The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-12
One Is Made by Senator Bacon in
Opposition, the Other by Sena-
for CuIIom Supporting This
Important Agreement
FORMER WILL NOT
VOTE FOR ACCEPTANCE
Says War Restrictions Are En-
tireIy Inconsistent With the
Claims of Senator Lodge That
This Country Should Control
Canal in Time of War

| Washington, Dec. 11.-When the SEN
ate met today prayer was offered by
Rev. Herrick Johnston Of Chicago,
chaplain Milburn being absent. The
house concurrent resolution providing
for a holiday adjournment from Dec.
10 until Jan. 6, 1902, was referred to
the committee on appropriations.
The Senate then at 1922 p. m, on
motion of Mr.. Lodge, went into exec
utive session to further consider the
Hay Pauncefote treaty, and at ESQ p.
m. adjourned until tomorrow.
Two speeches on the HayPauncefote
treaty were made in the executive ses-
sion, one by Senator Bacon, in opposi-
ton to- the treaty, and the other by
Senator Culom, the prospective chair
man of the committee on foreign re-
lations, in support Of it.
Mr.. Bacon replied to the speech made
yesterday by Senator Lodge. He sum
med up his objections in the statement
that he could not freely accept any
treaty which does not place the 18TH
milan canal entirely under American
auspices and American control. This,
he said, the pending treaty does not
do nor does 1t do anything like it."
He also pointed out that the treaty
reproduces the restrictions of the old
Suez canal treaty, which had been in
corporated in the original convention.
He charged that these restrictions had
been copied almost verbally from old
treaty, the only material change being
in the omission of the words I'm time
Of war as in time of peace" from rule
one of the Suez canal agreement. This
omission did not, in his opinion, change
the character Of the agreement.
THE only reply" he said, which
the advocates of the treaty make to
criticisms is that the canal would be
under the full control of the United
States in time of war; but this is no
more true now than under the old
treaty, and it is a strange thing that
all the provisions refer to- the control
of the canal in war, Notwithstanding
1t is contended here that in that con-
tngency the removal of this phrase
places the canal under our absolute
control"
He said the war restrictions of the
treaty were entirely inconsistent with
the claims Of Senator Lodge that this
country should say who should use
the canal and who should not in case
of hostlities. He considered the pend
ing treaty every whit as Objectionable
as the treaty of last session. and quo
ted the fourth article of the pending
treaty as follows;
1T is agreed that no change of ter
ritorial sovereignty or of International
relations of the country or countries
traversed by the before mentioned ca
nal shall affect the general principle
of naturalization or the obligation of
the high contracting parties under the
present treaty.
THE effect Of this provision" he
said, was inevitably to surrender
control of the canal belt in case the
ownership of the soil embraced in it
should pass to the United States" He
pointed out that this restriction had
not been incorporated in the first treaty
and said it was entirely out of place in
the revised agreement.
In conclusion, Mr.. Bacon announced
that, while he had no intention of vot-
ing for the treaty. he would do nothing
to obstruct its ratification.
Senator Cullom congratulated the
Senate and the country upon the fact
that there are two things in connec-
ton with the new treaty upon which,
he said. practically all are agreed. One
of these was the desirability Of the
suppression of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty. and the other that Of the ne
cessity for the construction Of an 18TH
milan canal.
He contended that the new treaty
radically changes :he conditions pre-
scented by the first HayPauncefOte
treaty, clearly relieving it of the ne
cessity of such an amendment as that
made to the old treaty upon the sug
gestion of Senator Davis, because the
treaty itself would permit the United
States under international law to own,
manage and defend the canal in any
way that it may choose. In other
words, he added, in a war with Great