The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-07
SENATOR MORGAN 6
WARNSlENGLAND
No Power Will Be Permitted to
Bride America.
HE OULDABROGATE TREATY
Says II England Wants to Pick Quarrel
With Us King Will Be Reduced
to Sovereignty Of His Own
Island.

WASHINGTON. March 6.--Again to-
day when the senate convened the gal
leries were packed with people, a ma
jordty of whom, as on recent days, were
visitors to the city The executive gal
lery was ablaze with blue and gold
cord and epaulettes, the visitors being
members Of the stan 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 ~s,oataneous
applause rang through the galleries.
With evident manifestations Of his dis
approval. the vice-president seized his
gavel and raped sharply twice for or
der Glancng sternly around the gal
leries, he said:
IF there Is any disorder the ser
geant-at-arms will clear the galleries
Responding to an inquiry of Teller.
Hale, Of Maine. disclaimed any attempt
to speak for anybody but himself, but
said the extraordinary session had
been called for the transaction Of pure
ly executive business. He did not sup
pose the senate would be kept in ses-
sion many days or be called upon TO
transact any other subjects than pure
ly executive business.
After the routine Of morning busi-
ness" had been transacted. Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, addressed the
senate upon his resolution declaring
the Clayton -Bulwer treaty abrogated.
He said he would exclude from his ar
gument any consideration of the Pana-
ma canal commission. The cnly pros
peet ef the construction Of the Nicara-
qua canal now by the United States.
he said. rests upon the protocols which !
have been entered into between this |
country and the governments of Nicar- !
aqua and Costa Rica. He challenged |
any senator to point to a single propo- /
sition which Great Britain has made /
for such a modification Of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty as would admit Of the
construction of the Nicaragua canal. !
No such action. he said, ever has been /
taken by Great Britain. During all the |
time when Americans were "hugging
70 their bosoms' the delusiou that Great !
Britain would eventually enter upon
friendly arrangement for the construc- !
tion of the canal Great Britain had /
preserved a profound and golden 81 /
lence." He called her silence golden" /
because, he asserted, Great Britain. /
through Liverpool, which was the COM
mercial center of the world. was be- /
ing enriched and the United States, be- |
cause of the lack of the Nicaragua
canal, was helping to the enriching OF
Great Britain.
There cannot be anything more pre-
cious today to Great Britain" said
Morgan, than to prevent the construc-
tion of the Nicaraguan canal If Great
Britain, by her golden silence. can
prevent that, her prohts VIII continue
and the longer she can do that the
greater will be her profits on the Suez
canal. She has remained as silent as
the sphynx which looks out upon the
Nile and upon the desert, and she
seems to be looking out upon a desert
Of waste III the American opportunities,
and, sad to say, American honor, Great
Britain is still silent"
With some feeling, in referring to the
Clayton -Bulwer treaty, the Alabama
senator said:
I'VE will make no compromise with
Great Britain upon that subject. We
will make no concession to Great Brit
ain in relation to the treaty. What we