Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-12-07
Senate Committee Approves the Terms
=, :, of. the New Hay-Pauncefote
-: Convention. ....,. i
Some Criticism of Its Provisions by
~ Democrats but All are Anxious
- To Have Canal. ~
Early Consideration is Urged and there
Promises to be No Determined
~ $+ Opposition.


committee on foreign relations has
voted to report favorably the new Hay.
Pauncefote treaty providing for the
construction of AN Isthmian canal.
The committee was in session for
almost two hours and went over in de-
tail the provisions of the convention.
No votes were cast against it. but it
was criticised very sharply by Sena-
tors Money and Bacon, who found in it
many Of the objections which they
urged against the old treaty. They
took especial exception to the provis-
ion 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
limitation upon the power Of this coun-
try to absolutely control it. The con.
tenion was made that the effect of the
treaty as sent to the senate would be
to deprive the United States of con,
troll of the canal in case of war. Es.
pecial attention was called to the pro-
vision in the preamble of the pending
treaty rese1ving Article of the Clay.
ton-Bulwer treaty from the repeal pro-
vision Of the new treaty. The portion
Of this article of the old treaty to
which especial objection was made
reads as follows,
t"In. granting, however, their joint
protection to amy such canals or rail.
ways as are by this article specified, it
was always understood by the United
States and Great Britain that the
parties constructing or owning the
same shall impose :"
No Other Changes or Conditions
of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid
governments shall approve of as just
and equitable; and that the same
canals or railways, being open to the
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 af-
ford" fi.. -rs,. .. ..-
Senators Money and Bacon did not
go to- the extent of voting against the
report of the treaty and they acknowl-
edge they are anxious to see it ratified
because of their great desire to have
the canal builtS Still they insisted that
the treaty as it now stands is very OBJ
jectionable in case of the contingency
of war.
Senator Frye presided over the meet.
ing and he authorized Senator Lodge
to report the treaty to the senate on
Monday next in case there should be
an executive session on. that day
y It was also the sense of the commit
tee that, the consid deration OF the treaty
should be pressed as speedily as posi-.
BILE in the senate, some senators eX-
pressing the hope that the action
might be secured before the adjourn.
mjent for the holidays. The commit.
tee also voted to recommend that the
Injunction Of secrecy be removed from
the treaty. ~. d. 10
Senator Bacon moved the revival
of the amendment to the original Hay
Pauncefote treaty which was suggest
ed by Senator Davis then chairman
Of the committee, and adopted by the
senate. That amendment provided
that nothing in the treaty should zap
ply to measures which the United
States may find it necessary to take
for securing by its own forces the de-
fense of the United States and the
maintenance of public order" The
amendment was voted down. II" oYs.