The news & observer., 1901-03-08
He OPPOSES COMPROMISE
Eng and May Find She Has Over
taxed Our Patience.
OUTBuRST OF APPLAUSE FOR ROOSEVELT
He Declares in Cutting Voice That il There is
AM More Disorder The Sergeant-at-
Arms viii Clear The
Galleries,
By the Associated Press.)


Washington. March 6--Again today
when the Senate convened the galleries
We're packed with people. majority
of whom, as on recent days, We're COM
posed of visitors to the city. The execu-
tive gallery was ablaze with blue, gold
cord and epaulettes, the visitors being
members of the staff of Governor Yates,
of Illinois.
Promptly at noon, Vice President
Roosevelt entered the chamber. AS he
stepped forward to his desk to call the
Senate TO order a burst of spontaneous
applause ran through the galleries.
With evident manifestations of his dis
approval, the Vice. President seized his
gavel and raped sharply twice for or
der. Glancing sternly around the gall
leries he said, and the words cut
through the chamber like a kife: IF
there is any applause or disorder the
Sergeant at Arms will clear the gal
leries.''
The chaplain in his invocation refer
red with deep pathos to the sorrow
which has fallen upon the junior Sena-
tor from Alabama (AIr Pettus) and his
wife in the death of their only son.
Inquiry from Mr.. Teller brought out
the fact that it was not the intention of
Mr. Platt pennsylvania to press his
cloture resolution during the present
session and the resolution was referred
TO the Committee on Rules.
After the routine of morning busi-
ness had. been transacted, Mr.. Morgan
addressed the Senate upon his resolu-
ton He said he would exclude from his
argument any consideration of the
Panama Canal Commission. The only
prospect of the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal now by the United
States rested upon the protocols which
had been entered into between this
country and the Governments OF Mica
ragua and Costa Rica. He challenged
any Senator TO point to a single PROPOSE
ton which Great Britain mad made for
such publication of the Clayton Buwer
Treaty as would admit of the construc-
ton of the Nicaragua Canal. No such
action, he said, ever had been taken by
Great Britain. During all the time
Americans were "hugginS to their
bosoms" the delusion that Great Britain
eventually would enter upon friendly
arrangement for the construction of the
canal Great Britain had preserved "a
profound and golden silence He called
her silence golden" because, he as
serted that Great Britain through
Liverpool, which was the commercial
centre of the world. was being enriched
and the United States, because of the
lack of the Nicaragua Canal was con-
tributing to the enriching of Great
Britain. There cannot be anything
more precious today to Great Britain"
said Mr.. Morgan. than to prevent the
construction of the Nicaraguan Canal.
If Great Britain by her golden silence
can prevent that her profits will con-
tinue and the longer she can do that the
greater will be her profits on the Suez
Canal She has remained as silent as
the Sphinx. which looks out upon the
Nile anil upon the desert, and she seems
to be looking out upon a desert of vast
ed American opportunities and sad to
say American honor. Great Britain is
still silent
With some feeling in referring to the