Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-10
WAR WITH COLOMBIA.
Morgan Scores Administration on Cuba
 and Panama

Morgan Scores Administration on Cuba
 and Panama
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. = When Senator Teller had concluded his speech in opposition to the Cuban reai- brocity bill Senator Morgan also was heard in opposition to that measure. Ths Alabama senator devoted a great snarv of his attention to the Panama canal question. He charged that the United States had broken faith in fail ing to obey the Spooner law and warn ed Cuba that the same course might bs followed by us toward that country in case the pending bial should become a law.
 Mir. Morgan took occasion to refer frequently to the Panama canal treaty and in that connection again freely criticised what he denominated '1psasi- dentiaI usurpation." He declared that the United States is becoming affected Q the core with eovetousness and said ehe country seemed to be quivering with doubt as No whether it should go over entirely or pursae the better ooupse followed by our national fathers. So far as he was concerned he would not be so mean as to yield to ternpta- tion simply to advance The commercial interests of his state. He asserted that the Omitted States would do as it might please with Cuba and added:
 She is now fettered to the decks of our Warshaps as firmly as Professor LaAgley's air ship was ever attached wa Rvxa hoorua haot
 He spoke of the negotiations of the Panama canal treaty as a grotesque act and declared that Panama had mo nloRe right to appoint minister to the United States than that country had to consecPate a saint
 He came" the senator continued, 'tas swift winged messenger of false hood. dispatched on his mission by the Panama Canal company
 So far as the concession made to Gu ha in this bill is concerned he said 1t would not be regarded by the Cubans in anything but serious light, what ever the result may be.
 '"The Cubans will not he said, Ere gard 1t as ludicrous act in a French vaudeville, but will accept 1t seriously"
 MT. Morgan said that Cuba would do we'll to give careful heed to our pur- poses in the legislation under consid- eration. They should not follow the old adage not to look gift horse in the mouth, for in this case '4the gift horse is broncho which greets them with a whinny and may send them away with kick"
 Returning to the Panama situation, MT. Morgan said that the United States is practically at war with Colombia as the result of the fact that the pregi- dent had fallen into trap. He want ed, he said, to save the senate from this same trap and again referred to M Bunau-y -yarilla, the Panama minis ter, and after reviewing briefly that gentIeman's history as an engineer and contractor on the Panama canal said that he had contracted wisely and weai and had left the isthmus a rich man."
 Mir. Morgan said that his whole pur~ pose was to warn the senate against eatifyfng a treaty the negotiation of which he characterized as "a most wretched, most abominable and a most horrible transaction" Notwith- standing this was the case, the senator continued, ''the senate sleeps over this breach of the Monroe doctrine, while the president of France and the presi- dent of the United States stand over the rscumbent figure and intone in unison their sole and satisfied amen"
 Hs expressed the opinion that the cost Of the Panama canal in it's early stages would be so great as to cause congress to stop the appropriations be- fore the enterprise had gone far and thus accomplish the purpose of the tTanseontansntal railways in preventing the construction of any canal.
 He then proceeded to say that only yesterday he had met a great Demo araS, who had "had a place in our affairs only ssecond in importance to the presidency and had made a name EoR himself in diplomacy, evidently meaning former Secretary of State Ol- nsy, who had bowed his head as. he said! #
 "'Eor the first time in my life have to confess that am ashamed of the attitude of my country"
 When MT Morgan stopped speaking the senate went into executive session