Arizona republican., 1904-10-21
Senator CuIb6rSOn on the
 Panama Revolution
TIE PRESIDENTS PART
The Texas Senator Sees in That the Course of Man Who Does Things When the Time Arrives at Which They Should Be Done.

New York, Oct 2O.-Tne following is an abstract of the speech by Senator Culberson of Texas at Carnegie nall new York, tonight:
 Senator CuIberson devoted the great CT portion of his remarks to the digcus- sion of the Panama canal. going into details with regard to the revolution by which Panama became an inde- pendent state and the subsequent ne gCtiauons, which resulted in the canal treaty. Alluding to what he termed the spirit of lawlessness which led the president in this disgraceful affair."" he declared that that transaction above all others in his career strikingly typi- fies his contempt of all legal restraint and his unsuitable passion for personal and arbitrary government
 Continuing, Senator CulbeTson said: Choosing an occasion upon which he could appeal to the avarice of the peo- pie and thus temper their spirit of re- sistance to usurpatiOn. he respected neither legal bounds nor national good faith. and the incident serves to illus trate not only his imperious and des- pOtic nature, but the danger to the country. which is involved in his cleo ton. It is well to understand it. for, beside want Of general information up- on the subject important facts have | been deliberately withheld from the
 public"
 He then sketched the course of events l in the passage by congress of the bill known as the "Spooner law" author | iZing the canal and charged that the | president in his course with Colombia ! defiantly violated both it's letter and | spirit" He claimed that the Hay-Her- ran treaty. if not nullifed by the unan- | imO6s vote of the Colombian senate disappearing it, expired by limitation upon the failure of Colombia to ap- prove it within the time fixed for its ratification.
 He entered with detail into the legal l aspect of the matter and continuing. i said: "It is astonishing in view oi ! these indisputable facts, that the de- fense of the president with reference to 1 this statute should be placed by him | self and his party upon the ground i that when he entered into the Panama | treaty the time within which he could | lawfully deal with that route had not | expired"
 1 Tt is interesting" added Senator i CulbersOn, ''in this connection to read | the presidents message to congress on ! January 4. 1904 in which he said: As ] events AuAllEu Ouls luG question or LlIElE did not enter into the matter at all 1 and yet there had not been a lapse of
 a reasonable time. using the word in
 any proper sense, such as would justify 1 the administration going to the Mic i aragua route."
 Then he continued and read the let i ter from Secretary Hay to. Minister I Herran. which has never before been i published:
 Department of State,
 Washington, Jan. 12, 1903
 Dear MT. Herran: I am directed oy f the president to gay to you that in his
 opinion that reasonable time all I, lowed by the statute 10 conclude nego-
 tiations with Colombia for the con- |. struction of an isthmian canal has | come to a close and cannot be extend I ed. He authorizes me to sign with you + the treaty of which I have had the ! honor to give you a draft with this | change, that the sum of S10O.OO0 and ] payment mentioned be increased to l S250 OO0 I am not authorized to con- \ slider or discuss any other change i whatever.
 l (Signed) JOHN HAY While the president" continued tn,