The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-06-25
PRESIDENT WILSON
ASKS SQUARE DEAL
No Quarrel With Those Who u-
ultimately Criticize Policies.
BRYAN BEFORE SENATE BODY
eecrstary Of 6tate Says Colombia
Treaty Wa Copied From Pact
Drafted BY Former President
TGft's Aid.

Washington, June 23.-Discussing
his policy toward business and his at,
tituds on psychological depression
President Wilson declared that all he
wants 10 q square deal" The presi-
dent said he had no quarrel with any
person or corporation that desires
legitimately to criticize his policies or
the work Of congress, but he commended
the systematic circulation OF letters
and kilograms protesting against anti
trust legislation is open to criticism
President Wilson believes that few
interests are creating an ARTIFICIAL
campaign through liberal use Of the
mails and telegraph to oppose certain
legislation.
A letter written by wel1-known
business man OF Maine, urging Preei-
dent Wilson to sit tight" on bis trust
program and declaring there Ia no
cause for business depression. vas
made public by the White House. The
name OF the writer was withheld.
Bryan Before Senate Body.
Secretary Of State Bryan again ap-
peared before the senate committee on
foreign relations armed with all the
correspondence relative to the Colon
bian and Nicaraguan treaties.
Says Pact Was Copied From TAFT
Mr.. Bryan asserts that the language
employed by Minister Dubois during
the Taft administration, which pre-
sented the basis upon which he was
authorized to negotiate the treaty,
was as follows:
THE government and people OF the
United States honestly regret that
anything should have occurred to mar
in any way the long and sincere friend
ship that existed for nearly a century
between Colombia and the United
States, and the latter country has 1or
years earnestly desired to remove the
ill-feeling aroused in Colombia by the
separation of Panama"
Bryan contends that this paragraph
and the regret" expressed In his draft
Of the treaty, ARE identical in mean
ing and almost identical in language"
After dilating upon what he said
was the similarity Of terms In the two
papers, Mr.. Bryan says the COMPARE
son is made ito show that the two 'ex-'
pressions of regret are in all essen
tial particulars the same"
The senate committee decided that
it would call Senior Cuadro, Nicarag-
uan minister of finance, who has been
In this country several weeks, hoping
that the treaty would be ratified. He
is to be questioned about how the
money Is to be used.
Resolution Is Favored.
1t was brought out through Judge
Douglas that the 100000 to be paid
Nicaragua under the treaty will only
meet the $1,000,000 loan Of the New
York bankers and the more pressing
demands of the Italian, German and
English governments, and would af-
ford no fund at all for the internal bet
terments. Secretary Bryan said that
II the Plat amendments were includ-
ed in the treaty and the United States
behind Nicaragua the latter could Dor
carry out the projects deemed desir-
able,
The foreign relations committee
struck out all reference to any set Of
bankers or persons in the Smith reso-
luton calling for an investigation of
Nicaraguan affairs, and then favorably
reported the resolution.
1t provides for an investigation OF
"all or any transactions" leading up
to the proposed treaty. Some Demo-
cratic senators were greatly opposed
to the suggested inquiry, but Chairman
Stone told them that such an inquiry
was now really under way and he be-
lieved it would be good thing to look
into the whole situation.
The New York bankers representing
Brown Brothers & Co. and ]. G. w.
Seligman & Co. will be summoned be-
fore the committee.