The age-herald., 1901-03-11
MORGAN WILL
 WIN HIS FICHE Though Greatly Disappointed He Has Not Lost All Hopes HE DESERVES MUCH CREDIT His Reports Have Been Full of
 Information DEBATES WERE VERY BENEFICIAL Distinguished Alabamian Seems to Have Heard Something That Gives
 Him Much Encouragement.
 Will Pass Next Session.
DEBATES WERE VERY BENEFICIAL
BY ALBERT HALsTEAp.

Age-Herald Bureau, 5O9 Fourteenth Street, Northwest Washington, D. C.. March 0.-(Special )-While discouraged and disappointed that the Nicaragua nal bill did not pass the Senate last ses- sion and that in consequence the fight will have to be made anew next Decem- bor, Senator Morgan now believes that the sentiment for the canal has become strong enough to warrant the belief that the bill will get through next session. perhaps early in it. He at first seemed to think that the task was almost hope less, but has evidently heard something that gives him much encouragement, even though he recognizes that there are coms binations against it; that the trans-con. tinental railroad interests are hostile and the friends of the Panama canal scheme will do what they can to thwart 1t.
 This much progress has certainly been made in the matter of the canal: It is now being discussed an undertaking that will. when completed, be of the | greatest possible benefit in developing and | increasing the commerce of the United States. The Senator. thinks that the prac- ticability of the Nicaraguan canal idea IS | now recognized and he noticed the grow | ing interest in It's commercial aspect dur ing the debates on shipping subsidy blll That being the case. these debates were beneficial. even If they did not result in the passage of the shipping bill, in that they served to bring the importance of the Nicaraguan canal project more prom inently before the people and putSJnen- showing It's desirabiiity from a commer- cial viewpoint
 Much Credit Due Morgan.
 In that connection great credit should be given to the senior Alabama Senator for the part he had in making the cono- mercial aspect prominent When 1t was l apparent to almost everybody that the canal bill could not pass last session. | General Morgan at regular intervals made an additional report from the inter-ocean- ic canals committee that illuminated the various features of the canal project. Every one of these supplemental reports was a mine of information of the great est value and every one of them made the value of the project from a comrner- cial and strategical standpoint more evil dent
 In the extra session of the Senate the Alabama Senator, by his, two days speech on his resolution calling for the abroga- ton of the Clayton Bulwer treaty. made 1t apparent to those who study the Sem ate with care, that 1t would be impossi- ble to secure the necessary two-thirds vote to ratify any treaty with Great Brit ain on the canal question that did not provide for the abrogation of the Clay ton-Bulwer treaty and that contained any compensation to Great Britain. In other words, even if the President and his sec- retary of state MT. Hay, should nego- tiate a treaty to take the place of the HayPouncefote treaty, which Great Britain failed to ratify within the stip- ulated period. 1t could not be ratified by the Senate, because more than third of the members of that body would vote against it. What Senator Morgan, and many of his colleagues want-and the Senator thinks a majority of the Sena- tors. regardless of party, are of the same mind-is the unconditional abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty, which makes Great Britain party to the construction and control of an isthmian waterway.
 Attitude Made Plain.
 Senator Morgan's splendid and learned speech on the proposed abrogation of that treaty made his attitude and that of at least one more than one-third of the Sem ate apparent to the President and to Great Britain. That being the case, the inutity of negotiating a new treaty with Great Britain would seem evident, un- less, for some unknown reason, thera might be a policy of delay the Presi- dent and his advisers thought 1t might be possible, despite the present attitude of the Senate, to get the treaty negotiat- ed by his secretary of state, ratified after a fight.
 The situation is decidedly interesting, and, as usual, the venerable Senator from Alabama Is working with the energy that Is characteristic of him, though dis- couraged at times, but only for few hours, to secure the construction of ths great waterway, which he does not ex- pect to live to see completed, but which will as it should, make his name ven- erated in the years to come-a waterway that by making New York nearer by sew eral thousand miles to Pacific ports will make that city the commercial clearing house of the world, it is now becom- ing a fienancial center. This means that Liverpool will take the secondary place commercially as that London now Is ass suning financially.