The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-13
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fHOM fAuh dustry. He was one of the best men who ever occupied seat in the Senate of the United States. l can never forget his many personal kindnesses and his gen. erous friendship. Accept my deepest sym pathy in your great sorrow"
 Senator McCreary of Kentucky sent the following telegram: "I sincerely sympa- thize with you in your bereavement. I am filled with sorrow by the death of friend whom l have admired and respect ed many years. The death of Senator Morgan Is a great loss to the Senate and the state of Alabama and our whole country"
 Great Ability.
 The great ability of Senator Morgan was recignized by the leading men of both parties. His great work was the move ment which he lead for the construction of an interoceanic canal across the isth- mus, but he also took a prominent part in all discussions of foreign affairs and his deep knowledge of the law and of the constitution made him authority on these subjects. Senator Morgan was es- pecially conspicuous because of his force- ful advocacy of the construction of an interoceanlc canal over the Nicaragua route and as chairman of the Senate committee on interoceanic canals he early utIlldnucu the aDIOSdllOH LII llt 1ldJ lOIl- Bulwer treaty, contending that the canal should be an American enterprise. and after Great Britain in March, 1901, re- jected the amended Hay-Pauncefoot treaty, he urged that the United States should proceed with the construction of the canal without further negotiations with Great Britain.
 Views on Canal.
 The late Senator Cushman K Davis by opposing the ratification of the Hay Pauncefoot treaty, left to the United States an opportunity of demanding the exclusive control of the canal For the right of ownership and of control, Sen ator Morgan was prepared to go to war with Great Britain. For time 1t seemed as though the situation between the two great powers might become strained.
 Senator Morgans work in behalf of an inter-oceanic canal was the work of al-- most a lifetime. He did more than any other one man to develop sentiment in Congress to the point where the decision was finally reached by the government to build the canal itself. His various re- ports and speeches on the Panama and Nicaragua canal projects are alone monument to his ability, industry and wisdom No man in Congress or out of it for that matter, knew as much about all the complex international legal, en- gineering. sanitary and meteorological phases of the various canal projects com bined as Senator Morgan. His speeches fill page after page In the record and all of these were carefully delivered by him from written manucripts. In the preparation of his speeches and reports he did not resort much to the use of the typewriter.
 Days on Speeches.
 
 was accustomed to write them out in long hand. In the preparation of them he would spend days and nights at time in the lirary of his Washington home. Then on the day he had set notice for a long speech he would start off with the first section of his manuscript. After reading a half hour or more he would | lift the top of his desk and pull out an- other section of the speeches. Following | that would come still another section un- | til sometimes he spoke an entire after noon. or for several hours.
 In addition to writing all of his speeches | he wrote a great many letters by long | hand to correspondents in various parts | of the world He had marvellous facul- l ty for assembling information. What he l could not find in the inner recesses or his wonderful mental store house Of knowl- l edge he could always locate in his library | or in some other part of the world 1 Senator Morgan lived in Washington in | a stately old brown stone three-story | mansion. in John Marshall Place, just | south of the famous old city hall buiid- | ing, In the days that he first went there to live it was fashionable part of She | city and for years prior to that the im- mediate neighborhood was the scene of many brilliant social and political gath | erings. Around the corner rom nm lived John c. Fremont, and diagonais across the street from the Metropolitan church. Benton of Missouri died.
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