The age-herald., 1900-05-26
MORGAN SCORES SENATORS WHO
 BLOCKED PASSAGE OF CANAL BILL
Charges Them With Fearing Wrath of Canal Com
 panies in the Coming Elections.

ment by these canal companies, ne ln- quired:
 ''I'd like to know how much of this kind of insolence the American senate can stand without having its stomach turned" He bitterly denounced the syndicates which had been organized under New York and New Jersey laws for tho purpose of con- trolling canal route on the Isthmus of Darien.
 Outrage on Public Decency
 "It is an outrage on all public decency," he urged; "an open violation of the crimi- nal laws of the United States. While I stand here to rebuke it, the railroad com bination opposing the canal bill is today controlling the people of the United states by a conspiracy and combination to compel them to pay full railroad rates charged at the pleasure of this great railroad combi- nation, from which their industries are suffering to an extent indescribable, and which nobody has yet even attempted to estimate"
 With earnestness and vigor MT. Morgan arraigned the new Panama Canal company for having been instrumental in preventing the passage of the Nicaragua canal Dill at the present session.
 "Never," he declared, "has the United States government and the United States congress been badgered and cuffed about as we have been by this new Panama Ca nal company, and the quiet submission and ease with which we take 1t can be ac- counted for only in one way, and that Is, the presidential election is pending and we are afraid to tackle any corporation that has, or professes to have, some great power.'
 MT. Morgan maintained that there was no proper reason why the pending Nicaragua canal bill should not be passed at once.
 People Would Have Accounting
 It was demanded by the people, and they would demand an accounting from the pol iticians who were antagoniZing the canal bill.
 For he inquired, vehemently, Ifs it to be said here that the president is a party to this ambidextrous and cross-eyed polit- ical rascality?" He did not believe either that the president was so afraid of British influence that he had an idea in his mind of abandoning the canal project. As to the bill before the senate, declared MT. Nor gan, referring to the Philippine measure, ''it is manifest that it cannot pass congress at this session. indeed it can never pass this congress" It is irrational now for congress to legislate for conditions so re- mote, so unknown and so hazardous.
 "The president who is a candidate for re- election," said he, lis in the hands of his friends, and his friends are the enemies of the Nicaragua canal. l hardly know whether to say I hope for the passage of the canal bill this session or not. That de- bends upon two men on this floor If they are controlled by determination that the revenues for republican campaign purposes shall not be cut off from the great railroad and canal combinations and syndicates, then the bill cannot pass at this session. The responsibility, however must rest upon them.'
 MT. Allen then called up the sundry civil appropriation bill, which carries $65, SIP 930, or over $4,0y0000 more than the bill as it passed the house.. Sixty-five of the 157 pages of the bill were disposed of
 Speeches in memory of Hon. Daniel Err l. mentrout, late a representative from Penn sylvania, closed today, the seante adjourn ing at D. m.