The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-13
AGREED ON A VOTE
SENATE WILL PASS UPON THE CA
NAL ON TUESDAY.
SPEECHES WILL BE PRINTED.
StORGAN's AND OTHERS WILL BE
IN THE RECORD.

Consent TO Vote ON Tuesday Was
Unanimous Agreement Senators
Entered IntO-Cuban Treaty Re-
ported by the Committee on For
eign ReIatiOns-Amend are
Attached-ApprovaI of the House
win Probably be sOugbt-Sennte
May Adjourn Next Week.
Washington, March 12.-There were
important developments to-day re-
garding the treaties pending in the
Senate. The decision of the Senate up
on the Panama canal treaty on Tues
day next and the reporting back of
the Cuban reciprocity treaty to the
Senate by the Committee on Foreign
Relations, indicate that the end of the
work for which the extra session was
called is in sight.
1t is believed the Democrats as a
body will cease opposition to the Gu
ban treaty. but some @e them. the SUI
gar interests of whose states are af-
fected by the treaty will continue to
oppose it. The Republican side of the
Senate will vote practically, If not alb
soutely, solidly for the treaty, and
it is now generally believed that it
will be ratified after action upon the
Panama treaty.
The progress made to-day leads
many senators to predict an adjourn
ment by the close of next week. The
action of the Committee on Commerce
in pOstponing a vote upon Crum's
nomination, which also took place to-
day, is generally accepted as disposing
of that matter for this session.
Amendments Up on Monday.
The Senate, by unanimous consent,
agreed to vote on the Colombian ca
nal treaty Tuesday. The amendments
TO the treaty are to be. considered
Monday. The request for unanimous
agreement was made by Senator Frye.
The agreement is in part as follows:
That not later than Tuesday next,
the vote on the resolution for ratifica-
ton shall be taken without further de-
bate. Injunction of secrecy shall then
be removed from the speeches of SEN
ator Morgan and they shall be printed
and submitted to senators, including
that to be made by him on the response
to the Senate resolution calling for in
formation as to the agreement be-
tween the Panama Canal Company
and our government, and they shall
be printed in the Record, and that the
speech or speeches made for and
against the ratification of the treaty,
during the hour of general debate al
lowed each side shall be printed in
the Record in like manner as the
speeches of Senator Morgan
On motion of Senator German the
injunction of secrecy was removed from
the agreement.
Took Up the Cuban Treaty.
The executive session of the Senate
to-day was taken up largely with the
details of agreement to vote upon the
Panama canal treaty, and after the
agreement was reached, Senator Nor
gan did not manifest any disposition
to proceed with the discussion of that
treaty. Senator Cullom thereupon ask
ed the Senate to take up the Cuban
treaty which he had just reported
from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons, but Senator Foster of Louisiana
objected, saying that his colleague,
Senator McEnery, who desired to speak
on the treaty, was absent
This objection had the effect of pre-
venting formal consideration of the
treaty, as such, but there was more or
less discussion of the effect of the
amendment to require the approval of
the treaty by the House. Senator Fos-
ter asked when under that amendment
the treaty would take effect, and sew
eral Republican Senators made reply:
The general opinion was that it could
not become effective until after legisla-
ton by bill or joint resolution in which
both houses of Congress should concur.
House should Approve 1t.
Among the senators who expressed
the opinion that the treaty would not
become effective until approved by
both houses of Congress were Sena-
tors Allison, Platt of Connecticut, Tell
er and Bacon. These senators also
commended that the action of the House
on the reciprocity treaty is necessary
in order to conform to the conStitu-
ton of the United States. Senator AL
hson, who always has taken leading
part in tariff and financial legislation,
was quite emphatic in his expression
of this view, and cited the Senate to
a number of reciprocity treaties in all
of which cases the cooperation of the
houses of Congress had been secured.
After concluding his remarks upon
the effect of the new amendment,
Senator Teller entered upon a discus
sion of the merits of the treaty in de-
TAIL contending that it was direct
thrust yat the sugar industry of the
United States, which he claimed would
be benefited to the extent of no less
than $6,000,0 900 annually by the reduc-
ton of the duties on raw sugar.
Senators Platt of Connecticut and
Dietrich of Nebraska replied to Mr..
Teller. Mr.. Platt spoke very briefly,
denying especially that the sugar trust
would reap the benefit of the reduction
proposed by the treaty. He said he
would not at this time go into the
question, but that he hoped at a later
day to be able to cite facts which
would convince the Senate that the