The News & Observer

Morgan Speaks on the Canal.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 5.—After listening to a two hour's speech by Mr. Morgan on the Panama Canal question the Senate today again took up the Postoffice Appropriation bill, but adjourned without completing its consideration.

Some important amendments aside from those suggested by the committee, were agreed to, among them one increasing from two to four ounces the size of franked letters, and another adding twenty-five members of the force of rural free delivery agents.

Mr. Morgan declared that the new Panama Canal Company is only a lessee of the property rights on the Isthmus, and said that when we pay to the government of Panama the $10,000,000 this government will be entitled to deal with the canal company as a tenant.

He criticised in sharp language what he denounced as the surrender of the United States to the new Panama Canal Company, saying that "there is some undisclosed influence at work which has given that company control of all our recent actions in connection with the canal enterprise."

He predicted if there should be delay the new canal company, backed by France, would be responsible for it, and he hinted at the possibility of the company's refusing outright to make a satisfactory sale. He pointed to what he called the delay in making payment to Panama and said that it was in strong contrast with the haste manifested in securing ratification of the Hay-Varilla treaty and argued that this delay was due to the demands of the canal company.

After concluding his speech Mr. Morgan asked for a vote on his resolution, but Mr. Kittredge moved to refer it to the Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals. Mr. Morgan made an appeal for a vote, saying that his only object was to secure information and that he desired to expedite work on the canal.

"I know," he said, "that I am playing a lone hand but I am not afraid to do so, so long as I hold the joker."

The resolution was referred.