Show MAY FORTIFY CANAL FORMER SENATOR FORAKER SAYS UNITED STATES RESERVED RIGHT OF MILITARY PATROL in communication to president Preil dent taft the declaration la Is mado mad that E england always understood the united states would fortify canal washington A contribution designed to clarity clarify the confused situation that has arisen over the right of tho the united states to fortify the panama canal was submitted on sunday by former senator foraker of ohio to president tatt taft who made it public throughout the period in which the ilay treaty was negotiated and ratified senator foraker advised john ilav hay then secretary of state and made many ot of the suggestions that wore were incorporated into the treaty pro preserving to this government the right to take such means as it doomed necessary to protect the canal and the shipping without specifically authorized fortifications senator fourakers Fora Fo kera letter to president tatt taft reviews tho the acts of the senate in connection with the treaty mak ing with england and laws passed subsequently to tho the ratification of tho the existing hay treaty senator foraker alcer conclusively that tho the united states reserved the right of military patrol and that england always understood that the canal would bo be fortified by the united states |