Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
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committee on foreign relations today
held special meeting and decided to
recommend further amendments of the
HayPauncefote treaty. The commit
tee adopted an amendment suggested
by Senator Foraker, which declares
that the -Pauncefote treaty super
sedes the Clayton Bulwer treaty and
also strikes out of the Hay-Paunce-
fote agreement article 3, which permits
the submission of the Hay Paunceiote
treaty TO other powers and invites their
acceptance of it,
UNSATISFACTORY TO ENGLAND.
Unless amended beyond any degree
proposed in the Senate by the respon-
sible leaders, and resolved into such n
form as to make 1t an absolute dis
courteous matter to be communicated,
the pending Hay Pauncefotc treaty
viii be submitted to the British gov
crnment by the President The com
munication Will he purely pro forma,
for the administration has not the
slightest idea that the convention will
be accepted bv,thc British government.
HAY WILL STICK.
Any expectation that the action of
The Senate yesterday upon the Davis
amendment. to the Hay Pauncefote
treaty would result in the Immediate
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cabinet, is negatved by the fact that
me Secretary has not resigned. and,
according to his own statement. will
not leave the cabiuct at present
Notwithstanding what amounted to
the authoritative denial that he has
resigned, thc 2!ory was persistently
circulated during the day, and finally
reached the cars OF Secretary Hays
fellow cabinet officers. These declared
mat nothing Whatever was said at the
cabinet meeting today on this subject
ana SAID even yesterdays treaty pro-
cecdings in the Senate were not dis
cussed.
CLAYTON TREATY.
The action of the committee on For
cign Relations took place after a pro-
lonSed conference OF Senators espe-
cially interested in the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty at which the Foraker
amendment was suggested as meeting
all the objections.
1t was stated that the committee had
been unanimous in its action. with the
exceptions of Senator Money, who OPP
posed any action except the absolute
and unconditional abroga,ion of the
Clayton I5ulwer treaty. That result is
accomplished by the amendment re-
ported today, but the Mississippi Sen
ator would have this done through
other means than The Hay Pauncefote
treaty.
The President and Secretary Hay
We're consulted with reference to the
advisability of further amending the
treaty by Senators Lodge and Foraker,
who called upon him before going to
the capitol today.
EXECUTIVE SESSION OF SENATE.
When the Senate went into execu-
tive session Senator Lodge reported
the two amendments agreed upon in
committee. The first inserts the words
(Which is hereby superseded" after
the words Clayton Bulwcr treaty" in
the first paragraph of Article of the
treaty making that paragraph read as
follows:
The high contracting parties. desr-
ing to preserve and maintain the gem
oral principles of naturalization estab-
lished in Article VII of the Clayton
Rulwer convention, which is hereby
superseded. adopt as the basis of such
naturalization, the following rules. sub
stantially as embodied in the conven-
ton between Great Britain and certain
other powers, signed at Constantinople
October %. 1855. for the free navigation
of the Suez maritime canal"
The second strikes out article OF
the treaty reading as follows: The
high contracting parties will imme
diately. upon the exchange of the rati-
fcations of this convention, bring it to
the notice of the other powers and in
wife them to adhere to it,
ANXIOUS FOR 4 VOTE.
Senator Lodge made an effort to have
q day set for the taking of vote upon
the treaty. He suggested next Thurs
day as the generally acceptable time,
but did not succeed in getting the I'M
animous consent necessary.
Senator Butler finally entered objec-
ton. Senator Lodge stated, however,
that he should press the treaty early
and late until a vote could be had,
and he afterwards declined to move
an adjournment from today until Mon
day because of the refusal to allow
day to be named for vote.
VIEWS OF SENATORS.
Aside from these incidents the exc
cutive session was devoted wholly to
speech-making, the speakers being
Senators Culbertson. Spooner, Lindsay,
McCumber and Eikins
Senator Culbcrson's view was to have
the treaty laid aside and the Hepburn
canal bill passed regardless of the
treaty. Senator Spooner said that he
could not accept the view that we
should proceed in the great work in to-
tai disregard of the existence of the
agreement of 1850. Great Britain. he
said, is a friendly power, and he would
not consent to any ruthless proceed
ings.
He said that Great Britain on three
different occasions had approached this
country to secure the abrogation of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, the United
States declining the oVertures