The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-25
PERSONAL GLORY is THE
AIM OF THE PRESIDENT
Senator Norgan'8 Opinion of the Mushroom Repub-
lie of Panama and the Canal Treaty.
Discrepancy Between the Public Record Of the Late President Nc
Kney and His Private Views.

VV1ASHINGTON. Nov. 2L-Immedj-
w ately after the senate convened
today President Pro TEN Frye
presented an invitation from the gov
ernor of Louisiana inviting the senate
to attend the ceremonies incident TO
the celebration OF the Tooth anniversary
of the transfer Of Louisiana territory
TO the United States He also referred
10 a question. raised yesterday as TO
whether concurrent resolutions OF con-
gIess require the approval of the pres
ident in order TO render them operative.
he said that il had never been the
practice TO send such resolutions TO the
president, but he read the provision of
the constitution bearing on the sub
jeCt, which makes no distinction be
tween concurrent resolutions and Joint
resolutions, and remarked tnat he did
not know how congress had been able
to escape from the constitutional Ie-
quirement.
The suggestion from ythe chair led to
a discussion of the point by Senators
Spooner, Teller Hale, Plat Comm
and Tillmau.
Without disposing of the matter, the
senate passed to routine business, att
er which Mr.. Carmack's resolution for
the investigation of the pOstofice de-
psrtment was laid before the senate
and. on motion of Mr.. Penrose, was
referred to the committee on postOfhces
ard post roads.
Morgan Continues.
Mr.. Morgan was then recognized to
continue his speech on the Panama
canal question. AS on yesterday, he
sharply criticised the course of the
administration and Of others who op-
/ pose the Nicaragua route.
As 10 Panama. the senator said, an
elaborate treaty had been prepared, a
/ commission sent here and then sent
/ back again to create a government
with power to ratify a treaty He
charged that the treaty with Colombia
/ had been drawn largely by corpora
/ tion lawyer. Speaking of the report
Of the isthmian canal commission,
/ favorable to the Panama route MI
I Morgan characterized that report as
the dynamite that has rent in twain
! the republic of Colombia"
Desperate Adventure.
He said further that the report was
a desperate adventure. He declared
that if Mr.. Mckinley had lived the
protocol with Nicaragua and Costa
I Rica would have been observed. But
q new Richmond comes upon the field
and he seems not to feel the obliga-
tiun of good faith when a more en-
ticing feeling for the unique admins
tratiOn breaks upon the vision of this
ambitious spirit
He declared that it was President
ROOseveIu's ambition to have all tho
glory Of constructing the canal for his
own administration. HAS the pres
ident" ne asked, "any excuse for his
failure to carry into effect the agree
ment with NicaraE qua and Costa Rica
unless it be resentment toward CO.
lombia and qualification of persona
ambition which the law deprives hin
Of further power to indulge?
Plea of Tyrants.
Whatever the incentive. ne viii fai
to carry the people with him in hi
Wild and ineXcUsable raid No plei
of reasons of state" would be accep
table. fo-. said he, reasons Of STATE
are out of place in republic and art
regarded only as the plea of a tyrant.'
Ia abandoning the Mckinley policy
Mr.. Morgan declared. the president hat
destroyed the rights already acquire,
at much expense of time and effort.
He declared that Colombia had levie
blackmail to the extent Of S7.000,00l
and that acting under instructions o
the president the secretary of state ha
entered into an agreement that Nigh
make it possible TO collect on the levy
Only the eagerness or the ambition o
the president. he said. could have sup
piled the fulcrUm for this transaction
At this point and after having spO
ken for two hours, Mr.. Morgan re
quested the privilege of taking his sea