Show p QUIETING TITLE PROCESS 1 Treaty With Spain Regarding Cession of Isles Called Up Washington Dec ID When upon Senator lodges motion the doors of the Senate were closed in executive session ses-sion today and he called up the Hay Pauncefote treaty no Senator evinced a desire to speak upon it Without making ma-king any special request for speakers Mr Lodge asked the Senate to take uptime up-time treaty with Spain providing for the cesslon to the United Slates of the Philippine Phil-ippine Islands of Cebutu and Cagayan Sulu and their dependencies In consideration consid-eration of the payment to Spain of 100000 Objection to this request was mao by several Senators including Messrs Hoar Wellington and Bacon and Senator Sena-tor Lodge with the hope of removing the objection made went into a brief explanation of the terms of the negotiation nego-tiation He explained Unit the islands are comprised in the Philippine group and said that they were supposed lo have been ceded by Spain in the Paris I treaty and the United States had taken possession of the islands under this supposition I was soon found however how-ever that the definite line of our acquisition ac-quisition fixed by the treaty cut both of them out I Is the rule of law he explained that a definite boundary description always al-ways supersedes an indefinite description descrip-tion Hence in order to leave no doubt ton o our jwncrshlp life treaty for the cession of these islands had been negotiated nego-tiated and he believed that the United States would he paved much trouble in the future by consummating the bargaIn bar-gain gainHe characterized the proceeding as In the nature of a quieting tile process Mr Lodge also called attention to the faot that one of the islands is directly on the line of communication with Borneo Bor-neo and he drew the conclusion that some day It might be Important as D cable station Senators Hoar and Bacon said they would like to have more time to consider con-sider the treaty and Senator Wellington Welling-ton made unqualified objection Accordingly Ac-cordingly the treaty was laid aside for the time being |