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Show ITaft Explodes a Bombshell by I I Abrogating the Treaty oi 1832 1 Senate Is Now Con sidering the Action of the President Washington, Dec. 18. It is unofficially unof-ficially announced that President Taft I yesterday served notice on Russia that the" treaty of 181 was abrogated. abrogat-ed. j President Taft served the notice or i abrogation on the Russian ambassador. ambassa-dor. George Bakhmetieff. at the White House. It was this conierence with the ambassador which gave rise to the leport that a formal protest had been entered b Russia against the language of the Sulzer resolution. It Is now said that the notification that . Russia would ho offended at the Sulzer Sulz-er resolution came from American Ambassador Guild at St. Petersburg. Washington, Dec. IS. The senate went into executive ivssion at 2 o'clock this afternoon to ratify, tho action of President Taft. In notifying t .QnJ&&DjfelslhjajV Hwsr-gov- ernmont of tho intention of the United Unit-ed States !o abvogale the treaty of S.2 with that country. President Taft sent to the senate j a message stating tnc course he had pursued. ' Earlier ho advised the foreign relations rela-tions committee of the senate of the executive steps taken. The same committee com-mittee recommended that the senate act with the house In carrying 'out the abrogation of (he pact. Under tho notice to Russia and under the , terms of the troatv itself. thcabro- gatlon will he effective January 1, Tho President's message was rca-1 In tho senate in opon sosion soon after af-ter It convened. Wo sfted ho took the matter up with the rrussian ambassador am-bassador in this city last Fridav. The official declaration of tho Intention to abrogate did not reach the Russian government until yesterday Imniedlateh after tho President - ' message had been read. Senator Lode presented the resolution agreed on b tho foroign relations committee aiid offered it -s a" substitute for the Sn'zcr resolution passed by the house The I ndee resolution rorltcd that President Taft had. on December IS. caused to be presented to tho Imperial Imper-ial Russian government at Si. Petersburg Peters-burg notico that the treat will l abrogated The resolution approved ibis action declaring that tho troatv botweon the two countries no longer . was rcsponsivo to the bolitical poli- I cies or the .commercial neeas ui either. I President Taft wilh tho idea tint h's message might h considered in , executive session of tho senate, soul no copies of it to the ca'dtol and uon-v wav given out at Ihe White House. The committee resolution conclu 1 cd: ' "Therefore, ho il rcohed hv the senate and he house i' representatives, representa-tives, that fho nntieo civpn bv th President of the United States o the omnirc of Russia o terminate trcatv. is herebv ratified." After the message, and resolution had been road. Senator Hevlmrn of Idaho moved that the further consideration consid-eration of the matters be in executive execu-tive session He doelnrcd thnt it was proposed to cancel a rontract of i groat commercial inlorest-lo the United Unit-ed states, involving a trade or manv millions of dollars, and ho thought i should be seriously considered and at lenglh. It was apparent that action on the resolution terminatlu the trcatv would be delayed until late in the day. House leaders, including Chairman Sulzer. said today that the house would gladly accept the senate resolution. reso-lution. 1 Senator Hcyburn objected to the consideration of the resolution and under tho rules of Ihr, senate' it went over until tomorrow. I (Continued on Page Eight.) i i . . i . i . . SECKUESSION (Continued from Page One.) ! . President's Message. The Presldont snid in his message. mes-sage. "By inslrue'ions which 1 caused rho secretary of state lo transmit to the American ambassador at St.. Petersburg Peters-burg on the fifteenth day of December, Decem-ber, 191,1, thoro vas tfiven the im-periul im-periul Russian government, under date of tho seventeenth day of December, Decem-ber, 1911, official notification on be-lialf be-lialf of thle govenimtAt of Intention to tcrmlnato the treaty of commerce and navigation of December IS. 1832, between the United States and Russia on me expiration oi ui yuur, uum-menclnc: uum-menclnc: on tho first of Januar. 1912, the notiOratton contemplated hy ar-I ar-I tirle 12 of thr cflBtiL.; treaty havlnc I'pen enihodipd in the following note discupsod bj the ambassador to the minlstrv for fprolgn affairs. "'Under InMnjclioiiH from mj gov--ernmenttand in pursilJ.nro of the conversations con-versations of tho socrctary of tale with thq Russian ambnssador at Washington, have now the honor to give to the Imnerinl Russian government govern-ment on behalf of the United Sta'l tho offleial noUficnUo"" contemplated by article 12 of tho treatv of 1832. wherebv the onoration of the said treaty will terminate in accordance with Its terms on January 1, 191 II. " 'Your excellency wilt recall that your parlours between the two cov-ernmcnti cov-ernmcnti in tho last three years have fully recoRiilzcd tho faot that this 'a"hciont treatv. ps Is "n'ltc nafiral, is 'no lonper ullv resiionsive in various var-ious respects to the needs of the political po-litical and material relations of tho two countries which grow constantly moro Important. The treatv aten has givcn'rlso,' from time to time, to certain cer-tain ronlroversipa equally recrettod hy both governments. "' 'In convoying the present formal notification to yjur excellency, 1 am Instructed to express the desire of my government, meanwhile, to renew the effort, to negotiate 'a modern tiqary of friendship, comhit,'cf and navigation naviga-tion on a basis more perfectly responsive" respon-sive" to Interests of both Kvirnments. I am directpd by the President, ut tho samp time, to ernphaaizo the great value attached hy the government of tho United States to the historic, relations re-lations between the two countries and the desire of ni' sovorninent ro spare no offoit to make the outcome of the proposed negotiations contrlb ute' still further to the strength an.l $ cordiality of these rolations.' " K oo a Dangerously III lrs. Edna Ellis, datighter or James Plngree, who was Q reported dangerously 111 last oven- . J ing, is somewhat Improved todny. t, |