Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-13
MORGAN 5 CANAL BILL
The Senator's Report Deals With
Many Of the Questions OF
Construction.
Also includes a Thorough In
quiry Into the Attitude Of
Great Britain.
Different Routes Also Discussed
and the Panama Project
Fully Set Out.

Fully Set Out.
Washington, Dec. 13.-In his report or
the canal bill Senator Morgan deals with
many questions connected with the con.
struction of the canal, including thor
ough inquiry into the attitude of Great
cana. routes. He also discusses the re-
lationships of the Pan-American Canal
Company to the construction by the
United States of a waterway across the
isthmus, and while he makes reference
to letter written by President Hutin,
Of the Panama company, to Secretary OF
State Hay. he does not give the text OF
the communication. Mr.. Morgan says
that the letter to Secretary Hay was
written after Admiral Walker, as presi-
dent of the commission, had closed his
correspondence with Mr.. Hutin relating
to the sale of the Panama canal. He
then adds:
.'The letter to Mr.. Hay, with the ap-
rendixes thereto. and the memoranda
that accompanies it. is an attack on the
president Of the commission, replete
with false assumptions and perversions
OF fact, and is evidently intended to cree
ate side issue, the debate upon which
it Is hoped by NJ. Hutin will delay. IL 1t
does not defeat, the final action OF con-
gress in providing for the construction
of any canal.
This proceeding and the placing Of
this correspondence in the hands of the
president of the United States by NJ
Hutin with request that 1t be COM
fnunicated to congress. is but continue
alton Of the presumptuous and offensive
proposition previously made by the
Panama Canal Company. This COM
rany. in previous administration, had
succeeded In obtaining the resignation
of a secretary of the navy to accept a
nominal position in their service at a
large salary and expended $1.5o0,0oo in
New York chiefly In acquiring the aid
OF leading business houses in promoting
the De Lesseps plan without q dollar of
stock being subscribed in that company
The desperate financial straits of the
new Panama Canal Company compelled
them to make overtures to the United
States and their agents became accord
fngly aggressive in this effort"
Senator Morgan's report covers more
than 800 pages of printed matter and
deals with many OF the questions con-
nected with the construction Of the ca
nal, including thorough inquiry into
the attitude OF Great Britain upon the
subject and the different canal routes.
The report quotes q number Of commune
nications from NJ. Hutin, president OF
the Panama Canal Company, and his
attorneys, to officers OF this government
in 1899 and 1900, which have heretofore
been printed.
The conclusion with reference to this
point OF the controversy is set forth in
the following language: THE motive
for this unseemly and unprecedented
misconduct must be either that this ca
nal company is desperate in its purpose
to unload its property upon the United
States because the French stockholders
have lost faith in its success. or that 1t
Is endeavoring to prevent the competi-
ton Ct any canal with it's Panama rail-
road, the shares OF which they value at
on account of its enormous earnings"
The Introductory pages of the report
contain general review Of the impor-
lance Of the construction of an isthmian
canal. and in the second paragraph of
the report it is declared that the fall
sure to accomplish this work would Gre
ate feeling Of national despair" Con-
tending for the Importance Of the enter
prise, Senator Morgan urges that nc
nation nor any combination OF private
interests can have any right to prevent
its contamination. There remains" he
says, but one barrier to the union Of
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and no
one nation has the right to declare that
it never shall be removed except with
It's consent
He attributes the failure to construct
the canal in the past to the attitude OF
other nations, saying ''for the past fifty
years the power and influence Of the
British government, aided by combina-
tons in the United States and France,
has defeated all efforts to open an Amer
ican isthmian canal" Continuing In this
line, he says: THAT antagonism which
ia an imperial policy of Great Britain in
the beginning has become a plan for
gathering wealth by levying tolls upon
the commerce of America, and Its
strength of purpose will increase until
some more powerful and just induce
ment will lead Great Britain to relax its
grasp and permit US to take care of our
country. The combinations at home and
ir France that have assisted in sup
pressing the demands Of our industrial
classes for canal to connect the great
oceans are chiefly the transcontinental
railways in Canada and in Panama and
those in the United States-eight great
corporations that now control almost
the entire transportation service be-
tween the oceans that wash the coasts
of the western hemisphere"
In further discussing the attitude
of Great Britain, Senator Morgan says:
THE scope and purpose Of the Clay
ton Bulwer treaty, as 1t was declared
by Lord John Russell. made 1t the in
strument of injustice and repression to
Nicaragua, Costa Rico and other Gem
trail American states, that has deprived
them and all Christendom OF the bene-
fits of an American inter oceanic canal
for moro than half a century. In view