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Show COLOMBIAN TREATY IS PIGEON HOLED Senate Foreign Relations Committee Against Action Ac-tion at Present. N WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. The senate foreign relations committee today determined deter-mined that the long-pending treat-y to compensate Colombia for the partition of Panama could not be ratified at this session. ses-sion. This decision was reached after President Wilson's letter urging ratification ratifi-cation had been read. Chairman Stone of the committee said lie would make a formal for-mal statement later and make public the president's letter. - Republican senators of the committee absolutely refused to yield in their opposition oppo-sition to the treaty, which, as amended, would pay Jlo.imO.OnO to Colombia for the Panama canal zone and express mutual regret for the controversy over the partition par-tition of Panama. , President Wilson's letter to Chairman Stone urging ratification of the Colombia treaty reads as follows: I take the liberty of writing to ask you if it will not be possible to press the pending treaty with Colombia again for ratification. I must admit my surprise that there shoifld be any -ohjection to its consideration or to i mined iate action upon it in view of the unusual circumstances of the moment. mo-ment. . ' The main argument for the treaty and for its immediate ratification is, of course, that in it we seek tn do justice to Colombia and to settle a long-standing controversy, which has sadly Interfered with the cordial relations re-lations between the two republics. In addition to that argument, which should be conclusive, there is this only too obvious consideration, that we need now and it is possible we " shall need very much more in the immediate im-mediate future all the friends we can attach to us in Central America, whore so many of our most critical interests in-terests center. I would very muqh like your advice as to this matter. It seems to me that those who oppose this treaty i must be thoughtless of the present situation. |