The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-07
ALL WANT CANAL
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN
RELATIONS WILL REPORT
FAVORABLY
soUTHERNERs DISAPPOINTED
Not at the Probable Passage of the
Bill, but Over Rejection of
the Cushmnn X. Davis
Amendment.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The senate
committee on foreign relations today
voted to report favorabIy the new Hay
Pauncefote treaty, providing for the con-
struction of an isthmian canal. No votes
were cast against it. but it was criti-
cised Very sharply by Senators Money
and Bacon, who found in it many of the
objections which they urged against the
old treaty. They took especial exception
to the provision continuing in force the
neutrality provision of the Clayton Bull
wer treaty and also made objection to
the clause specifically authorizing the
United States to police the canal as plac-
ing 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 at
tention was called to the provision in the
preamble of the pending treaty reserving
article of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
from the repeal provision of the now
treaty. The portion OF this article of
the old treaty to which especial objection
was made reads as follows:
In granting, however, their joint pro-
lection to any such canals, or railways
as are by this article specified, 1t was
always understood by the United States
and Great Britain that the parties con-
structing or owing the same shall imp ose
no other charges or conditions Of traffic
thereupon than the aforesaid govern
ments 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 Afford
Swallow Their Chagrin.
Senators Money and Bacon did not go
to the extent of voting against the report
of the treaty and they acknowledge
they are anxious to see it ratified be-
cause of their great desire to have the
canal built. Still they insisted that tie
treaty as it now stands is very objection
able in the contingency of war.
Senator Frye presided over the meet
ing and he authorized Senator Lodge to
report the treaty to the senate ON Mon
day next in case there should be an ex-
ecuLlve session of that day.
1t was also the sense of the COM
mittee that the consideration of the
treaty should be pressed as speedily as
possible in the senate, some senators ex-
pressing the hope that action might be
secured before the adjournment for the
holidays.
1t was Senator Bacon who moved the
revival of the amendment to the original
Hay-Pauncefotet treaty which was sug-
gested 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 necessary to take for securing by
its own forces the defense of the United
States and the maintenance of public
ORDER
The amendment was votetd down viva
voice..
The senate committee of the judiciary
today authorized favorable report on
the nomination of Hon. p C. Knox to
be attorney general Opposition to con-
firmatten is made by the antitrust
league which has filed protest with
the committee in which especial COM
plant is made that Mr.. Knox. failed to
bring certain suits against organizations
said to be trusts, which he was urged by
the league to institute. The vote Tor
favorable report was unanimous.