| Show FAVORS THE NEW TREATY Convention Will Be Reported to the Senate Washington Dec 6 The senate enate com coin committee on foreign r relations today voted to report Je Ort favorably ly the new l tote fote treaty providing for the construction of an a B isthmian canal The TIle committee was ia ift session nearl two hours boun and went over In detail th tho provisions of the convention No votes were cast cut against pinet it but It was waa critical v very try ry sharply by Senators Money Mccoy anu and Bacon who found In It many maDY of the ob objections obJection which they urged against the old oil treaty treat They took especial exception ex to the pro provision provision vision continuing in force foce the neutrality provision ion of the Clay treaty treat and also alao made objection to the elau clau s specifically authorizing the United States State to police pollee the canal nal as placing pl a limitation upon the tho power of this country to ab absolutely absolutely control it it iL The contention was wai 01 made that the effect of the treaty a as aa s sour nt II t tto i to the senate would be to deprive tho th United States of control of the canal in Ia inI Incase I case ease of war Especial attention was called to the 1 prevision in the preamble p of the pending treaty reserving article N t of the Clayton Bulwer treaty from the repeal provision of the new treaty The portion p of this thu thuI I article of the old treat t treaty at to which e es eM pedal peels objection was made reads reada as u fol folIn fo folo lo In granting however their joint pro protection protection protection to any such canal or railways as all asare allare asare are by this article specified it is alwa understood by the States and Great Britain that the parties construct constructing lug ing or owning shall shaH impose no Jk other charges or conditions of thereupon than the t aforesaid I governments O t shall U Jl ar that thai prove e of as OJ just and equitable and the same canals or railways railway being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms term shall ball also be open on like terms term to th tb the citizens and Yd subjects of every other ta state te which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford Senators Money KonEY and Bacon did not go IO goto IOto goto to the extent of voting against the re report report report port of the treaty and they acknowledged they are anxious to see i it ratified because of their great desire to have bave ha e the canal built SUIT Stilt they insisted that the treaty as it now flOp stands is very verj objectionable in incase Incase case calle of the contingency contingent of war Senator Fry Frye presided over the meeting and he asked aked Senator Lodge to report tIle the treaty treat to the senate on Monday next in incase Incase Incase case there should s be an executive se session ton on It also was the sense of the committee that the consideration of th the treaty should be pressed premed as speedily as possible In hi the senate enate some senators expressing the hope that action might be bf secured be before before before fore the adjournment for the holidays The committee also voted y ted to re recommend that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the treaty neat 1 Senator Bacon moved the revival of the amendment to the original fote fete treaty which was wu suggested by Sen Senator SEnator Senator Davis then chairman of the rom corn committee ator The senate amendment provided that nothing in the treaty should apply to measures which the United States may find it necessary nece to take for securing by bF of the canal anal its own forces the defense defenso nd d the maintenance o 0 public order The tb Tb amendment was as voted ted down viva voce roes |
