The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-02
THE DIETRICH CHARGES
NEBRASKA SENATOR ASKS FOR
 AN INVESTIGATION.
Hoar, Platt of Connecticut, Spooner Cockrell and Pettus Named by President Pro Tempore
 to Conduct Inquiry.

Washington, Feb. 1.-In the Senate to- day MT Deitrich of Nebraska made a re- quest for an investigation into charges on which he was tried recently by a fed eral court in his own State and the Senate granted the request, the president pro tempore appointing committee consist ing of Messrs, Hoar, Platt of Connecticut, Spooner, Cockrell and Pettus to make the inquiry.
 The latter part of the day was devoted to an argument by Mir. Morgan in sssS- port of the resolution introduced by MT. Stone directing the Senate committee on foreign relations to make an investiga- tion into the Panama revolution. MT. Nor gan again criticised the conduct of M Bunau-Varilla in connection with the re. volt and spoke of the treaty as a conces- ! sion to the commercial spirit of the age. He closed with the declaration that the South would not support the agreement | at the expense of the honor of the coun- l try
 MT. Morgan took the floor in support of his resolution calling on the attorney general to report whether be has made on behalf of the United States a purchase of the New Panama Canal Company of any property rights that were granted to the republic of Colombia by N. B. Wise, etc. Mir Morgan reviewed the expendi- lures that were made by the old canal company and the wreeking of that com. pany,
 ''Buless the facts have been greatly nisstated," he sAig "Bunau-Varilia, the present minister to the United States from Panama, was one of the chief movers in wrecking that company"
 The present minister from Panama was able light. sAt | Mir. Morgan declared that there is a spirit of political domination toward the minority in the Senate which regards as Iese majestic any effort to secure informa- tion as to the Presidents part in affairs in which the Senate IS interested. Under the circumstances he could not bind him self to a contract to be filled out by the Panama Canal Company as under the terms of article XXI of the treaty that company would have the right to. On that article MT. Morgan asserted there is no limit to the amount to be paid to the Icompany.
 Mir. Morgan asserted that Panama could have no choice but do the will of the canal company. This could not, how ever, explain the voluntary act of the United States in tieing It's own hands in the interest of the company. In this con- nection he discussed the part played by the Republic of Franco in the Panama negotiations, saying that the United States had made, in Article 22, a surrender nto fraud and iniqulty and that it had done so under pressure from France
 Discussing the terms of the treaty Mir Morgan declared that in effect it had been made between the United States and the canal company and he said the com pany ''eould afford to pay Panama Slo., OOO'cOo of her winnings in game which was without equal in depravlty.'' | Mir. Morgan traced the connection of NJ, Bunau-Varilla with the Panama revolu- ton and declared that according to his omn showing Bunau-Varilla should be pronounced persona noE grata in the United States. He asserts that if a mem- Der of Congress were guilty of such con lduct as BunauVarilla had been guilty Of, he would be made the subject of con dign punishement." He asserted that the new Panama Canal Company had neveS done an honest days work on the canal and declared that the intrusion of that
 company in the controversy was offensive and intolerahle.
 About this treaty" he went on, 'there
 Is an atmosphere of degradation aga,.sf
 which the people will revolt"
 MT Morgan closed with a reference to
 his long advocacy of an isthmian canal