Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-12-08
NIcARAGrtN cANAL.
some Definite Action on the Subject
Is Urged.


The Nicaragua canal commission, under
the ampionship OF Rear Admiral J ohm g.
Walker. appointed July "A. 1897. under the
authority OF a provision In the sundry civil
act Of June of that year has near
ly completed its labors, and the results Of
its exhaustive Inquiry into the proper
route, the feasibility and the cost of con-
struction Of an interoceanic canal by a Mic
araguau route will be laid before you. In
the performance of its task The commission
received all possible courtesy and assist
ance from the governments OF Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, which thus testified their
appreciation Of the Importance Of giving a
speedy and practical outcome to the great
project that has for so many years en-
crossed the attention Of the respective
countries.
AS the scope Of recent inquiry embraced
the whole subject, with the i'm of making
plans and surveys for canal by the most
convenient route. II necessarily included q
review Of the results of previous surveys
and plans, and IN particular those adopted
by the Maritime Canal company under its
existing concessions from Nicaragua and
Costa Rica. 50 that e this extent those
grants necessarily held an essential part
in the deliberations and conclusions of the
canal commission as they have held and
must needs hold IN the discussion of the
matter by the congress. Under these cir
cumstances and in view of oYertures made
TO the governments of Nicaragua and
Costa Rica by other parties for a new
canal concession predicted on the as
sumed approaching lapse of the contracts
Canal those
states. / have not hesffated to express nv
conviction that constderations Of exnedi-
encv and tnternatfonaf polfrv a. hatween
the severaf rovarnments interested in IN
construction and control of an inter-
oeeanic canal nv this route re11,Tre Tho
nafnfsnance ~ Tho stains r,io nntl tba
canol commission shall have re f,r,rfed and
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