Arizona republican., 1904-01-27
That Is All the Democratic
 Senators Have
BOUND TO THE TREATY
They Think That Things That Have Happened on the fsthmus Should Not Have Happened, But They Are Afraid to Say So.

Washington, Jan. 26.-The time Of the senate today was again divided be tween consideration of the Panama question and other subjects There WAS only one speech on the canal question and it was made by MT. Stone or Mis- souri. who spoke to the resolution d. recting the senate committee on for eign relations to make an inveti.;atior into the Panama revolt. He contended that the circumstances indicated com pliclty on the parI of the United States in the secession of Panama and ne urged that in the interest Of the country's good name all the faci:: ShoGld be known.
 MT Hepburn. of Idaho. made hls | first speech in the senate in support uf a resolution introduced liy himself. prohibiting railroad companies froiu taking up land in a solid body in lieu of land in forest reservations. A num- her of bills were passed, including one for a memorial bridge across the pO- tnmac river at Washington.
 Mir. Stone of Missouri offered a sub ;ititute for his resolution directing The, rommIttee on foreign relations. t.' fnake inquiry into the facts relating 70 lfhe revolution in Panama. This was in accordance with the decision Of ths democratic senatorial caucls of laAt | Saturday.
 The substitute was as follows: That the committee on foreign relations Is hereby instructed to investigate anl ascertain whether Bunau- Varilla anG other persons residing in the United States and subject to our laws, did aid ur promote an insurrection in Panama against the republic of Colombia, and did give assurance to citizens Of Pan ana and did have the aid and assist ance of our navy in behalf of such in- surrection, and did any officials of any department of this government dis close or make known to the said Blu nuu- Vanilla, or to any other person, the action of the government of the United States designed or proposed to take in event of an insurrection."
 MT. Stone did not discuss the merits of the canal treaty, but made an ap- peal for a searching investigation. He would vote for the treaty in the in terest of the canal He fancied that the presidents attitude would be grat- flying to Calhoun and Jefferson Davis if they were living and said that no republican orator could hereafter be justified in waving the bloody shirt. after President Roosevelt's utterances in connection with Panama.
 MT. Stone did not discuss the merits Of the canal treaty, but he made an appeal for a searching Investigation. He said that he did not shut his eyes | to the fact that our interference in Panama had q suspicious and sinister | appearance. He did not charge inten- tiOnai wrong, but he attributed our course to the presidents "volcanic na- ture and the tendency of his life for the tragic, lurid and sensational" He said the president had boldly announc- ed |" in the clustering diction of the buccaneer' his intention to siege the Isthmus of Panama, if Colombia did not raitfy the Hay-Herran treaty, and he added that he had done this without disguise or shame. If the president , was willing to foster revolt, he must have been willing 10 uphold 1t. IIencc he (Stone) was unable to understand why the president should be so sensi. tive over the charges of cOmplicity.
 Mir. Stone made it plain that ht would vote for the treaty in the in. terest of the canal. He sharply criti cized Bunau-Varilla and said he haC
 been instrumental in bringing aboU
 the revolution.
 MT. Spooner defended the admins
 tratiOn against what he termed wert . misrepresentations of opposing sena
 tors. He claimed that Panama neve
 had been a legitimate part of Colombi; and that she would have achieved he
 independence fifty years ago, but fo
 the interference of the United state
 to protect isthmian transit.