| Show MAN AftER CANAL N L COMMISSION Criticised Methods of Business And Employment of a press Agent VERY SEVERE ON PRESIDENT ItI Him of rat Being Tricky Ills Compliment lo to and Called Him a Kins ICIng Washington W Dec Dee 15 The Panama canal can was again under consideration by bythe tie the senate today and Mr It Pittman oc occupied occupied the executive time glyen gl to that ct except that he gave cave way ways to questions from or Interruptions by oth er tt senators Ho hu did not Indicate any Intention of or opposition to tho the passage of ot the tho appropriation bill 1111 but hu ho criticized criticized the methods rn of ot the tho canal porn corn arn mission In many of ot Its transactions He lie raised the tho question ns os to whether Is still In the employ of ot the Clover Leaf Lent railroad and said sold that the railway register leister still carried his hu nome name ns 08 the head of ot that road rond He Hn also sharply criticized the tho employment of ot Seey BIshop as ns a press representative tive and Mr It Hale Joined In this censure cen censure sure saying that Mr Ir emna em employment employment c n t In III l n that Unit capacity na 1 Is in a renee reflection re I le c ton tion not only on Congress but on tho thoP P press pressA A tart parl of at Mr remarks was devoted to a criticism of ot the presidents polli polky In Santo Domingo and Mr Ir Sportier Spooner ner defended the course cours When the senate adjourned tho the bill was as still pending but there thero was ryas un an anon a agreement g e t for tOl t on a vote ote tomorrow The I ann inn canal bill was laid be before fore rore the senate wad and Mr 11 Bacon lIncon present presented e ed l nn nil amendment quarterly reports giving lists of ot and em ern emlo I Ilore lo Y s of or the canal commission above aboe Ithe the grade of ot laborer and the salaries paid pall them Mr Ir took the tho th floor Mr Ir Spooner declared that the thc pres president presIdent ident dent has not done anything to carry the treaty trotty Into effect and Insisted upon Mr Me 11 Tillman specifying In reply Mr lilt Tillman reiterated that our was WilD kept In Dominican wa IIa water waters ter tm He said that Mr 1 Spooner was a 1 supple acrobat In the use lisa of or words word Is not our present attitude the same ns as asit It would be If Ir tho the treaty traly had hud been rat ratified ratified 1 asked Mr 11 Tillman and Mr r Spooner replied Not at I all adding that If It the treaty treah had been raU II the th United States would have havo Its It II own revenue agents In III San Domingo whereas the present agents arents were nere there n as the result of ot nn an appointment by President Morales Who Vho suggested their Ih lr appointment Mr asked and Mr Ir 11 Spooner re replied replied plied that tho the president ent of ot the United l Suites had done dono so JO Mr 11 con can contended contended tended that this admission Justified instilled all that ho he said It Is It beating about the tho bush the accomplishment of ot what Is III wanted by lIy trickery It Is ploy play on words to Justify tho the usurpation ho he said enid Mr r Spooner Insisted that there had been no trickery and defended the ac ue action tion of ot the president Trickery was wag tint not nota tinta a nice thing thin to Impute ho he said Bald and anti Mr Ir Interrupted to say that When A man accomplished by b unlawful meth methods methods methods what he ho cannot otherwise accomplish r I call It trickery Mr 11 Spooner responded that the terns term was wan nasty anti and undignified and should not be bo used inert In speaking of ot the head of ot ofa n a co branch of ot tho the govern trent went Mr 11 I ot t tho senator suggest a better bettor then Mr 11 The senators whole hole Ides Idea Id M to HO so wrong wron that It cannot bo be made right Mr Ir then Ihen asked a what excuse the president had hall for not entirely with withdrawing withdrawing drawing from rein San Domingo and leav leaving leavIng leavIng ing tho the situation alone and 1111 Mr Ir Spooner replied that the senate senale should not have havo adjourned without acting on the tho treaty t nty as to ratifying or It ns as the had had hall the tha effect of ot leaving the president In a 1 position 1 of ot embar embarrassment embarrassment It was the duty of or San Han Domingo to maintain the quo tUO to the end of ot other her Teter revenues Tills This win was 18 not easy for tor that republic to do In view of ot tho the Area preS preSsure sure suro from Tur o an nations emphasized sized In one ono case ciso by b the