Items of interest March 14, 1901 Issue

Items of Interest

Senator Morgan of Alabama, the most persistent advocate of legislation looking to the construction of the Nicaragua canal, made a speech in the Senate on March 6, on his resolution to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, in which he insisted on the absolute right of the United States to annul the treaty and build the canal without consulting Great Britain. He indulged in fiery language in denouncing the attitude of Great Britain, and prophesied the downfall of the empire if the United States should be provoked to war. The London press made no serious comment on the speech.

The river and harbor appropriation bill which was left to the last hours of Congress, failed to pass because it was overloaded with provisions for some localities where the expenditure of the nation's funds was deemed unjustifiable, and in making up the bill provision could not be made for the enterprises of national importance without satisfying the demands of Senators and Congressmen who wanted some of the government's money spent in their own states or districts, regardless of the utility of the works they proposed to have done.

Statements of the appropriations of the Fifty-sixth Congress have been prepared by Chairman Cannon of the House committee on appropriations, and Representative Livingston, the senior Democratic member of the committee. Both place the total at $1,440,062,545, the appropriations for the first session at $729,911,683. The those for the second at $729,911,683. The total appropriations made by Fifty-fifth Congress was $1,568,212,637, and of the Fifty-fourth Congress, $1,044,580,273.

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