The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-07
|TOREPORT THE NEW
TREATY FAV9RADLY
Thus Votes Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
TITS SHARPLY CRITICISED
Neutrality Provision of Clayton Bull
wer Treaty Objectionable.
| THE CONTENTION OF MONEY AND BACON
Effect Of the Treaty. as Sent to The Senate
Would be to Deprive Us OF Control
of the Canal in Case of
IT'S SHARPLY CRITICISED
THE CONTENTION OF MONEY AND BACON
(By the Associated Press,

Washington, D. c., Dec. 6.-The Sen
day voted to report favorably the new
Hay Pauncefote treaty providing for
the construction Of the Isthmian canal.
The committee was in session for al
most two hours and went over in detail
the provisions of the convention. No
votes were cast against it, but it was
craticised very sharply by Senators
Money and Bacon, who found in it many
of the objections which they urged
against the old treaty. They took espe-
cial exception to the provision continu'
ing 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 limitation upon
the power of this country TO absolutely
control it. The contention was made
that the effect of the treaty as sent to
the Senate would be to deprive the
United States of control of the canal in
case of war. Especial attention was
called to the provision in the preamble
of the pending treaty reserving article
s Of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty from
the repeal provision of the new treaty.
The portion of this article of the old
treaty to which especial objection was
made, reads as follows;
In granting. however, their joint
protection to any such canals or rail-
ways as are by this article specified, it
is always understood by the United
States and Great Britain that the par
ties constructing or owning the same
shall impose no other charges or condi-
tions of traffic thereupon than the afore-
said governments shall approve 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 aforesaid"
Senator'S Money and Bacon did not go
to the extent of voting against the re-
port of the treaty, and they acknowledge
they are anxious to see it ratified be-
cause of their desire to have the canal
built. Still, they insisted that the treaty
as it now stands is very Objectionable in
case of the contingency of war.
Senator Frye presided ovec the meet
ing, and he authorized Senator Lodge 10
report the treaty to the Senate on Mon
day next in case there shoul3 be an ex-
ecutive session on that day.
1t also was the sense of the committee
that the consideration of the treaty
should be 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 recon-
end that the injunction of secrecy
be removed from the treaty.
Senator Bacon moved the revival 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 that nothing
in the treaty should apply to measures
which the United States may find it ne
cessary to take for securing by it's ow.l
forces the defense of the United States
and the maintenance of public order
The amendment was voted down viva
Voce.