The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-03-14
MORGAN ON BRITONS
Alabama Senator Says America
Will Not Be Bulldozed.
APPLAUSE Anglers ROOSEVELT
His Entrance In Senate Caused
Demonstration In Galleries
Which Was Cut Short.


Morgan, of Alabama, addressed that
body on his resolution to abrogate the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
''There cannot be anything more
precious today to Great Britain" said
Mr.. Morgan, ethan to prevent the con-
struction of the Nicaragua 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 and upon the desert, and she
seems to be looking out upon desert
of wasted American opportunities and,
sad to say, American honor. Great
Britain is still silent.
He called her silence "golden" be-
cause he asserted, Great Britain
through Liverpool, which was the
commercial center of the world, was
being enriched because of the lack of
the Nicaragua canal.
With some feeling in referring to
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the senator
said:
"We make no compromise with
Great Britain on that subject. We
will make no concession to Great Brit
ain in relation to the treaty. What we
shall do with it land some of our peo-
pie are opposed even to that) is that
We shall declare it abrogated.
eff the vote on my resolution could
be taken today it would inform the
president of the United States that he
has no two-thirds majority in the SEN
ate to adopt any compromise he may
make with Great Britain. If it is the
purpose of Great Britain to still look
for delay she will not get it. If it be
her determination to pick 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 in the last election-fghting
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 60
the empire. She will find that her
possessions in the Caribbean sea have
lapsed. She will find that she has
overtaxed our patience. She has start
ed with a new king and upon new
career that will break up the empire
and reduce the king to the sovereignty
of his own island.
s'Does not Great Britain suppose
she can escape from the terrors of the
existence of the situation and the
prospective situation everywhere and
that she can find favorable opportu-
nifty to display her military powers
against the United States?"
MIR. Morgan said he did not boast
of the power of the United States in
money, men or valor, but he was
thoroughly conscious of them and
gloried in that consciousness, because
he knew when the supreme moments
should come and any power in the
world should undertake to bride the
United States by placing such re-
straints upon her sovereignty as were
contained in the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty the American people would re-
sist tethe bitter end.
lm that resistance" he exclaimed
4 vehemently, 'will mean the wiping
out of any power on earth that under
takes the job"
Without concluding his speech, Mr..
Morgan yielded the floor, and at 2:45
o'clock, on motion of Mr.. Warren, of
Wyoming, the senate went into execu-
tive session, adjourning fifteen min
utes later.
f. ROOSEVELT SHOWS DIsPLEAsURE.
When the senate nvened the gal
leries were packed with people, ma
! jority of whom, as on recent days,
were composed of visitors to the city.
Promptly at noon Vice President
Roorevelt entered the chamber. As he
stepped forward to the desk to call the
senate to order burst of spontaneous
applause rang through the galleries.
With evident manifestations of his
disapproval, the vice president seized
his gavel and raped sharply twice for
order. Glancing sternly around the
galleries he said, and the words cut
through the chamber like knife:
eff there is any applause or disor-
der the sergeant-at-arms will clear the
galleries" "
The chaplain, in his invocation, re-
ferred with deep pathos to the sorrow
which has fallen upon the junior SEN
ator from Alabama, Mr.. 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, of Connecticut, to press
his cloture resolution during the pres
ent session.