The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-03-12
SENATOR MORGAN OBTAINS AN
AGREEMENT ON PANAMA
.fc CANAL TREATY..
TO ATTACH SPOONER ACT
That. Measure Will Be Grated Bodily
Onto the Treaty, BUT Does Not
Amount to an Amendment-Cha
Made in Compliance With Request
Of Senator Lodge in Executive SEES
sion of Senate,

sion of Senate.
Washington, March Ex-senator
Morgan during the day secured the
first material concession given him by
the senate in connection with the
Panama treaty with Colombia This
the Spooner canal act bodily to the
treaty. This change was in compliance
with a request presented by Senator
Lodge in the executive session of the
senate, for the necessity of it had
been discussed by Mr.. Morgan and
other members of the senate commit
tee. Mr.. Daniel expressed the opinion
that as the preamble to the treaty calls
for the attachment of copy of the act,
that attachment was necessary to pre-
serve the terms of the document in
tact. Senator Morgan commended that
without this attachment the treaty
was absolutely invalid. Senators Tel
Ter and Hoar took the opposite view
urging that as the act was in existence
and on record in the statutes of the
United States the attachment was of
no consequence whatever. Senator
Lodge, however, suggested that no in
jury could result from the attachment
Of the act and unanimous consent was
given to do so. 1t was expressly stip-
ulated, however, that this concession
did not amount to an amendment Of
the treaty.
Discussed Canal Question.
Senator Margon consumed the en-
tire time Of the remainder of the
closed session discussing the canal
question from various points of view
and going over much ground he al
ready had covered. Most Of his
speech was written and when Senator
Cullom asked him if the speech he was
reading was new one or an old one,
he replied with some manifestation
OF vexation that it was new, adding
that he did not have to repeat his ad-
dresses. He discussed particularly
the commission of which Admiral
Walker was the head and criticised
at some length the change of views
taken by that commission in it's last
report. He also dwelt on the varia-
ton Of the terms Of the treaty from
those Of the Spooner law.
During the progress of his address
Senator Morgan expressed a desire to
have copies of the correspondence be-
tween the United States government
and the new Panama Canal company
regarding the proposition given by
that company to the United States to
purchase the canal for $4O,0OO,OO0 and
the senate consented to ask the secre-
tary of state for the correspondence
Papers Fail to Arrive.
The papers had not arrived at 1880
o'clock and as Senator Morgan as
serted he would not be able to proceed
without them, he moved the senate
adjourn and this motion prevailed.
During the day there was more or
less discussion CT the proposition to
permit Senator Morgan to publish his
remarks in the Congressional Record,
but there was no effort to reach a con-
clusion on this subject.
Senator Cullom, chairman of the
committee of foreign relations, has
taken the position that this permits
sion to print shall not be granted I'M
less Senator Morgan will agree to al
low day to be fixed for vote On the
treaty. On the other hand, Senator
Morgan says that he is entirely indie
pendent of the senate in this respect,
because he says he can discuss to any
extent he pleases in the public prints
a former treaty between the United
States and Colombia which is almost
Identical with the pending treaty and
which has been made public.