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Excerpt from The Treaty-Making Power in the United States: An Address
In the beginning President Washington thought it the better plan to meet with the Senate in person before nego tiations were begun. He presented himself accordingly to take their advice touching a proposed treaty with the Southern Indians, propounding a series of questions for their consideration. Discussion broke out, the session was adjourned to the succeeding day, and finally the Father of his Country departed with what one chronicler describes as a 'discontented air adding, 'had it been any other than the man whom I wish to regard as the first character in the world, I would have said with sullen dignity'. 1 Another, with perhaps even closer approach to the facts, reports him as saying when he left t e Chamber that he would be d - d if he ever went there again.2 He kept his word, and although the rules of the Senate still make provision for the decorous procedure to be observed on such occasions, Senator Lodge remarked on the floorof the Senate on January 24, 1906: 'yet I think we should be disposed to resent it if a request of that sort was to be made to us by the President.'3 The precedent thus set remained \un broken for 128 years, or until President Wilson appeared before the Senate on January 23, 1917, _to address them upon the essential terms of peace, chief among these being the formation of aleague of free nations to guarantee peace and freedom throughout the world.
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