The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
t. O.P. MAST|CATE
 ALSO GULF DOWN
 THEIR OWN CROW
Republican Prediction Prom- iSeS of Economy Attacked From Within = Borah,
 Johnson Et Al.
 Boiling Over"
Fly HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Age-HeraId
 800 Davidson Building

Washington, April 23.-(Special. ) The republicans have eaten their crow and Woodrow Wilson is more amused than any other man in the United States.
 In the ratification of the ColOm- hian treaty, the Senate. by a two thirds majority, withdrew it's crIti- cIsm aimed at Wilson two years ago, and after profoundly apoIogizing, pro- ceeded to do as he told the Senate to do.
 There is no question in non-partisan minds but that President Harding in de- manding of his party the ratification of the treaty, rose above political consid- eration in a determined effort to act justly towards weaker republic It re- duired considerable courage, because it was necessary to be followed by sharo and bitter division in his own lines, and Tn excessive embarrassment to republican partisans who stand against democratic administration, always, and for d repub- lican administration. always-partisans, in other words, of the Senator Lodge type.
 In the speeches of Senators Borah. Johnson, Poindexter Kellogg, and Wat son of Georgia, Woodrow Wilson found intense satisfaction. He did not agree with their sentiments expressed against ratification. But their assault against the republicans who changed views re- spectng the treaty in response to the di- rection of the President, served as T most palatable morsel
 KENYON IDEALIST
 Senator Kenyon of Iowa, an idealist of the variety generally regarded as sweet though impractical sometimes constitutes a thorn in the side of his party. For instance, in arguing against ratification of the treaty he exposed the hypocrisy of the republican politicians who deceived the country into returning a republican Congress in 1919. He said
 "In the campaign of 1918, I heard many excellent addresses by leaders of the re- publican party. Nearly every one I heard denounced the Colombian treaty as the crowning infamy in the attempt of Woodrow Wilson to slur the life and character of Theodore Roosevelt. The people of the country were not for the Colombian treaty. They did not believe that Theodore Roosevelt had done 8 wrong act; and it is most extraordinary and amazing that three years later after that issue had helped to win a campaign for the republicans, republican leaders have now turned a complete somersault and what was an infamous crime under Woodrow Wilson, becomes a very divine proceeding under the administration Of the republican party.
 During the last campaign the people believed what we said regarding our in- tentions-about economy. Yet our very first act as republicans in power is to vote s25, 0OO,000 to set of bandits by q treaty that was denounced in a report signed in 1917 by republican leaders as n blackmail proposition
 q do not want to hear much more about economy in this Congress have been receiving letters from farmers on the brink of bankruptcy who urge us, if we have money to throw away, to lend it to them
 THE AMENDMENT
 And it is said President Wilson smiled grimly when the Kenyon rebuke was ut tered But Kenyon had no effect. Neither had Borah. The Idaho senator, having heard the republican leader, Senator Lodge, declare that he did not regard the language of the treaty as an apology for the rape of Colombia by Roosevelt offered an amendment so stating, to the treaty. It was voted down. Another Borah amendment which Lodge and his colleagues, who formerly denounced Will son TOT advocatlhg the uea's' Vo'eu down. follows:
 ''rhat neither said payment nor any thing contained in this treaty shall be taken or regarded as an admission that the secession of Panama in November 1908, was in any way aided or abetted by the United States of America, its agents or representatives, or that said government in any way violated it's ob- legations to Colombia"
 The vote on ratification contained only one surprise Senator Dial of South Carolina voted nay He made no ex planation. Previously he had not for mally spoken. In course of the running debate. however, he did state by the me dium of interrogations that the Colom- bian government was no more impaired by the digging of the ditch by the United states than it would have been impaired had the French syndicate been able to