Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-12-14
h0RCAN'S 5. BITTER ROHIS'T'.
Alabama Senator Pays His Respects
to the Panama Canal Officials
in Senate. VIZ iy,s ga
President of the Company in Commn- &
nication of Secretary Hay Makes
Bitter Attack. 'lsy5%ss1&
An Exhaustive Report, Detailing Plans
and Favoring the Construc-, ~
ton of Canal. ~. 4

Washington, Dec. 13.--The senate
committee on Isthnnian canals has au-
thc.>.zc;. favorable report on Sena-
tor Mc@gans bill providing for the ac-
quisdtion from Nicaragua and Costa
Liza OF the right of way via the Mic
arsGUa 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,
Iathmus. Action on the bill providing
fc- 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 construct Of the
cenal, including thorough inquiry
into the attitude of Great Britain on
the subject and the different canal
routes. He also discussed the rela
tionship of the Pan-American Canal
company to the construction by the
United States of a waterway across
the Isthmus, and while he makes ref
erence to a letter written by President
Hutin of the Panama company to Sec
retaSy of 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 correspondent
with Mr.. Hutin relating to the sale of
the Panama canal. He then adds:
"The letter to MIR. Hay, with the APP,
pendixes thereto, and the memoranda
that accompanies it, is an attack on
the president Of the commission,
RepIete With False Assumptions
and peryersions of fact and is evidently
intended to create side issue, the
debate upon which, it is hoped by M.
Hutin. will delay, if it does not defeat
the final action of congress in provid-
ing for the construction of any canal
This proceeding and the placing of
this correspondence in the hands of
the president of the United States by
| N. Hutin with request that it be COM
munlcated to congress is but a con-
tinuation of the presumptious and Of
fensive proposition previously made
by the Panama Canal company. This
company, in previous admin stration,
had succeeded in obtaining the resig-
nation of a secretary of the navy to
accept nominal position in their
service at a large salary and expended
$1.5O0,000 in New York, chiefly in ac-
quiring the aid of leading business
houses in promoting the De Lesseps
plan without a dollar of stock being
subscribed in that city.
''The desperate financial straits of
the new Panama company compelled
them to make overtures to the United
States to unload their enterprise on
the United States and their agents be
came correspondingly aggressive in
this effort
Speaking of the canal project itself
Senator Morgan says the failure to
construct such a canal would cause
national despair.
''For so years. he says, "the power
of the British government and COM
binations in the United States aided
by France, have defeated all efforts
to open an American canal" He de-
clares the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was
an injustice. Great Britain's control
of the Mosquito coast was pretense
and held us in leash until the control
of the Suez canal could be effected.
If no other course is open the Clayton
BulWer treaty should be abrogated by
congress-"