Show HANNA AGAIN SPEAKS FOR THE PANAMA washington june C soon after the senate convened mr morgan presented a letter from secretary of state hay enclosing copies of letters received by the state department regarding earth bukea and nota in alie department of panama the letters enclosed newspaper clippings describing the earthquakes ibo secretary of that the report of the riots would cover 1000 typewritten pages and the department could not finish it wittily witti ln a month the newspaper which were read df ascribed scribed in detail the destruction done by the earthquake la 1882 the documents were referred to the committee on canala in order that the committee may determine aid mr morgan whether it is necessary for the secretary of cyp montha lie work done on the report ot riota t 11 A joint was passed authorizing the secretary of war to investigate alio feasibility of operating an ocean dredge at alio llio mouth of iho columbia river oregon bills were as follows to ratify a supplemental agreement with the creek indians ratifying alio act of alic territorial legislature af arizona and providing 0 fahd for the erection of additional dit ional buildings for the university of arizona authorizing the trustees of garajo county arizona to refund 13 of its bonded indebtedness at 5 per cent and at largo number of private pension liua at 2 consideration of the nicaragua cancil bill was ed and after a call of the senate at which forty live responded ir nanna continued his lagun yesterday he referred to some comments made by mr buchell of oregon in which the oregon senator had spoken of the advantages of the nicaragua route while alic commission had reported only in favor of the nicaragua route mr aranna said he took exception to the insinuation that this was aranna a commission 1 I consider lie paid I 1 am here to do my duty to my country and when I 1 am placed on an important committee charged with an important duty I 1 am determined to discharge that duty faithfully and conscientiously lie presented an earnest ana vigorous of the isthmian canal commission appointed by mckinley and said eliat he sought to discuss the pending question upon a higher plane than mere personal itice he declared that there was no politics in the problem presented and was certain there were no personalities in it mr bianna the canal situation as pre anted by alie engineers and said the bobio dam had been the bugbear of alic opposition to the panama route engineers who could be relied upon said it was possible in fact said the senator scarcely anything is impossible this day from an engineering point of view if it is necessary the took up the statement of capt merry now united states minister to nicaragua which was in favor of the nicaragua route mr bianna said being on the ground he ought to know but it was found that capt merry was a stockholder in the maritime canal company which would present claims against alie united states if the nicaragua route was chosen merry lie said was not 1 disinterested witness i think he had better attend to ins other duties said mr bianna he also referred to alie testimony of engineer menocal for the nicaragua route who he said was a stockholder in the marij time company |