Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-19
MORGAN SECURES CONCESSION
Senate Attaches Spooner Act as Part
Of the Panama Canal Treaty.

Morgan yesterday secured the first ma.
terial concession that has been made
to him by the senate in connection
with the Panama canal treaty with
Colombia. This consisted of an agree
ment to attach the Spooner canal acr
bodily to the treaty. This change was
made in compliance with a request
presented by Senator Lodge during
the executive session of the senate
yesterday for the necessity for II has
been discussed by Mr.. Morgan and
other members of the senate com.
mittee.
Mr. Daniels expressed the opinion
that as the preamble to the treaty
calls for the attachment of copy of
the act, that attachment was neces-
sary to preserve the terms CT the docu-
ment intact. Senator Morgan con-
tended that without this attachment
the treaty was absolutely invalid
Senators Teller and Hoar took the
opposite view, urging that as the act
was in existence and of record in the
statutes of the United States, the ply
steal annexation was of no conse-
quence whatever. Senator Lodge,
however, suggested that no injury
could result from the attachment of
the act and unanimous consent was
given to do 60. It was specifically
Stipulated, however, that this conces-
sion did not amount to an amendment
of the treaty.
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 Cul.
lom asked him IL the speech he was
reading was new one or an old one,
he replied with some manifestation
OF vexation that 1t was new. adding
that he did not hive I'd his ad.
aressss,~R e discussed rlar1y
the attitude of the isthmia -, ri
commission OF which Admiral Wan =
Is the head and criticised to some ex-
tent the change Of view taken by that
commission in its last report. He also
dwelt on the variation OF the terms
Oh the treaty from those of the
Spooner law.
Washington, March 12.-No decided
progress was made toward reaching
an agreement nor a vote on the Col.
ombian canal treaty. and when the
senate adjourned there was a general
understanding that in all probability
some hour next Tuesday would be de-
finitely agreed upon as the time when
a vote should be taken upon the
treaty and amendments. 1t is under.
stood that Mr.. Morgan is to be per-
mitted to have printed in the Con-
grhssional Record the remarks he has
prepared giving his best recollection
OF the speeches he has made In the
executive sessions of the senate on
the treaty.
Washington, March 14.-Senatos
Morgan yesterday occupied almost the
entire time of the senate In executive
session in discussing the canal ques.
ton. He declared the French decree
void. and said that the sale Of tho
canal is an invasion Of the rights of
Colombia.
G. w. and Ella Smith of Gilman,
out on bonds for contempt of court,
in selling intoxicating liquors and
convicted at the October term, were
turned over to the authorities and
placed in jail at Marshalltown. Mrs.
mate with woman at Silver City and
delivered him to the authorities. The
attorney for their bond company
thought best to place both In jail. The
matter grew out Of the sale of liquor
in Gilman.
The robbers who took two sacks of
mail from the Union station In Cedar
Rapids on February and went
through all the letters have succeeded
been mailed from Waterloo to Cashier
of the bank at Goldfeld.
1t was for 5000, and was cashed at
the Continental National bank at Chi
cago and sent to Goldfield for collec.
tion. Then it was discovered that the
signature of Mr.. McElhenny had
been forged.
1t is against the law to export cattle
from Cuba.
1t is a popularity Of the horse to
arise on its forelegs first, while the
cow first arises on its hindlegs.
A schoolboy in Frome. England. was
tween air and water. The bright little
fellows answer was to this effect
Air can be made wetter, but water
cannot"
When gentleman becomes engag.
ed to lady in Russia he Is expected
to send a present to her every day.
This custom makes long engagements
expensive. consequently they are thu
exceptions.