The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-07
TO ABROGATE THE TREATY
Mr.. Morgan Makes an Earnest Plea
Before the Senate.
Great Britain's Alleged Interest in
Blocking the Isthmian Canal Pro
jcct Most FOrcibIy Pointed Out
The CIayton-BuIyer Convention.

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| In the Senate yesterday. Mr. Morgan
| offered a resolution declaring the Clayton
| Bulwer Treaty abrogated. He declared
his intention of having the new body de-
clare itself with regard to the matter by
| q yea and nay vote. He spoke for nearly
three hours and will resume today, when
| a vote will be had.
/ Mr.. Morgan created a sensation by
| charging the Republicans with scheming
to kill the Canal bill and said that Mr..
yAldrich would smile at the wreck OF
his country" for party reasons.
He said that If the Senate decided by
! defeating this resolution that the Presi-
dent bad no right to enter into an agree
ment With Costa Rica and Nicaragua
without consulting the Senate. Mr.. Nc
Kinley should be impeached for his ac-
tions in China having committed
crime against civilization.
During MIR. Morgans speech MIR. Roose-
welt sat back in his chair, his legs crossed,
and a smile on his face, porting over
book of travels. He skipped from page to
page and seemed to find little of interest
! in the work
| 1T is all important that this resolution
should be adopted said Mr. Morgan in
! beginning his speech. ut will be ac-
knowledged that no matter what Great
Britain does with the Hay-Pauncefote
| Treaty, the Clayton-Bulwer compact
| should be annulled
| Il know that the Nicaragua route is
the one selected for the canal and while
| the Panama people have written many
letters to the President regarding the
| matter. the latter has taken no cogni-
Zance of the communications. Now while
there is no obstruction in the way of ac-
| quiring the Panama route this Govern
| ment has given up all idea of attempting
| to complete the work begun by France.
| In Nicaragua we have already recog-
nized the Maritime Canal Company and
permitted it to operate there without heed
of Great Britain. At the beginning of the
present Congress an entire change took
| place in the attitude of this Government
| toward the canal The Hepburn bill was
| introduced in the House and passed that
| body. 1t was sent to the Sen
| ate in May, 1900. and favorably re-
| ported on May IA. On May p L
moved that the Senate consider the
bill This was voted down. On June'2 L
asked that it be made the special order.
| This was done. No further action has
| been had although the Senate claims to
be in favor of the canal"
| Mr.. Morgan showed the benefits which
| Great Britain had secured through the
Suez Canal and read tables to prove that
| the profit on the investment was more
| than IS per cent per aanum.
| Mr.. Morgan reviewed the whole history
| of the Clayton -Bulwer Treaty. He then
referred to the trouble in China He said
| that the siege of the Ministers in PelSin
would go down to all the ages as fine
example OF courage and discipline on the
part of the little party besieged.
| Mr.. Roosevelt dropped his book at this
and leaned forward, all attention. When
| Mr.. Morgan went from China back to
| the protocol the Vice President re-
| sumed his book
| We have yet to determine" said Mr..
| Morgan, whether the President of the
| United States has the right to enter into
| an agreement with the Powers to behead
| the subjects of another Government II
| he had not this authority IL means i'm
| peachment and means that a crime
against civilization has been committed.
] What are we going to do about 1T? Are
we going to run away from this ques-
| tion?"
! He then went back to the protocol with
Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He held that
| if the President had the right to act as
| he had in China, he certainly had the
right to- enter into this protocol without
| reference to the Senate
| When Mr.. Morgan paused for a moment
Mr.. Roosevelt, for the first time, gave up
| the chair and escaped into the lobby. Mr..
Perkins took the chair temporarily
Mr.. Morgan said that Mr. Aldrich could
| not remove his rights by objecting TO the
| Nicaragua Canal.
| The Senator from Rhode Island would
| smile at the wreck of his country" said
! he The common good people will find all
| Of this out ana they will pronounce judg-
| ment | am willing to wait. The Eepub-
| iicans cannot always do wrong
He referred 10 MIR. Cannon'S action in
| the Hoase when the Canal bill was passed
| there. He said that the plan was t. get
| the bill through there for campaign pur-
poses, and that It could be killed in the
| Senate He charged Mr.. Aldrich fHiIh
| being commissioned to kill the bill.
| With some feeling, in referring to The
| Clayton-Bu Treaty, the Alabama Sen
| ator said: we will make no compromise
! with Great Britain upon that subject We
VIII make no concession to Great Britain
| in relation to that treaty. What We shall
| do with 1t (and some of our people are
| opposed even to that, is that we shall de-
| clare it abrogated. If the vote on my
resolution could be taken today it would
1 inform the President of the United States
\ that he has no two-thirds ma iority in the
| Senate TO adopt any compromise ne may
| make with Great Britain. If 1t is the
| purpose of Great Britain still to look for
delay she Will not get IL. If ii he her de-
| termination 10 PICK q quarrel with us
| about il she viii find the United States
can muster at least half the number of
| men who voted for the President in the
| last election-iighting men. And she will
| find, when that war terminates that the
| steel band which binds the throne in Lon
don with Australia and India and passes
| through Canada will have been rent in
twain; and with its severance down will
| go the Empire.
She will find that her possessions In
| the Caribbean Sea have lapsed. She will
| find that she has oYertaXed our patience
She has started with a new King and
| upon new career that viii break up the
| Empire and reduce the King to the sover-
| eighty of his own island. Does Great
| Britain suppose she can escape from the
| terrOrs of the existing situation and the
prospective situation everywhere and
| that she can find a favorable opDortunity
| to display her military power against the
| United States?'
Mr. Morgan said he did not boast of the
power of the United States in money, men
or valor, but he was thoroughly conscious
| of them and gloried in that Consciousness
because he knew when the supreme mo-
| meut should come and any Power in the
| world should undertake to bride the
United States by placing such restraints
upon her Sovereignty as were contained
| In the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty the Ameri-
| can people would resist to the bitter end.
And that resistance he exclaimed We
| henrntiy, will mean the wiping out of
| any Power on earth that undertakes the
| job"
| lie regarded the Clayton -Bulwer Treaty
| IN the nature of an alliance-'a shameful
| alliance with Great Britain, and de-
nuUnced any suggestion of the inability of
| the United States to sever such an alli-
| ance without incurTing the penalties of
| war He maintained that in spite of the
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