The age-herald., 1901-12-07
COMMITTEE OF SENATE DEBATE
 ON NEW TREATY Senators Money and Bacon Oppose Retaining Article
 8 of Old Treaty UUNSIDERAlIUN BY SEHAlE All of the Committee Are Anxious for an Early SettIement-An Old
 Amendment Is Voted Down.
CONSIDERATION BY SENATE

Washington, December 6.-The Senate committee on foreign relations today vot-
 ed to report favorably the new Hay
 Pauncefote treaty providing for the con- struction of an 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 1t was criticised sharply by Senators Money and Bacon, who found in it many of the ob- jections which they urged against the old treaty. They took especial exception to the provision continuing in force the neutrality provision of the Clayton-BuI- wer treaty and also made objection to the clause specifically authorizing the United States to police the canal as placing a limit of power of this country to abso- lutey control it.
 It was cont ended 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 Special atten- tion 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 new treaty.
 The old Article. The position of this article of the old treaty to which special objection was made reads as follows:
 Tn granting, however, their joint pro- lection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties construct | ing or owning the same shall impose no | nf ha thereupon than the aforesaid governments | shall approve of as just and equitable. | and that the same canals or railways be- | ing open to the citizens and subjects Of l the United States and Great Britain on | equal terms. shall also be open on like 1 terms to the citizens and subjects of ev- l cry other state which Is willing to grant | thereto such protection as the United l States and Great Britain engage to af- 1 ford"
 Money and Bacon Opposed. Senators Money and Bacon did not go to the extent of voting against the re-
 port of the treaty and they acknowledged
 they are anxious to see it ratified because of their great desire to have the canal
 built Still they insisted that the treaty
 as 1t now stands is objectionable in case of war.
 Senator Frye presided over the meeting
 and he authorized Senator Lodge to re-
 port the treaty to the Senate on Monday
 next in case there should be an executive
 session on that day It was also the sense
 of the com mittee that the consideration of the treaty should be pressed as speedi- ly possible fin the Senate, some Sena- tors expressing the hope that action
 might be secured before the adjournment for the holidays.
 The committee also voted to recommend
 that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the treaty.
 Amendment Defeated.
 Senator Bacon moved the revival of
 the am mendment 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
 necessary to take in securing by its own | forces th3 defense of t-.e United States
 and the maintenance of public order"
 The amendment was voted down viva | voce.