Iho presence of a warship In the taco face till a of this condition President Morales Moral had he ho cold ap up appealed pealed healed to President Roosevelt nail ask asked asked asked ed him In his own helplessness re reo requesting requesting questing especially that he ho suggest some pome honest American for the collection collection tion lion of ot o t revenues agents Il while Americans Americana had been appointed by the tho fl Domingo hi SO government They Thoy were appointed by President Morale Morales and can Mn be bo dismissed by b him he toe said ald and MIl the tho president of ot the United States has dune done do no no more than It was as his duty dul to do doIr Mr DIr Ir Money Mone spoke disparagingly dl of ot tho the presidents l to t participate In the thc affairs of ot Han Sau Domingo without 1 the consent of or t Congress Ho fie expressed Bod apprehension that the end of ot such a I tendency might be ba disastrous In lu view of ot the presidents threat to use the pig big stick Speak softly carry carr a I big bl stick and androu you rou will go fur fin says Ba tho the president raid said Mr 11 Money told I Interpret this expression to tn me mean m that the to h president i m t means Inertial to el vat softly In dealing with the big notions and to use uio a 1 big stick In dealing defIling with the tho weak when ho lie h sets nets aside the law of ot the tho th maul land and aub sub for or It his own Judgment Mr 11 reiterated his declaration that the one pretence Im of ot United States Hates authorities In Santo Sri nto Domingo I was thu limo result of ot It a trick ot of Mr tr Shouts Mr 11 Tillman said ho he hUll understood that Mr 11 Shouts was to resign n as president of or the tho Cloy Clover Clo Cloer er or Leaf road DM DItl nay any one olle know whether I Ir er r he ho had resigned lie He appealed to I Mr air Ir Allison but that senator said ho Ito h did not lIot know Mr said that he had found Mr J it IJ 5 h name In Itt the I Hallway an nH still president of ot thu tho rand rond road Mr little Hale rialto In very cry compliment complimentary ary rry nr terms of ot Mr II Shunts 8 h 11 II expressing the opinion III that his hili selection n w Will was ua n a 1 wise wl e eone one lIe He was vas nn certain that whether or ur not he lie had resigned from the railroad he had given his hla entire time limo to thu the enterprise e Mr Ir Tillman said that he ho was pas out not outgunning gunning for tor Mr 11 Shunts nor for tor any an particular man limn Ho lie had ns IlS he under understood understand stood stand been on the Isthmus but twice and then only for tor n a week at a time since his appointment nI Inn i I Mr 11 them then took toole up lIll the ques question qU question S tion of or Secy BIshops connection with the commission He lie paid said that thud Mr Bishop hol had novel never pone gone one to the thc isthmus and that any 2000 or clerk I could perform his services that would i I I be he ample millo a pity pay even for Cor a n newspaper nell man titan for tor such service lie He characterized Mr r Bishops work as ns a process of hypnotizing public opinion anti expressed tho the opinion that people entirely Innocent it would need no de do fence e and would not be so worried ns IS to employ a n man mutt to defend them theta The press representatives r In Wash ington may any mn be bl dirty and unit disposed to lie Ill ho said and it might aught be bo a n fact that there hind had been an nn organized crusade against the tho canal but hut even If It true he did not believe bellevo that t the method of or de tenso adopted could be Justified Ju and an l I he expressed confidence that If It other methods metho were adopted all the gnats emits I mosquitoes that beclouded the situation would disappear Mr h Hale lIale took occasion to voice olce his own disapproval of ot the commissions employment of or a press agent mind to say any that he ho won was confident that time thu en tire on appropriations foil felt as ns he did on this subject He Ito believed that If It Mr 11 Shunts or Secretary Taft Tatt had been responsible re pon for Mr Bishops s ho he had hind made a mistake Journalism he wont went on Is a great greot estate At times the press is cruelly unjust but hut as a 1 rule iule Its purpose Is IK high and Ind beneficent If It tho time govern government government ment or any part of DC It established a press agency the tho result would bo be n II prejudiced timid and n II selected press and in incase Incase case of or a 1 corrupt administration a hireling press Mr 11 Tillman agreed