Show DISCUSS THE I CANAL TREATY H t H I Convention Considered in Senate Executive Session I t I LODGE EXPLAINS THE PACT t GIVES UNITED STATES COM COJI OIT OF CANAl Washington Dec 1 After the tha sen sea senate senate ate went Into executive today viator Hoar presented pre the Ute report of the committee on Judiciary ju recommend recommendIng mI lug log the confirmation of or Attorney Att Gen General General eral Knox He made a brief state tate statement ment meat referring to the protests against confirmation as made by the Anti AntiTrust AntiTrust Trust League Leue but said N that ut after atter giving ing in careful attention to UIa representation the committee had decided to recommend confirmation No opposition tion was w s voiced but ut action on the tile nom nomination was postponed by common oa con consent sent edit After a number of nomine nominatIons had i been confirmed Senator Ledge called I up the treaty treat and I Imade made a brief brier statement regarding ing that convention The senate then adjourned in order to give he the Democratic mem mern members members bers hers of the committee an Sn opportunity to hold a meeting Mr Lodge contended conten that the new treaty does away way a with all aU the Ute objectionable objectionaBle features of or the treaty tte ty of ot the thelast thelast last congress and enumerated the par particulars particulars in which the revised agree agreement agreement ment conforms to the action of or the senate iena enat in fn the last congress when the theold theold theold old treaty was before it H He analyzed the new RW treaty from front beginning to end showing that in specUla specific t terms it abro abrogates abrogates gates the r treaty treat of 1850 igo which he said saM had stood con constantly in th the way oay o of the construction of an ai isthmian haL T The he abrogation of tta treaty he hp h contended ed was a 8 most Important and he did not believe beUne that the United States or would w uld lose an opportunity to tomake tomake tomake make secure that concession Wanted Phrase Se Omitted Senator Senat r Lodge abo called attention to the omission sion in paragraph 1 of ot article 3 of the words in time of war as in time of peace He H said that in the theold theold theold old treaty the ParaGraph read that the canal shall sh ll be free HIM and aRd open in time of DC war as in tima tIme of peace pe ce to the vessels of commerce and of war ar of all nations on terms terme of entire equality etc He urged that th t the omission of this phrase had the effect practically of ot leaving the United States to do with the canal in time of war w 1 according to its own on pleasure He also referred to the fact that rule 7 In the treaty of ot the powers Dowers regulating reg the he control of the Suez canal o nal which had ad been embodied In Sn the original Hay treaty hd had been omitted in n the revised draft He quoted this rule which provided no fortifications shan shall be erected commanding the canal or r the waters adjacent etc This he said was a material conces concesion concession concession sion ion to the United States and aDd was quite sufficient to meet the objections made m de against the agreement that the United States would have no power to pro protect teet its property It practically let left le t the he United States free to fortify the canal anal in cash case it should be b considered desirable to do so and was wag In hi line with th the h omission of the restriction r keeping the he canal open in time of war The fact act fa t that the invitation contained in the theold theold theold old treaty tre ty to t the various powers to lib give their adherence to the agreement agre me it lad had been eliminated from the new con COIt convention he be saM said was wag another anether compliance ance alice with the action of the senate ena on the original treaty Concessions Are Ample These The e concessions Mr Lodge urged were ample and he contended that they were of such a nature as to render the tite new treaty acceptable to all American citizens who wanted to see a canal constructed ted Practically he said ald Great Britain had agreed to turn the entire management of the canal over to the United States State not only in time of or peace but in time of oC war and no one could doubt that in case oa of ot hostilities the United States would be at liberty to o construe the omission of the clause clausen In n rule 1 as having this effect Senator mator Culberson asked Mr Lodge if it was wu not true that article VIII of or the treaty establishing the general principles of or neutralization neutralisation was as retained in the new agreement but Mr Lodge replied that while there was wasa a declaration to the effect that the gen general general genera eral era principle of neutralization neutralisation established established by the article was still to be kept alive the whole tenor of or the new treaty treat was wu to neutralize and aRd cancel the theold theold theold old agreement He did not consider that the article would be of ot effect any longer It is understood that the treaty wit will be called caned up tip tomorrow |