The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
NO GOVERNMENT
ON THE lSTHMUS
No Constitution and No One
With Legal Authority.
MERE PHANTOM REPUBLIC
SENATOR DANIEL DISCUSSES
HoAR RESOLUTION.

Washington, Dec. 18.-When the sen
ate met today Mr.. Daniel was recog- I
nized to speak upon Mr.. Hoar's resolu- I
ton requesting the president to send
10 the senate all the Information bear
ing upon the revolution in Panama.
Mr.. Cullom called attention to the
fact that the treaty had not been acted
on by the committee on foreign rela-
tions, and iutimated that it was not in
order to discuss it. Mr. Daniel retOrted
BY saying that there IS so much nerv-
BUSINESS over any inquiry on the part
OF the Republican senators sto cause
them to jump before they have been
spurred." He said that the president
had discussed the treaty i'm public ana
called attention to Secretary Loomis'
New York speech, as well as to the de-
bates I'm the senate, and declared that
never before had there been such
thorough defiance and contempt OF the
( law of secrecy which prevails IN diplo-
matte affairs as have been displayed in
this matter" Mr.. Daniel also referred
/ to Minister Bunau-Varilla, and said on
( him that while it is tue that all men
play many parts I'm the course OF their
( lives. thAt gentleman had played more
parts in a shorter time than any other
+ actor who had challenged favor from
/ back of the footlights.'
War Not Necessary.
Taking up the resolution, he said that
he did not want to see the united
States involved in war either with
/ France or with Colombia, and he was
/ inclined to accept with a grain or saiI
/ the sensational headlines printed in the
papers Yesterday over the speeches of
/ Acting Secretary Loomis and Minister
! Bunau-V arilla. Some people ne SAID
/ seek to establish a wide open republic.
/ 'as if some prCdigiOus Tammany We're
about TO take possession of the country,
and they are shaking their red lights
/ from many points.
He contended that the independence
/ of Panama had not been well estab-
/ Ished. as has been stated. and In TINS
connection called attention TO the lacL
that the country has no constitution
! Nh. Daniel said he knew of no require
ment i'm international law for the rec
ognition Of q new government before
it was formed.
Things were happening in Washing
ton before there was anything dong
on the isthmus. When, where and az
| what time. he asked, had the United
I States undertaken 20 send out forces %
I the border of any country TO prevent
that country from keeping peace IN i.7
own country There was not at that
/
even the phantom. of arrepupllc
Act Of a Few Men.
TT was not the state Of Panama
that organized the revolution, SAID
Mr.. Daniel: cit was not the city and
not the stare that is responsible Tor
the outbreak OF the revolution on the
isthmus.
without delay an ambassador was
appointed to this country. and If that
new republic had any independence it
was soon snuffed out by the acts of
THAT ambassador"
II when Mr.. Daniel closed Mr.. Fulton
(Ore.1 took the door TO advocate the
massage of the bill providing for an
j apprOpria ton for the proposed Lewis
& Clark exposition. He said that the
only request is that the United States
government shall make provision for
participatiOn in the celebration, but
even If. congress should fail to make
the appropriation the exposition would
be opened and held. He cOntended thai
the exposition would not be local al
fair All the states traversed by Lew
is and Clark were concerned, and the
event was in many Of its aspects one
of national importance. He believed
the people would endorse the appro-
priation requested, as ne believed they
had endorsed all previous appropria
tons of like character. The aCquisi
ton of the Oregon country had. h,
said, been second in Importance only
to the acquisition TO the Louisiana ter
ritory and some circumstances com
bine TO render it equally important.
Aid For Exposition.
= Mr.. Fulton also advocated assistance
: to the exposition on the ground tina
! ft would prove a potent factor in tn
encouragement Of our trade in Pacih
81 waters. He predicted that the creates
D expansion of the trade of the Unite,
z states in the future would be in tn
I Orient, and urged that no measur
! should be neglected to encourage tn
B best relations with eastern countries
6 He believed these objects should com
. mend the bill to the senate and secur
s its passage.
! on motion of AIr. Mitchell the expo
FsitiOn bin was referred to the. commit
t tee on industrial exposition.
An executive session of the senat
T. was then held.
e When the doors reOpened the seuat
- resumed its legislative session and aft
Z err the passing of a large number O
!. private pension bills, at 5:42 p. m ad
= journed.