The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-01

nearer home il they wished 20 discover
the caGse Of distrUst among esnk deposi-
tors. The suspicion xhica undermined
public confidence conferred rpca ministers,
especially upon these forEns< ministers
| who sQ1apdered the money 81 the Pam
ANA company. This ssa;e1aest evoked .
t1muit
Ribot deprecated attempts ~ spread the
belief that saving. banks lad suffered
from the panic. Nobody co1!s deny, how
ever, that the campaign aga.n: the banks
had done some harm and threatened more.
No other country IL the world 1o1id bear
the burden Of such conscienesless false
hoods, and there vas no sezson why
| France should invite he pcrias which lay
IN them.
The bill was then pa..ei 3os 20 1ss.
The chanber also decided, 345. to 50, that
the speeches o. z bot ard Tifard be
placsrded throughout France.
new YORK, Jan. 3L-ChsrleS Come, ex-
secretary OF the American Pz2arns Can al
Company, who is said ~ eZ-esecretary Of
the Navy Thompson 20 have v41chers and
other papers showing in detail the ex-
penditures OK the company. ashen asked
If ne would snow the vouchers he an
swered:
have not been connected with che company
for iour year.. have 10 vouchsrs nov.
Do y0u KNOW where they are?
Isupprse tnose who should haze then ear
pro1uce them.
Who succeeded you secre:s-Jf:
r. Bayara. o. so IS Broadway, "a. ny suo-
cessor. presume he can give Shs informs
too you want
IL 10 ssic tha. Il. ooo 800 frsrcs WIRE placed 70
tie credit OF the American cornsaittse- VIII
you tel me whether that true " got.
No money was paced 10 our cssdit have
oesn out OF the company since lseea. 1859. and
l DO not care 20 SPEAK about Is sttE:rs
Col Thompson says yo1 have 81 the papers
showing the transactions Of the co<s psny.
Col. Thompson 10 q very Old seau. He has
said many things which be would GOT say II hs
were not so old.
Col Thompson says . large i.sn in the ex-
peDse OF the American company wss the cost Of
building and trans porting large de ige, which,
at he time IL waa made, was the lergsst in tie
world.
As said before. Col. Thorars4on 10 IN old
man, and 10 mistaKen in many thsngs he said,
The were seven Of those dredg-s, AID they we're
not tui.t In California They were constructed
by the American Dredging and Contract Com
pany, OF New YORK, and were bu!ltin Brooklyn
and PhIlade! phIa
How much money did the American company
speed for the dreig.s,
We found the American machinery the BEST
in the world.
Col thompson says be had 3D. csr. built, and
that they were built By :. Cox Geo, Of Te,re
Haute. at q cost OF so, 90 francs.
He KNOWS OF these and rsnra nbers them
oecal Sc they were built IN his c.<y. The Iaet
IL We ordered thousands OF cars, II number OF
excavators, steam boilers. OF ese!y descrip-
ton and supplies In fact, ever-t5iug from
needle 10 anchor. We spent CT iess; 81, 01o00.
"a a., AsF
orders g. We received them from che isthmus.
4 certain amount Of money was sest TO Us from
Paris. We purchased against that amount aud
when exhausted We asked for more md received
more We sensetull reports 10 Pseris, showing
in detail how the money was used
How about the money said 10 htse been sen.
70 America to quash opposition and secure
neutrality?
The American committee had nsthing to do
with that When De Lesseps era, visited
America he appeared before Congress and
settled all that Il was done openly End nothing
was left for US TO do in that line TIE American
financial company had nothing to go with tha,
matter.
Z. L. Oppenheinner said it wes true that
the rolling stock Of the canal company had
been sold TO the railroad coapany, as
stated in the dispatches from Panama
Oppenheimer represented the failroad in
the negotiations. 1--WE had beea using the
stock for years under rental, " taid Open
heimer, land We concluded to guy it out
right That's ALL"