The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-05
MESSAGE NOT SATISFACTORY German and Others Not
 Convinced. THE MARYLAND MANTALKS Declares President Has Avoid4
 ed Main Issre. Senators Bacon of Georgia and Cars mack of Tennesse Not Recon
 ciied to the Treaty by
 the Messsage.
THE MARYLAND MANTALKs'
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Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building.
 Washington, Jan. 1.
 President Rooseveits canal messaes has had the effect of stiftening and h. tensifying the opposition to the ratiflca- ton of the Loomis-variila treaty. It ia distinct disappointment to those South ern senators who were anxious to find Justification in supporting the treaty. Even Senator Bacon of eGorgia. whom The Atlanta Constitution recently con. graduated for a prospective vote for the treaty. said to-day after the reading of the message. that it called for opposition of the proposed treaty.
 The message" said the Georgia sena- tor, "omits the most pertinent and inn- iortant fact in the Panama transaction. and that Is the armed power of the Unit. ed States was used to prevent Colombia from asserting her authority in Panama to prevent her revolution. Without that fact 1t Is the play of Hamlet with Hau,- let left out"
 Senator Carmack was emph&tic. He said: "The Presidents message is the most finlsy and dishonest piece of req soning ever issued from the White House. The sophistries are so thin as to he perfectly transparent, and do not even for a moment conceal the truth. The Presidents assumption that the provis- ions of the Spooner act. that upon faiir ure to secure the treaty with CoIcmbia we should go to Nicaragua. has been compiled with by using the armed forces of the United States wrest a piece of ter ritory from Colombia, Is the most amaze ing argument ever heard. 'The law plainly contemplated and did expressly provide that the right to cons struct the Panama canal wac to be nl@ tained by treaty with Colombia and fe was never Intended to authorize hln O despoil that country of paecs ek hee territory and make treaty with the frnexaesif ssst
 s.A As ss matter of fact the message Ana she ofiicial corrSsr0ndenc4 of Secretary Hay shows that the President naver ti- tended at any time or at any eircuin- stance to obey the plain mandate of the Spooner act"
 German Not satiAed. Senator German. who grants fewer in teryiews than any other Senator. thus ex- pressed himself to your correspondent to- night in the first utterance he has given to the press on the Presidents message:
 ''The message is thoroughly unsatis- factory. MT. Roosevelt's treatment Of the spooner law does not by any means convince me that he has done all re- quIred of him. l am not opposed to the Panama canal nor am especially in favor of 1t. want a canal dug just as be- lieve great majority of the American people are anxious for an inter-oceanic canal. If the Panama canal can be had with honor let that route be chosen. but I do not propose that the President Of the United States shall in a dogmatic way decide for himself whether he will not obey the provisions of the law. which Congress enacted after many wears Of diss cusion and after months debate.
 "The Spooner law provides that if the President Is unable to obtain satisfactory title to the Panama Canal Company's property and control of necessary terri- tory of the Republic of Colombia. then after reasonable time he shall endeavor to provide for canal by the Nicaragua rounte. I quote the law as the President states in his message today: but later he says it is no longer possible under exist ing Legislation to go to the Nicaraguan route as an alternative. &
 That is the very point on which take issue with the President. Why is 1t no longer possible to go the Nicaraguan ruote? Has he ever tried to do so? After he failed to get the Panama route from Colombia, did he ever make any effort az to Nicaragua and Costa Rlca? The law made 1t mandatory upon him. What we want is full and complete information on all that he has done and what he has left undone. Until we get that informa tion the pending canal treaty will not be ratified.'
 New Alabama Banks. The Comptroller of Currency has ap- proved the application for the organlza- ton of First National Bank of CuIlman. IRar r,fk kon G ' aakh M. H. Leeth, o. M. Fisher. P. R. Park or. R. J. York. Note is made of the or- ganization of the Selma National Bank. capital $150.0O0; John Caraway Presidents R. P. Anderson. Cashier.
 Only Texas and Kentucky of the South ern States exceed Alabama fin the amount of new capital invested in national banks. In proportion to population the Southern States show a most decided lead in both ] number and total of capital invested. The Hay Resolution. Speaking after the meeting of the House today of the Hay resolution to investi- gate the charges of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow that mem- bers of Congress had violated the law in obtaining contracts through Beavers. former chief of the salaries and allow ance division. Representative Williams of Mississippi said: "If, as has been sug- Gested. any Democrat should he liable for violation of the law in this matter. will unhesitatingly move for his expulsion from the House.
 Alabamians Missing. Alabama's delegation was partly re- ! gpopsibls for the absence of a quorum 1t the meeting of the House today. the seats \ of Messrs. Wiley. Bankhead and Thcmp- son being vacant. There was for once as many Democrats as Republicans pres ent. seevnty-eight on each side. as a yea and nay votet showed. This made to- | tai of l6. and disclosed the absence of an even hundred members. There were nus | merous requests for leaves of absence read at the clerks desk from various members. So many absent after the hol- idays have not been noted for many years, ...-,-. A