The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-09
General Belief IS That il Will
 Bt Ratified
NUMEROUS CHANGES MADE
Senate Desires to Make Treaty of Such Nature That 1t Cannot Be Used as a Precedent for Future
 Similar Action.

Washington. March S-(Speeial )-The Presidents San Domingo treaty which l will probably come out of the foreign relations committee tomorrow bears lit- 1 tie resemblance to he original treaty outside the general principle 1 All suggestion of the policy followed II accordance with tie Monroe doctrine is eliminated. The adjudication of the claims is defined clearly; the office hold l CTS are not subject to the changes of Dominican administration and the decla- ration Is made that the Dominican case will not be precedent for Central or 1 south American countries unless the cir cumstances in these cases be identical. The committee yesterday progressed so i far that 1t was gr-ed to take q vote | on the treaty at Il 50 a. m tomorrow to 1 determine whether the report will be In l favor of ratification or rejection. What l the report will be cannot be determined positively, although 1t is believed 1t will be favorable. The democrats on the com l mittee have expressed themselves as l against the treaty fundamentally, al- though they took an active part in the l presentation and adoption of amend ments. 1t Is expected that most of the republican senators will vote to report the treaty as amended
 Make Question Stand Alone.
 All the the amendments adopted by l the committee are with a general aim of making the question covered stand alone and of removing all chance of its being used as precendent for like pro- cedure in other countries under guise of being ratified by the Monroe doctrine. | For instance, one of the first amend l ments strikes out that portion of the nor o1Ia nf tIa0 l.I .f-l. has been construed as definition and application of the Monroe doctrine to the l San Domingo case
 Other important amendments are as follows.
 That part of the preamble which de- clares that the Dominican government Is In imminent peril and urgent menace | of intervention on the part of the nations whose citizens have claims" is stricken out and the preamble left to read that the proceeding is on the ground of ad- | 1usting debts which burden the re- | public"
 Must Be Agreed Upon.
 In the first articles. which describes the character of the claims this government l proposes to adjust. an amendment was made to include obligations 'liqudated and agreed upon." This amendment is for the purpose of giving the treaty ap- plcation 10 the adjustment of the claims l of the Santo Domingo Improvement com pany, the payment of which already has been entered on by the agreement under which the United States has taken charge of number of custom houses under the protocol of January 31 1903. A provision placing the employees of the United States who will be charged with carrying out the provisions of the treaty under the | Dominican government was amended so as to declare that such employees shall not be subject to the civil and criminal Jurisdiction of that republic"
 The article which declared that the government of the United States at the request of the Dominican government shall grant the latter such other assis- tance as the former may deem proper to restore the credit. preserve the order, in- crease the efficiency of the civil adminis- traton and advance the material pro- gress and welfare of the Domihican re- public was amended so as to permit the government of the United State to grant this additional assistance If it desires, but It Is not bound by treaty obligations to | do so.
 New Article Is Added. A new article was added which pro- vides that whatever Is done under this treaty shall be binding on succeeding governments in the Dominican republic l so as to eliminate the chance of a suc-
 
 ate it's agreement with the United States A number of rather sInmaterial amend ments have been adopted. and 1t Is under stood when the committee meets tomor- row it will consider some others which lsenators have leave to prepare and sub I nit
 I The probability of the treaty being brought up in the future as precedent was discussed freely in the committee to- day. and it was predicted that the pro- cedure was forerunner of what may be expected to take place in regard to Ven ezuela 1t was declared that this govern ment might have to take over San De- mlngo as territory of the United States in regard to this, an amendment will be offered, striking out the preamble where by the United States agrees to respect the complete integrity of the Dominican re- public. This amendment was suggested in the committee but was regarded as against the policy of the government and this, 1t Is believed, will be the judgment of the Senate. At the same time it was pointed out that Santo Domingo lies be- tween the United States and Porto Rico. and that government as now constituted is bare neighbor.'
 Never Submitted to Senate.
 Discussion of the treaty in executive committee of the Senate was complicated by a protest submitted by Senator Teller from members of the Haytien and Domin- ican colonies in Europe. It was directed against the protocol of January 20. which was negotiated immediately prior to the present protocol. but never was submitted to the Senate, It is asserted by the pro- testants that President Morales of the Dcg-inican republic is a dictator and by entering into this agreement with the United States ia indirectly attempting to cede to the United States territory which he fears he cannot hold. They declare further that Morales Is actuated by de- sire for personal gain. They declare against what Is termed a constitutional alienation of government rights and forms without the legislature first sub hitting the question to the people for off, cial sanction.
 The protest was in French but Senator Teller submitted translation. He made speech in which he criticised the ac- tion Sen by this government and pre- dicted that the protest showed that the country is inviting trouble by dealing in this manner with an irresponsible ruler of an irresponsible people. He said he knew that the protest was not properly submitted.
 Senator Platt of Connecticut objected to the consideration of the protest con- tending the Senate has no right to re- ceive communications from citizens of a foreign government and that all matter of that kind should be received through the state departments or one of the legis- | ya. .tva dapa rit,,artS On, his fbiectfon the