Show n fa AY GAAL 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 situa tion that has arisen over the right of the united states to fortify the panama canal was waa submitted on sunday by former senator foraker of ohio to president taft who made it public throughout the period in which tho the hay fote treaty was negotiated and ratified senator foraker boraker advised john ilay hay then secretary of state and made many of the suggestions that were incorporated into the treaty preserving to this government gov emment the right to take such means as it deemed necessary nf c to protect the canal and the shipping without specifically author iced fortifications senator Fo letter to preal dent taft reviews the acts of the senate in connection with the treaty mak ing with england and laws passed subsequently to the ratification of the existing hay day tote fote treaty senator foraker shows conclusively that the united states reserved the right of military patrol and that eng land always understood that the canal would be fortified by the united states |