Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-26
COLOMBIAN s.
PACT RATIFIED
DESPITE FIGHT
Pact Provides for the Pay
ment of $25,000,000 in
Connection With ACquis-
iti0n of Canal Route.
(By The Associated Press.)

New York, Dec. 25.-The treaty
between Columbia and the United
States has been ratified by the Col
ombian congress, according to a
cablegram received by the Amer
lean international corporation.
The treaty, which provides for
1.-THE payment of $25,000,0 900 to Col
ombia by the United States, was
ratified by the United States senate
on April 20 of this year and by the
Combian senate on october 13.
Under the Colombian governmental
| procedure, it was necessary to OBJ
tain ratification by the chamber of
deputies as well as the senate.
Ratification by that body has been
pending for some time and during
debate considerable opposition de-
lveloped against the document.
| The Colombian treaty is an out
growth of difficulties between the
limited States and Colombia in
connection with the acquisition by
the United states of the Panama
canal route and CT recognition of
the Panama republic by the United
States government during the ad-
ministration of Former President
| Theodore Roosevelt.
Considerable debate attended the
ratification of the treaty in the
United States senate. Those who
opposed it charged that Colombia
had long been engaged in trying to
hold up" the United States for a
large sum of money for the canal
route; that Panama, once an inde-
pendent state, reyolted from Col
h az
that the presence of American
naval forces at the time of the
revolt had nothing to do with the
failure of Colombia to force Pan
anna back under Colombian con-
troll.
In short, opponents Of ratifica-
ton charged that the United States
winked or connived at the Panama
revolution to get the canal zone.
This charge was denied with
equal vigor by advocates OF the
treaty.
Washington, Dec. 25.-Ratlfica-
ton by the Colombian congress CT
the treaty between that country ana
the United States brings a step |
nearer the close of series OF
diplomatic events which began in |
November, 1908, when the present
republic of Panama revolted from
Colombia The next step will be |
the exchange of notifications which |
under the treaty will occur at Bog
ota, the Colombian capital.
When Panama reVolted, a small |
American naval force, less than SO
men, was landed to protect Amer
leans and ten days after the rev.
olution Panama was recognized by |
the United states. Colombia pre-
scented the claim that the part thus
played by the United States was In |
violation of the treaty of 1886 be-
tween the United States and New |
Granada, to which Colombia sue
ceeded. AS a result of this claim |
the treaty with Colombia was nego-
tiated.
The controversy over this treaty
bobbed up in the United states
senate off and on for seven years,
having been presented by President
Wilson in June, 1914, and ratified |
finally in n considerably changed
form last April 20, at the recon-
mendation Of President Harding.
The principal change in the
treaty as negotiated and as ratified
by the Colombian congress and the
American senate was elimination of
a paragraph whereby the United
States would have expressed its re-
gret to Colombia for the loss OF
Panama. Elimination of this par
agraph, republican leaders asserted,
made the treaty acceptable, al
= n o,,oh raDiib1iconS Of the progress
siye faction opposed it as casting
a reflection on the late Theodore
Roosevelt who was president at the
time of the Panaman revolt.
The United States under the
treaty agrees to pay Colombia S25,-
100000 in five installments, the
first, of 100000, within six
months of exchange Of notifications.