The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-20
QUAY JOINS MORGANITES Throws Stones in Path of
 Treaty.. SURPRISE TO REPUBLICANS Pennsylvania Man Says He
 Was Held Up. Agreed to Stop Fight for Statehood Bill Upon Representations
 Which Events Show Were
 Not Exactly True.
SURPRISE TO REPUBLICANS

Washington, Feb. 19.-(Special. )-The war in the Senate took a new and start ling turn today when Senator Quay join ed Senator Morgan in opposition to the Panama canal treaty as 1t stands, and the spirit of enmity in that body and in the White House is manifesredly moro bitter. The local administration news paper. The Evening Star. reviewing the situation tonight indicates extreme irrita- tion on the Presidents part especially as 1t affects the Cuban treaty. saying that the President announced emphaticaliy to several callers today that 1T the Cuban treaty is not ratified at this session of Congress he will immediately after the adjournment call the Senate in extra ses- sion for consideration of the treaty. There is no question of the Presidents determl- nation that the Cuban treaty shall be acted upon
 The outlook for the confirmation of the treaty Is not considered good by the Presi- dent.
 So far as he can judge from the infor- nation taken to him by Senators. the tie up in the Senate Is so complete in many ways that the treaty is threatened His announcement is so positive that there is no doubt of his intentions. This IS an innovation even in Rooseveltian strenousness
 Held Up Senator Quay.
 Senator Quay maintains that he was made the victim of private hold-up in the Republican senatorial caucus Tues day night when his consent was won not to fight the canal treaty with the state hood bill, it having been represented to him that the bargain between the ad- ministration and the French Panama Company would be nullified March 2. un- less the treaty was ratified. but the next day Secretary Hay rushed into print with his contract with the Frenchmen In ef- feet pledging this country to pay $4O.- GOO 900 for the unfinished ditch of death.
 The scene in executive session today when the clerk began at Senator 0uay's bidding the reading the long drawn out constitution of Colombia, is said to nave been intensely comical The PanamA Senators hastily resolved themseNes m to numerous conferences in the cloak rooms trying to discover some means of circumventing the new Quay scheme ana the atmosphere became blue.
 Meantime as the clerks sonorous voice rolled out the long periods Of Colombian organic law which for four years of civil war Colombia has been powerless to en- force. Senator Morgan. in serene dig nity. reclined in his chair, the living pic ture of gTatlncauon anu CotiIeuShSAte that the redoubtable Pennsylvanian was coming to aid in his fight against what he considers the outrageous terms of the Panama treaty. The Panama Republi- cans had professed to believe that the only Senators who were not willing for this treaty to be ratified were Morgan. Pettus and Teller, and tonight their ian- guage against Quay is unprintabiy fierce.
 Charges Against a Judge.
 If is reported here that a movement is well under way to impeach United States District Judge Swayne of Florida. The nature of the charges are not disclosed. Congressman Clayton of the House Ju- dietary Committee. before which the charges would have been brought. said tonight that he had seen no papers in the threatened proceedings.
 The President has signed Congressman Bowie's bill for sessions of United States Court in Anniston.
 He also signed the commission of Spen- cer J. McMorris as postmaster of We tumpka.
 The Senate passed the House bill au- thorizing a bridge across the Tennessee River between Lewis Bluff and Gunters- vile. Ala. which will open railroad con- necticn between that district and One onta.
 Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy left Wash ington for Montgomery this morning.
 Lu ,ien Julien Walker.