The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-21
AS ALTEgED By SElAToR DAVIS
NATTER NOW RESTS WITH PRES
IDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES
THE CHANGES ARE IMPORTANT
And Great Britain Will Probably
Take Her Own Time
in DigestinE
Them.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-After spend
Ing the greater part of the past fortnight
in considering the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
for the modification of the Clayton-Bul-
Wer convention of 1850, the senate today
Consumed only one hour and ten minutes
On amending it and Tatifying it as
amended. During the time there were six
Poll calls and several viva voce votes.
The first five of the roll calls were on
amendments offered by individual SEN
ators, and the last one on the resolution
to ratify the treaty as amended. All the
amendments except those offered by Sen
atOr Davis and reported by the commit
tee on foreign relations were voted down
by majorities averaging about 19. The
ratification resolution was adopted by
vote of So to is.
3 The senate was in executive session for
about an hour before the time for voting
arrived, listening to speeches by Senators
Thurston, Gallinger. Wolcott and Bard,
explanatory of their attitude. Senator
Bard contended for the adoption of his
amendment giving preference to Ameri-
can ships passing through the proposed
Nicaraguan canal. Senator Gallinger
spoke in defense of the treaty, as it orig
tn;Nly came from the executive. Senator
Wolcott said that the original treaty
would have been agreeable to him, but
added that he considered the agreement,
as it had been and was about to be
amended preferable to no treaty at all.
Senator Thurston strongly advocated the
treaty, saying that, as Great Britain
owns and governs a very large portion
of the territory of North America, it was
perfectly right and proper that that
country should be consulted in the mat
ter Of the construction of an isthmian
canal. When Senator Mason asked if it
were not also proper that Great Britain
in that event should pay part of the cost
of construction, he replied that the secur-
ing Of the canal itself was the one great
desidoratum, and that, compared to the
benefit the waterway would be to the
worlds commerce, the cost of conStruc-
tion was of little moment
Senator Lodge, who, as a member of
the committee on foreign relations, has
piloted the treaty through the senate
since the death of Chairman Davis, lost
no time in demanding that the voting be-
gin when 8 o'clock arrived The foreign
relations committee amendments were
read first Senator Lodge himself sug-
gested a verbal amendment to the first of
these, adding the word Convention
after the word which" so as to make
the amendment read which convention
is hereby superseded" He explained
that suggestion had been made that
without the addition of that word the
amendment might be construed as apply
ing only to article of the Clayton Bull
wer treaty, whereas, he said, it was in
tended to apply to the entire treaty
The amendment was accepted, and the
two committee amendments then were
both accepted without division.
All the amendments suggested having
been acted upon, and tnose of the COM
mittec adopted, Senator Allen asked for
the reading Of the treaty as amended.
This request was complied with, and the
vote was taken upon the treaty itself, re-
sulting as follows:
THE VOTE.
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Bacon, Bever-
1dge, Burrows, Garter, Chandler, Clay,
.Cullom, Deboe, Dillingham;, Elllins. Fair
Fbanks. Foraker; Foster, Frye, Gallinger.
Haze. Hanna, Hansbrough, Harris, Haw-
ley, Hoar, Jones (Nev.), Kean, Kenny,
Lindsay, Lodge, Mcbride. NfcComas, Ne
Gumber, McEnery. McLauren, McMillin,
knS, Pettus, Platt IN. W Pritohar1.
Proctor, Quarles, Scott, Shoup, Spooner,
Stewart Sullivan. Tallferro, Thurston,
Turner, Warren, Wetmore, Wolcott-55
N9ys.,AlIen: Bard, Bate, Berry, Butler,
Cockrell, Culberson, Daniel Heitfeld
Martin, Mason, Money, Pettigrew, Teller,
IIIlman, Turley: Vest, Weliington-19.
The text OF the treaty as amended is
as follows:
THE TREATY.
The United States of America, and her
majesty, the queen of the United King
oom Oh Great Britain and Ireland en-
press Of India. being desirous to facilitate
the construction Of a ship canal to con-
meet the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. and
to that end to remove any objection
which may arise out of the convention of
April 19, 1850, commonly called the CLAW
Ton -BuIWer treaty to the construction of
such canal under the auspices of tho
government of the United States, without
impairing the general princpie' Of
neutralizati ton established in article VII!
(S of that convention, have for the mr.
pose appointed as their plenipotentiaries.
The president of the United States: John
Hay, secretary of state of the IJnitsd
States Of America and her majesty - the TIC
queen of Great Britain and Ireland en-
press of India. the right honorabie T>ord
Pauncefote, G. B. c., G. C. M. G. bor
majesty's ambassador extraordinary and
plenlpotentiary to the United States
Who, having communicated to each
other their fun powers, which were founJ
TO be in due form, have agreed supon the
following articles:
Article 1T is agreed that the canal
may be constructed under the ausnines
either directly at its own cost, or by
gHt or loan OF money to indfvfd19is Cy
corporations, or through subscriptioi; n
or TO purchase of stock or shares. and