Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-16

>eTning the motive Of the men on
whose advice and counsel the president
acted. They are rot repeating the
tories that have been current in
Wash;r gton and throughout the cGun-
try fer year relative t. the supposed
destination of the S4O,000000 which
congress appropriated to be paid to
the French canal company.
Calls 1t Corruption Fund
These stores are cSandalous enough
to cause grave concern and at least
one newspaper editor. Henry Waiter
sen. ef the Louisville Courier-!ourna
mas publicly declared through the col
umns of his paper that they are true.
Mr. Watterson has net been request
ed to come to Washington to explain
his utterances, notwithstanding that
they were disseminated broadcast all
over the United States and attracted
the widest possible attention. He
said, without mincing words, that the
$40. 900 900 was nothing more nor less
than a great corruption fund.
Others have held the same view but
unlike Mr.. Watterson refrained from
giving expression to it be-
cause they were without proofs
to sustain the charges which Waiter
son made. 1t is a fact, however. that
the conduct of many of the men whs'
have been interested, either directly Or
indirectly. in canal legislation ever
since the Spooner bill was passed, has
warranted the suspicion that a sub
stantial part of the $4000O,O0O appro-
priated as purchase money was to
be diverted into strong boxes ether
than those owned and controlled by the
French Panama company. Their de.
termination not to let go of this vast
sum of money has been illustrated by
the success which attended their er-
forts to provoke revolt in the state
of Panama, and likewise their efforts
to have the United States government,
through its navy department, prepared
to sustain the revolutionists
Revolution Solely For Graft.
The attitude of the Democrats OF
the senate will be that the revolution
was not undertaken in behalf of lib
erty, but for graft and greed. If the
Panama revolution had not occurred
an influential southern senator whose
conservatism has never been ques
toned. would have introduced in the
senate On the first or second day If
the present session resolution calling
for the appointment of a committee to
investigate Mr. Watterson's charges.
This senator was panied and shocked
by the uneluiyecal language used by
the Louisville editor Fe felt that It
called FIR an explanation, because the
honor of the senate had been assailed.
The revolution, with its unexpected
and amazing complications, caused
the southern senator to withhold his
resolution. He has not changed his
opinion about the desirability cf an in
vestigation, but thinks that it is best
to wait and let time disclose the situa-
tion further
Think Roosevelt Was Deceived.
TIE fact that those who wera to-
share the proceeds Of the So o&t,fa3
appropriation We're abb TO finance tae
which must have involved
the raising OF at least 81 .0c0 600. and
perhaps more, is regarded by Demo-
cratic senators as one of the most sig
circumstances Of the whole
They believe that the pres
ident was imposed upon; that he had
no conception, and has not now, # the
motive underlying the advice and coun-
sci which he accepted from men in
whom he reposed implicit confidence.
They have no doubt that the pre-
cf the administrations side
of the case, which is to be made short
ly by the state department, will be
fawless from a diplomatic standpoint,
but they do not believe that the people
will accept it without question.
Secret Plotting Concealed BY Hay.