The age-herald., 1902-01-17
Many Speeches Against Creating
 Department of Commerce
II GIVES TOO MUCH POWE
Messrs. Mallory of Florida and Clay of Georgia Correct Statement. They Are In Favor of the
 Nicaragua Canal Route.

w WdSIuilBlOIl, lV.- hC OShoNN " dsy for a brief tine had under consider ation the bill creating department of commerce ard the discussion tended tf show that the measure will have to bt amended in many particulars before 1t cai. recive the approval of the Senate. Ser ious objections were raised to the trans fer to the proposed department of seV- eral important bu-esu US now q part oi other departments of the government. IL was pointed out that if the bill reported became law 1t would create the great est department of the government and that the Secretary of Commerce would have more power even than the Secretar. of the Treasury.
 Notice of several important amendments were given.
 A large number of uhcontested bills and private pension measures was passet after which the Senate adjourned unL. Monday
 Hoar's Resolution. On motion of MT Hoar his resolution adopted yesterday. calling for informa tion concerning the exaction of dutio' on supplies and comforts sent to Booi prisoners in Bermuda, from this country las recalled and referred to the commit tee on Foreign Relations Mir. Hear ex plained that he had been informed thai the Governor of Bermuda proposed to rec ommend to the Legislature of Bermuda that the law exactng such duties be re. pealed.
 Mr. Mallory. Florida, rising to a qucs- ton of privilege, called attention to an article in a New York newspaper of tho 14th inst. purporting to give poll Of Il z Senate on the subject of an 1sthmian canal in the course of which he was rep resented as being in favor of the Panama route
 He declared the article misrepresented d him entirely. 'I am decidedly in favor, said he, "of pressing the Mic aragua pro- ject as rapidly as possible, and if 1t were in my power I should be very glad to bring the matter up for a vote today. J
 Mir. Clay, Geoi gia. made similar state m ent, asserting that he favored the Mic aragua project and not Ahe Panama route as stated in the article in question. MT | Clay later said the article was correct in including him among the senators | favorable to a full consideration of tho canal question.
 Department of Commerce.
 The bill to establish the department | of commerce was called up by MT. Nel son, Minnesota. MT Lodge offered ar amendment providing that the secretary l of state should designate an official in his | department to furnish instructions to con sular officers supplied by the secretary | of commerce and to prepare the dispatch | es of the consular officers for transm is. | sion to the secretary of commerce The amendment aroused considerable comment, all of it being favorable to MT Lodges provision.
 Mir. Hale sharply criticized the bill. He said the measure ransacked every de- pertinent of the government for impor- tant bureaus, to dump into this new de- | parture. The new Secretary of Com merce would become the most important member of the cabinet. He would be even a more official than the Secretary of the Treasury with all his great admnis- | trative duties.
 He referred particularly to the transfer of the new department of the coast and geodetic survey and urged that if that bureau were changed at all it should be placed under the Navy Department. He referred to various ''navies" in the sev- eral departments This brought Mir Till
 
 Tillman Has a Word.
 'I would. like to add another navy to those enumerated by the Senator" he said. that Is the army transport service. That is assuming great proportions and about 1t I have heard some scandal" The measure went over.
 The following bills, together with a large number of private pension bills were passed:
 Appropriating $9O.o0o for government ex- penses and floor space at the Charleston (S O Exposition; to construct at a cost of Silt a road to the national cemetery at Dover. Tenn, and to pay certain per sons in the South for property taken from them by the military forces of the United States.
 Morgan Sees President. Washington, January 16.-Senator Nor gan, chairman of the committee on in | ter-oceanic canals, visited the Whit House today and discussed the subject O | canals with the President. AS to the re -,,,t of tho int arxyyexv 10 said only that hi