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Show lilfflrf FILLHATIFIED FIFTEEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS VOTE WITH MAJORITY, AND FIVE DEMOCRATS PROTEST. Under Terms of Convention the Central Cen-tral American Republic Will Receive Re-ceive Three Million Dollars For Right of Way. Washington. The senate on Friday, by a vote of 55 to 18, ratified the long-ipending and persistently opposed Nicaraguan treaty, whereby the United States would acquire a ninety-nine-year option on the Nicaraguan canal route and a naval base in the gulf of Fonseca for $3,000,000. Included in the ratification resolution resolu-tion was a provision declaring that the United States in obtaining the naval base, does not intend to violate any existing rights in the Fonseca gulf of Costa Rica, Honduras and Salvador, Sal-vador, which had protested against the proposed acquirement. Five Democratic senators voted against the treaty. They were Chamberlain, Cham-berlain, Martine, Clarke of Arkansas, Thomas and Vardaman. Republicans who voted against the ratification were Borah, Clapp, Cummins, Gronna, Jones, Kenyon, La Follette, McCum-foer, McCum-foer, Nelson, Norris, Smith of Michigan, Michi-gan, Smoot and Warren. Fifteen Republican senators joined join-ed the administration forces in support sup-port of the treaty. They were Bran--iegee, Colt, Dillingham, Dupont, Fall, Gallin'ger, Harding, Lippitt, Lodge, McLean, Page, Poindexter, Sutherland, Suther-land, Wadsworth and Weeks. Immediately after the senate had acted, Senor Chammorro, the Nicaraguan Nicar-aguan minister, said he would at once commlunicate with his government and that he expected ratification of the convention toy his government would soon follow and exchanges be made to put the treaty in force. |