The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-11
MORGAN GAINS .<
 A CONCESSf'$,>N Scores One F. St in the Canal Matter. SP0ONER ACT ATTACHED Alabama Senator Addressed Senate on Canal.
 Discussed Attitude of Isthmian Com mission and Our Relations with Columbia-Has Issued Sew eral Pamphlets.
SP0ONER ACT ATTACHED

l WdSnlnBIOn, AafCn lU.-SSndIOT NdOTBdn | today secured the first material conces- | sion that has been made to him by the Senate in connection with the Panama l Canal treaty with Colombia. This con- sisted of an agreement to attach the | Spooner canal act bodily to the treaty. This change was made in compliance with request presented by Senator Lodge 1 during the days executive session of the | Senate today after the necessity for it | had been discussed by Mir. Morgan and other members of the Senate committee. MT. Daniel explained that as the pream- ble to the treaty calls for the attachment of copy of the act. that attachment was | necessary to preserve the terms of the document intact. Senator Morgan con- tended that without this attachment the | treaty was absolutely invalid. | Senators Teller and Hoar took the oppo- | sive view, urging that as the act was in existence and of record in the statutes | of the United States, the physical annex l ation was of no consequence.
 Senator Lodge. however, suggested that | no injury could result from the attach ment of the act, and unanimous consent l was given to do so. It was specifically stipulated. however that this concession | did not amount to an amendment of the | treaty.
 Senator Morgan Vexed. | Senator Morgan consumed the entire time of the remainder of the closed ses- sion discussing the canal question from various points of view, and going over much ground he already had covered. Most of his speech was written, and when Senator Cullom asked him if the speech he was reading was a new one or an old one he replied with manifestation of vex- ation that 1t was new, adding that he did not have to repeat his addresses. He discussed particularly the attitude of the Isthmian Canal Commission. of which Ads mirai Walker is the head. and criticised | to some extent the change of view taken | by that commission in it's last report. He also dwelt on the variation of the terms of the treaty from those of the Spooner | law.
 During the progress of his address, Sem ator Morgan expressed a desire to have copies of the correspondence between the United States and the new Panama Ca nal Company bearing on the acceptance | of the option given by that company to the United States to purchase the canal for $4OO00,0O0. and the Senate consented to request the Secretary of State for the | correspondence.
 The papers had not arrived at 3:3O | o'clock, and, as Senator Morgan stated | that he would be unable to proceed with out them, Senator Cullom, at 3:3o p. m, moved that the Senate adjourn. and this | motion prevailed.
 During the day there was more or less | informal discussion of the proposition to permit Senator Morgan to publish his remarks in The Congressional Record, but there was no effort to reach a con- clusion on this point.
 Senator Colum, Chairman of the Conn mittee on Foreign Relations. has taken | a position that permission to print the
 
 ator Morgan will agree to allow a day to be fixed for vote on the treaty. On the other hand Senator Morgan says that he is entirely satisfied in this respect.
 Copies of Eight Pamphlets.
 During the day Senator Morgan for | warded to each Senator copies of eight pamphlets prepared by himself on the | canal question. They dealt usually under special titles with the following subjects: The history of Colombia's canal; Conces- sions and the organization of canal com panies; Methods employed to put old Panama Canal Company into operation; Colombia's relationship to the Canal Com pany; Campaign of Bo. Hutin and Crom- well of temptation. insolence and coer- cion; Attorney General Knox and the law of the case; The rights of creditors of the Panama Canal Company and the state of civilization in Colombia.
 In the second of the pamphlets Sena- tor Morgan contends against the validity of the title of the new Panama Canal Company claiming that the French courts had no power to dissolve the old Panama Canal Company or to appoint liquidator to hold and control the prop erty of that company in Panama.
 He asserts that If the decree dissolv- ing the old Panama Canal Company is valid, that the necessity of that decree was terminated all the privileges and property rights of that company in Pan- anna in any way pertaining to the canal and by the terms of the law of conces- sion the French could not prevent the same again reverting to Panama"
 Mir Morgan asserts that the French courts overstepped the jurisdiction fin the matter of transfer of title. He also con- tends that the work done on the canal by the other company belongs to Co., lombia and that the government is just | ly bound for the debts of the company and hence that no title to the Panama canal can be given by any one but the l Colombian Congress.
 Efforts to Sell Canal.
 Discussing the efforts to sell the canal company's property to the United States Mir. Morgan said: 'The people of Colom- bia did not believe that the United States would ever consent to pay tnlS enormouS rental and give back to Colombia at the end of ninety mine years the canal and railroad without compensation. They were correct in that. but the United States would never expend $l4O,O0O0 900 in completing that canal and S25, 900 for the rent of the ground and $4O0O0,0OO for the privilege of doing this work and s1O,- GOO 900 for a concession from Colombia for one hundred years, in all $2l5, ,OOO. 900 and give back the canal and railroad to Colombia at the end of the lease"
 Mp Morgan accuses those desiring to sell the canal ot riding down the Co., Iombian constitution" and asserts that Sl,OOO,OOO in gold will be furnished by the new canal company together with the use