The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
Carmack'S Speech We'll
 Summarizes It.
Spooner Put Forward to Reply, as Ever Occurs When the Demo- crats Score a Strong Point
 Senator Lodge Satirized.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,
 Washington, Jan. 16.
 The position of the opposition to the ratification of the Panama canal treaty, it is admitted on all sides. has been best presented in the speech of Senator Ed ward w. Carmack. That is the need or praise given the effort of the junior Sen ator from Tennessee by the foremost Re- publican debater and the selected defend CT of the administration on all its occa- sions of questioned policy. "It is the best speech on the canal question any Demo- crat has yet delivered" said Senator Spooner Among those who most heartily felicited Senator Carmack were Senators German and Morgan.
 The Maryland Senator, as the chosen leader of the minority in the Senate and asserting his party prerogative in the re- sistance of the administration manifest determination to repudiate the only stat ute made for its guidance in the canal enterprise, looks upon the Carmack speech as an ample and a most admirable presen- tation of the cause of the law. the con stitution and national honor. Senator Morgan, the greatest living authority on canal science. if the term may be used, was delighted with the speech as @ mas terful vindication of the lifelong labor he ndu gwen to thiS WotAo-CohSetlhnS Sub- ject
 The exordium of the speech was a satir- ical commendation of Senator Lodges lecture on true statesmanship,' refer ring to a speech in which the Massachu- setts Senator sought to chastise the Den- ocrats for being partisans Carmack start ed good humor at once by saying 1t was always a blessed event when the Sena- tor from Massachusetts descends from Boston to the earth with a revelation tc mankind"
 Calling attention to the fact that what Lodge characterized as partisanship was in reality protestation that the limit ot Republican partisanShip should have been reached when they were required to sup port the administration for treating with indignity their own solemn legislative act and disregarding the law they themselves had made. MT. Carmack said:
 T wish the Senator could understand that even partisan Congress. whose law. full acts have been treated with contempt ! by partisan executive. has as mucf | right to assert its privileges as had ar English parliament in the days of the Stuarts. and that it is not bound to dc everything in it's power to deserve the contempt 1t has received. I wish 1t could be understood here. MT. President, that the spirit of the English peasant whC boasted that he had once been kicked bN a duke has no proper place on the floor ot | this American Senate"
 | Also said MT. Carmack:
 "Tke Senator has had some things tC say of the stupidity of the Democratic party. There are many things, Mir. Pres ident. that must always seem sturid |, thi sensation! Ing aJu." s.ration. Tn crn Nra'ic Iarty Is not trying to mak the business of government interesting and diverting by turning 1t into theat | rical performance or by making fireworks of the constitution and the laws. It ii simply trying to do it's part in the dul and prosajc task of governing the country in lawful and constitutional way. That sort of thing must always seem stupid tc those who believe that the chief end oi government is to furnish red-letter head, lines for yellow newspapers"
 | Addressing himself to the discussion oi the recognition of Panama as a republic, MT. Carmack made this bold decnration
 Ut is due to truth and to the people to say that every act of the President in this wretched Panama business has been in fragrant violation of law--of international law, of statute law, of treaty obligations and of the Constitution of the United States.'
 | Continuing from this point the Tennes- see Senator went into the history of the policy of this government in dealing with other nations. and especially with new governments.
 The fact that President Roosevelt is quoted as an ardent admirer of Andrew 1 Jackson. even calling himself a "Jack- sonian Democrat" makes pertinent the following allusion to the official charac- ters of Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. Referring to President Jack sons message dealing with the case o1 Texas, Senator Carmack said:
 Compare Jackson's action with that of the present occupant of the White House Jackson's whole soul was no doubt on fire with sympathy for the struggling patriots of Texas. Their leader was the heroic Sam Houston, from his own State o1 Tennessee. Another great Tennessean David Crockett, had made a new Ther. mopylae at the Alamo--a Thermopylae that had no messenger of defeat
 But in addition to that, the State of Texas had already signifed its intention and desire to seek admission into the American Union. It meant a vast in- crease to the territorial empire of the United States; 1t meant a vast increase of our wealth and power and population. Yet President Jackson said because of the very fact that we have so great an inter. est in the issue of this struggle we should be unusually careful in adhering to the strict principles of International law, that no taint or suspicion should attach to the conduct of the United States.
 50, Mir. President we waited until Texas had achieved her own independ. ence, until Mexico itself had abandoned the struggle. and when Texas came into this Union she brought with her no stain of dishonor on American diplomacy or American arms. What contrast, Mir, President Compare that act with this act of the President of the United States