Show An Ill timed Threat I T. T HE Hl Senate foreign forcin n. n relations committee presented a n majority report last Jast w week k recommending in the payment payment pay pay- ment to Colombia of or and it seemed scented quite certain erlain tr- tr I tain lain the bill hill would pass mss and so make an nn end to u i itron tron- tron issue which has been for years But it so happened that the morning papers of that da day chronicled chron citron the fact that Colombia was a about out to e that American oil lands bought from froni ranchers down there would be he confiscated to the tiie thus state thus following he the example set sel up b by Mexico Immediately Senator Lodge asked t to have the report of or thc the committee of which he is chairman recommitted The inference is that Colombia will have to do some more watchful waiting waiting- for her Before threatening threaten threaten- in ing so unrighteous a decree a against innocent American p purchasers she ought to have waited until the intended gift gift- ift from Congress was d. d Now v she has herself II to thank for delayed if not adverse ad settlement pr 1 I |