The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-04-22
COLOMBIAN TREATY v
FINALLY RATIFIED
$25, 100000 Award, With
Pact Approved After
Long Debate.

OOioinDidn treaty sbTOWlHB out VI lHs
partitioning of Panama was ratified
today by the Senate. 1t provides fol
the payment by the United States o.
$25,000,000 to the South American
republic, but has yet to be approved
by the Colombia Assembly.
The vote on ratification was SO to
10, or IL more than the necessary
tVo-thirds majority,
Fifteen Republicans and four Dem.
ocrats voted against ratification.
Victory for Harding.
The Harding administration thru
ratification of the treaty won It's
first fight in the Senate. The Presi-
dent in message to the special ses-
sion OF the Senate March 8, five days
after his Inauguration, recommended
ratification as very helpful at the
present time in promoting our
friendly relationships.
This recommendation was supple
mented today by Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts. the Republican leader
who in reply to attacks of Republican
senators OF the progressive group,
declared ratification of the pact was
part of a great national foreign
policy" contemplated by President
Harding toward our neighbors in the
southern and eastern hemispheres. 1"
Forty Republicans were Joined by
twenty-nine Democrats in voting for
ratification. One Republican, Page,
Vermont, and three Democrats,
Shields. Tennessee: Owen, Oklahoma.
and Walsh. Montana. were paired in
its favor Two Republican senator's.
Elkins. West Virginia. and Newberry
Michigan, were absent and not vot-
ing.
The Poindexter amendment to cut
the indemnity to Columbia from S25,-
900 900 to SIS. 900. 900 was supported
by sixteen Republicans and six DEM
ocrats. The latter were Dial, South
Carolina; Mcclellan Tennessee; Reed,
Missouri; Simmons. North Carolina;
Trammell, Florida, and Watson,
Georgia.
Twenty-Five Republicans and sew
enteen Democrats supported Senator
Wadsworth's amendment to prohibit
Colombian troops and warships from
using the canal in a war against
nation with which the United States
was at peace. Prominent among the
Republican supporters of this amend
ment was Senator Knox, Pennsylva-
mia, and among the Democrats. Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, ranking minority
member of the Foreign Relations
Committee.
Denounced by Progressives.
THE final vote ended eight days Of
debate, the treaty by agreement hav-
ing been taken up by the Senate i'm
mediately after the converting of the
Sixty-seventh Congress in extraordi-
nary session. Opponents of ratifica-
ton, composed largely of what is
known in the Senate as the Progress
size Republican group, were vigor-
GUS in their denunciation Of the pact
turnout the discussion. They declar-
ed that its acceptance would place
stain OH the name Of Theodore Roose-
welt, would be a useless squander of
puzzle money and would amount to
with "a blackmail de-
mand on the part of Colombia" Sen
ator Lodge, who with Senators Me-
cumber. North Dakota; Borah, Ida
no; Brandegee, Connecticut, and Fall.
then senator from New Mexico,
Joined in an adverse report against
the treaty as negotiated in the For
eign Relations Committee in 1917,
led the fight for ratification. His
change along with that of other Re-
publican senator's from opposition 10
the original treaty to advocacy Of /
the amended pact, was one of the
points of attack by the progressive
Republican group.
supporters VI i"eiAiN"eA~" NNNA-NN
that the treaty would improve the
relations of the United States With
Latin American republics, would sat
isfy demands equitably made by Co i
lombia, and would aid the United
States in the world quest for OH
In connection with the last argu- i
ment, Senator Lodge in tho first adj
dress Oh the debate, read letter from
of the Interior Fall, former /
senator from New Mexico, urging
ratification as essential to the sue
cessful competition OF the United /
States with Great Britain in obtain
Ing Colombian oil concessions.
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