Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-14
Lodge Arms the Presidents
Foes While thly Prof
fering His Own Support


The speech upon the question delivered the by
Lodge of Massachusetts, several the most
noteworthy contribution yet made to the discussion of this holly
debated legislation.
Senator Lodge is now ranking minority of the
Committee Foreign Affairs At the time of the passage
tolls exemption law he chairman of that committee
He member of that committee when the HayPaunceote
treaty reported by it thirteen years ago No the Sen
unless be Mr. Root has equal knowledge of the diplomatic
discussions that attended the negotiation of that treaty and have
conferred about since its ratification If the Senate
may speak with authority the subject it Senator Lodge
Then why the reader well may ask is not his determination
support the President conclusive and to be supported by all
right thinking citizens?
that question adequately only necessary for
The Georgian print large part Of Senator Lodge speech in
stead of hastily offering the Senator'S conclusions did other
papers process by which the reached his deter
minaon quite as important the conclusion itself
To begin with the Senator holds that the cutlery about
honor abiding the Of the treaty not attempting
privileges do not possess utterly without ustifca
ton He goes further than the advocates of tolls
tions for coastwse vessels when he says:
o a 9o out ' 'as fs t t What 5i1: ds ' are
ny view that have the legal right
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Senator Lodge points out that in 1901 in reporting
ond Hay Pauncote treaty the Senate he declared that under
it
The United States at osg to vessels Of
t6oosht assdess mace '"'' ''"'
The Bard amendment may be explained in passing,
offered to declare explicitly this right which Senator Lodge
thought then and thinks now unquetonable.
He did his speech of last Thursday reicrac terms
what he said in the Senate July II, 1912 namely;
m ~ esa'o WAS the Fsq R9 dt fomTtoS 'as
poy.ioos admit that foreao coyerqmeo car
Seems to me there .5sos nc limit to the aoS5s guTo
po~eT foreign Governments may
But he did declare mdy that the opinion he expressed in
reporting the treaty for ratification and later debates he has
changed He holds that
T as ITS o her s sna PH'p9fs although the Ultimate
& to the U"d states T eSt oSat bs a the sns &C
% aso s'r that % the 9ag? on these terms THE
so0 and @ the eaDa terms s to al Sssrs " te "a
question guaranty of equal terms
to all nations includes the United States the says
Tie words al aso s 3Ss so "@ out "sr ny
my for tahog THIS view gre that es article Hay
the ss banana '9 6oeos. sS S5 WITH "d 5s o8 BY
a2sns use Of he sso oTzR SsooS terms upon "''
Having at this point his speech devoted thousands
of the complete and authoritative demolition of the
Presidents legal and diplomatic argument the Senator turned
oexplan briefly why he proposed support the President de
mand for the repeal the exemption law And here for the
first time he fails to marshal his facts fully mterre them
precisely
The Senator refers to the isolation of the United States
to the protests Of all nations to the opinion of civilized
kind though there general universal protest of all
nations against the proposed remittance of tolls to American
CoaStwise vessels
AS MATTER OF FACT NOT ONE NATION HAS PRO
TESTED SAVE GREAT BRITAIN Whatever there of isoa
ton in this international situation She enjoys An effort was
made to make appear that South America joined in the pro
test but this speedily dproyed The uterances of the
German press show that surrender to Great Britain would
be by no means enjoyed by that country.
Again the divided sentiment the United States dsresses
Senator Lodge But sentiment in this country split people
into patriots ana Tories 7l6 and on questions involving the
effort Of Great Britain regain the supremacy she then lost that
line Of cleavage viii always appear 1t quite apparent now
when United States Ambassador speak publicly of this PEG
pie English led and English ruled without rebuke from the
Administration
Summing up then Mr. Lodge purposes support the
idnt repeating the exemption law signed by President Taft