Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-02

LIN lib HUTEL CORRIDORS.
John y. fopham of Panama was met today
on Pennsyivania avenue BY TIE stan repre-
sentative. Mr.. Popham has made over twenty
trips to Panama and 10 very conversant with
isthmus affairs. In discussing the situation
down there he said:
There has been no fever at Panama FOR the
past three years The canal company have
asked DIR. Neunz, president OF the republic of
Colombia, for one years extension Of time
from the LIST Of March. II this il granted they
will agree TO turn over 10 the state all the
movable and immovable property on the
isthmus belonging TO the canal company unless
they resume work within that time The i'm
movable property has already escheated to the
state, but the question to what is actually
movable is a serious and disputed one The
canal company threaten to throw the question
into the courts, and it will be two wears before
1t can be settled. DIR. Nunez. however, de-
mands 100000 francs before be viii consent,
SO there seems TO be prospect Of difficulty
People, however, have lost interest in the
canal They have turned their attention to
agriculture and mines Along the line of tho
lsthmUs railroad aud canal ia the finest banana
land IN the world and hundreds of thousands of
punches are annually shipped to the United
States. That and the cocoanut industry along
tne coast from Solon TO San bias Is assuming
vast proportions. / am in Washington TO pur-
chase materials for line of railroad which will
extend fifty miles above Colon to a rich man.
ganese ore mine, which is owned by q compauy
of Baltimore capitalists, including John K
Consen, W. +. Prick. father-in-iaw of Robert
Garrett, and others, who have invested 100. 900
IN the enterprise. The Panama railroad has
cut down rates TO encourage agricultural in
terests, something il has never done before.
The rich people of Colombia are now sending
their children to the United States to be edu-
Gated rather than 10 Europe. and many of them
are at the Notre Dame College of Baltimore. Coal
is SIS a ton in gold and s2s in silver at the
isthmus. But there is a new road extending
from Buena Ventura, on the Pacific coast TO
Bogota and Gale, where are situated large de-
posts of coal. which will lower the present
high price one-half and be on the market within
year"
81 will tell you," said J. II. Anderson Of
Cambridge, Ohio, ex-United States minister to
Bolivia, why revolutions are SO common in
Central America. In the United States we
wonder at the frequent outbreaks and it is not
generally known that one Of the most prolific
causes Of revolutions in these countries lies in
the provision Of the constitutions of all the re-
publics Of South America except Brazil that
the president cannot be impeached for NAL
feasance in Office during the continuance Of his
term. He can only be held to answer therefor
within the succeeding twelve months following
his administration.
This accounts for the arbitrary. high handed
and dctatorial attitude of many Of the presidents
Secured by the organic law of the country from
moiestation they do about as they please. In
| stead of proceeding against Q dictator through
the courts as we would do. the people are forced
by force OF circumstance to revolt Under
the constitution the president cannot serve two
Consecutive terms is N
quently in naming his successor. The man
who controls the army q rule controls the
elections, and for this reason the armies Of the
republics of South America are maintained an
well provided for while other interests suffer.
With q loyal army the president Is all powerful
Down there one walks to the polls through q
double line Of soldiers armed with rifles and
bayonets.
The army Of Bolivia. though small, is the
, best uniformed, drilled fed and equipped army
in south America The president never moves
out of his house without . military escort.
There have been but two good-slzed revolutions
In the country within twenty years. The coun-
try is the third, but could be the first, silver
producing country in the world, while its re-
sources OF tin. copper and other minerals are
inexhaustibie and fabulously rich"
Judge Israel Lawton of Oakland, Cal. one Of
the most prominent. lawyers on the Pacific
coast. who was for many years q resident Of
Albany. NY, and who served in that county as
surrogate for several terms. is at the Arlington.
Judge Lawton was receiver Of the mint at San
Francisco during Mr.. Cievelsnd's administra-
.tion. and as il is a very important Office on the
Pacific coast. controlling great deal of patron
age. he il willing to resume his old seat in the
granite building on 5th street and will make his
intentions manifest at an early date.
Ex-Mayor A. BECKER Banks of Albany and
daughter and his son-in-Iaw, VIM. L. Green,
are at the Arlington. Mr.. Banks is one OF the
wealthiest and most prominent residents Of the
city opposite Troy and is an old and warm
friend of Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Banks has ar
rived thus early to enjoy o few days in the city
before the rush.
The friends Of ex-Cougressman Carlos French
of Connecticut are satisfied that had Mr.. Cleve-
land not found it necessary to go south for the
Secretary Of the Navy and to Massachusetts, for
the Attorney Generslship Mr.. French would
have been houored by being given the portfolio
Of the navy.
One Of the best known contractors in Brook
Ign is Bernard Gsllager, who has come over to
settle his final accounts for the construction of
the new federal building in Brooklyn. At the
supervising architects Office Mr.. Gallager was
paid very high compliment, the department
asserting that his contract has been about the
only one ever entered into by the government
over which there was no trouble and the speci-
fications were lived up to without hitch. The
building is pronounced to be the best con-
structed federal building in the United States,
and Brookly mites are very proud of it
The Office Of the marshal Of Indian territory
is both lucrative and important. The man
who has the backing Of the cattle interests Of
the territory and the meat packers In Karsas
City is L. L. Stow, an old cattle man and
rancher in the territory. All the candidates
for Office from the territory have pooled their
issues on the claim that its Offices shall be filed
by residents of the territory. demanding home
rule. Col Stow has resided in the territory
since the early sixties and is one Of the best
known cattle men in the southwest.
Although the mission has not yet been 90
lected the friends Of ex-Gov. Thos T. Critten-
den of Missouri will urge his appointments and
request that Mr.. Cleveland send him to some
foreign country as minister.
The people Of Missouri" said well-known
resident of St. Louis to The STAR reporter
swami to see the governor remembered. He il
now an elderly man, though vigorous mentally
and physically. He will be Endorsed BY Sena-
tors Vest and Cockrell, the entire Missouri con-
gressional delegation and by the strongest
democrats in the state
Thus far the democrats Of the Green noun
tain state have been very modest In asserting
their claims for appointment John h Seuter