The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-29
INFORMATION WANTED
DEMocRATIc CAUCUS REsoLU-
 TI0N IS UT
During Debate it is Stated That Uni ted States is Seeking to Put Salve on Colombfa's
 wounds.

Washington. Jan. 2s.--The time of tho Senate to-day was devoted to debate rather than to set speeches on the at titude of the United States toward the Panama revolutton. There was varin- ston, however. in that the discussion also had reference to the right of tho President to withhold information call- ed for by thn Senate. Tho immediate foundation of the oontroversy was the Democratic caucus resolution calling on thn President to state whether he had yet supplied all the peppers in the arch. Ives beartng upon the Panama affair.
 Among the pasitjons presented in the Senate to-day was ene from the mem bars of the Board of Trade of Phiia- delphia and Brunswick, Ga, for the prompt ratification of the canai treaty.
 The joint neaoiution. authorizing the accepting from citiscns of France of a reproduction of D'Aneer's bust of wash- ington. was passed. When MT, Morgan's resolution caiiing for Minister Buchan- ans letters concerning amendments to the canal treaty was Laid before the Senate. Mr. Morgan withdrew it. saying he had been informed 1t was the intea- ton of the President to send the docu- meBt to the Senate in executive session.
 The resolution of Mir. culberson intro- dueed at the instance of the Democratic caucus requesting the Preeident to in- form the Senate whether all the corre- spondenee relating to the construction of the isthmian canal had been sent to the Senate, was taken up. Mir. Cullom oe- jected to the resolution as too broad.
 MT. Culberson said the resolution calls only for public documents and this. he contended. the Senate is entitled to re- eeiye. MT. Clay asked whether the Sem ate ns part of the treaty making power has not q right to all the information bearing upon a treaty which the exec ntive itself has.
 MT. Cullom replied that 1t was his opin- lon that the President has right to refuse to comply with the resolution. He had no doubt, however, that the Presi- dent would send every scrap of the in fcFmafton.
 Suppose he does not asked MT. Tiil- man.
 ssThen," replied MT. Cullom, i've will deal with that situation when it comes"
 MT. German stated that the discretion ary clause had been purposely omitted from this resolution. but said that the omission was no indication of a desire to. reflect on the President. MT. Gorn1an said that the executive participation in the negotiations of the treaty is coRns plete and that there could be DO dam ger in giving out full information.
 Mir. Aldrich suggested that the reso- iution should be so amended as not to include papers covering present negotta- tions. which may now be on for the sat- isfaction Of Colombia, and Mir. German replied that he had not before heard that there were such negotiations in proxress. He was delighted to near that such was the case, and he hoped for the honor of the country that the negctfa- tions would be pressed to successfui cui- imitation. Instead of desiring to hamp- CT the executive ln such work. it was bis deslrs to encourage it. for he feared the methods of the President had done much to jeopardtze if not to destroy the work that had been done south of the United States in past yearA.
 We 6ear,~ he said, ~that in your aax-