The evening world., 1921-04-20
HOT SENATE FIGHT
IS ON OVER TREATY
WITH COLOMBIA
Provisions Denounced by
WadSworth - Kenyon De-
clareS 1t to Be Blackmail.

WASHINGTON. April 2o.--4'acing
defeat in their efforts to prevent rati-
ficatior OF the Colombian treaty,
Senators opposing 1t to-day began q
vigorous campaign tn secure amend
ments that would make 1t unacespta-
bic to Colombia
Acting for this group of Senators,
Senator Poindexter, Washington, Of
fered three amendments.
One proposed to reduce from S2S, o.
600, 900 to SIS, ,OOO 900 the sum to be paid
Colombia by the United States. An
other would eliminate the provision
giving Colombia the r ght to trans.
port free troops, munitions and war
ships through the canal and over the
Panama Railroad. and the third pro-
vided that Colombia should be on an
equality with other nations US ng the
canal as to tolls, charges, &c, bu:
not on an equality with the United
states as the treaty now provides.
lPoindexter, Borah and other anti
treaty Republicans claimed to have
considerable Democratic support to
these amendments. particularly the
one limiting the privileges granted
Columbia under the pact.
Sepator Wadsworth, New York,
Chairman Of the Senate Military AZ
fairs Committee, said the treaty
would admit Colombia into the canal
zone in war time in violation OF the
United States agreement that the
canal should be neutral zone, and
not accessible to belligerents.
Senator Lodge declared that was
untrue, but both Wadsworth and
Borah showed that the treaty gives
Colombia the right of troop transit
| through the naval zone "at all times"
Senator Kenyon, Republican, Iowa.
declared the treaty was ''blackmail"
and said the American people would
understand it.
And it's not going to be any easier
| TO swallow because the bottle is la
belled Take with OIL" said the Iowa
Senator, suggesting that possibility OF
cancellation by Colombia Of Ameri-
can oil concessions was a factor in
support given the treaty
81 want TO hear no more of econ
omy in this Administration" he said.
Your economy in this Congress has
gone"
The proposed payment to Colom-
| bia, Senator Kenyon said, would be
"a half baked apology" and a
stigma" on the name OF MIR. KOOse 70
welt, as well as "a sickly. pusillani-
NOUS policy of buying friendship"
Answering opponents Of ratifica-
tion, Senator Lodge said the pact
was part OF great national foreign
policy" projected by President Har-
ding toward our ncighbOls In the
southern and Eastern Hemispheres "
u intend to support the President in
! this initial step therefore" he de-
claTcd. 1T is u matter Of opinion as
to whether this treaty ls a reflection
on Theodore Roosevelt and the United
| states and in my opinion such a re-
! Election Is not possible | think IL to
the advantate Of my country TO heal
an open sore which exists between
! lne hl'th states ana the country
which adjons the Panama Canal. It
! is necessary to do that for national
defense, ana for whatever advantage
to our business may be obtained"
senator Boph, in answer to Lodge,
said he approved President Harding =
policy as outlined in New York, but
J could not see ''why in the interest OF
any policy the United States should
J COnCCdC Us guilt Of O crime of which
II Is guiltless."