The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-15
BREACH COMPLETE
THE ROW BETWEEN THE PREsI-
 DENT AND THE SENATE.


 the Sentiment Apparent-Letter of
 the Executive Resented, and
 Mir. Lodge, Presidents Closest Friend.
 Turns Upon
 Him.
 washington special to New York
 Herald.
 Between the President and the Sen ate the breach is now complete, be- cause the Senate this evening amended and then ratified the arbitration treat ies in their emasculated form.
 The Senate did this in the face Of the threat of the President to with draw the treaties from further consi6 eration if they were amended. The Herald gave the Senators their first news that the President was contem. plating such a step, but the President followed it up with a letter to Senator Cullom, which was read to the Senate in which he urged that the treaties be ratified in the form in which they had been negotiated, and told the Sem ate that the step which it contemplat- ed would put back the cause of arbi- tration and international peace
 The Senate showed a hostile spirit, tempered with sadness, toward th"
 
 sion which preceded the vote. It had evidently determined in advance to surrender none of its rights and to in- sist on amending the treaties so that when each case for arbitration comes up as, a treaty 1t will have to be drswT and ratified by the Senate. This waS done by striking out the single word agreement" and inserting the word treaty
 Seldom before has such an emphatic vote been given against President by a Senate of whose party Is so large. Iy in control. Even Senator Lodge do serted the President and made a speech against the original treaties and in favor of the, amendment. This caused 6 sensation. because, while it was known that Senator Lodge was in fa- vor of the treaty making power of the Senate, it was not expected that he would attack the administration on the floor.
 During the debate the President and Secretary Hay v4ere attacked for seek ing to grasp power by Senators Lodge Morgan, Foraker, SpooMer, Bacon. Tel. Ter, Daniel and others. The President and Secretary were defended by Sens- Cumber and Platt of Connecticut
 Test on the French Treaty.
 The test came on the French treaty The treaty was amended and ratified by practically the same vote. This was as follows:
 Yeas-Messrs Alger. Allison, Am keny. Bacon. Bailey. Bard. Bate, Ber- ". Blackburn. Burnham. Burrows. Car mack, Clark of Wyoming. Clay. CuI- person. Cullom. Daniel, Dick. Dilling. ham. Dryden, Foraker, Foster Uf Louisiana. Foster of Washington. FiI- ton, Gallinger, Gamble, German, Halo, Hansbrough, Hepburn, Kean, Kilt redge. Lattimer. Lodge, Long. Mo- Comas, McCreary. McLaurin, Money Morgan. Newlands, Overman, Patter- son. Perkins, Scott, Shoot. Spooner, Stone, Taliaferro, TelleF-s0.
 Nays-Messrs. Deliver PairbankS, Hopkins. McCumber. Nelson, P1att of Connecticut. Stewart, warrel., Wet more-9.
 Senators Burton and Mitchell are not sitting now in the Senate and EsR- atnr Aldrich Is abroad Senators Till man and Hawley are absent on account of illness. These Senators did not vote:
 Alice, Ball, Bsveridge Clapp, Clark of Montana; Clark, Of Afkansas: Cocks rell, Crane. Depew. Dietrich, Duboia Elkins, Frye. Gibson, Kearns, Knox. McEnery, Mallory, Martin, Willard, Pet tus, Platt, of New York; Proctor, Quarles and Simmons
 The impression here Is that the voto was larger than 1t would otherwise have been on account of the Pres'- dents letter,
 Nearly all of the speeches mada in the Senate today voiced warm regard for the President, but those that were EA % hA kn hn treaty as a general thing expressed sorrow that the President should have assumed the extreme position of puh- licIy featuring the Senate about mat ter which the Senate was required to consider behind closed doors
 President AStOnishes Senate.
 The Senators who intended to amend the treaties In such a way as to require separate treaty to be submitted on each case to be arbitrated read with astonishment in The Herald this morn. ing that the President had definitely decided to withdraw the treaties and not submit them to the other govern ments if the Senate made the proposed amendment. Before they had fully digested this information a letter ad- dressed to Senator Cullom, chairman of the Committee on Foreign RcIa> tions, by the President, informing the Senate of his intention, had been read in the secret session of the Senate.
 This joined the issue fairly and Eduarely. The President in his letter frankly told the Senate that 1t might amend the treaties If in its judgment 1t thought proper, but the Executive would exercise the same discretion and would not exchange trealies with tho other contracting powers.
 The Presidents letter proved to he Curtain raiser" Instead of quiet ing the opposition 1t intensified it Ths President placed on the Senate the re- sponsibility for taking "a step bacE- ward" in the cause of international