The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-07
A FAVORABLE REPORT
SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE CA
 NAL TREATY.
Senators Bacon of Georgia and Mon ey of Mississippi Sharply Criticized the Compact-No
 Votes Against It.

Washington, Dec 6.-The Senate Com mittee on Foreign Relations today voted to report favorably on the new Hay Pauncefote treaty providing for the con- ytruction of an isthm an canal
 The committee was in session for al- most two hours and went over in detail he provisions of the convention. No votes were cast against it, but it was criticised sharply by Senators Money and Bacon. who found in 1t many of the ob- jections which they urged against the old treaty.
 They took especial exception to the pro- vision continuing in force the neutrality provision of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and also made objection to the clause specifically authorizing the United States to police the canal as placing a limita- tion of power of tbis country to abso- lutely control it.
 It was contended that the effect of the treaty as sent to the Senate would be to deprive the United States of control of he canal in case of war. Special atten- tion was called to the provi4io in the preamble of the pending treaty reserving article of the Clayton-B Bulwer treaty from the repeal prou ion of the new treaty. The position of this article of the old treaty to which special objection was made reads as follows:
 "In granting, however, the protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified it is always under- stood by the United States and Great Britain that the partoes constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic there upon, the aforesaid governments shall ap- prove of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms shall also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other state which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford"
 Senators Money and Bacon did not go to the extent of voting against the report of the treaty and they acknowledged they are anxious to see it ratified because of their great desire to have the canal built. Stil, they insisted that the treaty. as it now stands, is objectionable in case of war.
 Senator Frye presided over the meet ing and he authorized Senator Lodge to report the treaty to the Senate Monday next in case there should be an execu- tive session on that day. It also was the sense of the committee that the consider ation of the treaty should he pressed as speedily as possible in the Senate, some Senators expressing the hope that action might be secured before the adjournment for the holidays.
 The committee also voted to recommend that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the treaty.
 Senator Bacon moved the removal of the amendment to the original Hay Pauncefote treaty which was suggested by Senator Davis, then chairman of the committee and adopted by the Senate. That amendment provided nothing in the treaty should apply to measures which the United States may find it necessary to take for securing by its own forces the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order"
 The amendment was voted down viva Voce.