The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-24
CARM MACK SPEAKS0N
 CUBAN RECIPROCITY
TENNESSEE SENATOR WILL DE- LIVER ONE OF HIS CHARACTER ISTlc ADDRESSES AGAINST THE MEASURE.

Washington, D. C., November 23.-(Spe- cial )-senator Carmack cf Tennessee to- morrow, if opportunity offers. will speak against the Cuban reciprocity bill in his characteristic vein. Senator Carmacll has given this subject thorough study and his speech will bring out some en- tirely new phases of the situation
 MT. Carmack, as usual will probably have few remarks to make against the present administration of affairs
 
 friends of the Cubans, and nothing more. We are friendly to them and our power has been exercised with reference to Cuba for the purposes of friendship and not for aggrandizement. We have made glorious record in our relationship to Cuba and let us not mar it.
 MT. Lodge of Massachusetts also eX- pressed regret over the introduction of the resolution. Many people of our coun- try, he said. do not understand the dis tinction between the introduction and the passage of a bill and if our own peo- pie do not appreciate this difference, the Cubans must have a much smaller de- gree of understanding.
 He believed the present debate would be of good service as giving assurance that the bill does not represent the wishes of the government or of the people of the United States.
 Mir. Lodge said:
 We have all the control in a military point of view and a political point of view that we can possibly desire.'
 He Oodge) was opposed to island states.
 MT Spooner gave notice that he wished to addres the senate in opposition to the resolution. and the motion to reconsider the vote of reference went over
 Mir. Hale then presented the list of sen ate committees as agreed on by the cau- cuses of the republican. and democratic senators.
 Morgan Takes the Floor.
 On the motion to adopt the report MT. Morgan of Alabama, took the floor, and addressed himself to the isthman canal question. He said he did not regret his retirement as chairman of the committee on inter-oceanic canals. He disclaimed partisanship in the conduct of the affairs of that committee and declared that he had not and would not reverse his position on the canal question at the instance of any party caucus. He discussed at some length the attitude of the President in the matter of the selection of a route for the proposed isthmian canal and in doing so accused him of using his official position to advance his personal views. One man in the presidential office may be able, he said, to crush all opposition. but 1t re- mained to see whether he could crush the statutes of congress. He referred to the Spooner act. and said no one could nulli- fy 1t. The revolution in Panama, he said, was a Caesarian operation which took Panama alive from the womb of Colom- bia
 MT Morgan charged that the President has made the canal question party ques- ton. and adds:
 'I think that the Presidents appeal to party discipline to enforce his opinions on the country, and his measures of az gression on foreign countries, in addition to his power as commander-in-chiefo of the army and navy, which he uses with a dreadful latitude of construction, is so strong a proof of heart failure in the present wild moments. that l am encour- aged to hope that there are still some barriers that we may rely upon to pro- tect the peace and save the commerce of the country.
 As to Party Discipline.
 q regret that party discipline is to be used as domestic police force to protect the transit in Panama, and to guard the interests of the new canal company. That we will get a canal, if one can be built in Panama. I have no doubt for the President has said so. Yet this result is not nearly certain or so safe, as if he should obey the Spooner law"
 Mir. Morgan said that he had only con sented to the enactment of the Spooner bill because of his confidence in the good faith of the President in enforcing the law, and now that the President has not seen fit to keep that faith, it remained to be seen whether the senate would SUD- port him in that position The President. he said, had. completed his campaign against the Spooner act by having MT. Hay sign a treaty with Somebody from Panama, who had no authority except