Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
SUFFERING FROM COLD SENT TO COMMITTEE
Poor in New York City in Resolutions to Investigate the
Distress. Post Office Department
THE POLICE KEPT BUSY PANAMA QUESTION UP
RESPONDING TO CALLS ATTI-
uNFoRrUNArEs tube ADMINISTRATION.
FROM Many Food Bill Debated by
Easto of the House.
Resolutions to Investigate the
Post Office Department.
PANAMA QUESTION UP
NIB. QUARLEs SUPPORTS ATTI-
tube OF ADMINISTRATION.
Discusses the German Resolution
Pure Food Bill Debated by
the House.

The Senate began it's session today by
passing the House bill providing for the
appointment of customs appraisers a,
Pittsburg. Pa.
The following bills also were passed:
Granting lands to the state Of Mfnnesots
for forestry purposes
Affording relief to settlers on public lands
in Sherman county. Ore, which had beer
granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
Granting land to the state of North Da-
kota to aid In the maintenance of a school,
of forestry.
Providing for the payment of a claim
Of the state of Vermont.
Amending the law regulating the prac-
tice of dentistry in the District of Columbia
Providing for the establishment of life
saving station In the vicinity of Cape Flat
terry rocks. state of Washington.
Granting lands in MiSSoula county, Mont.
for observatory purposes to the university
of that state.
The Senate then took up and adopted the
motion Of Mr.. Lodge to refer the Post Of
flee Department inveStiga ion resolutions
to the committee post Offices The ac-
ton was taken without further debate.
Mr.. Quarles Speaks on Panama.
The German Panama resolution was laid
before the Senate, and Mr.. Quarles took the
floor. He contended that up TO the time oil
the recognition of the independence of Pan
anna the United States had done nothing
beyond sending our warship to the har-
bors of Panama and Colon.
Mr.. Quarles also commended that when the
United States extended it's recognition the
Panama government had the support of the
entire population of the isthmus. He de-
Tended the President against the charge
Of undue haste and against the charge that
he had been derelict in his duty in failing to
open the way under the Spooner act to the
construction of the Nicaragua canal when
he did not succeed in his negotiation with
Colombia for canal at Panama. He said
on the latter point that there was no in
tervening time between the failure in Bo-
gotta and the converting of the American
Congress.
Discussing the treaty of 1916. Mr.. Quarles
argued that it guaranteed right of way
to the United States across the isthmus
whenever this country might desire to avail
itself of the privilege. He contended that
the grant applies to all methods of transit
that the treaty binds the United States to
protect Colombia against civil strife
within her own borders. saying that Co.
1omb1a Is contending for nothing less,
and that some democrats had shown a
disposition to yield the point.
In response to question from Mr.. Full
ton Mr. Quarles said it necessarily fol-
lows that the obligations of the treaty
remain uninpaired. but are transferred
from Colombia to Panama The treaty
attaches to the land. he said, and we are
bound to Panama to protect that country
even against Colombia, which is now a
foreign power.