Evening star., 1921-04-17
The Senate.
BY q. GOULD LINCOLN.

Final disposition of the Colom-
bian treaty. by which Colombia is
to receive s25.000. 900 as indemnity
for the loss of Panama and the
Canal Zone. is expected Wednes-
day. when the Senate under an
agreement entered into before the
recess will vste. Unless all signs
fail. the treaty. which has the
backing of President Harding. will
be ratified by the necessary two
thirds vote with half dozen votes
to spare. Probably a dozen re-
publicsns and three or four demo-
Gratis will vote against it. The
debate on the treaty has run
throughout the last week. with
Senat tor Lodge of Massachusetts, re-
publican leader. opening it with a
defense Of the treaty. IT was assail-
cd by Senators Borah. Idaho;
conscn: Watson of Gsorgia. Kellogg
Of Minnesota. and defended by Sen
ators Knox of Pennsylvania and
Pomerene of Ohio.
The Senate finance committee Is
to meet tomorrow to begin con-
sidcra.ion of the emergency tar
ifr bill. which reached the Senate
from the House yesterday. This
in spite Of the fact that the new
standing committees of the Senate
have not yet been organized, due
to the opposition of the demo-
Gratis to the proposal of the re-
publieans that the republicans
have ten members, instead of nine,
to the democrats six on ten ma
jor committees. This row over the
committees has delayed the whole
machinery of thv senate. for. al
though the old committees. what
is left of them, are empowered TO
do business. there has beenan in
ciination on the part OF the sena-
tors to wait for the new align
mont
The contest over the committees
is still pending in the Senate and
the matter is likely to come up for
discussion again tomorrow. An
other controversy looming up for
discussion this week is that be
tween Senator Sterling of South
Dakota. chairman of the civil serv-
ice committee, and Senator Smoot
of Utah of the appropriations
committee. over which committee
shall handle the reclassification
legislation. Senator Sterling has
introduced a bill for reclassifica-
ton of the government employees
and asked to have it referred to
iIle civil StiSl y
this Senator Smoot objected and
the Sterling bill is still lying on
the table. The Utah senator. it is
expected, will introduce his bill on
reclassification tomorrow. and then
the Senate will have to decide
whether the bills go to civil serv-
ice or to appropriations.
Following the address of Presi-
dent Harding at the joint meeting
Of Congress. Senator Knox of
Pennsylvania reintroduced his
resolution putting an end to the
technical state of war between
the United States and the central
powers. This resolution is to he
considered this week. probably
Wednesday, by the Senate foreign
relations committee. 1t is expect
ed that the resolution will be re-
ported promptly and that it will
then be taken up in the Senate.
where the debate is likely to be
long
Senator Borah of Idaho has re-
introduced his resolutions looking
to a reduction of naval armaments
on the part Of the United States,
Great Britain and Japan, and will
ask the foreign relations commit
tee to report them. A move may
be made to include the Borah pro-
posal in the naval appropriation
bill when 1t comes to the Senate
from the House.