Show t QUAYS lAST SGHEf E Move to Couple Statehood Bill With Canal Treaty DETAILS NOT MADE PUBLIC f Understood the Plan is to Menace Men-ace Convention by Delay l fijitiStatehood Senators make No Concealment of Their Surprise at Proceedings I SVashJngton Feb 19Tbero la I a neincnt on nmosig some of the friends > n the Statehood bill In the Senate to ouple the fortunes or that measure Vith those of llii Pnnasnii canal treaty md make I th ratification of Uie one dim di-m 1 t upon the ascaso i of the other fife details of the flan have not come to Ifjht fully but I St Is I understood that the icheme 1010 menace the treaty by de ay null nn agreement to vote on the atit hood bH can be secured Jjjriv runor of Such a purpose was our fnt about Mir t Senate before the c > ciulve ictfiloi began at 1220 today anti ileac l ivho lied heard It merely as a Ujnor wic convinced that It was with = mt fouiiirtton in fact when Instead oC senator Morgan resuming his pccch soon after lc executive swslon began 9 IjjjirMor tuiy addressed thechalr and rant up foiK documents to be l road llo made no explanation beyond saying that the documents would throw light on the subject and he thought that at this time the Senate should be informed ss to the provisions of the constitution constitu-tion of the country with which the United Suites Is doing business This slep on his pat t was taken as a notice that he meant to assist In the opposition to the treaty and It was then recalled that during yettrdays executive execu-tive session and while Senator Morgan was still Fpcaklnif Mr Quay had suggested sug-gested the absence of a quorum thus malcln it easier for the Alabama Senator Sen-ator atorMr Quay took the copy of the Colombian Col-ombian constitution which he asked to have read from quite a large pile of documents which lay 1 on his desk and when he asked to have I road the Republican Re-publican Senators sluing near him Immediately Im-mediately t reached the conclusion that he had united his forces with Senator Morgan and that the step was Intended to force the acceptance of the Statehood State-hood bill Without glvlni voice to such a supjxi Mtion Senator Aldrich objected to the reading of the document by the clerk saying that evidently the proceeding was merely Intended for the purpose of delay Senator Quay replied that It was not hit Intention and he would ask to have nothing read which would not throw light on the subject under consideration considera-tion Senator Morgan also said that so fur ai he was concerned there was no collusion It was then agreed that for the present and until it should become be-come evident that the reading was for delay it should continue The antiStatehood Republican Slut torn made no concealment of their surprise sur-prise at Mr Quays proceeding and all of them who would express an opinion at nil said that the move would not result in the passage of the Statehood bill whatever might be Its effect upon the treaty They did not believe tIt t-It woul1 1 prevent the ratification of the treaty yjefore Mr Quay took the floor Senator Sena-tor Hoar imulu a brief Hpccch in support sup-port of the treaty saying that since the Sooner act had become a law the United States was In honor bound to tfonsurnmate the transaction provided for by that act |