Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1901-12-14
MORGAN ROAST
ALABAMA SENATOR PAYS HIS
RESPECTS 10 THE PANAMA
CANAL OFFICIALS.
HUTIN's LETTER CRITICISED

L ( 3 i y e. /.
President Of The Company, in a Com
munication to Secretary Hay, Makes
a Bitter Attack on Admiral Walker,
Head Of the Isthmlan Canal comnlis-
sion Exhaustive Report Favoring
Construction Of the Canal.
washington, Dec. - The senate
committee on Isthmian canals has au-
thorized a favorable report on sSena-
tor Morgans bill providing for the ac-
QUESTION from Nicaragua and Costa
RIGA OF. the right of way via the Mic
aragua route. Senator Morgan later
presented this resolution to the senate,
accompanying the return Of the bill
with a voluminous report upon the
general subject of a canal across the
Isthmus. Action on the bill providing
for the construction of the canal was
deferred.
Senator Morgan's report covers
more than 500 pages of printed matter
and deals with many of the questions
connected with the construction of the
canal Including a thorough inquiry
into the attitude of Great Britain on 4
the subject and the different canal
routes. He also discussed the rela-
tionship of bhe Pan American Canal
company to the construction by the
United States of a waterway across
the Isthmus, and while he makes ref
erence tosa letter written by President
Hutin of the Panama company to Sec
Rotary yof State Hay he does not give
the text Of the communication Mr.
Morgan says that the letter to Secre-
tary Hay was dated No. %, last, and |
that it was written after Admiral |
Walker, as president of the commits |
sion, had closed his correspond
with Mr.. Hutin relating to the sale OF
the Panama canal He then adds: /
The letter to MIR. Hay, with the APP |
Dendixes thereto, and the memoranda
that accompanies it, is an attack on
the president of the commission,
RepIete With False Assumptions !
Ind parversfons OF fact and is evidently !!
intended to create a side issue, the I
debate upon which, it is hoped by M.
Hutin, will delay, if it does not defeat,
the final action of congress in proNid
Ing for the construction Of any canal.
%This proceeding and the placing Of
This correspo ndence- in the hands of (
The president of the United States by
NJ. Hutin with a request that it be COM
to congress is burt a con-
,inuation of the presumptious and Of
ensive proposition previously made
oy the Panama Canal company. This
company, in a previous administration,
rad succeeded in obtaining the resig-
ration of a secretary Of the navy to
lccept a nominal position in their
service at large salary and expended
100000 in New York, chiefly in ac-
luiring the aid of leading business
Houses in promoting the De Lesseps
,lan without a dollar of stock being
in that city.
"The desperate financial straits Of /,
he new Panama company compelled
hem to make overtures to the United /
states to unload their enterprise on
he United States and their agents be-
,ame correspondingly aggressive in
his effort"
Speaking of the canal project itself
senator Morgan says the failure to I
onstruct such a canal would cause
lational despair
For so years" he says, ''the power I
4 the British government and COM
inations in the United States aided
y France, have defeated all efforts ,
0 open an American canal" He de-
lares the Clayton Bu1wer treaty was
n injustice Great Britain's control
+ the Mosquito coast was pretense
nd held us in leash until the, control
the Suez canal could be effected.
no other course is open the Clayton \
uIwer treaty should be abrogated by /
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