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


The speech upon the tolls question delivered the Senate by
Senator Lodge several the most
noteworthy yet made the discussion of this holly
debated legislation.
Senator Lodge is now the ranking minority member of the
Committee Foreign Affairs At the time of the passage
of the tolls exemption law he chairman of that committee
member of that committee when the Hay Paunceote
treaty reported by thirteen years ago No in the Sen
ate has equal knowledge of the diplomatic
discussions that attended the negotiation of that treaty and have
conferred about since its ratification anyone in 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 be supported by all
right-thinking citizens?
question adequately only necessary for
The Georgian print large part of Senator Lodge speech in
hastily offering the Senator'S conclusions did other
papers The process by which the Senator reached his deter
minatOn quite as important as the conclusion itself
To begin with, the Senator holds that the oucry about
national honor abiding by the of the treaty not attempting
privileges do possess utterly without ustifca
goes further than the advocates of tolls
tons for coastwise vessels when he says:
q, rob. .sgp ou h S"as % t a sd. s sYs "
my view the legal raht
s%p or refuse to coIso tolls from Vessels
TtINK 9owgyga As 9Ays J9sT SAP. Sap That we
IEcf Tolls FROM At VESSELS OF TIE UNITED STATES"
Lodge points that in 1901 in reporting the
Hay Paucefot treaty the Senate he declared that under
..m. s: e s sI s;." S @ IL to % . .S y
thought needless"
The Bard amendment it may be explained in passing
offered to declare explicitly this right which Senator Lodge
thought then, and thinks unquestiOnable.
He did in his speech of last Thursday reeate in terms
what he said in the Senate July IT, 1912, namely
~ President the Relations Committee %hs.
p So ne o T to ADMIT that am Psn cOvnsnt S
me- there aSsoutsS nc limit to the qaestns
it to power foreign Governments may
declare sturdy opinion he expressed
reporting the treaty ratification in later debates he has
changed He holds that
in F The the 4" .s Y Sa S a' o S
R:pSbs treaty
United s so s' st Sod'Itsao9 the ia% on these .o hI
and & s .a PfS'iTTS terms 's p"ie %
On the question whether the guaranty equal
to all nations includes the United States the Senator says
seem ne. that s TIT. t s ' 6o , S s but 89.' @t
s 3 It's Ps%!. s.S 3
grants the use IT,. Sa to oTGsR Sat6S S Terms u'0" winch
Having this point his speech thousands
of words the complete and authoritative demolition the
Presidents legal and diplomatic argument the Senator turned
to explain briefly why he proposed support the President de
mand for the repeal of the exemption law And here for the
first time he fails to marshal his facts fully interpret them
precisely.
Senator refers the isolation of the United States
the protests of all nations opinion civilized man
kind though there general universal protest of all
nations against the proposed remittance of tolls to American
cOastwise vessels
AS A MATTER OF FACT, NOT ONE NATION HAS PRO
TESTED SAVE GREAT BRITAIN Whatever of isola
ton in this international situation she enjoys An
made make appear that South America Joined the pro
test but this speedily dsprovd The utteances of the
German press show that surrender Great Britain would
be by enjoyed by that country
Again the divided the United dsresses
Senator Lodge But sentiment in this country split its people
into patriots and Tories l76 and questions involving the
effort of Great Britain regain the supremacy she then lost that
ne Of cleavage will always appear 1t is quite apparent now,
when United States Ambassador speak publicly of this peo-
pie English led and English ruled without rebue from the
Administration
Summing up then Mr. Lodge purposes to support the Pres
dent repeating the exemption law signed by President Taft
had