Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-10
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-
Closing Words In the Debate on the
Canal Bill.
SPEECH BY MR.. CANNON.
The senate Confirms the Nominations
Of shaw to be Secretary of Treas
ury and Payne Ia he POST
master General.

large attendance ON the floor when
the house met. Mr.. Adamson (GaD,
the first speaker, urged the passage of
! the Hepburn bill without amendment.
He argued that the time had come for
action and that equivOcation now could
only result in delaying the commence
ment of the canal.
Mr.. Wooten CreX.) also argued that
the bill should be passed without
amendment. If the Morris amendment
were adopted, he said, the canal would
become conditional project surround
ed by doubts and difficulties which
| might doom il to final failure owing to
international political complications.
Mr.. Wooten said he did not favor an
amendment to fOrtify the canal. He
believed such an amendment savored
more of spurious sentiment than sound
and SAlutary sense He favored a neu-
| trail canal.
At this point. upon the request of
Mr.. Davis Fla,, the time for general
debate was extended.
Mr.. Sparkman CFa.) spoke in favor
OF the HEPBURN Dill.
Mr.. Cannon ull). chairman of the
appropriations committee, then took
the floor. His remarks We're given
close attention.
Mr.. CunnGn's speech.
The building of this canal he said.
| was a business proposition and should
be considered from II business stand
point. &ientemen talked about this
proposed canal having been agitated
for 400 years and used that as an az
gument why members of congress
should fall over each other to vote for
the pending bill. Personally he had
| favored a canal for years. but because
he had not been willing to proceed
without information and against fixed
treaty lava he had been called hard
names.
| Mr.. Cannon mt this point FLASHED
sharply with Mr.. Hepburn. who is in
charge OF the bill. Mr.. Cannon criti
cised the Iowan for Withholding his
| speech from the record. and Mr.. Hep
burn characterizing Mr.. Cannon's crit
iciSm as "QuerulOnS and for an i'm
proper purpose stated that he had
only exercised a privilege customarily
exercised by members. but \le offered
then and there to give Mr. Cannon the
! speech and sent it over to him by a
page.
Mr. Cannon. discussing the LANGUAGE
of the bill. said that under its "artfu
language full power was given not
only to pay Nicaragua and Costa Rica
and the Maritime Canal company THEN
demands. but also the American and
\icaraguhn spectators who owned
property along the route He criticised
the undue haste of the promoters of
the Nicaragua cana>. He wanted to see
the protocol that hal hecn recently ne
%otiatcd. He objected to the provision
that contracts could he made FOR the
whole work.
Mr.. Cannon said he would vote for
The Morris amendment. and if that
failed he would move to recommit so
the bill could be amended.
senate Confirms Nominations.
The senate in executive session con-
| ltIllltu tlie VI AIoll. W.
| Shaw to be secretary of the treasury
and of Hon. Henry =, Payne to be
postmaster general.
| AS soon as the senate met. on mo-
ton of Mr. Hale MtN the senate
agreed that when-it adj urn it be un-
til Monday next
Mr. Cockrell (AIo) reported from the
committee on military affairs the re-
suit of the Heistand inquiry that was
conducted under the Pettigrew resolu
ton of the last session. No action was
taken on the report.
A house bill appropriating $4,000 for
furnishing transcripts of records of
the general land office was passed.
At 1910 p. m. the senate. on motion
of Mr. Cullom. went into executive
session and at 80 p. m. adjourned un.
til Monday.
/ The senate committee on commerce
has authorized favorable report on
Senator Nelson's bill for the creation
of an executive department of the
government. to he known as the de-
partment of commerce.