The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-13

that accompanies ii, is an attack on the
president of the commission replete with
false assumptions and perversions or fact
and is evidently intended to create side
issue, the debate upon which IL is hoped
by Nj. Hutin will delay, If 1t does rot de-
feat the final action of Congress in pro-
v;ding for the construction of any canal.
This proceeding and the placing OF this
correspondence in the hands of the Presi-
dent of the United States by Nj. Hutin with
a request that ii be communicated 10 Con-
gress, is but a continuation of the pre-
sumptuous and offensive proposition pro-
viously made by the Panama Canal Com
pany. This company, in previous admin
istration had succeeded in obtaining the
representative of the navy to accept
nominal position in it's service al a large
salary and expended $l,500,000 in New YORK
chiefly in acquiring the aid of leading bust
ness houses in promoting the De Lesseps
plan without a dollar OF stock being sub
scribed in that city. The desperate financial
straits of the new Panama Canal Company
compelled it 10 make overtures to the
United States TO unload their enterprise on
the United States and their agents became
accordingly aggressive in this effort"
Speaking of the canal project itself, Sen
ator Morgan says the failure to construct
such canal would cause national despair.
For fifty years, he says, the power of
the British government and combinations in
the United States, aided by France, have
defeated all efforts 10 open an American
canal" He declares the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty was an injustice. Great Britain 5
control of the Mosquito coast was pre-
tense and held us i'm leash until the control
of the Suez canal could be effected. IL no
other course is open the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty should be abrogated by Congress
The major portion of the report was
made before the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty
was promulgated, but in an appendix the
following reference is made to that treaty:
IF two-thirds of the Senate shall concur
with the government Of Great Britain in
establishing an effective basis which
canal for ships through the American 18TH
mus shall be operated. for the security and
benefit of all nations. such agreement may
we'll be considered as an advanced step in
a true civilization. honorable to both gov
ernments and rich in blessings TO man
kind. 1t is a new alignment as 10 the
rights, privileges and powers of the United
States, touching the ownership and control
of an isthmian canal, based on the general
principle of the freedom and neutrality of
such a canal that is declared in the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty and is In accordance
with our wel-establshed national policy,
often declared and never denied by the
United States. Whatever sacrifice IL may
involve in benefits that might be otherwise
United States, in the absence Of such an
agreement for the benefit OF all nations, the
American people approve the spirit OF this
agreement and will adhere 10 IL as an addi-
tional evidence Of their friendly sentiment
toward all people who compete with them
honorably for the increase OF the facilities
Of commerce and for the extension OF good
will TO all the world"