Show SHARP DIVISION EXISTS IN SENATE OVER ARBITRATION Washington Jan 4 President Tafts Taft's declaration that he intends Intend the Panama canal controversy with wih Great Britain shall AhaU be bo submitted to arbitration a as soon oon as wo we get down to the point at Issue again brought out the thet sharp division dl that exists In ill tho the Senate over O tho the obligation of or the tho United States under its Is arbitration treat treaty Senator Bacon leading D Democratic moer tc member of at the foreign r relations committee com corn Senator Hitchcock k another Democratic member of that committee Senator Burton of ot Ohio and other prominent members of ot tho the Senate expressed expressed ex ex- pressed their conviction that the lie United d i States tates was bound b by Its Is treaty with wih Great Britain to submit to arbitration Senator Root Hoot of ot New eW York who ho Is IA not now In Washington holds the tue same lame view Senator Sutherland Sutherlan Republican also a member of ot tho the committee has previously pre pro expressed the belief beler that the subject Is 18 a 3 domestic one and not such as the lie United States is compelled to arbitrate Senator Bacon in a n statement based on President Tafts Taft's announcement suggested sug SUb gc ted that the tho United States I if It submitted sub sub- to arbitration could properly ask for tor a special trl tribunal bunal so 10 constituted constituted const const- as to insure an Impartial jU judg judg- g- g ment nent Senator chairman of oC the Republican caucus said eald I I am nun nr opposed to the arbitration of ot this subject because I 1 consider It a domestic question queston The Tho canal has been built hult on our OUI own soil h by our own money mono and wo we should control It Selia Senator tor Borah member of ot both the tho tore foreign n relations and tho canal committees com corn said To concede arbitration would e es establish e a precedent that would ho be embarrassing embarrassing omha em om- ha ng he ho said sai Would rather repeal repel the canal law lawthan lawthan than arbitrate te asserted Senator Stone Democrat of or the foreign relations com corn department officials were unwilling unwilling un un- un- un willing to dl discuss tho position taken today b by President Taft Tar Prom From 1101 tho time the International tan tangle le originated last summer with wih the filing ting of or preliminary preliminary pre pre- protest by Great Britain while the Panama cana canal act Ct was pond pond- Ing InS In Congress up to the tho receipt on December 9 J of or tho the formal letter leter of or Sir Edward Gre Grey and aTil since that time lime it i repeatedly has hns bonn declared at the state department that th the tho administration tion ton would not submit the matter mater to I arbitration |