The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-12
BIRTH OF NEW REPUBLIC
 DISCUSSED IN HE HOUSE
(continuse stom First Pase)


 interference before, but 1t so happened
 that always heretofore, it inured to her
 benefit. In this case, that which we have
 done, we did for motive of the highest
 obligation of national faith.''
 Colombia Was Fooled.
 After reviewing the history of the act
 of congress and the negotiations with Co.,
 lombia and the sending of a treaty to
 Bogota, MT. Hit said the people of Co., lombia thought the United States was so
 bent on having canal on the isthmus
 that the game was easy. They had ten
 millions but twenty millions would be bet ter and Colombian papers had urged
 those charged with the power to hold out
 for great sums of Yankee money. Referr-
 ing to the size of Panama, MT. Hit said:
 'It Is not a matter of space. The rule
 of square miles is mistake. Moral laws
 are not measured from the surveyors
 point"
 MT. Williams: 'Nor by ditches, the re-
 quirements of a canal, eh?'
 MT. Hit: "The one purpose that has
 been effected is the one that has been
 voted for in this body and has governed the action of our government, and the one that every good American heartily sym pathizes with.
 That Is the reason we don't apologize ADt tlc tOuuubb ol oui bOFCl III Lpl- lowing the precedents of its past history,
 and we are proud that we have Presi-
 dent that did not wait ten years" Loud applause on the republican side) The world, he said had been in favor of a canal, and, added MT. Hit, we have got man to work on 1t who will soon cut
 it through"
 This was loudly cheered by the republi- cans.
 Mir Williams interrupting, said he wanted to take the burden of saying yes to the question as to whether the govern ment had been virtually guilty of moral obliquity in It's international relations, in its actions concerning the republic of
 Panama.
 Threw Treaty Away. Referring to action at Bogota MT.
 Hit said that distant center, coldly | plotting to get hold of the great spoil they hoped to get from the United States,
 deliberately threw away the treaty and those millions in the hope of getting still
 more, utterly regardless of the great peril to which they put the people of the prov ince of Panama.
 Replying to Mr. Dinsmore. MT. Hit said:
 "The President of the United States had no support on the isthmus, except the low salaried counsel officers and one
 clerk, and he had no money except what
 has been appropriated by this body Continuing his remarks, Mir. Hit said :: "Followng the spirit of the treaty and the legislation since it was signed. the President, while waiting a reasonable time, found that the will of congress should be carried out and would not sub
 init to the blackmail that was tried to
 be imposed upon the people of the United States, owing to the rapacity of a band of men who abused their authority. It is not in the spirit of our people. When the open hand of bounty is met by the clasped fist of malice and greed, the Yankee knows how to stop that busi- ness"
 Mir. Williams the minority leader, fol- lowing, charged that this was the first time this government had interfered in the domestic affairs of a South American country. He said that the minority side could not be made to make the mistake which the majority desired it to make. The democrats want a canal, he said.
 They wanted the Nicaraguan canal, but if they could not get the canal where they thought it ought to be, they would | take it where they could get 1t, and take it as they might get it. He thought pos sibly the Nicaraguan route was regarded as too great a competitor of the trans continental railroads. He said the dem-
 ocrats are not proud of the part this gov ernment has taken, but they must recog- nize fact as a fact.
 Colombia Must Stand Back. Mr. Williams said that virtually it had been confessed that if Colombia dared to land a soldier in the newborn repub- lie of Panama-'new-born with the birth foreseen and aided. as I believe, from Paris and from Washington'-the United States will treat if as an act of war There was one fact that could not be gotten around and that was the manner of the birth of the new republic. Continuing Mir. Williams said: If the democratic party and few re- publicans had not hedged up and bound 1 this government in the two clauses which | compel us to give Cuba freedom and in- | dependence, you would have treated Cuba | as you treated the Philippines. As to the new republic of Panama, I am satis- AesnpAss> 0~-~-A>. A> R~aa A.