Show m AY FORTIFY CANAL FORMER SENATOR FORAKER SAYS UNITED STATES RESERVED RIGHT OF MILITARY PATROL in communication to president taft the declaration Is made that england always understood the united states would fortify canal washington A contribution de signed to clarify the confused cont used situation that has baa arisen over the right of the rio united states to fortify tho the panama canal was submitted kon on sunday by former senator foraker of ohio to president tatt taft who made it public throughout tho the period in which the hay treaty was negotiated and ratified ra tined senator foraker advised john johl hay then secretary of state arid and made many of the suggestions that were incorporated into the treaty pro serving to this government gov emment the right to take SUCH means as it deemed necessary to protect the canal and the slopping shipping without specifically author iced fortifications fort I 1 fl cat ions senator Fo letter to president T tatt aft reviews the acts of the senate in connection with 0 treaty malc mak ing with england and laws passed subsequently to the ratification of tho existing ilay treaty senator foraker shows conclusively that the united states reserved the rag right ht of M military patrol and that en england g always understood that the canal would bould be fortified by the united states |