New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
CONGRESS- IN RECESS.
nTOTRN.S FOR HOLID4FS
CoaE Commission Bill Pdssed-Mor-
gan on Canal Question.

r-ssbfngton Dec eo.-Both houses Of Congress
z;o,,-ned to-day until January s. The session of
me Senate was largely devoted to speech by Mr.
morgan. Of Alabama, on the isthmian canal ques-
,on Mr Morgan urged that contracts entered
;+o by President Mckinley with Costa Rica and
nicaragua be made good. The negotiation of these
agreements he characterized masterful act
.n6 said they about to be trodden under foot.
WY this was true a question for a Demo-
r-at 10 solve but he could. any rate say he
AID not agree with the mind readers and spirit
-,e5iuras'' who had since declared that Mr. Nc
Kinjey did not mean what he said he did in the
contracts He expressed apprehension that if the
7-nfted States did avail itself of the opportu-
rity to build canal by the Nicaragua route none
would be built and said the appropriation of
s,S0ONoo0 for the construction of the canal could
rrobably be covered into the Treasury after June
7S 1904 II before that time Attention was
called the fact that under Colombian law only
the Congress of that country ratify treaty.
There had been Congress there since 1899 and
there not likely TO be any soon unless the
Panama Canal Company should pay its expenses
out Of the SO 000e0 hand the $4,000 600 prom
sed by The United States. He expressed appre-
hension. -erefore. that any treaty which might be
accepted by this government would fail of action
in Colombia. 1t would go forth like a wandering
dove" he said, TO return one knows when"
After quoting from the concession granted to the
mquidators Of the OLD Panama Canal Company
which Mr.. Morgan said was also made law Of
Colombia, he said:
our country that the Attorney General in his opn-
ION given the President upon the right and power
title the United States of its property in PAN
it derived all its property rights in Colombia
Mr. Allison. Of the Senate conferrees on the Coal
Strike Arbitration BILL presented the report of the
conference committee. He explained that the Sen
ate amendment fixing a definite sum for +he ex-
penses and compensation OF the commissioners and
employees and taking the question Of fixing them
OF the hands of the President had been
tanned, but the Senate conferrees had yielded the
House the extent Of allowing SIS a day 20 the
commissioners for expenses. instead OF SO as fixed
ny the Senate. The report adopted
Mr.. Lodge, from the Committee the Philip
pines. reported the Philippine Currency bill, and
gave notice that the measure is important he
would call it UP in the morning hour of the Sen
ate at the earliest moment He expressed the opn-
ion that the bill would not lead TO prolonged de-
bate
Bills were passed authorizing the Southwest
Louisiana Rice Growers Association to con-
struct locks and dams in Vermion Bayou and
Mermenteau River, Louisiana. and authorizing the
modification Of the projects for the improvement
OF the haTboTs Bridgeport and New-Haven,
Conn: joint resolution providing for the removal
Of a rock IN the North River. NeH-York; a bill
providing for the construction of revenue cut
Of the first class for service the cost Of
Maine, at a cost OF s20O.Gc0; resolution fixing
January 81 for the acceptance of statues of Charles
Sa9 ohs Of &1 The sats Of Mssnd to sry Hail
in the Capitol. and bill authorizing the payment
Of judgments amounting to s1oo0oeO on account of
the destruction Of property IN Hawaii in connec-
non with the night on the bubonic plague In those
islands in 1893.
Mr Lodge introduced bill authorizing the Presi-
dent TO remove the duty on coal coming into the
United States from Canada, whenever the duty on
coal from the United States going into Canada
shall be removed.
After brief executive session the Senate ad-
journed.
There were not over seventy-five members of the
House present to-day Immediately after conVen-
ing Mr. Cannon explained that it important
that the Coal Strike Commission and Urgent De
fciency bills be disposed of before the holiday
recess. The conference report the former. he
said was in the Senate and he asked that a re-
ress taken until IL returned from that body
A recess was accordingly taken for twenty min
utes When the House reconVened Mr.. Cannon
presented the conference report the coal strike
hill and the report adopted without discussion
The House remained in session until the bill was
enrolled and signed by the Speaker, and then, at
i 35 adjourned until January 8.