Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-13

been q friend of organized labor, but there
never had been "a more tyrannicai or des-
potic organization on the face of the earth
than that which the Colorado senator Is
champiOhing here now"
The entire matter was then, on Mr.. Pat
terson's motion, referred to the committee
on the judiciary. and the Senate took up
and passed the House bill for the >erad1ca-
ton Of the cotton boil weevil.
The bill for the relief Of the Farmers and
Mechanics National Bank of Philadelphia
also was passed.
The resolutions looking to an investiga-
ton Of the affairs of the Post Office DEPART
ment were Laid before the Senate, but by
unanimous consent went over again until
tomorrow.
Proposed Mediation.
Mr.. Hale offered the following resolution
as the result of the agreement between him.
self and Mr.. Bacon during yesterdays ses-
sion. looking to settlement of the Panama
question:
Whereas. the state of Panama, formerly
part of the republic Of Colombia. has Sc
coded from that republic and has sat up q
government. republican in form. under the
name of the republic of Panama: and.
Whereas. the Independence Of said re-
public Of Panama has been recognized by
the United States and by many other ma
tions and.
Whereas, a treaty Is now pending before
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 Panama
for naturalization or loss OF territory or
increased burden of the debt of said repub-
lie of Colombia. the Presdnt is requested
to tender his best offices toward the peace
full adjustment of all controversies that
have arisen. or may arise. between said re-
public of Colombia and the repubi1c OF
Panama"
The resolution was read and Mr.. Hale
stated that he presented 1t as a substitute
for the Bacon resolution. He asked for the
printing of the document and said that he
would not ask for immediate consideration.
Mr.. Carmack Discusses Partisanship,
The Panama resolution offered by Mr..
German was laid before the Senate and Mr..
Carmack was recognized. He began with a
reference to Mr.. Lodges speech and said he
was always pleased to hear him when he
descends from Boston to earth. That sena-
tor should understand that there should be
limit to even the zeal of an administra-
ton senator, and IL he were less of a parti.
san he would be standing here denounciue
the acts of the President as he would be II
the President were a democrat. He con-
tended that there had been no partisanship
In the attitude of the democratic senators.
On the other hand the republican admins
tration had been guilty Of the worst kind of
partisanship In refusing to execute the
Spooner law. because of the fear that the
opposition would secure an advantage
He advocated the discussion of the Pana-
ma treaty in open Senate, and said that
while he had the utmost respect for the Of
fce of the President, he did not mean to
conceal the excuses OF that office, land
every act of the President in this wretched
Panama business" he went on, has been
I'm violation 0f law 0f ataf nd Int
national law, and of the Constitution of the
United States"
Replies to Mr.. Lodge.
He then discussed at length Mr.. Lodges
defense OF the Presidents right to recog-
nize the independence of other countries,
and spoke of the new fsthmian power as "a
hideous abortion of night and darkness,
misnamed the Panama republic"
He compared the course Of President
Jackson In the Texas case with that of
President Roosevelt in the present instance
and commended the former at the expense
Of the latter. In that case, he said, there
was no recognition until Mexico had aban-
doned the struggle. AS for himself when
his conduct should be questioned he would
point to Andrew Jackson and not to Theo-
dore Roosevelt as his guide, and he had no
doubt of the result.
But even the President had admitted that
he was not following precedents, and that
he was acting under the requirements of
necessity-that necessity, which in this case
as In other cases, knows no law
The President had, he said made 1t plain
that he had never intended to execute the
Nicaragua provisions of the Spooner act.
Never for one moment" he said. did
he consider any plan that had in it so little
of the strenuous and the sensational as the
execution of the law. If instead of peer
ing into the future. as Mr. Loomis tells us
he did, he had peered into the law, he would
have saved the country much trouble"
MI. Carmack commended that President
Roosevelt had not contented himself with
recognition of Panama. but had interviewed
His acts were not simply offensive. not
simply cause of war, but they were war;"
he said.
AS a matter of fact there never was any
insurrection on the isthmus. said Mr.. Car
mack. They speak of the rising" he said,
that one man was the President of the
United States.
Col. Black Criticised,
Discussing the act OF Colonel Black OF the
United States army in raising the first nag
in the Panama republic, the senator criti-
cised him sharply.
I'VE know" he said. what would happen
ii at any other place an officer of the United
States should be found plotting with the
enemies of country with which we were
at peace. He would be subjected to con-
dign punishment. But Colonel Black has
not been condemned. and I do not believe
that he would have engaged in this plot II