320 VENEZUELA AND AFTER 



Under the influence of these and other like 

 feelings the opposition to the arbitration treaty 

 was strong enough, first to effect the amend 

 ment of the draft in its most essential features, 

 and finally to deny it the approval of the 

 American Senate. The decisive vote, on May 

 5, 1897, stood 43 to 26, less than two-thirds in 

 the affirmative. Before this vote was reached 

 the safety of the Monroe Doctrine had been 

 insured by an amendment requiring a special 

 agreement for the submission of any difference 

 &quot;which in the judgment of either power ma 

 terially affects its honor or its domestic or 

 foreign policy/ 5 



The failure of this treaty was the source of 

 bitter disappointment to the friends of peace, 

 official and unofficial, on both sides of the ocean. 

 Hope had run high that the English-speaking 

 peoples were about to pronounce decisively in 

 favor of the principle of unrestricted arbitra 

 tion and to give to this very advanced ideal the 

 test of practical application. Even after the 

 Senate, by amending the draft, had demolished 

 this hope, the confidence still remained that the 

 influence of these two powerful nations would 

 be exerted for peace through the adoption of 

 arbitration in some form. Failure in this also, 



