The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-24
DEMOCRATS SPLIT EVENLY
Fourteen for and Fourteen
 Against Covenant.
Administration Seems Dsterminsd to Hasten the Work of Actual construction-1E Members of
 Commission in Doubt.

Washington, Feb. s3--The United States Senate ratified without amendment tie treaty with Panama for canal aero < the Isthnus of Panama by q vote og ts to IA The result was forxOne ooncsi- sion. the interest in the matter being only in the division of the vote on the Demo- cratic side, which was not known dSfA~ nitely until the roll was called. an the Republicans being for ratification
 Fourteen Democrats voted for rakEica~ ton fourteen against it. TWO ueyno@ crats. Clark of Montana and Stone ok Missouri were pared In favor of the tfoa@ -ty. three Democrats. Overznan, Afea nahrin and Martin. were pafide aSaiazs 1t. go in the total vote ls Democrats were for the treaty and seventeen a8in1k
 The Democrats who we're pfA42nk and voted for the treaty were necon. HsEfzs Clarke of Arkansas; Clay. Carkreii, Fl4@ ter of Louisiana; Gibson. LatimeT, Mo- CreAry. McIsnery Mallory. Money. Si.n< mons and Taiiferfo.
 On Bacon Amendment.
 The only vote was on the amendment ofsr7 ed by Senator Bacon. providing fer an arrangement to compensate Colombia fcr the joss of the territory of Panama. This was rejected by N to @. It wasta patty vote on the affirmative side and also on the negative aide, with the exception of Mir. Gibson and Mir. MoEnery3 DeIne% crats who voted with the Repnbllcanas Four Democrats were absent when thiB vote was taken and no pairs were ans nqnnced for them. Some Republicans wer alson absent on thls vote.
 Senators generally commend the man- agcusent of the treaty by Senator CAl- lorn. chairman of the commute on for@ eign relations. who has had charge of the measure during the plain and stormy sailing. The vote was taken much erliaF than was anticipated at first when itw opponents were vigorously trying Ao sss cure enough votss to prevent ratification.
 The debate in executive pession was Henerallx on tha mergtn of fhe treaty with fef1reuce 10 the papers which Mere Aszik to the Senate bx khe Pfe2loent San$ &tor Morgan made C sst speech which occupied the greater part Of the time. Senator CuIberBon made comments On the secret correspondence and asserted that 1t showed that the reasonable times re- ferred to tn the spooner act was known to have expired both for negotiafins the Hay-Herran treaty, and It's ratiacations
 Roosevelt to Shaw.
 Senator Culberson read from a letter addressed to Dr. Albert Shaw by the President, dated October 10 19os. in which the President said he saw no hope for any negotiation with Colombia. and that he would be delighted should rev. oIution occur on the isthmus.
 Everything Is ready for the speedy con- summation of the Panama treaty and both the War and State Departments have made preparations for the next step the former by dispatch of troops to the isthmus, and the latter by the comple- tion of arrangements for the exchange of notifications of the treaty, which must take place in Washington.
 There is no reason why this ceremony should not occur within the next foetyr- eight hours. M. Bnau-Varilla. the rains ister from Panama, was al the State De- pertinent to-day in relation 10 this mat ter. and very soon after he has made the exchange of treaties win lay down his mission, according to notice he has already given. His successor aa minister here will be Pablo Arosemena, the pres- ent head of the constltutE0nal convention and father of the secretary of the PaHa-. ma legation here. Mrs Arosemena is de- scribed as a lawyer of ability and man of means.
 The administration intends to press the canal project by all proper methods. AS Q cabinet ofiicer expressed it. the next step after the appointment of the com mission will "be. to scratch dirt" and already such members of the commission as are assured of their places. like Admit ral Walker and Major General Davis. have been giving some attention to the provision of the clerical force and the engaging of engineering, talent to con- duct the actual work of canal digging.