The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-13

 ed a favorable report upon Senator Nor gan's bill providing for the acquisition from Nicaragua and Costa Rica Of the right of way via the Nicaragua route. Senator Morgan later presented this re- port to the Senate, accompanying the re- turn of the bill with voluminous report upon the general subject Of canal across the isthmus. Action on the Dill providing for the construction of a canal was deferred.
 Senator Morgan's report covers more than 500 pages of printed matter and deals with many of the questions con- nected with the construction of the canal, including a thorough inquiry into the attitude of Great Britain upon the subject and the different canal routes. He also discusses the relationship of the Panama Canal Company to the construction by the United States of water way across the isthmus, and while he makes refer ence to a letter written by President Hutin, of the Panama Company to Sec retary of State Hay, he does not give the text of the communication. MT. Nor gan says that the letter to Secretary Hay wasb dated November 22 last and that 1t was written after Admiral Walker, as president of the commission, had closed his correspondence with MT. Hutin relating to the sale of the Pana- ma canal. He then adds:
 "The letter to Mir. Hay, with the ap- pendixes thereto and the memoranda that accompanies it, is an attack on the president of the commission, replete with perversions of facts, and is evidently in- tended to create a side issue. the debate upon which 1t is hoped by M. Hutin will delay, if it does not defeat, the final &C., tion of Congress in providing for the construction of any canal. This pro- ceeding and the placing of this corres- pondence in the hands of the President of the United States by MT. Hutin with a request that it be communicated to Congress is but a continuation of the presumptious and offensive proposition previously made by the Panama Canal Company. Elais@eompany, in q previous administration. had succeeded in obtain ing the resignation of Secretary of the Navy to accept a nominal position in their service at a large salary and ex- pended $1,5O0.o0o in New York chiefly in acquiring the aid of leading business houses in promoting the DeLesseps plan without a dollar of stock being subscrib- ed in that city. The desperate financial straits of the new Panama Canal Com pany compelled them to make overtures to the United States to unload their en- terprise on the United States and their agents became accordingly aggressive in this effort"
 The report then quotes communica- tions from M. Hutin and his attorneys to officers of this government in 1899 and 1900 which have heretofore been printed. After quoting a letter from Sullivan and Cromwell attorneys for the Panama Ca nal Company, directed to the President and dated April 30. 1900, in which they ask the President to advise Congress of the attitude of the Panama Company, the report says:
 "The manifest purpose of fi1is com pany to interfere with legislation, by asking the President to inform Congress of state of facts as alleged of which Congress is presumably without knowl- edge. Is an insult to the intelligence of Congress- It is an insolent invitation to the President to control the action of Congress so that they shall not act upon bills reported by committees In both houses
 Senator Morgan read Admiral Walkers letter of October p. last. to M. Hutin, and said: "It utterly breaks down the pretention of M. Hutin that the United States, through Admiral Walker was en- geg ged in the effort to purchase the prop erty of the Panama canal"
 The conclusion with reference to this point of the controversy is set forth in the following language:
 The motive for this unseembly and unprecedented misconduct must be, eith- CT that his canal company Is desperate in its purpose to unload its property up on the United States because the Fench stockholders have lost faith in it's suc- cess, or that 1t is endeavoring to prevent the competition of it's canal with its Pa- mama railroad the shares of which they value at $500 the face value being $100 per share. on account of its enormous earnings"
 Contending for the importance of the enterprise, Mir. Morgan urges that no nation nor any combination of private in- terests can have any right to prevent it's consummation.
 There remains" he says, but one bar rier to the union of the Atlantic and Pa cifc Oceans. and no one nation has the right to declare that it never shall be removed except with its 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- tions in the United States and France, have defeated all efforts to open an American isthmian canal"
 Continuing in this line. he says:
 That antagonism which was an imperial policy of Great Britain in the beginning has become a plan for gathering wealth by le- wing tolls upon the commerce of America, and it's strength of purpose will increase until some more powerful and just inducement will lead Great Britain to relax its grasp and permit us to take care of our country. The combinations at home and in France that have assisted in suppressing the demands of our indus trial classes for a canal to connect the great oceans are chiefly the trans-conti- mental railways fin Canada and in Pana- ma and those in the United States eight great corporations that now control almost the entire transportation service between the oceans that wash the coast of the Western Hemisphere.
 In further discussing the attitude ot Great Britain, Senator Morgan says:
 "The scope and purpose of the Clayton Bulwer treaty as 1t was declared by Lord John Russell made it the instru ment of injustice and repression to Mica