The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-07
A MOVE FOR CANAL
SENATE COMMITTEE TO REPORT
TREATY FAvORABLY.
MR.. BACON CRITICIsES 1T.
CONTAINS FEATURES OBJECTED TO
IN FORMER TREATY.

United States Would Be Deprived of
of Section S of Clayton -BuIwer
Treaty Leaves Britain "a Voice in
Its COntrOI-Mr. Bacsn's Amend
ment Voted DOwn-Both He and
senator Money Desire to See
Treaty Ratified.
Washington, Dec. 6.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations to-day
voted to report favorably the new
Hay-Pauncefote treaty. providing for
the construction of an isthmian canal.
The committee was in session for al
most two hours and went over in de-
tail the provisions of the convention.
No votes We're cast against it, but it
was criticised very sharply by Sena-
tors Money and Bacon, who found in
il many of the objections which they
argued against the old treaty. They
took especial exception to the provis-
ion continuing in force the neutrality
provision of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty
and objected to the clause specifically
authorizing the United States to po-
lice the canal as placing a limitation
upon the power of this country to alb
solutely control it. The contention was
sent to the Senate would be to deprive
the United States of the control OF
the cahal in case of war. Especial at
tention was called to the provision in
the preamble of the pending
treaty reseEving article eight 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;
I'm 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 con-
ditions of traffic thereuopn than the
aforesaid 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 sub
1ects of every other state which is
willing to grant thereto such protec-
ton as the United States and Great
Britain engage to afford"
Senator's Money and Bacon did not
90 TO the extent of voting against the
report of the treaty, and they acknovl-
edgeI they are anxious to see it Iati-
fed. because of their great desire 10
have the canal built. Still, they in
sisted ;hat the treaty as it now stands
Is very Objectionable in case Cf the
contingency of war.
Senator Frye presided over The meet
ing and he authorized Senator Loqge
TO report the treaty to the Senate on
Monday. next, in case there should be
an executive session on that day.
1t also was the sense of the COM
mittee that the consideration of the
treaty should be pressed as speedily as
possible in the Senate, so.le senators
expressing the hope that action might
be secured before the adjournment For
the holidays. The committee also vot-
ed to recomr end that the injunction of
secrecy be removed from the treaty
Senator EaCon moved the revival of
The amendment to the original Hay
Pauncefote treaty which was suggest
ed hy 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 1t necessary to take for securing
by it's own forces the defense of the
United States and the maintenance of
public order"
The amendment was voted down, viva
Noce.