St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-31
BROKEN BY THE PRESS.
Nathan Appleton Says BIackmail-
ing Journals Broke the Pam
anna Canal Company.
Uncle Dick Thompson Has No
knowledge of Money Being
Used for Bribery.

BOsToN, Dec. 30.-AprOpoS OF tine
New York Worlds article OF yesterday,
which stated that fund of $500, ,OO0
was scattered through the United States
by the Panama canal promoters, and
that Nathan Appleton was De LessepS'
right man here. He is reported to
have said that at that time he was very
enthusiastic in the matter, believing
then. as he does at present. that the
Panama route was the best. II cannot
attempt 10 go into the discus
he said. land especially as this is the
first have seen of il, and have not
time to read it carefully. 1t seems,
however, 10 be written by some one
conversant with the facts, and to be
generally correct. DE LessepS came
here to secure the cooperation of this
country. He felt that this country
would receive by far the greatest bene-
fit of all others by the work, and that it
was fitting that the two greatest repub-
lies should JON hands in it. He was
very greatly disappointed that 1t did
not approach it in that spirit.
"What really broke the company"
continued Mr.. Appleton" was the tre-
mendouS interest it was paying and the
sums demanded by the blackmailing
press. Some 100000, 600 had been
raised In France, but it was the sub
scription of the whole country in small
amounts, so that the total loss was not
felt much by individuals. for few per-
sons invested more than they could well
afford; but the time has come to build
canal through the iSthmuS. This crisis
will, | believe, assist in evolving
it. 1t will put the French people upon
their mettle, and they will go down in
their pockets to build it. behave tn at
the thing for the United States to do IS
to take this work out of the hands OF
France. This country could easily buy
the whole for about l0O,OOO,0OO. The
work is in condition to be easily mn
ished If we do not DO so the French
will probably finish it, and that Will
hurry up our government at Nicaragua,
and the result may be that we Will nave
two competing canals instead OF
monopoly"
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. S0.-Col.
r. w. Thompson, eX-secretary of the
navy, and now state president OF the
American branch of the Panama Canal
company, said relative to the charges
that there was crOOkednesS in the Amer
lean management of the canal company,
and that vast sums had been spent i'll
brIbing members of congress to support
canal schemes, that there was nothing
in the charges. he had no knowledge
of a single dollar being expended to in
fluence legislation in favor of the com
pany or of the existence OF lobby for
that purpose. There had, indeed, he
said, been nothing required OF congress
favorable to the company.
PARIS, Dec. 30.-lt is semi-ottlclally
denied that M. Carnot asked Nj. Chris
tophle, the governor of the Credit Fon-
cier. for funds during the election cam
paign in 1889.
LONDON, Dec. 30.-COrnelius Herr,
the German Hebrew connected with the
Panama scandal, is still in London, and
has made preparations to stay all Win
ter. "A dispatch from Paris says that when
Herr was made a knight of the Legion
of Honor, and on the occasion OF his
successive promotions in that order no
communication of the fact was made
by the French government to the
United States legation there, as is al
ways done when an American is dec
grated. This shows that the decoration
OF Herr was purely French affair,
done in the interest of the friends or
the Panama scheme. Herr talks Loud, j"
dwelling on his wealth and the great
people he has known. He made very
unfavorable Impression on the tew
Americans who knew him in Paris.