The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-04
Morgan on the Nicaragua
Canal.
SNEERS CANNOT STOP 1T.
Unjustness of Trades Against
Beneficiaries.
sARDoNiC WIT OF LITTLE AVAIL
Many Reasons Why This Country
Should Support the Work
of Construction.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Sin the Senate
to- day, after routine affairs had been dis
posed of, the Nicaragua canal bill came
up for consideration. Morgan had the
floor TO make speech On the bill. but be-
fore he began the Senate, on motion OF
Squire of Washington, passed bill grant
ing an American register to the vessels
Linda of North Carolina and Archer'of
Washington.
Morgan then began his address on the
Nicaragua canal bill. He criticized SEN
ators who opposed the bill by imputlng to
those who favored the bill motives other
than patriotic. He defended the const-
nationality of the present bill, which had
been attacked. The Sen ator consumed
portion of bis speech in coDtrovertlng the
statements made by the Senator from
Indiana (Turpie) in his three days speech
against the bill before the holiday recess
He quoted literally from the speech ana
paid considerable attention to "tne con-
spicuous errors of fact upon which the
Senator's argument is based.
The Senator had commended, said Nor
gan, that the company must complete the
canal by 1897, ten years from the date al
which the concessions were granted. Inc
fact was, however. asserted Morgan, That
the company had two years 20 make pre-
Iiminary arrangements and ten years after
that, or until October. 1899, to complete
the project. He argued against the propo-
sition of Turpie that the canal should Dc
built by sections, and asserted the cost
would be three times as great to build 1t
thus than If constructed in the ordinary
manner.
Morgan declared 1t the Senator'S po-
sition regarding the possibility of the sue
cessfu complete on Of the canal In view OF
the obstacles named by him was correct,
the substitute offered by Tnrpie, provid-
ing for a survey to ascertain the practical
bility of construction, was illogical II
the pictures drawn by the Senator from In
diana OF the conditions existing were true,
there could be nothing but an affront to
Nicaragua in a survey designed to bring
his sketches into a stronger light and to
display that country in horrible naked
ness. II the company had gone to Lon
don 10 stead of coming to Washington for
a charter the canal would now De COM
peted, or nearly so. and would, like the
Suez canal, be under the civil and military
control of Great Britain.
Regarding Turpie's illusions to the
"beneficiaries" under the bill, Morgan said
IN part:
"The Senator. in his wild TRADE against
the so-called benefciaries of this bill. who
will in fact be driven out Of the most valu-
able of their rights if they be compelled TO
accept the provisions. seems to ignore the
fact that another great Senator from Indi-
hAn ftaI q q q
calls them, and that an ex-President was
its open and firm advocate.
81 do not know that these facts at all
recommend this 'snde' corporation to his
friendship. Indeed, it may be that Presi-
dent Harrison's support of the bill Is the
worst feature of it, according to his way
Of viewing the matter. l should be sorry
If such fact would faint the whole canal
scheme so that the Senator cannot stomach
it. There was a man, am told, who was
advised by his doctor to abstain totally from
strong drink and to take cold water exclu-
siyely. He protested that Ii he did he
would soon starve for fluids. He said that
since Noah's flood the water lad tasted so
strongly of sinners that he never could I
swallow drop of it. fear that this en-.
terprise has such lingering odor Of Har-
rison about.it that the Senator will never |
give his con sent to the building of canal |
in Nicaragua.
This subject" said the Senator. sis too |
great to be dwarfed into target for the |
Senator's (TurDie's) sardonic wit, and the |
bill before the Senate Is too strong and |
we'll adjusted to fall before any mans
cynical sneers The Senator from Indiana |
has oniv heen thrashinp over old straw |
and the meager field of grain seems to pro- |
woke him, held as he is under the torpid |
blaze of his genius to make very acute |
analysis"
Before Mr.. Morgan finished his remarks. |
the Senate, at o'clock, adjourned: