The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-03-20
PASS THE TREATY
ONLY FIVE IN THE NEGATIVE
SENATE RATIFIEs TIE PROTOCOL
WITH COLOMBIA.
Seventy-three Members Answer Yea to
Final Question Put.-Many Amend
ments Are Rejected.-Morgan Bunch
es Proposals Into Complex Substitute.

WASHINGTON.-The senate net at
IL O'Clock Tuesday and went into eX-
ecutive session after the journal was
read and approved
Shortly after the doors were closed
Mr.. Money offered a substitute for the
fourth article of the treaty, which dis
avows any intention on the part of the
United States to increase its territory
at the expense of South or Central
America.
Senators Bacon, Teller, Daniel, Nor
gan, Bailey and others contended for
an impartial recognition of all Amer
lean republics, urging that under the
language of the fourth article of the
treaty Mexico would be left as the only
American republic to which the avowal
of non-encroachment could be held as
non-applicable. Senators Spooner and
Hoar replied, contending that there
was practically no difference between
the language of the amendment and
of the article.
The amendment was then defeated
by 25 to 27.
Senator Daniel then offered an
amendment providing that the treaty
should not take effect until it had been
approved by congress.
The fact was soon apparent that he
offered his amendment for the purpose
of making a general speech on the
treaty, and when the fifteen minutes
allowed him had expired and the
amendment was voted down, Senator
Morgan presented four or five Of his
amendments, which were each in turn
defeated, but upon all Of which Sen
ator Daniel continued to speak. All
told he spoke for about an hour.
His speech was an arraignment of
the republican policy in pressing the
treaty with what he asserted was I'M
due haste. He referred to the enOrm-
GUS expenditure that would be required
to construct the canal and charged
recklessness in rushing into such an
enterprise
Mr. Morgan asserted that senators
were not thinking for themselves, but
following blindly in the lead of the
secretary Of state. They were prac
tically surendering their own Offices
in order to maintain a reputation for
party allegiance.
When it became apparent that the
speeches had been con-
cluded, Senator Morgan surprised the
senate by presenting all the fifty
which he had prepared in
one block, with those portions OF the |
treaty he did not desire to change, as
a substitute for the whole agreement. |
He did not demand a roll call and was
voted down viva voce almost unani-
mously.
1t was now few minutes past and |
Senator Morgan took the floor to make !
the last of his long series Of speeches |
in opposition to the treaty. In accord
anct with the unanimous agreement !
he spoke for an hour, and to make |
the points he desired he had prepared !
his speech in advance. He read de-
iberately but in a firm voice, often
in order to emphasize.
Senator Cullom occupied only about
of the hour allotted to
1im, and when he concluded the ques-
ion as to whether the treaty should be
'atifed was promptly put before the
senate All the senators in the city
occupied their seats and all were
prompt in responding when their
lames were called. The vote resulted
n the ratification of the treaty by IS
o 5.
The report was no surprise, for all
lad predicted that When the offered
had been disposed of the
reaty would be approved by an over
majority. Such proved to
,e the case.