The age-herald., 1898-12-20
NO VOTE TAKEN ON
 CANAL MEASURE Senator Morgan Did Not Insist on Tax
 ing a Ballot. MIGHT HAVE BEEN DEFEATED Time Not PrOpitiOuS for the Passage
 of the Bill. GENERAL SENTIMENT GROWING In Favor of Making a Treaty With Nicaragua and Costa Rica and Then Building Canal With
 Government Money.
GENERAL SENTIMENT GROWING
BY ARCHIBALD ". BUTT

Washington, December D.-lSpecial)- Senator Morgan did not get a vote on the Nicaraguan canal bill today, and in fact he did not press 1t. Had he done so there would have been danger of its being de- feated, and largely through southern votes.
 Not that the southern senators are not strictly in Ssympathy with him, but they fear that the whole scheme may be. de- feated or postponed indefinitely should congress act without having the right granted by the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican governments to cross their territory. The general sentiment is growing in favor of making a treaty with these central American governments and then building the canal entirely with governmental money.
 The opposition to securing vote was so strong today that Senator Morgan decided not to press his bill, and the Likelihood now is that nothing will be done until the middle of January.
 The Mckinley Proposition
 Whenever the proposition comes perore the house for the government to assume the care of the graves of the confederate dead the military committee of that body will recommend that the confederate ceme- teries be established as federal burial grounds, which would be necessary before an appropriation could be made for them. Representative Hull, of Iowa, the chair man of the committee on military affairs, fayors putting into operation the suggestion offered along this line by the president. He said yesterday in discussing the subject:
 aft,lr tl1a president can be put into operation very easily and I for one favor doing 1t. My committee l feel sure if the matter comes first to it, will be in accord with the presl- dent. It seems to me most proper that this should be done. The confederate dead are sacred to large portion Of our present population. Families loyal to the union have their loved ones buried in the con- federate cemeteries. Women have their sons their brothers and their husbands ly- ing in this confederate soil and as much for the living as for the dead, would favor putting the graves under the care Of the government.
 Shall Not be Forgotten
 .It will be a great comfort to these wo- men and to many men, too to know that for all time, the graves of the men who lost their lives in the struggle between the states will be cared for and guarded. Ex- perience teaches us that the graves of the dead who died in battle often become neg lected and even lost sight of as the years go by and the struggle becomes only a memory. But when the government plants it's flag over the dead 1t stands as guar antee that for all times, as long as the gov- ernment exists, those who sleep in the ground shall not be forgotten but watched and guarded
 ''It seems to me that this proposition Is a practical one and one which will be readily met by the people of this country. I op- posed returning the flags captured because I could see no reason for it, no good could come from 1t, but In this case 1t seems to me most fitting. Before the suggestion of the president can be carried out presume that the confederate cemeteries will have to be officially established by the government before an appropriation can be made Such a matter would come before the committee of which I am chairman. If such be the case will most willingly and gladly do all in my power to show my ready sympathy for the recommendations of the presi- dent"