The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-25
CALLSPANAMAT REATYASTEAL
WATTERSON SAYS SaO,OOO,O 1000 WAS
FOR AMERICANS.
lntimates That the Senators We're In the
Alleged .JOb-Frenchme We're 10 Get
100000 .Okl-ROsOta Men wanted as
Much, and That Killed II, He Asserts.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 24.-Henry Wat
terson, in the Courier-Journdl this morning,
In an answer to an editorial article in the
Birmingham (Ala.) Ledger. makes the
charge that some Of the United States
Senators sold out when the Morgan-Hep-
burn lsthmian Canal bill was up for con-
slderation. and that the Panama Canal
route is the result Of gigantic job. He
says among other things:
The Morgan-Hepburn bill designating
the Nlcaraguan route, supported by the
report OF commission and by ample col
lateral testimony, had passed the House
by an overwhelming majority, and was
about to pass the Senate by two-thirds
vote, when M. Eduard Lampre, Panama,
turned up at Washington. The rogues
IN France who had got possession of the
Tag ends Of the old De Lesseps scandal
and tragedy had first sent over one Hutin
to spy out the lay of the land Hutip talked
about $50 100000. He was only a feeler.'
Having ascetained that $40, ZOO, 900 was
about the figure that might be ma de prac-
tlcable, $4,000 600 for the thieves in France
and $20,OOO,0 cO for the thieves in America
Hutin went home and Lampre came. With
his arrival upon the stage the scenes began
to be shifted. First one newspaper core-
sp9rdent and then another came out for
Panama. First one alleged expert and
then another came out for Panama.
"Public opinion thus manipulated and
supposed to be adjusted, the gray wolves
OF the Senate began TO show the whites
ban t, th<,ir toll hap
cautiously to come out into the open;
finally, the Spooner act, setting aside the
Morgan-Hepburn bill, and substituting
Panama for Nicaragua. But, even here,
the thieves had little care for the looks
OF it; they were not wholly insensible of
the finaties, and so---for appearance
sake-they inserted clause setting forth
that if there was any hitch in the ratifi
cation Of the proposed treaty with Colombia,
the President should use his discretion and
select route.
In other words, the gray wolves, in
selling out to the French jobbers. who
had nothing to sell but a few pots and pans
and lawsuit, were careful not to be too
conspicuously in the service of the trans
continental railways, equally opposed to
each and every canal project.
"Who should fo.esee that the thieves in
Bogo.a, getting a Whit of the stealing
from Washington, would contrive that,
before the delivery of the goods, $40, 900 600
should come to them? But. so it came to
pass, Colombia rejected the treaty. The
situation provided, for in the Spooner
act has arrived. The President is face
to face with the precise contingency which
even the thieves considered necessary
to secure their rear and to save their bacon
among the people in case there should be
too great row.
And what do we see? We see appeals
for delay urgngs for new treaty, plans
for Colombian revolution and the secession
of Panama; anything, everything, to make
good the $40, 600 900 to the thieves in France
and the SEQ. 900 600 to the thieves in America,
completing the sum agreed upon in the
Spooner act OF course, if these avail.
the $40, 900 900 for the thieves in Bogota must
be made good also, and will be inserted in
the next treaty.
IF the President hearkens to the clamor
and hesitates it will not mean that he is
personally corrupt, with share of the
stealings coming to him, but it will mean
that the power behind the steal is, like
the power of Quay in Pennsylvania and
Addicks in Delaware, too great for him
his nomination and election aheed-to
resist it.
Panama may have some engineering adj
vantages over Nicaragua, but all other adj
vantages and they are overwhelming
are with Nicaragua. Nearly the whole of
the Nicaragua route-through the San Juan
River and the lake-already exists. 1t is
safe to say that the cost Of its completion
will not exceed the cost of Panama When
it is completed we shall have waterway
all our ownright across the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea from the cotton
States Of the South. Florida, Georgia.
Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana and Texas,
the canal through a friendly, healthy
fruitful region, destined to be Americanzed
and to become, as Texas was before it was
State or Territory Of the American Union
not smell of job anywhere
Meanwhile. times up, Mr. President
The Colombian treaty is dead-klled by
an overdose of rascaity in Bogota Will
you act upon the mandate, unguardedly
given you by the Spooner act, or will you
continue to play politics of the Quay
Addicks brand, until the thieves get their
second wind working the while the scheme