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he amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty, he urged that the United States should ignore the objectionable features of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and proceed with the construction of the canal without further negotiation with Great Britain. The Nicaragua Cation effectual by giving material aid to the building of the canal, and secure our government against loss. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty, our treaty with Nicaragua, concluded Aug. 21, 1867, and her treaty of Feb. 11, 1860, with Great Britain, upon whi by Great Britain, and we could only interpose an argument upon the Monroe doctrine, as it was emasculated by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, if we stood simply on our treaty relations for the measure of our rights. But we are solemnly warned and assurreignty over the territory occupied by the canal, we seemed to shrink front that opportunity, as the ghost of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty seemed to rise from its forgotten grave to warn us of danger. After that, it ill becomes us to say that we will h
emonstrated the fact that no other than a lock canal can be built and maintained across the Isthmus of Darien at any cost that the commerce of the world would be able to bear, as the basis of toll charges. The abandonment of the effort to change the plan of the Panama Canal from a sealevel waterway to a canal with locks (for the amount of water at the highest level has settled that problem as being beyond the reach of successful solution) has verified the assurances of Mr. Menocal and Admiral Ammen, given to the congress at Paris, that the work was impracticable. If the canal was built with locks and if it could be supplied with water by steam pumping, according to the last desperate alternative suggested by the company's engineers when the sea-level plan was abandoned, the future use of the canal would be embarrassed with the other insurmountable difficulties thus graphically presented by Mr. Eads in his testimony before the House select committee, on the same hearing (Mis. Do
enterprise; and after Great Britain rejected (March, 1901) the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty, he urged that the United States should ignore the objectionable features of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and proceed with the construction of the canal without further negotiation with Great Britain. The Nicaragua Canal. The following is Senator Morgan's argument in favor of extending the aid of the federal government to the construction of the Nicaragua Canal: In the testimony of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, given before the select committee of the House of Representatives, March 8, 1880 (Mis. Doc. No. 16, Forty-Fourth Congress, third session), he said: There were fourteen projects of canals presented at the Paris congress, but the interest had entirely centred in the Nicaragua and Panama routes. . . . If it were determined to build a lock canal, and if there could not be a canal between the two oceans, except a lock canal, then there was no doubt that the Nicaragua route was the b
ment in favor of extending the aid of the federal government to the construction of the Nicaragua Canal: In the testimony of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, given before the select committee of the House of Representatives, March 8, 1880 (Mis. Doc. No. 16, Forty-Fourth Congress, third session), he said: There were fourteen projects of canals presented at the Paris congress, but the interest had entirely centred in the Nicaragua and Panama routes. . . . If it were determined to build a lock hen the sea-level plan was abandoned, the future use of the canal would be embarrassed with the other insurmountable difficulties thus graphically presented by Mr. Eads in his testimony before the House select committee, on the same hearing (Mis. Doc. 10). Mr. Eads says: Any one who contemplates the depth of the proposed cut through the several miles of the Cordilleras, and thinks of the frightful rains and tempests which prevail during six months of the year, can form some faint concept
President Hayes, where he said that this must be an American canal, under American control. The concessions made by Nicaragua and Costa Rica are in line with this declaration, and make it even more specific by the opportunity given to the Unitedle, States, and federal government of the United States. No nation has the right, in view of the concessions made by Nicaragua and Costa Rica to our citizens, and of our legislation to aid and perfect those rights, to say to us that we shall not honor and integrity of the United States. Then, recent history would condemn us in the eyes of all nations, for, when Nicaragua tendered to us almost the full measure of sovereignty over the territory occupied by the canal, we seemed to shrink frohe people who have money will build this canal, if no government takes it in hand. But some other government besides Nicaragua or Costa Rica will build and control it. The people of Europe built the Suez Canal when the profits of such an investme
when the sea-level plan was abandoned, the future use of the canal would be embarrassed with the other insurmountable difficulties thus graphically presented by Mr. Eads in his testimony before the House select committee, on the same hearing (Mis. Doc. 10). Mr. Eads says: Any one who contemplates the depth of the proposed Mr. Eads says: Any one who contemplates the depth of the proposed cut through the several miles of the Cordilleras, and thinks of the frightful rains and tempests which prevail during six months of the year, can form some faint conception, perhaps, of the amount of material which would be washed down the side of this immense cut, as well as from all other parts of the canal, and which must be cotatements equally worthy of credit show that no work in that locality could be maintained against the destructive floods which would suddenly rush through, what Mr. Eads describes as, the narrow and tortuous stream which Count de Lesseps proposes to locate at the bottom of an artificial caƱon to be cut through the Cordilleras at
Morgan, John Tyler 1824- Statesman; born in Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; removed to Alabama when nine years of age; received an academic education; was admitted to the bar in 1845; and practised till the beginning of the Civil War, when he enteexation bill, President McKinley appointed him one of the commissioners to prepare a system of government for the John Tyler Morgan. islands. For several years Senator Morgan has been especially conspicuous because of his forceful advocacy of theSenator Morgan has been especially conspicuous because of his forceful advocacy of the construction of an interoceanic canal on the Nicaraguan route by the United States. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, he early demanded the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty (q. v.), contending that the canal should construction of the canal without further negotiation with Great Britain. The Nicaragua Canal. The following is Senator Morgan's argument in favor of extending the aid of the federal government to the construction of the Nicaragua Canal: I
government for the John Tyler Morgan. islands. For several years Senator Morgan has been especially conspicuous because of his forceful advocacy of the construction of an interoceanic canal on the Nicaraguan route by the United States. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, he early demanded the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty (q. v.), contending that the canal should be wholly an American enterprise; and after Great Britain rejected (March, 1901) the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty, he urged that the United States should ignore the objectionable features of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and proceed with the construction of the canal without further negotiation with Great Britain. The Nicaragua Canal. The following is Senator Morgan's argument in favor of extending the aid of the federal government to the construction of the Nicaragua Canal: In the testimony of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, given before the select committee of the House of Repre
1824- Statesman; born in Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; removed to Alabama when nine years of age; received an academic education; was admitted to the bar in 1845; and practised till the beginning of the Civil War, when he entered the Confederate Army as a private. Subsequently he raised the 5th Alabama Regiment, became its colonel, and was commissioned a brigadier-general in 1863. After the war he resumed practice at Selma, Ala. In 1876 he was elected to the United States Senate, and in 1882, 1888, 1894, and 1900 was re-elected. In 1892 President Harrison appointed him one of the American arbitrators in the Bering Sea Court of Arbitration, and in 1898, after the passage of the Hawaiian annexation bill, President McKinley appointed him one of the commissioners to prepare a system of government for the John Tyler Morgan. islands. For several years Senator Morgan has been especially conspicuous because of his forceful advocacy of the construction of an interoceanic canal on the
y, he urged that the United States should ignore the objectionable features of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and proceed with the construction of the canal without further negotiation with Great Britain. The Nicaragua Canal. The following is Senator Morgan's argument in favor of extending the aid of the federal government to the construction of the Nicaragua Canal: In the testimony of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, given before the select committee of the House of Representatives, March 8, 1880 (Mis. Doc. No. 16, Forty-Fourth Congress, third session), he said: There were fourteen projects of canals presented at the Paris congress, but the interest had entirely centred in the Nicaragua and Panama routes. . . . If it were determined to build a lock canal, and if there could not be a canal between the two oceans, except a lock canal, then there was no doubt that the Nicaragua route was the best route. The Panama Canal Company, after years of exhaustive effort, and the expendit
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