The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-13
SENATOR'S
 STIRRED UP Long Debate on Bacon
 Resolution. cLoTURE IS BROUGHT UP CullOm and Aldrich Think
 Exigencics Demand It. Georgia Senator Proposes That Rsssi- dent Negotiate . Trsaty with E Panama Locking to Ami {. cable Settlement.

hours today. the senate oo1et~@
 anna question, and 1t was st1n under con .,aarst,on when the Senate adJourneo. ,rha disoussion arose over resoiuuon iooixinr to the arbitration ef CoiomnaA ciairns on account of the Panama teyo- iution. It was introdued early in tne oss = bv MT. Bacon. and was met proMpIy ss A motion on the part Of MT. AooSs v . bie it. This motion aroused the ls of Senators on the Democratc saos. w .,,s constr,,ed the motion as intended to cus ofY debate. and said they would cepase tbe panama question on some other reso- lution if not on this. ...,.
 Finally Mr. Lodge consented 70 ws.n hold his motion and discussion proceeaoa throu0hout the day with the unoeretan1r inr that 1t should be renewed again eo- morrow. A.
 Al inc beginning of today's session ths Senate adopted a joint resolution insro- duced by Mr. Fairbanks authorizing the erection of 6 statue to the late President Harrison on Government-owned iand m Indianapolis.
 MT. Bacon introduced resolution au- thorizing the President to negotiate . treatv with Colombia looking to an arsii- cable adjustment of the differences grow ing out of the secession of Panama. He addressed the Senate on the subject He said he regarded the situation as critical and had read dispatch from former Consuf Smythe stating that the Coiom- h,ana ara greatly aroused and feel that fhe honor of their country demands that they should go to war.
 Mr. Bacon expressed the opinion that this country could reach peaceful solu- ton by showing some consideration for the people of Colombia. He did not. he said, desire to invade the province of the President of the Unitsd stases. DuI he considered the Senate as azs advisory body. He moved the reference Of the res ofution to the CoMhnittee 0n Foreign Re lations and Mr. Lodge moved to lay the motion on the table.
 In doing so the Massachusetts Senator took the position that the agitation ot she question would Do most injurious al the present time, as lhe said the Presl- dent and Secretary of State are now me gotiating with General Reyes concerning ali the points at issue.
 Mr. Lodges motion to lay on the table brought a number of Democratic Sena- tors to the floor. including Mr. Bacon, Mir Teller and Mir. Daniel MT. Daniel declared the motion to be unreasonable and MT. Teller said 1t was unusual and extreme. both saying that the motion tc law on the table would cut off debate.
 Mir. Lodge then said he would tempo rarily withhold his motion in order to al. low the Senators to speak.
 2 Mir. Foraker said that since 1ef6 this government has continued uninterruptedly to protect the transit across the isthmus. He challenged the Democrats to point out in what particular the administra- ton has created wrong under the treaty of 1e46.
 Morgan and Foraker.
 In response to Mir. Morgan, Mfr. Foraker said he hoped and thought some Demo- cratic members of the Senate will vote for the Hay-Bunau-Varill treaty where upon MT. Morgan inquired why Senator Foraker insisted making a party matter of it.
 Mir. Foraker: 'I want to ask what has been the origin of this resolution. Has 1t been considered by the Democratic caucus and has 1t the approval of the caucus?"
 MT. Bacon responded that while the question was not a proper one, he had no objection to answering 1t. The resoIu- tion originated with himself alone and no one had placed eyes upon 1t prior to it's introduction except himself and his stenographer.
 MT. Foraker said he had supposed that to be so, but the suggestion that 1t was a party resolution had come from the other side of the chamber and had led him to ask the question.
 A spirited and somewhat personal col- loQuy between Messrs Bacon and Foraker over the formers insistence that the lat ter, notwithstanding the formers state ment, persistently referred to the reGola- ton as a party resolution, was ended by Mir. Daniel and MT. Lodge speaking in a conciIiatoFy manner and discussion again became calm, temperate and almost pro- safe.
 Daniels Accepts Challenge.
 Mir. Daniel signihed his willingness to accept Mir. FoEaker's challenge to point out wherein the administration had over stepped it's authority on the isthmus under the treaty of 1846. He said the policy of this government had been con- trary to historical precedents of the United States that this country had never interfered with any forces of a friendly power in defending itself against armed insurgents. MT. Daniel read from Secre- tary Seward. on the treaty of 1el6, that neither the spirit nor the stipulation of the article requiring the United States to maintain neutrality warrants interference except against a foreign power and de- clared that secretay Fish had sustained the opinion of Secretary Seward.
 MT. Lodge cited precedents to show that in 1900, 1901 and 1902. the United States had followed the same course as st present and that troops had been sent to Panama to prevent attacks ozi either side and to maintain free transit and pro- tect American interests.
 MT. Daniel, contipuing, read opinions from several Secretaries of State that if is the undoubted duty of the Colombian Government to protect the isthmian rail- road from the attack of rebels and that the United States guarantees the sover- eighty over the isthmus. and he asked:
 How is it that we hear from Loomis and Bunau-varilla and Senatorial ex- pounders only on the one side of this question? The United States guarantees sovereignty as well as free transit"
 MT. Daniel declared that at the begin- ning of last November we were in per- feet peace with Colombia and that then we sent armed troops into that govern