with Mr r Hale that till tho time commission must rely reI on the tho purity of or Its administration to secure the good wilt will of ot the public rather rath r than that upon paying for far the luxury Mr 11 Culberson proposed nn an amendment amend amendment ment to the bill providing that no part of ot the tho money mone appropriated shall bo be I I o used to pay the tho expenses of ot a n literary bureau or for tor the salary of ot any per person son bon employed to create popular senti sentiment ment In favor of ot the tho canal Proceeding to discuss the tho adverse crit of ot the time Panama railroad management manage management ment Mr rill man provoked protests tram from t Gallinger and Mr Allison llIson the former calling attention to preparations to double track the railroad to relieve the blockade and the latter say Bay Ing fag that more that than halt half of ot the money mone to be appropriated In the tho pending bill Is III to be used for tor Improvements railroad and wharves Mr 1 Tillman asserted ass that the tho Issuance Issuance ance of ot bonds bondi by br the Panama railroad r nil road Is ts Illegal declaring It amounted to an Issue of ot bonds by b the Ilse Panama canal commission lie He declared that the whole holo thing was a 1 and 1111 that tho the railroad and calm cahill I commission are arc one and till the sumo famo so for far farns foras ns liS the actual conditions are ore concerned Mr Mt h Allison said the tho railroad claims the right to bonds by virtus s of or ortho the tho fact tact that It Is In n separate corporation organized under the charter laws of ot Now New York It t would he be easy cosy enough for us to legislate so tint this anomaly would end said Mr Halo but certainly wo we w cannot blame the railroad directors for tor exercising eX tho ho authority that H 14 given them thrum by their charter Hut But they tIey ore BIO executive agents mere mer J Instruments In lu the ha of ot time the president president dent amt tine the ho elected them thorn 1 Mr 11 I a The stockholder said Mr Allison lIl on nut Hut the United States Slates is s the only stockholder The whole thing amounts to nothing more nor 1101 less le 3 than Ihan Increasing ing hug the th public debt of ot the United States State In H a 1 way 1 you all 1111 know Here Mr r Allison Interrupted That may he be though technically Technically rt repented repeated Air Mr Ir Tillman Oh yes jos yo technically I 1 suppose l they were all 1111 right Technically Taft foft was Willi n a king kingIn In time the Philippines but wt wo art are degener degenerating sting far tar away VI from n a in our of or these af nt affairs fairs airs I 1 think I shrill shall use uso a n former of or mine nil tie that limit methods havo hns o been beAn Imported from time the he Philip Philippines pines Of Ot course coarse Tuft Taft has been used usell to t haying having his own way 1111 Mr Tillman argued finally that Con Congress on gress should way Hn whether till 4 debt should created He lie thought time the woo waR w as needed but hut said he did not noti like Ilko the th lh way wn s It wag vas being obtained i lie Ill 1 protested against what he called colled a Do Dominican n or ur Morales way war of ot doing busl bual declaring the whole procedure to hwo havo been heen nn an usurpation of or power Mr Tillman had hod rend a It newspaper publication alleging Importation Into limbo th tha canal zone of or women from Martinique for tor Immoral purposes that a 1 govern government government ment ship marl had been used tl and that ca en canal entail tail nal III In the tho zone matt had sanctioned the transaction Mr 11 Lodge Interrupted to spy fay n that he hlll had considered the thi charge that a ma government vessel had ha been used In a n matter no so monstrous that lie he had hod talked over Oer tho the telephone with tho the secretary of ot war and uld that t official 0 1 1 hall had authorized n him to say s that th t the charge was wars a 11 lie Mr DIr 1 Tillman replied that he lie would be he willing to accept the lima state statement intent ment concerning a mutter matter In iii h regard o which he has bias personal Information but that as nil ho has line not such uch Information in III inthis this case cas he thought there should hould be bo benn benn nn nil Investigation The rhe then agreed to 10 n request preferred by M Mr r Allison that the bill hili should be ho voted upon upun before adjourn adjournment a Went ment tomorrow At tW 40 p I m in the senate went wont Into ox ex session lon adjourning at ut p II pin pIn in |
