Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-06-12

support OF the Panama canal. The
Ohio senator declared that nc 2)olitt.
cal considerations were invo~ ed In
the canal problem. He presented the
opinions of eighty-three ship masters
and pilots in favor OF the Panama
route as against the Nicaragua route.
for many reasons which they cited.
He urged that the construction OF the
Nicaragua canal was beset with diff
culties. while the construction OF the
Panama canal was an open book.
He laid particular stress on the dam
ger to the Nicaragua route from, vol
canoes, and urged that 1t was not good
business policy to ignore these dan
gers in a project involving an expendi-
ture of 100000, 900. In conclusion
Hanna appealed to the senate to con-
slider the matter as a business PROPOSE
ton, and with some feeling repudiat-
ed the suggestion that those favoring
the Panama route were not in favor of
any Sanal. Morgan, chairman of the
committee on interoceanic canals, pre-
sented letter from Secretary of State
Hay. enclosing copies of letters re-
ceived by the state department regard
ing earthquakes and riots in the de-
partment of Panama.
House.-General debate on the anti
anarchy bill closed today The Incl
tent of the day was a speech by Rich
ardson. an Alabama democrat, con-
demning the president in severe terms
for references in his memorial day
grafton at Arlington to the epithets
applied to Lincoln and Grant during
the civil war and for his illusions to
lynching. He declared that the pres:-
dents remarks violated the proprie-
ties of the occasion. Littlefield made
an argument of an hour and half in
closing the debate on the antianarchy
bill. The section of the senate bill
providing body guard for the presi-
dent was stricken from the senate bill
as precaution in case the house sub
stitute failed. An effort was made to
strike from the first section of the
substitute the words limiting the
crime of killing the president to the
president in his official capacity. but
the motion was lost, SO to SO. Only
one section had been disposed of when
the house adjourned.
Washington, June Decentralization
transhacting some routine business
and discussin the bill to relieve
shippers from the London dock charg-
es. athe senate resumed consideration
today of the isthmian canal project.
Mr.. Mitchell, of Oregon, continued his
speech begun on Thursday in opposi-
ton to the Panama route. After con-
sidering the engineering difficulties OF
the route, which he regarded as very
serious, he entered upon denuncia-
ton of the methods of the Panama Ca
mil Nnnnanv Mifahn1I handiad with
out gloves the proposition to build the
canal by the Panama route. and Incl
dentally the Spooner amendment. BY
the addition of this proposition. ne
said, 1.-The United States would be
lacking onto one of the greatest frauds
and pieces of corruption known since
the world began" He could not be-
lieve. he said, that the senate proposed
ito consider seriously a proposition
which will involve the United States
in legal controversy for a hundred
years. | want the senate to know the
facts and to determine whether we
really shall take up this rotten con-
Germ across the sea-" Mr.. Mitchell
expressed the opinion that the enact
ment of the Spooner amendment would
result in the postponement of the be-
ginning of the canal project, as the
president ostensibly would have to
make an important investigation Of the
subject before he reached a decision.
House.-The house spent the entire
day voting upon amendments to the
snti-anarehy bill but all failed except
one proposed by Mccall. of Massachu-
sets, to strike from the anarchist sse-.s
tion the word assault" where il Is
coupled with killing" in the inhibition
against conspiring for the killing Of
the chief magistrate of a foreign coun-
try. After the bill had reached tbs
last parliamentary stage before pas,
sage De Almond. of Missouri. moved
to re-commit. The quorum failed at
this point and the house was compelled
to adjourn without final action.