 A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when the final blow will fall — but one thing is certain — it will never leave the arena alive.  The Central Law Journal - Page 751921Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...greatest Secretaries of State, declared in his diary that "a treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena ; no one can say just how or...Senate amendments, and many of the advantages which he had sought to secure defeated by Senate vetoes. He expressed his views of the Senate's attitude toward... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 918 pages
...present." In 1904 his attitude was more philosophical: "A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when...certain — it will never leave the arena alive." (Thayer, "The Life of John Hay," 2:274, 393. See also, iW<J., 2:254, 273.) See also, Corwin, "The President's... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 936 pages
...present." In 1904 his attitude was more philosophical : "A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when...certain — it will never leave the arena alive." (Thayer, "The Life of John Hay," 2:274, 393. See also, tWd., 2: 254, 273.) See also, Corwin, "The President's... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Literature - 1915 - 654 pages
...prominent Republicans were in the same boat. "A treaty going into the Senate," he wrote, "is like a bull going into the arena : no one can say just how or...certain — it will never leave the arena alive.'' His deep personal affection for McKinley led him to an estimate of McKinley 's abilities and services... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 498 pages
...go slow in making any more treaties. "A treaty entering the Senate," Mr. Hay writes, "is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when...certain — it will never leave the arena alive." The last rebuff in Mr. Hay's long struggle with the Senate was personal. In the summer of 1904 the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 972 pages
...present." In 1904 his attitude was more philosophical: "A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when...certain — it will never leave the arena alive." (Thayer, "The Life of John Hay," 2:274, 393. See also, »6id., 2: 254, 273.) See also, Corwin, "The... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1921 - 646 pages
...developed friction is unquestionable. "A treaty entering the Senate," wrote John Hay, " is like a bull going into the arena ; no one can say just how or...is certain, it will never leave the arena alive." l When the Secretary of State put this in his diary he had seen seventeen treaties borne from the Senate... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1921 - 688 pages
...developed friction is unquestionable. "A treaty entering the Senate," wrote John Hay, " is like a bull going into the arena ; no one can say just how or...is certain, it will never leave the arena alive." l When the Secretary of State put this in his diary he had seen seventeen treaties borne from the Senate... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1921 - 666 pages
...developed friction is unquestionable. "A treaty entering the Senate," wrote John Hay, " is like a bull going into the arena ; no one can say just how or...is certain, it will never leave the arena alive." 1 When the Secretary of State put this in his diary he had seen seventeen treaties borne from the Senate... | |
 | Quincy Wright - Constitutional law - 1922 - 456 pages
...developed friction is unquestionable. "A treaty entering the Senate," wrote John Hay, " is like a bull going into the arena ; no one can say just how or...is certain, it will never leave the arena alive." 1 When the Secretary of State put this in his diary he had seen seventeen treaties borne from the Senate... | |
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