Foreign Relations

Senator Borah, following the adjournment of the Senate last week called attention to the fact that, between Dec. 12 and adjournment, the Senate had ratified 19 treaties and conventions --a record, he said of diligence:

P: A treaty of friendship and commerce with Germany.

P: Two treaties fixing the status of

1) the Isle of Palmas with Holland

2) the Isle of Pines with Cuba.

P:Three treaties with Great Britain: two regarding our common boundary, etc., with Canada; one concerning U. S. rights in Palestine (British Mandate).

P: Two conventions with the Dominican Republic regarding U. S. relations to San Domingo.

P:A treaty of arbitration with Sweden.

P:A convention with Guatemala for a special commission of inquiry.

P: Three treaties for extradition of criminals, two of them general: 1) with Rumania, 2) with Finland; and a special convention with Great Britain regarding violators of the narcotic laws.

P: Four treaties to prevent liquor smuggling: three of them with 1) Panama, 2) France, 3) the Netherlands; one regarding border cooperation with Canada, with Great Britain.

P: Two conventions, with Latin American republics: one regarding trademarks, the other a general sanitary convention.