The age-herald., 1901-12-17
lHI onlY DAILY nEwspAprR IN ALABAMA
Senator Morgan and the Canal.

The Hay-Pauncefote treaty has been ratified, and the beginning of the great work Is near at hand. Public senti- ment is ripe, and all is ready for the actual throwing of dirt along the greatest waterway in the history of the world-a waterway that will bring the two great seas together at the cen ter. It's opening will be epochal in commerce. and long familiarity with the subject should not be permitted to dull its importance in any mind.
 This work of worldwide value and interest is linked with Alabama through the untiring labors of her senior Senator. |. In this connection, we cannot do better than give entire edi- torial recommendation of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, entitled Honor to Nor gam:
 Senator Morgan, chairman of the Sem ate committee on interoceanic canals submitted his report on Thursday In it he discussed and disposed of the preten- sons of the Panama Canal Company. He htly characterized M. Hutin's letter to the Secretary of State as "a continuation of a presumptuous and offensive propo- sition."
 No one can speak with more informa- ton or authority on this question than Senator Morgan. Upon entering the Sen ate, in 1877, he at once swore fealty to the Nicaragua canal policy enunciated by President Grant. He was a member of the foreign relations committee with Ed munds, Sherman and Pendleton in 1882; was on the same committee with Sher- man, Edmunds, Frye and Evarts in 1888; was chairman of the committee in 1893, and made all the reports from that com mittee on the'isthmian canal
 ---- when the committee on the construc- ton of the Nicaragua canal was created, in 1895. MT. Morgan was made chairman, and he was continued as chairman of the committee on interoceanc canals. He made the report in favor of the guaran- ty bill of 1892 and 1894, and since that time has introduced all the bills and made all the reports recommending the construction of the great waterway.
 MT. Morgan entered the Senate as a Democrat, and has been a Democrat of Democrats ever since, but for twenty five years he has been the leader of the canal party in the Senate without reference to party politics. He is more familiar with all the schemes that have been laid by obstructionists and by the agents of the Panama Canal Company than any other man In public life. Therefore his denun- citation of M Hutin and the interruptions methods employed by the agents of a against an American enterprise must have a telling effect
 Senator Morgan is the grand old man of the isthmian canal movement, and he has never appeared to better advantage than in this last exhaustive report, cov- ering every phase of canal construction. Te has been more intimately associated with the Nicaragua canal project from its inception than any other man, and he has been more zealous and enthusias- tic in the work that is soon to be crown ed with success thany any other Sena- tor.
 The government certainly should recog- nize MT. Morgans splendid service to this great cause. And it could do so in no more suitable way than by naming after him the Am merican settlement at the Northern terminus of the proposed canal. Call 1t Morgan and honor thus the aged statesman to whom the honor is due.