Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1903 — MORGAN IS OBDURATE. [ARTICLE]

MORGAN IS OBDURATE.

Refuses to Permit Senate to Vote on Panama Treaty. Washington dispatch: A determined effort on the part of Senator Cullom, to obtain Senator Morgan’s consent to fix a time for voting on. the Panama canal treaty was made while the senate was in executive session, and was met .by determined opposition on the part, of the Alabama senator. “I think,” said Mr. Cullom, “the senator is making a great mistake.

The whole country recognizes his great services.of the last twenty years in ‘the interest of a cknal connscttng the two oceans. Indeed, he may bo called the father of the isthmian canal, but it certainly would seem that by his present opposition to the Panama treaty he is strangling his own offspring.” To this Senator Morgan replied with spirit. He said that his Interest in a canal is now as great as it ever was, that be felt he owed it to himself and the country to exert himself to the utmost to prevent the ratification of a treaty which he felt to be so full of defects. He then complained of the refusal of the senate to allow him to discuss the treaty in open session, declaring that the country ought to know just what it was going into. Most senators believed that the refusal to fix a time for a vote means that the treaty cannot be ratified before the close of the present session.