Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-14
Continuation of Panama Debate
in the Senate.
Carmack Attacks President ard
Spooner Defends His Course.
Rouse Cuts Out Civil Service Commits.
sion Appropriation.

i"'ioI Ill the senate and as on
yesterday, the debate was spirited.
MI oarnack opened the proceedings
with set speech In pointed criticism
OF the Presidents course and was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Spooner. the only other
speaker of the day, in defense of the
Presidents action as law abiding and
| in defense of the President himself as
u patriotic. brave and true man" Mr..
Tillman frequently INTERRUPTED Mr..
Spooner and there were a number of
sharp encounters between them. When
the Senate adjourned the Panama
question was still before the Senate.
and it was announced that discussion
would be resumed. tomorrow, after
the disposition of the post office de-
partment inquiry resolutions.
Before the Panama subject was
taken up there was a brief but lively
discussion between Messrs. Patterson
and Scott Of the labor troubles In
Colorado.
1 Wednesdays session of the Senate
began with a petition by Patterson
(COlO) of a Geographic petition from
the State Federation of Labor Of Col
orado. in session in Denver requesting
! the adoption of the resolution former
ly presented in the Senate by Patter-
soil providing for an investigation of
the strike by the Senate committee on
judiciary. Patterson said that the fed
Grafton numbers 1000 men. He asked
| to have the resolution referred to the
judiciary committee together with the
petition. The petition was read. The
request for ar investigation was based
upon representation of the extreme
gravity of the situation.
The presentation of the papers was
| made the basis of sharp colloquy be-
tween Patterson and Scott.
'"rhe senator from West Virginia
will admit that he Is one of the mine
owncrs," said Patterson and Scott ad-
United that such was the fact Patter-
son then proceeded to say that the
Colorado Mine Owners Association had
been more directly responsible than all
Peabody of that State in connection
with the recent strikes. This organi-
cation is. he said, devoting its energies
. to securing the determination of or
ganized labor and he claimed that
great injustice had been done by use of
, the militia in imprisoning men, estab-
fishing, C. censorship. etc.
Scott said in reply that he had al
ways been n friend OF organized labor.
but there had never been a more
, tyrannical or dcspotic organization on
, the face of the earth than which the
Colorado senator is chamrioning here
now"
| The entire matter was then, on Pat
, terson's motion referred to the COM
mittce on judiciary and the Senate
; took up and passed the substitute for
the eradication of the cotton boil weevil
The resolutions looking to an investi-
/, cation Of affairs Of the post office de-
partment were laid before the Senate
bu. by unanimous consent went over
again until, tomorrow.
Hale offered the following resolution
as the result OF the agreement between
himself and Bacon during yesterdays
session looking to a settlement of the
Panama question:
"Whereas. the State Of Panama, for
merly part of the republic of Column
bia. has seeded from that republic
and has set up a government. republic
can in form. under the name Of the
republic Of Panama; and,
Whereas the independence of said
republic Of Panama has been recog-
nized by the United States and by
many other nations; and,
Whereas. a treaty is now pending be-
fore the Senate between the United
States and the republic of Panama, the
ratification 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.
Resolved That in any claim which
the republic of Colombia in any form may
make against the said republic of Pan
ANA the President Is requested to tender
his hest offices toward the peaceful adj
arisen or may arise between said repub
lie of Colombia and the republic of Pan
anna" -
The resolution was read and Hale stated
the Bacon resolution. He asked for the
printing Of the document and said that
he would not ask for immediate consid-
GRAFTON.
The Panama resolution offered by Cor
man was laid before the Senate and Car
mack was recognized.
Spooner moved to strike out the Cor
ton Of which provides: "And also to in
form the Senate which words If any. in
the treaty of 1916 authorized the United
States. in the opinion of the President,
to enter by military force. and unlimited
into the territorial jurisdiction of New
Granada. or Colombia, in order to prevent
the Interruption or embarrassment of free
traffic across the isthmus. ~
Carmack began with a. reference to
Lodges speech and said he was always
pleased to hear him when he descends
from Boston to earth. That senator should
understand that there should be a limit
to- even the zeal of an administration
senator. He contended that there had
been no craftsmanship in the attitude of
the Democratic senators. On the other
hand, the Republican administration had
been guilty of the worst kind of partisan-
ship in refusing to execute the Spooner-
law because of the fear that opposition
would secure an advantage. II
The President, he said, had made 1t
plain that he never had intended to exc
cute the Nicaragua provisions Of the
Spooner act.
Never for one moment" he said. did
he consider any plan that had in it a
little of the strenuous and the sensation
al, as the execution of the law. II instead
Of pecring into the future, as Mr.. Loomis
tells us he did. he had peered into the law,
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