The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-04
ROMANCE OF A CANAL
Nicaragua Canal First Talked
Of 500 Years Ago.
In 1925 the United States First
Moved in 1t.
THE BILL WILL PASS
So Mr.. Geary Thinks, and Canal
Viii be Done in 1908.
THE BILL WILL PASS


sit would be an imposition on the public
to give q history Of such old affair, -
said Hon. Z. J. Geary Of California in re-
ply to questions On the Nicaragua canal
.sThe point OF interest is that this house
will certainly pass the bill next December,
and tho senate you know, has always been
moro favorable to it. The senate Is the
body that takes high ground for national
dignity. and so there will be no trouble
there. The only point that need be i'm
pressed on the public mind just now is
that this bill provides for 4 complete reOr-
6yanization, and Senator Morgan approves
it in place Of his own 1t makes the CAPT
tel stock OF the canal cor any $S3s OOO,-
600, AID Of this 81 coo, 600 fat are to 90 to
the old company for its rights, and enough
more to pay for the work already done, the
latter sum not to exceed $4, 500, 600. Mic
aragua and Costa Rica are to take 81, 5OO,
COO and this leaves $40, OOO GOO, which the
United States is to take Tho nation,
mind you, is to be virtually stakeholder
and control the canal, rs there would be
neither common sense nor patriotism in
any other plan. am satisfied, say, that
congress will pass tho bill because know
that common sense rules this body in the
long run, and well informed Americans do
not want to Gy in the face of Providence
and 60 squarely against the headings Of
reason and patriotism
Success of the Nicaragua Canal
promoters have given up hope here and
gone to England
1T is what your sort of men would call
q bluff. Perhaps it is an attempt to revive
interest just now are in q fever to
get away from here, having got over most
Of our racket on the tariff, and there is the
usual talk in tho country that this con
gress has done nothing Very foolish talk,
too, as 10 congress for many years has
done SO much work or such good work as
-.
cept that the public mind is in a condition
unfavOrable 10 reasoning on this subject
Four months from now people viii have
had timo to realizc how much good work
has been done, and the members will not
be in such q fever, and then we shall put
tho bill through O matter of course
Tho canal viii be in successful operation
IN eight years, and then you can write
your history, and it will be a wonderful
history indeed. We shall see the cOnsum-
nation Of 800 years Of thought and work
on the subject. If however, you must
have a little romance now, just give the
public this chronology. In $50 Don An
tonic GalvaO pointed out to the Spanish
ADM uistrariOn that this was the route for
u canal across the lsthmus- livery century
after that lit was renewed. In 1925 the
United States, led by Henry Clay, began
TO move IN it. In 1926 tho first agreement
was made In 1S945 the bill viii have
passed, and in 1903 the canal viii be sue
good solid history too .
A Burlzo Game.
His declaration that this house has done
a great deal of good work is warmly in
dOrsed by most of his colleagues, but there
IS a deal of grumbling By such men as
John De Witt Warner and Mr.. Living
ston, who feel sore on the tariff and sugar.
In a free talk the subject Judge Terry
Of Arkansas said. when the caucus de-
cides, we must give way, and Of course we
knew when we were in our sober senses
that we should have to yield pretty much
everything to tho senate. just tho same
good many of us think that tho senate
worked q bunko game on US in those tie
votes .. ust notice how it came out. They
managed to gain one Republican and lose
just enough Democrats to make it a tie on
the amendments offered, which are only
preliminary, but when they came to the
really important vote on referring it back
they did not even call for the yeas and
nays. 1t looks like an attempt to scare
US"
And there is where history repeats it.
self, p said another western member. Its
q sort of historical habit in the senate to
have tie votes in such things Some folks
havc forgotten that our much praised Polk
Walker tariff of 1916 ran against a tie vote
in the senate and only became q law by the
deciding vote of Vice President George NJ.
Dallas Yet that was the tariff we Demo
Gratis have been swearing by and glorifying
about tie vote so long as we get the bill. p
This philosophical spirit grew IN the house
just the wrath of the senate declined,
and it was pleasant to observe that the
saInc members who were one week de-
nouncing tho senate bill as tile meanest
embodiment Of perfidy were the next week
sending out documents by the thousand to
prove that it was a really wonderful i'm
provement on the Mckinley bill Experts
have figured the reduction from that bill
as low II and as high as 2S per cent,
which is z delightful variation, it gives
every voter : chance to pick his per cent
according to his wish to approve or de-
nounce his representative for cOnsenting
to the bill One amusing feature Of the
quarrel in the party was that several mem
bers who wrote platforms and forwarded
them to their district conventions had the
same returned with q notice that said CON
vention had Endorsed the president and in
fercntially at least condemned the senate
bill
The Presidents Plain Speech.
During all the racket between the sen
alto and house the president continued to
talk with his usual vigor and far more
than his usual freedom He made no Sc
cret of the fact that he was inccnsed at
several senators, particularly with those
who had charged him with double dealing
and had come SO near proving it, Any
one who succeeded in getting to him could
get an opinion, and one very emphatically
expressed Every day, however, the mem
bcrs grew wilder to get away, and all their
thoughts were fixed on the approaching
elections All eyes are turned first, of
course, TO Alabama, which starts the game
early with her state elections and with
things in a curiOusly critical condition
All her representatives but two went horne
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