Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
TREATYIS RATIFIED
Senate Notes Its Approval of Sec
retary Hays Work by a
Vote of IL toe.
,'wo AMENDMENTS ARE DEFEATED
Best Vote for One Being Eighteen
Senators-Knox's Nominal
ton Confirmed.

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE senate
yesterday ratified the Hay-Pauncefote
isthmian canal treaty by the decisive
vote of ~ to g. The vote was reached
Il few minutes before > p. M, after al
most five hours discussion. The de-
bate was confined exclusively 10 n dis
cussion of the merits of the agreement
and the policy of it's provisions. The
principal speech of the day was made
by Teller, in opposition 10 the treaty,
and he was followed in rapid success
sion by twelve or fifteen other sena-
tors, who spoke briefly either for or
against the motion to ratify. Among
the other speakers of the day were
Clay. Fairbanks. McCunSber, McLaur-
I'm of Mississippi. Culberson. Mallory,
Mason, Tillman. Bacon and Bate. Clay
was one of the southern senator's who
spoke in advocacy of the treaty. He
contended that the treaty should be
ratified because it secured the abroga-
ton of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
Mason Calls IL IA Triumph.
Mason made strong plea for the
treaty. expressing his qualification that
American diplomacy had succeeded in
securing such triumph as was this
treaty over the original Hay-Paunce-
fOte agreement. Bacon's speech was
made In connection with a motion to
amend the treaty. In presenting this
he said that he was in IA
vor of n canal and would vote for the
treaty with the Davis amendment. He
said he opposed the treaty because he
did not believe il would give the Unit
ed States full control OF the canal. He
said that Great Britain rejected tho
Hay-PauncefOte treaty. but
sent us another treaty aJOut identical
with the former treaty as amended. eN-
cept as regards the Davis amendment.
Amendments offered and Defeated.
After thehpeaking CulberSon offered
as an amendment the Davis amend
rlent of last session. aud the yea vote
was II. as follows: Bacon. Bate. Ber-
~. Blackburn. Carmack. CulbersOn,
Dubois. Heitfeld. McLaurin of Missis-
Sippi. Mallory, Money, Simmons. Talia-
ferro T'illman and Vest.
Bacon followed with an amendment
striking ont all reference TO establish
Ing the principle of neutrality. and that
part of Article " declaring against
change of sovereignty. Defeated-1S
TO G0-the eighteen being Bacon. Bate.
Berry, Blackburn, Carmack. Clark OF
Montana. Clay. CulbersOn. Dubois,
Harris. Heitfeld. McLaurin of. Missis-
y
ferro. Teller and Tillman.
Vote That Ratified the Treaty.
The vote then came to the ratifica-
ton direct, and the treaty was rati-
ied-12 to Gas follows:
Yeas-Aldrich. Allison. Bard. Bate. |
Berry. Beveridge. Burnham. Burrows.
Burton. Carmack. Clapp. Clark of Mon |
ANA, Clark of Wyoming. Clay. Cock |
-el. Cullom. DebOe. Dietrich. Dilling- |
am. DOlliver. Dubois, Fairbanks. |
Foraker, Foster of Louisiana, |
Foster OF Washington. Frye. |
iallinger. Gamble. Gibson. Hale. |
Harris, HawIey. Heit- |
ED. HOar Jones of Arkansas, |
Iean. Kearns. Kittredge. Lodge, |
IcComaS. MeCumber. McEnery. Nc |
.aurin OF Mississippi. McLaurin of |
South Carolina, Mcmillan. Martin. |
Mason. Millard. Mitchell, Money. Nor
ran, Nelson. PenrOse. Perkins. Pettus. |
'latt of Connecticut. Platt of New /
fork. Pritchard. Proctor. Quarles. |
scott Simmons, Simon. Spooner. Stew
rt. Taliaferro. Turner. Vest, Warren, !
wellington. Wetmorc-72
Nays-Bacon. Blackburn. Culber-
on. Mallory. Teller, Tillman-6
Bailey paired with Depew and Elk
ms; Rawlins paired with Hanna and
;ewell; Daniel. Jones of Nevada. Pat
ersOn and Quay not voting and not
,airpd