The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-03-20
Warrington I.etaer.
PRESIDENTIAL BooMs-THE RE-APPEAR-
ANCE OF GOV. sEYMoUR-THE PrTH
OF THE MEssAGE-AE AMERICAN CA
NAL.
yFrom our Regular Correspondence

NAL.
From Our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, d. c., March l3, 1850.
During the past week the Senate has
been chiefly occupied with the Fitz
John Porter bill; the Executive and a
congressional committee with M. DE
I.esseps and his canal; and politicians
generally with Presidential booms. The
booms are gradually emerging from an
anonymous condition, the smoke is
clearing away, and the naked booms
may now be seen pretty clearly defined
in the political horizon. On the re-
publican side it is Grant or Blaine; on
the democratic side It's Tilden or -
Seymour. At the present time there
is much talk about the sudden reap
pearance of the latter in the field. 1t
is earnestly asserted by his intimate
friends that, notwithstanding the many
reports to the contrary, he will not de-
cline nomination rendered with uRan-
unity, and it is believed by many long
range politicians that the personeIe of
the candidacy for the chief-magistracy
in 1880 will be identical with that of
1868. Governor Seymour is sixty-nine
years old, but it is said by those who
intimately know him, that his health
is perfect, and that from a physical
standpoint he is far mere able to I'M
dergo the fatigues of Office than the
other prominent candidate. Those who
are urging his candidacy argue that in
view Of the bitter fight between the
Tildcn and Kelly wings of the party,
he is the only democrat who can GER
tainly carry New York.
AN EPrToME OF THE PRESIDENTS MES
SAGE.
The President has sent in message
to the Senate, laying down the rule that
the Canal must, when made, be under
American control. If treaties with
foreign powers, or rights of property
or sovereignty, interfere with this con
troll, they must be got rid of by "just
and liberal negotiation" The needful
protection to the capital invested in it
mnst be given by the United States
alone. The Canal will be "a great
ocean thoronghfme" between the At
lantic and Pacific States, and virtually |
a part of the coast-liDe of the United
States, and any other great Power
would, under similar circumstances,
-" not fail to assert rightful control
over it," He therefore alleges that it
is the right and duty of the United
States to assert and maintain the Deees-
sary supervision and authority over the
enterprise. This would seem, in plain
to be an intimation that the
which undertakes lis con-
must be organized in the
United States, and come to terms of
some sort with the United States Gov
NJ. DELEssEPs' STATEMENT.
NJ. DeLesseps has been before com
nittee of Congress, to which he OK
blamed at considerable length the com
1arative merits of the Nicaragua and ,
Panama routes The Panama canal, he
'aid, would cost $l8s,000,O00, would
AXE eight years at the outside to CON
'truct, would be fOrty-five miles long,
md one hundred vessels q day could
BASS through it. The Nicaragua line, on q
he other hand, would call for the con-
of a harbor at Brito, and .
would require either aeventeen or TWEEN
y locks. Each lock would detain a :
'essel two hours, it would not be pos y
ible to send her through the line un-
Ter five or six days, and not more than .
en- or twelve steamers could pass in a :.
lay; besides which the locks would y
'robably be injured by earthquakes. !
The Panama route, too, had a good /.
arbor to start with, and would use the y
ed of the Chagres river as part Of the =
anal, and the extraordinary tiooda of !,
DO river would be held in check by an Y
immense dam, He denied that any y
fiicial control of tho canal by any .
government was contemplated, and =
aid the administrative headquarters =
'ould be wherever the majority of the .
.ock was held-if in America, in New =
ork; if in Europe, Paris. II
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