The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-10
MORGAN SPEAKS
ON CUBAN TREATY
incidental Reference TO the Pan
ANA Canal.
USURPATlON OF ROOSEVELT
CUBA WARNED NOT TO BE TOO
TRUSTFUL.

N1ASHINGTON. Dec. 9.-After a
w suggestion that the Penrose res
oluuon for an investigation Of
the postofice department. be consid-
cred. and a statement by Mr.. CulIom
that the Cuban bin should have the
right Of way. the senate today took up
the Cubar bin when the routine BUSH
ness was completed
Mr.. Teller continued his speech begun
yesterday. He again took UP the cues
ton of the activity Of General Wood.
while acting as governor general of
cuba, i'm behalf Of Cuban reciprocity
with the United States He said there
were official records to show that the
Cuban government had paid to exceed
$ls.O0O i'm that interest during General
Woods administration He declared
that the press of the United States and
CuDa mad been utilized i'm supporting
lhe policy of reciprocity and quoted
hsures showing the amounts paid for
newspapers advocating this policy.
IN conclusion, Mr.. Teller said the
hFe years clause could have no weight
because no legislative body can bind
lhe act Of a future body. That clause
was put in as sop, Mr. Teller said.
Morgan Uses His Cudgel.
Mr.. Teller was followed by Mr.. Nor
SaE or Alabama, who also opposed the
Mr.. Morgan took occasion to refer
frequently to the Panama canal treat y
and IN that connection again freely
Cilucized what be denominated "presi-
Dental usurpatiOn." He declared that
the United States is becoming affected
10 the core with covetousness. and he
SAID the country seemed to be culver
ing with doubt as 10 whether IL should
go over entirely or pursue the better
course followed by our national IA
TIERS So far as he was concerned. he
would not be SO mean as to yield to a
temptation simply 90 advance the COM
mercial interests of mis- state. He as
serted that the United States would do
as il might please with the island OF
Cupa. and added: she is now fet-
tered to the decks OF our warships as
hrmly as Professor Langley's airship
was ever attached to his house boat"
GrOtesque Action.
lie spoke Of the negotiation of the
Panama canal treaty as a grotesque
act, and declared that Panama had
no more right to appoint a minister
to the United States than that country
had to consecrate a saint"
He came" the senator continued.
.'as a swift winged messenger of false
. hood dispatched on his mission by the
Panama Canal company.
30 far as the concession made to
Cuba in this bin is concerned. he said.
II would rot be regarded by the Cubans
IN anything but serious light, what
ever the result may be. The Cubans
viii not he said, regard il as a lu-
dlcrous act in a French vaudeville, but
viii accept it seriously"
Cuba Warned.
Mr.. Morgan said that Cuba would do
well 70 give careful heed to our pur-
poses in the legislation under consid-
Grafton. They should not follow the
old adage not TO look a gift horse i'm
the mouth. for in this case the gift
horse is bronchO which greets them
with a Whitney and may sehd them
away with a kick"
Returning TO the Panama situation.
Mr. Morgan said that the United States
is practically at war with Colombia.
IS the result Of the faCs that the pres
ident had fallen into a trap. He want
ed. he said. to save the senate from
this same trap. and again referred TO
Mr.. BunauN arilla. the Panama minis
ter and after reviewing briefly that
genueman's history as an engineer and
contractor on the Panama canal said
that he had CONTRACTED wisely and
we'll and had left the isthmus a ricn
man."
Breach Of Monroe Doctrine.
Mr.. Morgan said that his whole uur-
pose was to warn the senate against
ratifying d treaty the negotiation Of
which he characterized as 'mcst
Wretched. a most abominabIe and a
most horrible transaction. NotWfth-
standing this was the case. the senator
continued. the senate sleeps over TINS
breach of the Monroe doctrine. while
the president of France and the preEi-
dent of the United States stand over
the recumbent figure and intOne I'm uni
son their solemn AID satisfied amen. "
He expressed the opinion that the
cost of the Panama canal i'm its early
stages would be so great as to rause
congress 20 stop the appropriations be-
fore the enterprise had gone far. and
thus accomplish the purpose OF the
uanscontinental railways in preventing
the construction of any canal
Discussing the presidents message.
he said the chief executive had failed
to execute the SpOOner law be-Iu5s I'd
was distasteful to him. and declared
that he had not succeeded I'm f0rmuIat-
ing any satisfactory excuse or his
course. He predicted that the zine
would come when cuba would "cliD the
threads that restrain her and bind or
/ TO us and again float off in the sea "
Z liberty"
War of the Future.
In such an effort he continued. Cuba
might find a friend in Germany. which
might follow our example and create
state of independence IN a night ana
then annex it with the cominS mrise.
] Nc doubt there would be lighting .ror
who" he asked els more eager TO fight
than Emperor William or our oru
strenuous president
He Their proceeded to say that only
yesterday he had met great diplomat
who had had a place i'm lur Affairs
only second IN Importance 20 the pre=i-
dency and had made a name for HIM
self I'm Diplomacy evidently meaning
/ former Secretary of State Olney}. DO
had bowed his head, as he said for the
first time i'm my life I have % confess
that I am ashamed of the altitude oi
my country.
Mr. Morgan stopped speaking 81 4.05
o'clock and the senate went into C1ecu-
| i've session and ten minutes later cd
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