Show A DEMOCRATIC CRAWFISH The United States Senate has agreed to Senator Fryes resolution that by unanimous consent It will on Tuesday next come to 11 vote on the Panama canal treaty The resolution in which this unanimous consent Is expressed is < exceedingly careful to guarantee to Senator Morgan and others the fullest opportunity to print their tedious views and to have them bore the public pub-lic as much as possible So that the craze for garrulity Is gratified and the Senate at lost has consented to bridle Itself with at least a gentle bit The point of Democratic objection to this treaty comes with n glaring inconsistency in-consistency that wns oC course to be expected That party ha worn itself out In walls about aggression expansion expan-sion and the evils ot our acquisition of territory that Is not contiguous to our chief domain Yet now we see the Senators Sen-ators of that party declaiming first against this treaty because It did not assifro the United States the right to fortify the canal which would be an act of possession and sovereignty HO solid as to leave practically nothing toe to-e desired In the way or authority over the strip through which tho canal would pass The treaty In thq way of such fortlflcaUon being removed tho Democratic opposition to the canal treaty now centers on the point that It does not place the control entirely In American hands that this country Is not given the right to protect the canal bY force in can the necessity for It should arise That is to say unless J Colombia shall renounce her sovereignty over the canal and yield It to thle United Stales to be assumed whenever we think It necessary the Democrats will oppose the ratification That Is Imperialism must be a feature of this treaty according to Democratic demands de-mands It is not surprising for that party generally succeeds in getting on both sides of every Important question before It is through with It Another singular matter in connection connec-tion with treaty ratifications is the action ac-tion of the Senate Committee on Foreign For-eign Relations In reporting the Cuban reciprocity treaty favorably conditioned condi-tioned upon the consent of tho House of Representatives We doubt very much It the Senate will agree to any such proviso as this for It would concede con-cede the very point of difference between be-tween the two houses and would forma form-a basis for a further demand on the part of the House to share yet more fully In the treatymalting power Yet the report Is significant as showing a disposition to yield even though it maybe may-be only a sign of weakness In seeking help to do a thing for which tho Senate may rid be prepared to assume the sole responsibility |