The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-01-04
TIME IS EXTENDED
For Final Ratification Of the
Hay-PaHncefOte Treaty.
GOES OVER UNTIL NEXT MARCH
The Question Considered and
Agreement Is Reached In Exc
ecutiVe Senate Session.

A Washington special says: The
friends Of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
occupied nearly all Of the time of the
senate in executive session Tuesday,
Senators Foraker and Morgan being
the speakers.
Previous to the taking up of that
treaty the senate, for the purpose Of
clearing its calendar, disposed Of sew
eral other treaties of comparatively
little Importance Five conventions
in all were ratified.
Among the documents thus disposed
of was an agreement supplementary to
the Hay Pauncefote treaty itself and
extending the time within which it
may be ratified. Under the terms of
the original treaty the time for ratif-
cation expired five months ago. The
agreement 'favorably passed upon
Tuesday extends the time until the
4th Of March, during which the treaty
may be completed.
The other treaties which were rat
fled were as follows:
Extending for one year the time
within which the commercial treaty
with Argentine may be ratified.
Extending for a year the time with
in which the treaty with Great Britain
for reciprocity with Jamaica may be
ratified.
The new extradition treaties with
Bolivar and Chill.
When the ay-Pauncefote treaty
was taken up attention was given to a
resolution offered in open session earl
Ter in the day by Senator Tillman,
calling for the correspondence between
this government and the government
of Colombia relative to the right of the
United States to construct canal
across Colombian territory. The res
olution was agreed to after it was
amended at the instance of Senator
Morgan so as also to call for all the
correspondence with the Panama Canal
Company, including all offers on the
part of that company and all negotia-
tions with it concerning the Panama
canal.
Senator Foraker's speech from first
to last was a defense of the Hay
Paunceforte treaty. He praised in
high terms the services of Secretary
Hay Any fair-minded man, he said,
must recognize that in negotiating the
pending treaty the secretary of state
had accepted conditions as he fonnd
them, and that in falling into the
policy of neutrality he had only fol-
lowed historic precedents. Every adj
ministration since 1850 had given
some recognition to the Clayton Bull
wer treaty, and that document was to
be found in the governments latest
treaty compilation.
Mr.. Foraker also commended that
there is an implied reservation in the
treaty as it came to the senate to pro-
tect the canal from enemies. The
treaty guarantees it's neutrality in
time of peace, he said, but we reserve
the right to do with it as we see fit in
time of war, except that we cannot
fortify it. He also contended for the
safety of the canal, even though il
should not be fortified, for it was alb
surd, he said, to suppose that any en-.
envy would attempt to sail its ships
through canal 175 miles long owned,
controlled and policed by this country
when actual hostilities were in pro
gress. In this connection he called
attention to the fate of the Maine
which was on peaceful mission anC
had been anchored in a harbor of the
country with which at that time we
were at peace.
Senator Morgan covered much of the
ground he had covered in his previous
argument in support of the HayPaun
cefote treaty, until he referred to thu
protocols existing between Nicaraug'
and Costa RIGA regarding the canal
and said that the ratification of thu
Hay treaty is debt we owe to them
Z Those countries, if they see fit, nigh
rise up and refuse to allow us to d.
anything; hence, we could not afforC
to do anything that would offend them
For this reason he would have tn
neutrality Of the canal assured and thu
reudinp treaty ratified.