Show If 1 CANAL MATTERS im ri i BEFORE alE S SENATE EI NA IE 1 Resolution Relating Relating- to Purchase Puri Pur- Pur i chase aase of Supplies Pre Precipitates ip- ip Tariff Debate i i i tt t I SEA LEVEL ILL BILL TAKEN UP f. i Senators Cullom anil j I ai are 10 us Conferees on r t Railroad Rate Hare Hill Bill Bi i- i Washington May a 28 The The sena senate e 1 of ot today's session to lo a aI g 41 most I 4 it discussion lol of Panama canal matters mailers maters r later tr the time Postoffice appropriation bill hI f tS f WIS considered but no final action acton c L taken taleen i. i r The conference on 01 the railroad rate 2 r bill bi aa as 8 a naked asked for b by the time house was I agreed e to lo the senate insisting upon k J ti Its Ith It amendments Elkins CulI Cullom Cul Cul- I lom Jom and filman were named as conI conr con con- 4 5 I r Mr Mx naH Bailey the tho Democratic Jea leader cr that the conferees t expressed time the hope strike from the bill the senate would tom bi Q mil to engage en engage on- on i amendment lm l permitting ways lumber business gage in the S He JIe declared that it ft i went Into the uell fv bill 1111 11 without his detection an and amid he Ito contended con on- on L i ten tended that If I it were permitted to l' l l remain main it would show to the country that congress 8 thought tho ho entire provision pro pro- W r 1 r vision Jion prohibiting ral a railways s 's from froni 1100 eni en engaging en- en i in in other business as a of doubtful doubt doubt- t 1 i ful fut wisdom and ant utility 1 L Dick Resolution Dik L The Die Dick resolution restricting the of ot Panama Panama canal material to tos s American manufacturers unless th the tho i President nt deemed med the bids exorbitant and unreasonable precipitated a tariff debate L 1 Mr r Rayner Md f d. d declared that al although al- al though thought the thC re resolution would benefit l. l Steel which the Maryland company t was tho time lowest American bidder Cl for Cor S two t dredges s red gs he hc could not subscribe to the policy He lie characterized the thc roseI rose irso- I I Julian lution ulon as an attempt t lo to o rob 10 the tw trens- trens and declared that tho the Democratic ury Uy ane larty party would woul be down to Irr irretrievable irre- irre o defeat al l flat and doom oom if IC I it i gave ga J the policy its it support nc Mr ri h Morgan favored the resolution t j i 4 and wanted an amendment amendment requiring 6 4 all nH foreigners to pay a n dut duty of 1 per percent 1 V cent cont on goods shipped Into the canal canali f i p zone TC I Mr Mi 1 Morgan's Morgans om gamis icY ic View Y N He Ho c claimed that the canal could not 11 bo be built buI un under el existing laws charged that the canal commissions commission's authority v v. v l had no no boundaries and amid arll characterized r conditions as the Ithe mockery of ot the world Ho lie wanted th the tho zone J kept elt free Cree from politics and devoted voted entirely to busl- busl 1 ness ne Pointing to lo the differ differ- r r erces at present existing in Panama 1 lie w d declared The United States Is dragged into the time internal affairs of S that country against its is will wi Mr 11 t i the Stone Mo fo was speaking a against I resolution when It was vas laid aside and mul C. C c th sea s level canal bill bi taken up to jh I permit Mr g S. S D 3 p. p to u I pr Q t O jg g J oth ll t v from a a of- of steamship 1 t aI anti seamen's semens semen's organizations urging th the f ra level ev l type tyle a as absolutely necessary y j. j 4 J to safety to ships and to the x lon lion Jon of the nation naton in time of war wm- Fi I Sea Sa Lei Level Leve el Canal He lie le quote quoted authorities To V-c support Ills contention th that l a sea sa level l canal could be ho constructed in ten ton years' years time He lie declared that the tho threatened llama damage o oto to ships would woul be great in a n lock locI canal and that collisions there with wih the gates as in othor other lock canals might tear awa away gates and ruin tho the enire entire He lie lc thou thought ht locks would Impede putting a fleet noet of or warships warships war war- ships shills through in ca case cae e of or hostilities Mr i Ir Dry Dryden don N. N J. J mt interrupted to announce that the fhe members of or the committee favoring tho tim lock hock tp type would woul In tu duo due time show that the authOrities iu- iu presented by Mr Kittredge t L In favor Ol fl of or a a- asea sea level lovel canal were s us- us sus- sus of or t other olic Interpretations The I. I matt matter r then went over The fhe senate b by i resolution evolution l called cled Upon upon upon up Up- on the President for the confidential report of the thc Kee Keep governmental commission com com- mission on ott 01 the crop report I on then tion |