The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-07
CLOTURE POSTPONED
IT WILL NOT BE PRESSED AT THIS
SESSION.
GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE
SEVERELY ARRAIGNED BY SENA-
TOR MORGAN.

His Telling AIIusion to Her 'NGoIden
silence" in the Matter of the Nica-
raeun Canal-She Has Taken No
Action to Permit of Its COnstruc-
tion-AdvOcates Independent A ction
and Talks of Quarrel with
Great Britnin-yice President
ROOSEVELT sharply Checks Demon
stratiOn on His Account.
washington, March 6.-Again to-day
when the Senate convened the galleries
were packed with people, a majority CT
whom. as on recent days. being COM
nosed of visitors to the city. The exc
o,+ive gallery was abla3e with blue. gold
cord and epaulettes, the visitors being
members of the staff Of Gov. Yates OF
Illinois.
promptly at noon Vice President Roose-
wolf entered the chamber. AS he stepped
coward to his desk to call the Senate to
order a burst of spontaneous applause
rang through the galleries.
with evident manifestations of his dis
,nproval, the vice president seized his
eayel and raped sharply twice for or
der. CHANGING sternly around the gale
,ies he said, and the words cut through
the chamber like a knife:
IF there is any applause or disorder
the serseant-at-arms will clear the gal
leries."
The chaplain in his invocation referred
with deep pathos to the sorrow which has
fallen upon the junior senator from
Alabama Cdr. Pettus) and his wife in
the death of their only son.
viii Not Press Cioture Now.
rno,,iry from Mr.. Teller brought out
the fact that it was not the intention
If Mr.. Platt of Connecticut to press his
eloture resolution during the present SIS
efon and the resolution was referred 10
the committee on rules.
After the routine of morning business
b9d been transacted, Mr.. Morgan adj
dressed the Senate upon his resolution.
He said he would exclude from his ar
eument any consideration of the Panama
canal Commission. The only prospect
IF the construction of the Nicaraguan
camel now by the United States rested
1lpon the protocols which had been en-
tered into between this country and the
Governments of Nicaragua and Costa
Iica.
lie challenged any senator to point to
a single proposition which Great Britain
had made for such a modification of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty as would admit of
tie construction of the Nicaragua canal.
no such action, he said. ever had been
taken by Great Britain.
Great Britain's Golden Silence.
During all the time when Americans
we're "hugging to their bosomS'' the de-
fusion that Great Britain eventually would
enter upon a friendly arrangement for the
construction of the canal, Great Britain
had preserved "a profound and golden
silence" He called her silence golden,
because. he said, Great Britain, through
Liverpool which was the commercial CEN
ter of the world, was being enriched and
the United States because of the lack OF
the Nicaragua canal was contributing to
the enriching of Great Britain.
There cannot be anything more pre-
cious to-day to Great Britain" said Mr..
Morgan. than TO prevent the construc-
ZION of the Nicaraguan canal. If Great
Britain, by her golden silence can pre-
vent that her profits will continue, and
the longer she can do that the greater
will be her profits on the SueZ canal. She
has rem ainSd as 81 ent is the sphinx which
looks out upon the Nile and upon the
desert and she seems to be looking out
upon the desert of wasted American OPP
portunities, and sad to say. American
honor. Great Britain is still silent"
With some feeling, in referring to the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the Alabama SEN
ator said:
\ Tirade Against Great Britain.
I'VE will make no compromise with
Great Britain upon that subject. We will
make no concession to Great Britain in
relation to that treaty. What we shall do
with it Cand some of our people are OPP
posed even to that is that we shall de-
clare it abrogated. IL the vote on my
resolution could be taken to-day IL would
inform the President of the United States
that he has no two-thirds majority in the
Senate to adopt any compromise he may
make with Great Britain. If 1t is the
purpose of Great Britain still to look for
delay she will not get it. If it be her de-
termination to pick a quarrel with us
about it she will find the United States
can muster at least half the number of
men who voted for the President last
acknowledging men. And she will find
when that war terminates that the steel
band which binds the throne In London
with Australia and India and passes
through Canada will have been rent in
twain; and with its severance, down will
80 the empire.
She win find that her possessions in
the Caribbean Sea have lapsed. She will
IND that she has overt axed oIY natience