The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-14
MUCH TALK OF PANAMA Carmack Leads valiant
 Atts SPoONEp lHE DEFENDER
 
 Tennessee Senator Wants the Nicaragua Route. He Says the Actions of the President Have Been in Conflict With
 Law and International Morality.

alteration in the Senate. The debate was spirtted. MT. Carmack opened the pro- ceedings with a set speech in point ol criticism of the Presidents course and was followed by Mir. Spooner, the only other speaker of the day, in defense oi the Presidents action as iaw-abidins anu in defense of the President himself as 2 patriotic, brave and true man.. MT Tiliman frequently interrupted MT. spooner and there were a number of sharp encounters between them. When the Senate adjourned the Panama Ques- ton was still before it and 1t was an nounced that the discussion would be re- stunned tomorrow after the disposition of the Postoffice Department inquiry resolu- tions.
 The Senate took up and passed the House bill for the eradication of the cot ton boil weevil.
 The resolution looking to an investiga- ton of the affairs of the Postofiice De- pertinent were laid before the Senate, but by unanimous consent went over again until tomorrow.
 Hale Has 8 Compronaise. Mr. Hale offered the following resoiu- ton as the result of the asrsement be- tween himself and Mr. Bacon 3anring yes- terdays session looking to a settlement of the Panama question.
 "whereas. the State of Panama, former ly part of the republic of Panama, has seeded from that republic and has set up a government repub ican In form under the name of the Republic of Panama; and'
 whereas, the independence of the said Republic of Panama has been recognized by the United States and many other nations; and,
 Whereas, a treaty Is now pending be- fore the Senate between the United States and the Republic of Panama. the ratifi- cation of which will insure the speedy building of the Inter-oceanic canal by the United States across the territory of said Republic of Panama therefore, he it
 sIaeHole9a 1slias n any ci8JgM Nilatn the Republic Of Colombia in any form | may make against the said Republie of Panama for indemnifcation for loss of territory or increased burden of the debt of the said Republic of Colombia, the President is to tender his best offices toward the peaceful adjustment of all controversies that have arisen or may arise between said Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Panama" Mir. Spooner moved to strike out the German resolution on Panama, the fifth section, which provides:
 And also to inform the Senate which words. if any. in the treaty of 1S46, au- thorized the United States, in the opinion of the President to enter by military force and uninvited into the territorial jurisdiction of New Grenada or Colombia, in order to prevent the interruption or embarrassment of free traffic across the isthmus.'' Carmack Speaks. Mir. Carmack advocated the discussion of the Panama treaty in open Senate, and said that while he had the utmost respect for the oflce of the President he did not mean to conceal the excesses Of that office. land every act of the Presi- ] dent in this wretched Panama business" !" he went on, 'has been in violation of law. of the constitution of the United States"
 He then discussed at length Mir. Lodges defense of the Presidents right to recog- nize the independence of other countries, | and spoke of the new isthmian power as "a hideous abortion of night and dark nesR mlsnamed the Panama Republic He compared the course of President Jackson in the Texas case with that of President Roosevelt in the present in stance and commended the former at the expense of the latter. In this case, he said, there was no recognition until Mexico had abandoned the struggle. As
 
 questioned, he would point to Andrew Jackson and not to Theodore Roosevelt as his guide and he had no doubt of the result.
 The President, he said, had made it plain that he never had intended to exe- cute the Nicaragua provisions of the | Spooner act.
 Never for one moment" he said, 'did he consider any plan that had in it so little of the strenuous and the sensational as the execution of the law. If instead of peering into the future, as MT. Loomis tells us he did, he had peered into the 1 law. he would have saved the country much trouble"
 MT. Carmack contended that President Roosevelt had not contented himself with recognition of Panama, but had inter- vened.
 Roosevelt the Upriser. His acts were not simply offensive, not simply cause for war, but they were war he said. "As a matter of fact. there never was any instruction on the Isthmus," said MT. Carmack. They speak of the rising" he said. "as the act of one man. Very true! And that one man was the President of the United States"
 Discussing the act of Colonel Black, of the United States Army. in raising the first flag in the Panama Republic, the Senator criticised him sharply. We know" he said, what would happen if at any other place an, officer of the United States should be found plotting with the enemies of a country with which We were at peace. do not believe that Colonel Black would have engaged in this plot if he had not believed that he was doing the will of the admlnistra- tion"
 MT. Carmack said the President had denied that he had encouraged the Pan anna insurrection. but no greater encour- agement could be shown than by giving MT Vunau-Varilla and a few other choice spirits a hint that if a revolution was started it would receive the support of the United States.
 Who could not get up a South Amer ican revolution with the aid of the United Staes military forces and ten million dol | lars?' he demanded.
 Quoting from recent speech by MT.