The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-10
MORGAN 10 THE BAR
SENATOR WRITES LETTER TO SECRETARY OF ASSOCIATION
Acknowledges Receipt of Resolutions Adopted by Lawyers of Ala bama-Says Outlook for Canal
 Project is Hopeful.

Senator Morgan has written letter to the Alabama State Bar Association in which he speaks hopefully of the out come of the isthmian canal project and says he was ably assisted in the canal legislation by lawyers in Congress
 The letter from Senator Morgan was addressed to Alex Troy or Montgomery Secretary and Treasurer of the Bar AS sociation. and was an acknowledgement of receipt of the following resolutions ad opted by the Association at the annual meeting held in Huntsville:
 Resolved, That the thanks of this As sociation be rendered to our United States Senator the Hon. John T Morgan, for his able and persistent services In presenting to Congress the great benefits to be derived from waterway connection between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which at length seems to be recognized by the national government.
 Resolved. second, that we. as members of the bench and bar. believe that his per- sonal and untiring efforts have been high ly instrumental. if not the chief cause. of this great achievement. and that we rec ognize such services by our distinguish ed Senator as of the very highest order of national statesmanship,"
 Writing to Mir. Troy from Warm Springs, Va. where ne is spending the summer Senator Morgan says:
 "The resolutions of the State Bar As sociation of Alabama which you enclosed to me in your very kind letter of 18th of July, were valued by me as among the most cherished proofs that I have not labored in vain for the interests of the people of Alabama and the South.
 That I should receive such assurances from the members of the bar of Alabama excites feelings of the most sincere grati- tude in which the recollections of a long and hahhy association with them are viv- idly recalled. I am also very proud to be still recognized as one of that great and noble body of patriots and jurists who have been so true and steadfast in all that has built up the splendid character of the State of Alabama. and has made it's bench and bar so illustrious.
 "The canl bill. to which you refer, mas had a long struggle against opposing in terests here and abroad. and passed Con- gress in a shape to recognize them in the location of the canal The result has se- cured the canal but leaves the location to be worked out through difficulties of a legal and diplomatic character. And in the long discussion of this subject such difficulties have been interposed by those who oppose the entire project of a water way to connect the great oceans. ''The lawyers in Congress have had the | task of solving these difficulties, which are now overcome. as to the main point of appropriating money from tho treasury | to construct canal in a foreign country, | to be owned and controlled by the United | States.
 This is the first undertaking of the kind in history. and no precedent exists | to guide us. By no means the least of | a series of objections to such legisla- ton was found in this new situation, and | it's removal was the work of the lawyers in Congress.
 'In the part I was called to take in the i discussion of these novel questions, as | chairman of the Senate Committee on
 Interoceanic Canals. I found my chief
 support in the high example and training
 that is nowhere more conspicuous than | in the bar of Alabama.
 | So I have earned the distinction they ] have so generously accorded to me, ir | this matter. I am very happy to ac- knowledge their work in preparing me | for the effort. and their great example
 in fortifying me for the long and doubt full struggle for the success of an isth- | milan cnal."