The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-29
IANAMA WILL GO THROUGH.
Not One Chance in Twenty That
 Title Will Be Gotten.


 Strange stories were in circulation about the Capitol today. They were to the effect that Senator Morgan and Rep resentative Hepburn knew the Nicaragua route was goiag to be selected after all. When the stories were run down they amounted to this: ,Messrs. Morgan and Hepburn believe (which might be ex- of a belief) that President Roosevelt will be unable to secure a satisfactory title and concession. and will be compelled in the end to have recourse to Nicaragua
 That Senator Morgan really believes this Is obvious enough. The grand old man has not yet dreamed his last dream. He Is still seeing things, IS still living on faith. MT Morgan is admirable, but he is not very practical. Till within, a few days of the Senate vote he could not be made to believe there was any danger of the adoption of the Panama route All through this struggle he has been so blinded by his passio onate1 love for the child of his brain, the Nicaragua project. that he has not been able to see facts which were as ob yious as the sun to the eyes of others. Now he is deluding him self with this dream of a failure of the Panama negotiations.
 There is not one chance in twenty that the Panama negotiations will tall. AS to the ability of the French corporation to pass a clear title. such excellent law yers as Senators Kittredge and SDooner after thorough investigation have pro- nounced in the affirmative, thus showing the Judgment of the law officers of the isthmian canal commission
 If there is any danger whatever. 1t lies in the concession. not in the title. In some respects the treaty formulated by Co lombia is unsatisfactory. It is doubtful if if could be ratified by the Senate, and the Senate must ratify a treaty before the President will purchase the Panama Com pany's property. Probably the Colombian government will be found willing to make a more satisfactory arrangement It is not conceivable that the Bogota people will lose the great prize of an isthmian canal, which will pour $l50,000000 of American m oney into their country. over any sTna Il stubbc rnness. But it must be remembered that the Colombians are a peculiar peo- pIe and that their political status is a very uncertain one. In that country par ties fight like dogs. and now and then they come very near to tearing the gov ernment to pieces.
 am informed that it is upon this Sen ator Morgan banks his hope that the Pa mama project will fail. He thinks the rival parties at Bogota will prevent the acceptance of terms which two-thirds of the American Senate can be induced to ratify. No one denies that there is lit tie danger of this sort but it cannot be fairly said to be much more than barely appreciable.
 One of the strangest phases of this whole canal controversy has been the sus- piLitusness of the Nicaragua advocates 1t cropped out today in the debate, when a number of mgmbers declared their be- het tket the Spooner bill had been de- signe6 as a measure of delay. This sus- plcinusness has been apparent at every stagC. of the struggle. The Nicara yla mon hava persisted in believing there was a trarscontinental railway conspi- racv 10 defeat a canal. in spite of the fact that ID one has been able to discover tha sligNtcst effort on the part of the tri.nscrntinental roads to affect legisla- ton. They have persisted in suspectiug Senators Hanna, Spooner and others with insincerty. whereas everyone else has known that they were as sincere and honest as Messrs. Morgan and Hepburn themselves.
 Last January these men would not be- lieva the French company had made an o.fei to sell for $i0Ss06 o00. That was, in tksIr Cpinion,- q Abunco game. It was an- other .scheme of delay. They were al- waxs looking for ghosts and they never failed to find them. Up to this time they had banked upon the report of the com mission. and they lauded the commission to the skies. but when the commission changed and unanimously recommended Panuma they were sure evil influences were aL work There was a lobby, and corruption stalked abroad. Then there was the impossibility of getting a title A. last i. is the impossibilitY of getting A satisfactory concession. And so 1t goes
 The fellow who is spelling for fight is usually too fresh.