The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
Patterson Thinks Roosevelt Was
 Mentally Exalted
COMPARES HIM ID DOWIE
PIatt Asserts That All These Assaults on the President, Some of Them Brutal, Are Mystery
 to Him.

Washington, January 20.-Mr. Patterson today completed and MT. Platt of Connec- lieut. began speech on the Panama canal question:
 Mir Patterson declared that the Presi- dent was largely responsible for the revolt in Panama, and announced his decided preference for the Nicaraguan route.
 MT. Platt took this pronouncement for Nicaragua as the text of his remarks, saying it explained the mystery of the otherwise unexplainable opposition on the part of the democratic senators of the Panama treaty. At the beginning of it's session, the senate took up the resolution for the adoption of a clerk in the senate postoffce.
 MT Hale objected to immediate consid- eration, saying that too many increases were being made In the clerical force of the senate. At MT. Hale's request the resolution went over
 Petitions for Service Pension Bill.
 Mr CuIiom presented a number of peti- tions for service pension bill, saying that he had received such petitions from almost every G. A. R. post in Illinois, and that he hoped they would have the at tention of the senate.
 Mr Patterson then continued his ad- dres on the Panama canal question: MT. Patterson undertook to show that Pres- ident Rosevelts claims that his course in Panama was in the line with the poll cies of the preceding administration was unfounded.
 Referring to the Presidents declar- ing that what had been done in Pana- ma had been done as the candidate or civilization MT. Patterson quoted With ap- proval a statement by MT. Spooner to the effect that that was new phase, addlns that 1t was a new phase. and the man tet have been 1n a state of mental exaltation at the time, as oth- CTS have been on other occasions. Mahohn- ct. Joe Smith and Dowie have moved in such exalted spheres that they imagln- ed themselves as vice regents Of the Al mighty, and 1t may be that the Fresioehl moves in the same sphere.
 Colombia Acted in Good Faith.
 Mir Patterson entered into an 7i- ment intended to demonstrate that Co- lombia had acted in good falth III re, iecting the Hay-Herran treaty. He said rolombia had a perfect right to reject inc treaty. and declared that it's rejection could be traced to the deliberate threat of the United States
 He arraigned the President for failing TO carry the Spooner law into effect ana ne declared that the President had poldiy announced his intention to steal fanania' or take it by sheer force.
 Mr Patterson referred to the portion Inf the Presidents message of January ,n which he stated that it had been the intention If Colombia did not accept our erns. to submit to congress "the pro- priety of direct arrangement with Fan ama. or take up other steps that might De needed in order to begin the canal enter prise"
 such a proposition, MT. Patterson de- clared. would have been an insult to the dignity and honesty of congress. He re- peated the charge that the President s mind was known in Panama and asserted that his course was pure cold-ploooed participation with the rebels
 Mir Patterson having quoted certain newspaper reports, MT. Aldrich interrupt ed that the statements were newspaper reports"
 Defends Newspaper Reports.
 MT. Patterson replied that he had ob- served that certain newspaper reports concerning the affairs of the administra- ton are promptly contradicted. AS an instance, he cited the denial of the report that the President had said concerning a certain attitude toward the presiden- tial nomination, that he would either have to fish or cut bait
 MT. Patterson asserted that MT. Bunau- Varjlla had come to Washington to lobby the canal measure through for the Pan anna Caral company, and declared that T.. anna since 1886. He charged that the eff fort to displace the Nicaragua canal with the Panama canal, was in the interest of those who want no canal at all, and at the worst, one which would give the feast competition to the trans-continontal railroads He believed the Nicaragua ca nal could be completed in fifteen years less time than the Panama canal. He, therefore. would vote against the ratifi- cation of the treaty.
 MT. Patterson was followed by MT. Platt, Connecticut. who said the assaults on the President had been mystery to him. Often these attacks had been in decent English but some of them had been brutal MT. Patterson's speech, how ever, had relieved the attacks of their mystery for he and MT. Carmack had shown that the purpose was to force the construction of the canal via the Nica- ragua route. rather than the Panama route, the former being the route of the democratic party.
 Independence Recognized.
 MT. Platt declaret that the democrats lost sight of the fs that Panama's in- dependence was ablished fact recog- nized not only by the United States but by all the great nations of the earth and if we had violated international law, so had Great Britain, Germany and France. He invited MT. Patterson to introduce a resolution directing the President to with draw our ships from isthmian waters. He did not believe any senator would invite such a question.
 Going further. MT. Patterson thought we should assist Colombia in again secur- ing control of Panama. He spoke of the United States as the trustee of the com mercial nations of the world, and the agent of civilizations effort to secure an isthmian canal.
 Without MT. Platt completing his speech the senate at 4:05 D. adjourned.