The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-18
HERES RICHNESS.
: Word OF Warning irem q
sister Republic.

! Panama, 10. = The United States
steamer Tennessee arrived at Aspinwall
on the 4th, bringing, ss a passenger,
| Ernest Deichman, United minister, resi-
dent in Colombia. Ga the oh instant,
this gentleman, in company with the
United States consuls, at Apinwall and
Panama pad a formal visit 10 the presi-
dent of the state, Damass TerveFa.
Dcichmsn employed the principal por-
ton Of his time in Coudemnlng the canal
project. which was undertaken By
EuToneans. and assured the president
that the institutions language and
SOVEREIGNTY of Colombia would be des-
troved by the multitu1es of Frenchmen
and Englishmen who would flock to the
country with the commencemert OF the
work on the canal. His explanation OF
the coaling station meter was uusstis-
Il Glory. and the result Ofthe wCole inter
view, so far as lis effect on the president
AID secretaries were concerned, W ex-
ceediHgly unfavorable. The president OF
the state, as agent ofthe national govern
ment, by telegraph from Rogota, on the
10th of AFril, received orders TO intimate
10 the commanders Of the United States
war vessels adams and KeGrSdTge, that
if they still remain in the territorial
waters of Colombia to suspend surveys
and other operations in which they are
engaged in the Iaguna de Chiriqui, and
the Golfo Rulce, and from the later bay
the Adams should retire immediately, as
there are no ports which have been
opened to commerce according 10 the
customs and regulations of the republic
When the steamer american left
Carthagena the report was current there
that 1900 men had left Bogota for the
isthmus, AID were daily expected at
Arranquilla. The purpo-e of their visit
was rot stated, but it was supposed TO
have some relation to the coaling station
business, which the iColom bian govern
ment is evidently disposed 10 resent in
the form in which it has been attempted.
The occupation of laguua de Chiriqui
and Colo Dulce, by American war
vessels, was the theme Of general con-
versation in Carthagena and neigboring
coast towns, as we'll as the interior.
The Times comments thus: The visit
Of two United States men-of-war to the
waters along the boundary between
Nicaragua aud the United States of
Colombia continues 10 excite the good
people of the latter republic, or, to put
the case moro exactly, the PanRma Rail
road people are excited. They see
rival transit project in an innocent at
tempt to establish q coslIng station in the
Colo Dulce. This tempest in teapot
will probably subside when it is found
that an American citizen owns sixty
years lease of the Chiriqui tract, and
that Isaac Foucey, secretary Of the navy,
made conditional co tract for g eoaljng
station with the holders twenty years
ago.
The TTi6Wne says: Colombia appears
to be ip an angry mood at the intention
of American war vessels to establish coal
ing stations on her coast, and make sur
veys and soundings. She has warned
the adams and KeGrsGrge to desist, snd
actually put 2, 600 troops under marching
orders. This cosduct is not creditable to
Colombia, which owes all her importance
to American capital and the enterprise
that constructed the Panama Railroad,
but as the Colombian government was
not allowed TO have its way absolutely on
the Panama canal scheme, it takes this
opportunity to display its spleen. The
orders under which our war vessel sailed
show clearly that we have aggressive de-
signs on Colombia territory.
Other journals belittle the whole affair,
aad ref5r sneerihglY 10 Colombia put
ting on her war paint"