The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24
CAUCUS OF ! DEMOCRATS No Decision as to Panama
 Treaty. ONE EAINST WATERWAY Teller of Colorado Alone Op-
 poses a Canal. Resoution Adopted Which Seeks to dotain from the President Everything in Connection with Recent Revolution.
 
ONE AANST WATERWAY
Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building,


 The Democrats of the Senate held most interesting caucus for three hours today, but failed to reach determine tion as to the party policy regarding the Panama canal treaty.
 Two resolutions were dopted, one calling on the President to send to the Senate each and every fact connected with the beginning of the Panama revolution, and our conduct after it began up to the pres ent time This resolution also seeks to empower the Senate to make inquiry and ascertain what tefegrams and cablegranis Minister Buna-Varilla sent to Paris and to Panama. giving evidence of assurance on the part of our government in support of the revolution.
 It developed in the caucus that a prompt and complete answer by the President to the terms of this resolution will avert Democratic opposition to the treaty.
 The other resolution adopted by the cau- GUS instructs the Committee on Foreign Affairs to make a most thorough tnvesti- gation and report to the Senate relative to our conduct touching the revolution; it also provides for a Committee to sug- gest plan for the adjustment of all the differences between Panama and Colom- hia, so as to make way for the construc- tion of a canal with all parties concerned satisfactorily compensated. It was developed Tn the caucus that this government has already entered Into a trade with Colombia, the papers relating to. the trade having been furnished in- formally by the State Department
 These papers confirm in every detail the story printed exclusively in The Adver- tiser telling the deal by which Colombia is to sell us a quit claim deed to all her interests in the canal strip for $10,000 900. The oflly.-new fact brought out today concerning this solution of the difficulty with Colombia is that Colombia promises to use this money n eensgrlietlne asraii- road from Hceyta te the ,canal teftl1ifiuS. Tlse Democrats in the caucus were more strongly than ever of the oplpion. sths4 this pufchase of Colofnbia's interest will settle tho whole affair anaicabiv. The Democrats hate undoubtedly forced the administration to recognitiou of Colom- bias right and to consider the proposftion of eompensatIng her for the loss of her property. Every Democrat in the caucus spoke earnestly in favor of a canal eX- sept Senator Teller of Colorado.
 President E. s. Peters of the Cotton Growers Association, had an interesting conference today with Secretary Wilson regarding the work of the experts of the Department in the boil weevi1 crusade. MT. Wilson stated that the bureau of ,en- tomology was getting fast organized for the fight with the pest and already six teen new experts had been added to the force which has already been in the field
 Mir. Wilson said he expected to visit Texas as soon as the work of the bureau was we'll under way.
 The Secretary urged that the press of the South ought to convey the informa- tioh that the experts in chronological work were now and would in the future be in great demand. and that 1t presented an excellent field of usefulness for intelli- gent voting men of the South. .-.
 Mfr. Wilson said that the construction of the Panama canal would double the value of farm property in Texas and indeed. the entire cotton belt of the Gulf States would be the chief beneficiary of the great isthmian enterprise.