The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-26

At its session held after dinner last
night, the Senate ratified tho treaty with
Santo Domingo by vote Of 43 to 49, At
ll;4o when the result WAS announced. the
Senate adjourned until to-day at noon.
The treaty provides for the continuance
of the present plan Of collecting the Gus
toms revenues of the island by American
agents, and for the deposit Of 81 .s0.0-9
a year for the benefit of the creditors Of
santo Domingo. At the present rate, the
amount received by tire Dominican gov
erHment is S2.0oO@0 a year.
As soon as the doors were closed, Sen
ator Bacon. the leading opponent of the
treaty, moved that the debate be held in
the open Senate. and he was supported by
Senator Newlands. another Democrat.
The effort failed. however, and the treaty
was considered in secret, the whole ses-
sion being devoted 10 IT,
Senator Daniel questioned senator
Lodge as to the responsibilities which
the United States government would as
sumo in undertaking to adjust Santo
Domingo's financial troubles. The ques-
tioning was sharp. and soon Mr. Lodge
and Mr.. Daniel We're engaged In d colo
guy which was described as heated -
Senator Lodge made a brief speech OK
planning the differences between. the first
treaty and the substitute under consid-
Grafton.
Bacon sIakes Long speech.
Senator Bacon made a long speech in
orrosft5ou 10 +Tre ocvv-or,+for II, r,,.f-,
tanned that it proposed to have this gov
ernment embark on a venture that would
ultimately lead TO the acquisition of
Santo Domingo and the neighboring
country of Haiti. and would bring under
the Stars and Stripes a million or more
negroes.
The vote in detail is as follows.
Republicans: Alice. Ankeny. Bev-
eridge, Bulkeley. BuTkett. Burnham. Bur-
rows Carter. Clapp. Clark Of Wyoming
Crane, Cullom, Curtis. Depew, Dick, Flint
Foraker Fulton, Gallinger, Gamble Hale
Hemenway. Hepburn. Kean. Kittredge.
Knox. Lodge. Long. McCumber Millard.
Nixon, Penr0se, Perkins. Piles. Scott
SmOot. Spooner. Sutherland. Warner
Warren, Wetmore-f.
Democrats. Clark If Arkansas, Patter-
sou-2. Total, 4S.
Nays-Democrats Bacon, Berry, Black
burn, Carmack, : Clay, CuIberson. Daniel
Dubois. Frazier, Latimer. McCreary. NAL
lory, Newiands, Oyerman. Pettus. Ray
ner. Simmons. Stone, and Whyte-19.
The pairs were as follows two being
necessary in the affirmative TO one in the
negative, as it required a tw0-thirds vote
to ratify:
Paired for the treaty-Elkins McEnery.
Dryden. Du Pont, Hopkins, Nelson. Frye.
Dolliyer, Allison, Aldrich. Ia Toilette.
Bulkeley, Platt, Proctor. Smith. Hans
brough. Dillingham;. and Brandegee.
Paired against the treaty. Bailey, Fos-
ter. McLaurin. Martin, Morgan, Money,
Taliaferro, Teller. and Tillman.
Clark, OF Montana, did not vote and
was not paired.
No Republicans Against Et,
No Republican voted against the treaty.
Two Democrats-Cl Clarke, of Arkansas. and
Patterson, Of ColOrado-vOted for it. One
Democrat-McEnery. of Louisiana-was
paired in favor Of the treaty.
The only speech that showed any criti-
cism of the President was made by Mr.
Carmack, of Tennessee. He told the
Senators that they had no election in the
matter as to results. If they did nor
confirm the treaty the President would
go ahead and exercise the power sought
to be conveyed by the treaty just as he
has been doing since the failure OF the
first treaty. Even this utterance with
reference to the President was good
natured, and aroused nothing but amuse-
ment.