| Show SENATOR TURPJB COMPLETES HIS 5 SPEECH AGAINST ITt IT-t Perkins Favored itrThe Completion Tf it win Dr1ng tIle Markets of the World jTea Thousand Miles Nearer < o California Washington K Ci Dec 19 Practically Practi-cally all of the tlmepf the Senate was occupied today fcy speeches on the Nicaraguan canal bilL Mr Turpie Dem of Indiana who has been speaking dally since Monday com ipleted his speech against the bill Senator Perkins of California favored fa-vored the building of the canal and pointed out the benefits which he thought would accrue from its con structlon He supported the measure with much earnestness Mr Cullom referred to the great expense ex-pense of the citizens of Qhicago in building the drainage and ship canal to the Mississippi and paid a tribute to that city for its enterprise Would this government he said stop halfway half-way and leave our progressive people withonly half the world open to their trade Let us make a new vow and declare that for the purpose of American Amer-ican ira < Je arid commerce nopent up JJtica contracts our powers but the whole boundless continent is ours fr PerkIns Rep of California secured se-cured the floorfor thirty minutes to speak on the canal He said This Nicaraguan canal will pay as an exhibition of American enterprise of American skill and forethought and of American nerve It will pay because be-cause it must receive the commendation commenda-tion of the world as it will show there was a great question to foe considered con-sidered great work to be done after the consideration was concluded and there was a great people to carry it into effect Speaking of the benefits to California Califor-nia he said Tlie completion of this canal will bring the markets of Europe 10000 miles nearer to California and shorten the distance in the same ratio to our home markets that stand ready at a price to take all the fruits nuts and wine that we can send them Before Mr Perkins had concluded the thirty minutes yielded to him by Mr Turpie expired and the latter refused re-fused to extend it Senator Turpie made a critical analysis analy-sis of the various provisions of the bill Finally Mr Turpie having tem morarilv taken his seat Mr Morsran 1 Intimated that he desired Mr Perkins who he said had been interrupted by the senator from Indiana Turpie during I dur-ing his speech be allowed to finish his remarks Mr Turpie however declared de-clared that he had not yielded the floor and the chair so ruled Thereupon There-upon Mr Turpie explained that he had not interrupted the senator from California Cali-fornia He had surrendered the floor Ito I-to Mr Cullom who desired to leave the city and while the latter was speaking he gave to Mr Perkins the I j time he desired He declared he had i no disposition to interrupt any senator sena-tor on the floor and had never done so Just before concluding his speech Mr Tuipie offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute to the pending i bill providing for the appointment of j a board of three engineers to make a survey and estimate of the cost of the I construction of the canal before any j bonds are guaranteed and this he de Glared was as far as Congress ought I to go this session Mr Perkins then finished his speech I and at its conclusion Senator Morgan gave notice that he intended to reply to the remarks of the senator from Indiana Turpie After a short executive execu-tive session the Senate adjourned |
