Arizona republican., 1902-03-24
A PANAMA PAPER
Some Forgotten History About Canal
 Treaties,

The Republican is in receipt OF tri2le-headed newspaper published at Pa..aI:.a. It was sent by \. Bien- koWslzi. wiso, it will be remembered leit Yuma about year aso for Pana- ma that ne might be or the ground in the event that work should be begun on the canal, The paper is called thr Star and Herald" in English. Tin French section Of il is "L'etoile de Panama" and the title of the Spanisa depaI tmcnt is La I.streIla da Pana- ma. il is What is technically known as it blark sheet and it is sa long tl2t c2e cannot read it with ease withcul the assistance Of small boy to hold one tad ot it.
 it naturally has something to say ;t this time on tEe subject Of isthmia. routes anG under the head of "A For g ten Canal Treaty." prints the fol- lowing interesting communication: on March @1, 1S1e. President |. <. Grant sent the f1lowi.e to the sy?..,- 0. tn, United st-J-=:
 '' T transmit fc.' consideration with q View to it's ratification. q treaty b. tween the United States and ta- United States e col -.l},il for th. con struction of aa interoceanic canal across the isthmus oi Panama or Daricn signed at Bogota on the 2Gth If January last. X copy of d dis22tch cf the ist uI,imo. to the secretary CT tat from Geaeral IIurlbut. the Caite, States :nilisler &t Bogotl. relative b the treaty. is also transmitted for tl:e i..fc:mati2n of tn seaat,.
 |. :. GRANT
 The dispatch from General Furlbl; is too lengthy 10 be quoted he"e in full. >ear its end h. says:
 F.r th- aGVauCeil. Of c;Viiizt- ten and coTmetS,. for th. m3inten- "1ta el our prestige in the t,H9 -.net- ieIs. fer tha ;rove thoraush linking to- g ther of car Pacific and .AtIauti. states. fer the security cf tha union. fer th- military advantages in case O. war. fer the practical possession of harhars of refuge and repair of oui T-li,s il t't- Atlantic and Pacific at -4ch extremity cf the great highway ot commerce. I consider this treaty val Ultla to inc United States. have concluded q disagreeable duty in ohtaiains this t:eaty. ftghtiag agafns- many obstacles of foreign and local c iEin. against tl!e weight of England and France. and hope the result ex- pressed in the treaty may be promptly accoutsd I by tEe president and senate. and the Wall1 vi=2rcusIy pushed T. . triumphant andlsioa.
 ''Tho record shows that on April 1. 32lf this tleaty was read in the saaat7 the first time. Was referred to the con- "Ita n foreign relations. and. with the in nessage and accompanying dolu- iHeat. ordered to b. printed in conf 5cnCe f1l t1e use of the senate
 The treaty itself contained the GUS mary IT samhle. followed by twenty six artieles in which are defined the rights and duties of the high contratt- ia@ parties.
 "Tae United States agreed lArt. NIID to construct CT cause to ba con tI'ct ted tre said projected canal. ii found practjcable' after due surva<-., and estimates should have been made: and to protect il C\tt. ND from all '-os tic acts on the part oc any othe, nation CT foreign power. Wh-n com rleted- The limit allowed was fifteen years from the time of its commence lHeat.
 Tt is rct probable that this treaty is familiar to our public men, Sydae- Wsbster, in an article published ir ii2'p7rs Magazine in September. 1883. made al-usioa to il under the title ni Th7 Diplomacy and Law or the I.th- milan Canals but l have not had the fortune tc see it referred to elsewhere. Nr- Webster said:
 In 1870 Secretary Hamilton Smieh made a2other sffort. but tha congress <. ''a- il25i. SO lnutiiated the result or the aeGo tiatiaas that il coHIl rrf b.. acc ited b, the United States
 That brief paragraph told the story t- tEo failure of the treaty. No dou!,, si5ists that General Grant. crowned with the laHels Of war. ardentl,- dSS4red t2 win added rsnown in the lsa.eS "f n-ira It may veil b. believe. t2at his appointment at the rei.,.- il1A ci th1 treaty Was keen. and tha1 his resentment carried hii?! over tn ll N'e3r~s0a sch H!re, fer ha soon after ward began the 'Nicira%ua l,lav.5;7,..-. that has resulted in the late inoorse- lent of that route by the ictlss. uf rep resentatjv, There can l. no ,Gtss- Il i5a hoWe} tr. that in his orief7,I ;r-- nee f.. the Panama ralrt. h.. u...: ScIi-I EE h. Unico!Tniy souud j.i,is.- n, -t Wi,H Uhich he was enjnv..d Nor can il D. doubted that f Hrso..
 .tf .. by 'ha:::in@ it.: couditfoas s9 that l. could net be accepted at Na=,linstu,. tnc't 1ulG ,aday be q canal at Pans ma. Ii if net too late to hop. that the mistake cf i>-e may row b. e,r- '.'t l. r Colombia is ready ana filling C. l"al-e amends. It us bz ali means take advantage Of her willing ness "aG 'triHt while the iron ie hot"
 
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