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1 think, who deserves most of the credit for building the canal-pu, it well when he said:
 The important thing is the'next step. It often happens that the good conditions of the past can be regained not by going back, but by going forward. We cannot recreate what is dead; we cannot stop the march of events; but we can direct this march and out of the conditions develop somthing better than the past knew.
 Mr. President, I believe that these treaties will direct the march of events toward developing something better than the past knew. I urge the Senate to advise and consent to their ratification with the changes recommended by the Committee on Foreign Relations,