The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-10
so REPORTED TO SENATE
AMENDED IN COMMITTEE ON FOR.
EIGN RELATIONS.
SEN. MORGAN ALONE VOTED AGAINST 1T
Bacon and Daniel, Remaining Democratic
Members, Voted With the Republicans in
Favor of the Amendment. Treaty
Supported as Whole.
(By The Associated Press. }

tBy The Associated Press.
Washington, March 9.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations today
reported the -Pauncefote treaty to
the Senate with an amendment reserving
to this country the right TO defend che
canal in case of war. The amendment
merely places a limitation upon the re-
strictions in article 2, and is as follows
Insert at the end OF section of ar
tcle H. the following:
1T is agreed however, that none of the
Immediately foregoing conditions and
stipulations in sections numbers /, ., 3,
A and of this article shall apply to
measures which the United States may
find it necessary to take for securing by
its own force the defense of the United
States and the maintenance of public or
der
The conclusion to report the treaty
with this amendment was reached after
a session of the committee in which
Senator Morgan very strenuously op-
posed the amendment. He was, however,
the only Senator in opposition, Senators
Bacon and Daniel the other Democratic
t.nen hers o. the committee voting with
the Republican members for the amend
ment and then for a resolution TO report.
The report was made to the Senate at
an executive session which came later in
the day The presentation of the treaty
to the committee was accompanied by a
written report. giving reasons for the
amendment, and also in support of the
treaty as whole Later in the day
Senator Morgan filed a minority report in
i.oppostion to the amendment.
While no member was authorized to
speak for Great Britain the opinion was
| expressed that the government OF that
country would agree to the proposed
modification of the treaty.
| The report submitted with the treaty
is in the main a review of the general
situation with reference TO the canal
with comparatively few recommendations.
, 1t says, however.
1--WE are in full accord with the pur-
pose expressed in article two of the
| pending convention to adopt as the basis
of naturalization the indicated rules sub
! stantially as embodied in the treaty of
Constantinople for the free navigation of
the Suez Maritime Canal
The report then makes an analysis of
the Suez Canal Treaty, laying special
| stress upon article 10, which the report
says ''prescribes limitations of the utmost
Importance upon the stipulations." That
article is quoted entire and the report
continues:
mo equivalent limitations are specifi-
! cally expressed in the convention now
under consideration.
! THE committee nthik it prudent" the
report continues, that all doubt be re-
moved by an amendment equivalent in
| it's substance and effect to the precedent
offered by article 10 of the treaty OF
| Constantinople, which it cannot be sup
posed was intended to have no place III
the pending convention. If it was proper
, that the treaty of Constantinople should
not interfere with the measures which
the Sultan and Khedive might find 1t
! necessary to take for securing by their
| own forces the defence of Egypt and the
maintenance of public order or if it was
proper that the provision of the enumer-
ated articles of that treaty should in no
case occasion any obstacle to the mea-
| sures which the Imperial Ottoman Gov
ernment may think it necessary to take
| in order to insure by its own forces the
| defense of it's own possessions situated
on the Eastern coast of the Red Sea -
| surely the situation of the United States
on both oceans, and as to the territory
to be occupied by the canal itself, re-
qures the incorporation into the pending
| convention of stipulations equivalent to
| those in article 10 of the convention of
| Constantinople.
"If it was deemed wise TO reserve to
the Ottoman Empire the right to suspend
| the operation of the treaty in certain
specified contingencies to defend by its
own forces Egypt and maintain public or
der. and to secure by its own forces the
defense of it's other possessions situated
on the eastern coast of the Red Sea- a
coast 100 miles in length, with Turkish
| possessions in both coast OF nearly b00,-
600 square miles inhabited by 12OOO,0o0
of it's subjects in Egypt and in the prov
inces of Hedjoz and Yemen on the east
ern coast of the Red Sea, the same con-
| siderations in principle sustain the con-
tention that the pending treaty should
| contain equivalent stipulations.
Even if article 10 did not exist
the true interests and necessity of the
| United States require upon the highest
considerations of prudence and right the
| adoption of the amendment proposed"
Senator Morgan in his minority report,
saws that the extreme contention has
heen that the Clayton Bulwer Treaty is
yiolable at our option. Not having exer-