The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-25
DESIRE FOR
 UNFJENEsS Bottom Roosevelt's .ctions. MORGAN FLATS PRESIDENT Satirizes. the Rough Riders
 Spectacular Ambition. Aiabamian Says Mckinley Favored the Nicaragua Route and This ,. Statement = Challenged
 by Senator Hanna.
MORGAN FLATS PRESIDENT

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 Washington. Nov A.-The Panama question was again tho leading topic un- der consideration by the Senate today ahd MT Morgan was again the speaker of the day. He continued his review of the history of the efforts to secure an isth- milan canal and declared that to the PreN- ident's ambition to secure the credit of an unique administration must be credit ed the favoritism manifested by him to- ward the Panama route.
 He asserted that President Mckinley had favored the Nicaragua line and this statement was challenged by Mir. Hanna. who said he knew of his own personal knowledge that Mir. Mckinley had urged the most careful investigation after he had learned that the Panama canal prop erty was available.
 The question of the committee assign ments was again postponed as also was the motion to reconsider the vote on the Newiands joint resolution concerning the of Cuba
 Governor Morrison of Idaho was among the visitors on the floor of the Senate during the day.
 Opening of Session.
 Immediately after the convening of the
  sented an invitation from the Governor of Louisiana inviting the Senate to at- tend the ceremonies incident to the ce1e- bration of the one hundredth anniver- sary of the transfer of Louisiana terri tory to. the United States.
 He also referred to a question raised yesterday. as to whether concurrent res olutions of Congress require the approv- al of the President in order to render them operative. He said it had never been the practice to send such resolutions to the President. but he had read the provisions of the constitution bearing on the subject, which makes no. distinction between concurrent resolutions and joint resolutions, and remarked that he did not know how Congress had been able te. escape from the eofistitnticnai fsquirs- Tnent.
 The suggestion of the chair led to discussion of the point by Senators Spoon- CT. Hale,. Platf. of Connecticut, and Till- man.
 Without disposing of the subject. the Senate passed to routine business after which MT. Carmacks resolution for the investigation of the conduct of the post office was laid before the Senate and upon motion of MT. Penrose was refer red to the committee on postoffices and post roads.
 MT. Morgan was then recognized to con- tinue his speech on the Panama canal question. As on yesterday he sharply criticised the course of the administra- tion and of others who oppose the Mica ragua route.
 A Desperate, Adventure.
 As to Panama, the Senator said, an 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 corporation lawyers. Speaking of the report of the Isthmus Canal Com mission favorable to the Panama route, Mir Morgan characterized that report as ''the dynamite that has rent fin twain the republic of Colombia" He said further that the report was a desperate adven- ture He declared that If Mir. Mckinley had lived the protocol with Nicaragua and Costa Rica would have been observed.
 But he Is dead" the Senator went on, land a new Richmond comes upon the field and he seems not to feel the obliga- ton of good faith when a more enticing field for the unique administration breake upon the vision of this ambitious spirit"
 He declared that 1t was President Roosevelt's ambition to have all the glory of constructing the canal for his own ad- 
 Roosevel's Wild Raid.
 Has the President" he asked. "any excuse for his failure to carry into ef- feet the agreement with Nicaragua and Costa Rica unless it be resentment to- ward Colombia and qualification of per- sonal ambition which the law deprives him of the further power to indulge? Whatever the incentive, he will fail tc carry the people with him in his wild and raid"
 No plea of reasons of State" would be acceptable. for. he said. reasons of state are out of place in a republic and are re- garded only as the plea of a tyrant."
 In abandoning the Mckinley policy. MT. Morgan declared that the President had destroyed the rights already acquired at much expense of time and effort
 He declared that Colombia had levied blackmail to the extent of $7000,COO and that acting under the instructions of the President, the Secretary of State had en- possible to collect on the levy. Only the eagerness or the ambition of the Presi- dent. he said. could have supplied the ful- crum for this transaction.
 At this point, and after having spoken for two hours, MT. Morgan requested the privilege of taking his seat while he con tinued his delivery. There was no obJec- tlOn ana the VenereDfe senator SaI uoWn, under his breath as he did so. My old limbs are getting as shaky under me as the Republican party must be in the presence of the truth"
 MT Morgan reviewed at length the Co., Iombian revolution of 1902, declaring that Marroquin's triumph was due not to his own prowess but to the assistance of the United States.
 All roads which the President trav- els" he said. leads to Panama, but some of his discreet friends should caution him not to burn the bridges behind him."
 That war had, he said, deserved the of all Christendom because of the brutality of MarroquIn's conduct and yet notwithstanding this conduct was such as would have done discredit to the bearer of a scalping knife or tom ahawk. the United States was the ally of that leader throughout the conflict He referred especially to Marroquin's 8 conhscations and decrees and said that President Roosevelt must have known of them.
 At this point, and after speaking for about three hours, MT. Morgan concluded I.1