The age-herald., 1900-03-22
CORRESPONDENCE
 WITH COLOMBIA President Submits All Communi- cations to Senate REGARDING PANAMA CANAL One Letter Dwells Upon the Question of Neutrality-All Treaties Might
 Fail to be Safeguard
 During War
REGARDING PANAMA CANAL

Washington, March 21.-In response to a result of a vote in the senate, the president today sent to that body the correspondence between the United States and the gov erment of Columbia relative to the Pan- anna canal. The correspondence covers the period from 1879 to 1897, and much of 1t has been heretofore printed. Among the doc uments which have not been published is a letter of April 19, 1SSO from Secretary Eyerets to United States Minister Dbchman concerning the Panama canal concession, in which aae secretary says:
 "The government of the United States might be willing in the matter of mere mercantile interesas of its citizens to trust to the intelligent seH-interest of those who undertake its construction to see that req condolences and equality of tolls, simplicity olf regulation and perfect impartialty of treatment should be made the inducements tt draw the commerce of ai1 nations to its channel, but it cannot be co-cealed, and the govorncnolt cf the United States does not attempt to conceal taaL its legaaons to this enterrC.se must ,5e governed by larger and more serious consideration, While the Urited States fea.s no concern as to the adequacy of their power to meet any emergency that nay arise, tat while there is no issue in the worlds polIies which will threaten their tranquility; wh-ie their relations with all nations a-e a.d promise to be t1lose of peace and good VII, yet it is unwise not to aL,ic elte possible | contingencies which may expo-e our sys- tems to trfa!s net now obvious or prclo- e5le."
 The Changed Conditions
 He then dwells upon the changed condi- tions which would be made apparent in case of war. and says:
 "All the treaties of neutrality in the world might fail to be a safe guard in time of great conflict"
 He, therefore, instructs Mir. Dichman to say to the Colombian government, that it Is a source of profound regret to this gov ernment that the government of Columbia has hitherto refrained from communica- tion upon the subject of t,e recent commits sion as the treaty relations between the two countries justified us in expecting. He add ed that the United States would demand that the construction of an isthmian canal "should be the subject of joint considera- tion with view to the protection of those interests which bind the South and the North American republics together as close ly as other interests and relations bind the European powers.
 He also gave instructions to add that the United States government did not consld- CT itself excluded by an agreement to which it was not party.
 On this point he said:
 You will add that this government con- sider itself excluded by any arrangements between any other powers or individuals to which 1t is not a party from a direct interest, and if necessary a positive supper vision and interpositon in the execution of any project which by completing an in- ter-ocean canal through the isthmus would materially affect its commercial interests, change the territorial relations of it's own sovereignty and impose on it the necessity of foreign policy, which whether in it's feature of warlike preparations or entang- ling alliance has been hitherto arduously avoided.
 Colombia's Military Strength
 Concluding a long communication, he said:
 Should this interoceanic canal ever be accomplished, and should its control be inn