Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-01

ege Of paying all expenses, and never
asking or receiving in the way Of com
pensation so much as one dollar. OIL
even one dime), that learned and leg
islative assembly, on the 7th day OF
July, 1884, having uniformly manifest
ed a most provoking amplitude OF pa
tience and premeditation In the
premises, passed, at my special
and long.pressing instance a bill
authorizing our government, as IL
is represented in our White House and
in our Department Of State, TO dis.
patch to Latin-America a commercial
commission, under instructions to as.
certain and report the total value Of
the annual foreign commerce Of all our
American sister republic respectively.
At that particular time, the immense
annual trade thus contemplated ag-
/ gregated, as was later and Of
/ icially reported, upward Of $780,
/ 100000; though, firmly resolved
] on my own part to be on the
safe side, the side Of exact truth and
/ fairness, so that no Senator or Repre-
| sentative might ever afterward be war
| ranted in declaring that I had. to any
| extent whatever, overstated the facts,
| /, acting solely on my own RESPONSE.
/ bility, formally and in writing, as now
| duly filed among our Congressional
archives, having stated the amount at
only 1921 100000, yet with very posi-
/ tive verbal assurances that the amount
in reality would be found to be very
much more; at least fifty millions
more, as l stoutly contended
The officially discovered and warmly
welcome excess over myown well-guard-
ed statement, establishing and keeping
me in high standing with Congress,
and greatly strengthening my plea for
closer and more extensive commercial
relations with Latin-America, by means
Of an international and intercon-
tinental railway was at that time, as
has since been plainly and authori-
tatively reported, by the commission it,
self, 1929, 900 900. That difference,
that enumeration, was and is the larg.
est balance that has ever been placed
to my credit; and as far as I am able
to perceive, there is not now any prob
ability that I shall ever again be the
recipient Of such an ample and crafty
ing windfall, Of nine figure dollars ac-
credited to myself, but nowhere either
visible or tangible.
Senator Window was then chairman
of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations. Senator Morgan and Sena-
tor Edmunds were also members of the
said committee. Senators CockTell and
German and Allison were equally able
v,1a I,. 90
mittees, and they were likewise quite
friendly toward the gigantic enter
prise, even prior to the favorable re-
port Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee At one time, however, during
the pendency of my proposition, Sena-
tor Window, who was far more con-
versant with home interests than with
conditions abroad, gave rather unre-
/ served expression on his crude opin-
| ion that the annual value Of all the
/ foreign commerce OF Latin America
I would, when well brought to light fall
short of S400, 100000 less than One-half
/ Of the subsequently and officially as
| certained sum.
Yet. in due course afterward. he and
/ other members Of the committee, who
at first enormously thought much the
same as he himself thought, frankly ad-
mitted TO me that thorough investiga'
ton had convinced them that they
were, in the earlier stages Of my meet
ing with them, less familiar than
was with affairs commercial in Cen
tral and South America
Including exports and imports, the
full value Of the foreign commerce OF
all the republics Of Latin America, is
today not less than 81 1000 100000; OF
which, to our greviOus disadvantage
and shame, closely bordering on dis
grace, in still supinely permitting
Europe to monopolize the lions share
we are. even yet apparently content
weakly and timorously and discredit
ably content, to secure only lamblikt
and meager and almost contemplate
fraction.
From the very first It has been anC
Is now, far more ardently than evel
before, my object to acquire (becausu
geographically and politically and so
= cially and otherwise It belongs to us
! the bulk Of that vast and repidly aug
menting business. n we are reall!
and truly the fullhedged and far
sighted and patriotic Americans tina
we claim TO be, instead Of continuinl
to yield to Europe eight-tenths OF tn
, foreign commerce Of Latin America
} we shall soon, reversing the figures
p secure for ourselves the said eight
70 tenths, and by way Of skillful ant
I prudent and proper proceedings In on
own legitimate interests leave Europe
2 with our spice-tinctured wishes, Z
!. such comfort and satisfaction as sh
2 NAV be able TO find with the rathe
j. bitiful two-tenths which. through on
v own Indifference and folly or lack q
/. Intelligent energy. is now slowly an
! reluctantly coming To us.
g Vastly more honorable and pro
J. table will IL be for US to seek clos