Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-14
5sTH CONGRESS.
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he would have saved the country much
trouble. His acts were not simply often
Sive. not simply cause for war. but they
were war" he said. AS matter of fact
there never was any Instruction ON the
:sthnus.' said Carmack.
Discussing the act of Col. Black of the
United States army. in raising the hrSt
flag in the Panama republic, the senator
criticised him sharply.
II do not believe" he said, that Col:
Black would have engaged in this plot IL
he hadn't believed that he was doing the
VIII of the administration.
Carmack said the President had denied
that ne encouraged the Panama insurrec,
ton. but no greater encouragement coulu
bc shown than by giving MIR. Hunau- a
Tilia and Il few other choice SPIRITS hllt
that if a revolution was started it would
receive the support Of the United States:
Quoting from a recent speech made by
Mr. LOOMS assistant secretary OF state,
Carmack said it had been evident since
last June that Colombia had no intention
of ratifying the Hay-Herran treaty.
President has been proceeding contrary to
| laws contrary to his country, in not going
| to the Nicaraguan route.
President Roosevelt, he said, loses the
| power of reasoning and his moral sense
when he becomes involved in action, and
exclaimed:
Into what difficulties may we not be
| led by this headlong MANI"
He did not agree that the President
would have hesitated if Colombia had
| been a stronger nation.
| HE makes history as he would order
| a melodrama, making certain that the
| star performer is always in the center OF
( the stage.
| He went on to say that the President s
course in this matter was indicative OF
| his character. 1t was not meant for Co
| lomba alone. but was the beginning of a
| system of intermeddling with the affairs
! OF the countries of Central and South
| America, and such a policy must inev-
| itably involve us in war.
| In conclusion, Carmack said that while
| he was for the canal. he could not vote
| for the treaty because he could not en-
dorse the lawless acts of which it is the
| fruit.
When Carmack took his seat Aldric!1
asked what practical system CarmacR
| had to offer.
Defeat the treaty." responded Car.
mack
Then what"
| Build the Nicaragua canal
| An" responded Aldrich; that is tho
| milk in the Cocoanut."
| favor of building the canal and building
it now.
| Spooner replied to Carmack. saying that
| he had felt regret at hearing the crit
| cisms of the President, who had registered
| an oath in heaven to discharge his duties
| Carmack had made a sinister and unsup-
| country had begun Il systematic encroach,
| ment on the rights of the South Amcri
|
consistently for those republics than haC
President Roosevelt, and SpOoner in.
stanced the course of the President il
| the Venezuelan difficulty. No President
in our history had stood more staunchly
| for the Monroe Doctrine.
| Spooner also gave attention to the
charges of disobedence of law by the
| President. THE only enemies he has in
| the United States are the result of his
| obedience to and enforcement of the law
J 81 thnlynt himself
of his OATH
| Spooner expressed regret that the canal
question could not be disassociatcd from
politics and denied that the President 5
| course was such as to subject him to the
| criticism of any political party. AS the
| author of the Spooner act, the speaker
said he wished to express the opinion
| that the law had not been violated by
what the President had done.
Replying to a question from NewlandS.
Spooner said that Colombia had sought
| the Hay-Herran treaty but he did not
consider that the failure of that govern
international law. Yet the President was
right in contending that Colombia's fail
ty of 1876 because New Granada had
sought that treaty for her own protec-
ton.
Tillman asked if a discreet man would
warning Colombia off her own preserves
at Panama, and Spooner answered in the
negative. saying that the safety the
honor and the interests of the United
States required that President should
do just what Theodore Roosevelt had
done.
Spooner declared that the President had
acted within the constitution and the law
in all that he had done in Panama. He
said that he for one resented the impu-
tation that the President had been I'M
scrupulous III his dealings with this queS-
ton This last statement was made af-
ter Tillman had expressed the opinion
that the American consul had bribed the
Colombian forces to withdraw from Pan
ANA.
The first consideration of the Spooner
act was that the right to build a canal
should be secured and that end had been
accomplished by dealing, not with Colom-
bia hut with Panama, Colombias sue
CeSSor.
THE attack" he went on, lis so violent
and ineXeuSable that no reasonable eXpla-
nation can be made of it except that of
craftsmanship of the bitterest kind.
He invited tie opposition to test the
question by an early vote and closed with
a defence of the President as "a brave.
patriotic and frank man who tried to do
what the law demands.
The Senate, at sos adjourned with the
understanding that the subject would be
recalled, tomorrow