Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-15
Final Adjustment of Difficulty
Between Colombia and Pam
anna is Delayed
AWAITS ACTION OF SENATE
Colombia Will Be Permitted to Act
First - Treaty Just Signed Has I'M
portant Bearing on Relations With
Southern Republics = Scheme to
Mako the Desert RIoom-
Especial Correspondence

(SpeCidI CORRESPONDENCE
Washington, Jan. 15.-Secretary
Root and the Colombian minister to
Washington signed, on Saturday even
ing last, at Mr.. Roots home, the final
drafts of the treaty between the United
States and Colombia for adjustment
Of all the remaining matters related
to the schism between Panama and
Colombia
The treaty has now to be ratified
by the senate of the two countries
Colombia's constitution having been in
large part borrowed from the United
States, it contains the same provision
in regard to ratification of treaties
that is in force in the United States
Because of its sorry experience get
Z ting treaty ratif1cations out of the sem
ate, the administration has decided not
TO attempt to secure ratification here
until Colombia has given the approval
Of its senate Accordingly Thomas G.
Dawson, minister to Bogota. dill leave
ttal, to look after securing the rati-
fication there. 1t Is a most important
and delicate task which has been en-
trusted to the young diplomat; but
Mr.. Dawson's success in other difficult
and complicated negotiations with the
Latin American countries leads the
] state department. to anticipate his sue
cess. Mr., Dawson hopes to secure the
-..-A Al q n ~ ~l,sr al fIoo
I present session of the congress OF
that country. To this end he will travel
by special boat, up the Magdalena river
\ to Bogota.
One Of the important aspects of this
treaty from the PansAmerican, point
OF view, is that South American gov
ernments have generally been in SYM
patty with the United States con-
corning 1t. The same is true of the
handling of the Venezuelan troubles Of
late. Brazil, Argentina and Chile have
apparently entirely abandoned their
one-time attitude of hostility. or at
least suspicion, toward the United
States, as to all matters affecting,South
America, and nowadays are commonly
in accord with the Washington govern
ment's efforts to keep matters
Amoothed out in that continent This
was especially notable in the Vene-
zuelan matter. The South American
government felt that the credit Of
them, all was In a considerable way
involved in the performance Of Castro.
and they were anxious that he be
brought to such terms as would tend
to strengthen European confidence in
the South, American governments. The
development, of big business interests
in the South American countries has
recently tended strongly to make the
substantial governments there court
the capital of Europe and North
America, and therefore to establish
solid institutions. Mr.. Roots policy
has been to encourage this disposition,
and it has been very successful.
Next thing we knew, they will re-
verse the old saying, and people will
talk about the rose blooming even as
the desert.
Twenty tons per acre Of the best live
stock forage known, Is to be produced
by the system of dehorning the COM
mon or desert cactus. The cactus Is
the one thing that will grow practically
all over the American desert. 1t has
been supposed to be absolutely worth
less, and worse, because, while it con-
tains the most valuable combination OF
nutritive elements, the spines on 1t
make men and animals avoid 1t as they
would q plague.
hut the bright young men Of the ag-
ricultural department have found a
way to subdue it. They propose sim
ply to have the cactus sown in drills.
carefully tended, and made to develop
big crop, Then when 1t Is ripe and
ready for harvest, a man with
plumbers blow will walk up
and down the rows. blowing his flames
over the plant and thereby burning off
the prickly spines.
The treatment has been tried out,
and is a complete success, 1t Is de-
clared. Cattle and sheep like the cactus
when the spines are removed, and this
nrocess never fails. The spines SINCE
off just as the pin feathers come on
spring chicken when it Is held IN the
flame of burning newspaper.
Then the hogs, cattle or sheep can
be turned into the cactus field, and VIII
get fat on the expurgated csctl. II IS
explained that there is so much water
In the cactus that live stock fed on II
need to drink very little; another vital
recommendation for desert farming II
allowed to grow two years before 1t is
harvested. the cactus will produce two
TONS to the acre. 1t doesn't need to be
replanted after it has once been eaten
off.
Internal waterways and the Panama
canal are fated to sharp collision II
+he nroposal to issue s500,o00,0o0 of ca
nal bonds is pressed by the administra-
ton. The internal waterway people
consider the scheme calculated to put
t,eir project out of business. The canal
&c reaching for the very s5o0,ooo,ooo
+hey had wanted. and if 1t gets II.
good bye to all hopes of bond-oullded
Internal waterways for another decade
The waterway people are getting ready
70 nut up a sharp opposition to the
panama proposal. They feel that lthe
crisis in their movement has come ana
ara erieyed that the administration mas,
annarently given Endorsement to the
scheme of canal bonding on such
scale as probably to make genera
waterways issue impossible
FRESH EGGS FOR EVERYBODY.
Can Be Preserved by Disinteetion ana