rking very hard to convince the Senate of the
importance of settling the Canal question before the Treaty is ratified,
and has at last succeeded.

He has been very clever about it. He announced to the Senate, some days
ago, that in consequence of the amount of business that must be got
through before the end of the session, he was willing to let his bill
stand over till the extra session. He warned the Senate, at the same time,
that when the extra session came, he should fight for his bill with all
his strength, and do his best to have it made into a law.

This looked as though the Senator had made way for the Treaty, and did not
really care so much about his bill being passed before the Treaty was
ratified.

But that was not Mr. Morgan's idea at all.

He withdrew his bill because he did not want to have it hurried through,
and voted on carelessly, and perhaps lost. He withdrew it the more
willingly because he had a nice little scheme in his head, which would
easily prevent the Treaty being passed before the extra session, when he
would again be on hand with his bill.

His plan was this:

He would unearth the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, confront the Senate with that,
and as it deals very directly with matters that concern both arbitration
and the canal, Senator Morgan was sure that it would give the Senate
enough food for discussion to last it through this session of Congress,
without touching the Treaty again.

The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was made between Great Britain and the United
States in 1850.

One part of the treaty stipulates that neither Great Britain nor the
United States shall ever control the Nicaragua Canal, nor build forts
along it.

When this treaty was made, Nicaragua had given the right to build the
canal to an American company. This company did not belong to the
government; it was a mere business undertaking by a business firm.

The company did not build the canal; the work required too much money, and
the affair fell through.

At the present time it is the American Government that proposes to build
the canal, and if the Government is to put in the enormous sums of money
that will be needed, it is only right that the Government shall control
it. Nicaragua is not wealthy enough to build the canal herself, and if we
do not undertake it, some other country will, and it will certainly expect
the control of the canal in return for the money invested.

Senator Morgan asked the Senate to consider the