Arizona republican., 1904-01-20
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SENATE lSTHMIAN DEBATE
Senator Quarles Declares That the Secession Was the First Progressive Move Made in That Part of the World for Three Hundred Years.

Washington, Jan. 19.-The senate re- quired less than minute today to dis pose of the motion to refer to the com mittae on postoffices the various reso- lutions looking to the investigation af the postoffice department The question had been previously debated for hours at a time. but no senator manifested any disDosition to discuss it further, and it was adopted without a vote
 After the passage of half q dozen bills the senate returned to the con sideration of the Panama question. MT. Quarles spoke for almost two hours in support of the course of the admins tration. and he was followed by Mir. Patterson, who criticized the presi- dents course in Panama. Mir. Patter- son was subjected to many interrupt ions and had not concluded when the senate adjourned.
 When the German Panama resolution was laid before the senate MT. Quar- les took the floor. He contended that u-, to the time of the recognition of Panama, the United States had done nothing beyond sending our warships 10 the harbor of Panama and Colon. NIT. NgudTlGcS CtlGuutd lilt BitS4utAlI against the charge of undue haste and against the charge that he had been deielict in his duty in failing to open the way under the Spooner act for the construction of a canal when he did not succeed in his negotiations with Co., lombia for a canal at Panama. He said that on the latter point there was no intervening time between the failure in Pogota and the converting of the American congress.
 In response to q question from Sena- tor Fulton, Mir. Quarles said it neces- 1 sarily follows that the obligations of the treaty remain unimpaired, but are transferred from Colombia to Panama. The treaty attaches to the land, he said. and we are bound to Panama to to protect that country even against Colombia which is now a foreign DOW CT.
 Mir. Quarle:s declared the revolt of Panama in the interest of the canal to be the first movement on the isthmus for the promotion of the rights of civ ilizalion for the past three hundred years.
 MT. Patterson opposed the canal treaty. He said that if the treaty should be ratified, whatever wrong had been committed would be ratified. If not ratified our ships in isthmian waters should be withdrawn and the status restored.
 He defended Colombia as being mot as bad as painted" and took the presi dent to task for his method of Speak ing of that republic. He said that the secession of Panama from Colombia, ] is as atrocious a crime as would be the ] T-,f4 ed States. MT. Patterson charged MT. ! SpoOner with having abandoned his | previous position regarding the right of the United States to interfere in Col ombian affairs in Panama, but MT. I Spooner cCntended that his position | was the same as at the beginning. He held now, as from the start that if | Colombia did not protect the right of transit it was the duty of the United | States to do so.
 The controversy between Mir. Patter- i son and MT. Spooner was extended and { involved many points of difference. ] They stood close together in the main aisle of the senate talking freely to i each other though at all times mani ! festing good will. The situation was contrary to MT. Morgau's idea of par liamentary proprieties and he made | the polnt or Crder that the converse 1 tions were not in accordance with the l rules of the senate.
 The chair rapped for order and Mir ! Spooner responding said the senator from Alabama was entirely right The fault was all his own, he said, and he temporarily retired. Ten minutes af- terward, however, the two senators again were standing together in the aisles, a new discussion on the point as to the extent to which the president was responsible for Assis- tant Secretary Darling's order to the Commander of the Nashville, direct ing him to prevent the landing of Col