The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-11
TO
 SUM COLOMBIA
 ASKSFR0M US.
Many Senators Think Amount Named in Treaty With the Southern Republic Is With out Bounds of Reason
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

l ton so Tar. The only criticism or the new administration heard to this date was uttered by Senator Lenroot, of 1 Washington club attacked MT. Hard l ing's recommendation to congress
 that the senate speedily pass the Col ombian treaty, under which the
 United States would pay to Colombia l $26, 100000 for the loss of Panama. There are other senators who oppose paying Colombia anything. No doubt the treaty will meet rough sledding in the next senate. Postponement of l it's final consideration at the last ses- sion was an index of the opposition to come in the new senate. Senator Len root however, like his conferee from 1 Wisconsin, Senator LaFollette, has
 always been an outspoken man and
 never hesitates to voice his views
 without fear or favor on every oc-
 casion and on any subject
 There is much against the Colom-
 bian treaty. Colombia agreed to sell
 what was then the Panama canal zone, Colombian territory, to the United States for the Isthmian canal | The price was $10,000,0 ,000 Colombia
 backed out and demanded $25 900 ,000.
 Thereupon the Colombian province of 1 Panama revolted, and set up re- public. This republic was protected from an invading Colombian army by | U. s. Warships and marines and the l Colombian soldiers when they arrived 1 in Panama were unceremOniously put on trains and run out" of Panama
 by the marines. Colombia thereupon set up the claim to the original $10,- 1 100000 and $15, 100000 additional, the 1 last named sum for damages. The principal objection to passing the 1 Colombian treaty all along has been the $15,00G,000 additional. Colombia also wanted an "apOlOgy" for alleged violation of her territory by the Unit 1 ed States in protecting the newborn | Panama republic The "apOlOgy' has been stricken from the treaty and the i hitch now is over the additional $15,- 1 900, ,000 damages. Anybody who knows everything about misgovernment in 1 Colombia has misgivings that if the
 United States does pay the millions 1 to Colombia most if not all of the money will find it's way into the pOCk-
 cts of the Colombian officials who happen to have control when the
 cash is paid over.
 1 But to get back to congress and the
 president. Senators and representa- tiyes have taken the presidents in-
 auguraI address as their guide for 1 legislative action in the next con-
 gress. They are well pleased with
 the address, as indeed the country at l large seems to be.
 From the inaugural address it has 1 been deduced that MT. Harding
 would send a masterly message to the coming special session, now so near,
 and in that message point out the
 legislation that congress is expected to get to work upon without delay and enact into law as soon as pos.
 sible.
 One thing seems certain as this ia
 written. There is complete harmony 1 between congress and the new admin istration. "A neighborly feeling" ex- 1 ists between these two great
 branches of our government. Good
 citizens hope such relations will con-
 tinue during the whole Harding ad- ministration. Lack of harmony and cordial cooperation was the prin- cipal cause of the downfall of the Wilson administration. That was the of Mr. Wilson and all his works. The 1 continual pickering between the White House and congress led to the | fatal sickness that afflicted the Demo- cratic party last November. Many | hope that there will not be any drift ing apart of MT. Harding and con gross. Of course enemies of the ad- ministration hope for some such re- suit, and there are enemies of the administration even so early in the great political game which started l March 4.
 MT. Harding, however, is a totally different personality from Mfr. Will son. MT. Wilson was dictatorial and believed that his mind was superior to the remainder of mankind. He regarded congressman and even emi- nent senators as grown-up schoolboys, with himself as the pedagogue. There in lay the seeds of his final and bit ter humiliation. MT. Harding is con- ciliatory, and willing to meet other men half way on any of the great iScI,ac and po1ioinc 4bn,,oL bo hoo n