The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-15
DEnlIs llloeiTl0u Of
elIToI-BULrEl TREATY
SENATOR MORGAN SOUNDS NOTE
OF WARNING TO BRITISH
: MINISTRY.
He Declares That lts Object j. Delay
So As To ProIons The Benefits
That Are Reaped From the suez
Canal.

WASHINGTON. March 6-Again TO
/ day Vice President Roosevelt was rhs
central hgure OF the opening proceed
inss OF the Senate wnen he appear
ed al MS desk to call the Senate 10
order wave of applause swept over
the thronged galleries He evidently
was impatient AT the demonstration
and sharply tapping his desk with the
gavei, warned the spectators that a
repetition Of the applause would result
In an order to clear the galleries.
Morgan of Alabama, who yesterday
offered resolution declaring the alb
rogation Of the Clayton Bulwer treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain, addressed the Senate for
nearly two hours upon his PROPOSE
tons His admonitions to Great Brit
ain were particularly sharp. He de-
clared lnat if Great Britain should en-
deavor to enforce the terms OF the
treaty, the effort would result in a
war in which the great empire. which
had controlled for scores of years the
commerce of the world. would Re
swept from power and her King would
be left with sovereignty only over his
own island
He challenged any Senator to point
to a single proposition which Great
Britain had made for such a modifica-
ton Of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty as
would admit of the construction of the
Nicaragua canal No such action. he
said. had ever been taken by Great
Britain. During all the time when
Americans We're 'hugging to their bos-
oms' the delusion that Great Britain
eventually would enter upon a friend
ly arrangement for the construction
of the canal Great Britain had main
tanned "a profound and golden ST.
lence. He called her silence golden
because, he asserted, Great Britain.
through Liverpool. which was the COM
mercial center of the world, was being
enriched. and the United States. be-
cause of the lack of the Nicaragua
canal. wa contributing to the enrich
ing of Great Britain.
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 moment should come and
any power in the world should under
take to bride these United States by
placing such restraints upon her SOW
ereignty as were contained in the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the American
people would resist to the bitter end.
And that resistance" he exclaimed.
vehemently, will mean the wiping
out of any power on earth that under
takes the job"
He regarded the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty in the nature of an alliance,
"a shameful alliance" with Great
Britain. and denounced any suggestion
of the inabih-y of the United States
to sever such an alliance without in
curing the penalties of a war He
maintained that in spite of the silence
of Great Britain the United States |
could abrogate the treaty at any time |
and until it was abrogated it would |
act as a clog upon the extension of |
the commerce of this country
LONDON. March THE afternoon
papers here today made little COM
ment on the statements of Senator |
Morgan of Alabama yesterday in the |
United States Senate, in his plea for |
the Nicaragua canal following his
resolution declaring the Clavton-Bul- |
wer treaty abrogated. The Pail Mall
Gazette says: 'Mr. Morgan cannot |
help making his friends and relatives I
uncomfortable"
The Westminster Gazette SAYS:
Mr.. Morgan is having a great time
His warnings are all very alarming
but we are treasured by the knowl-
edge that the route of the canal is not
definitely determined"