $ends up treaties with whit; h the Congress h. had nothing to do. In the .. reorgani%cdion of Congress we provided again that the President shoul-d neve'f be left witbout the kind of advice he should have when great questions faced him. We pro vided for e policy committee to be made up of Democrats and 0 policy commIttee to be made up of Republicans. That provision exists in law, so that at any time. the Presi dent of the United Stetes wishes to hove a council of |
