The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-06-27
MILLIONS TO
DEFEAT CANAL
RAILROADS FEAR BANKRUPTCY.
systems Oppose Con-
struction Of Way Across Panama =
Alleged TO Have Appropriated VAST
sum 10 Fight the Ratification of
the Proposed Treaty by Colom-
bfa-Trafic Man Declares Hill,
Rock kefeIIer, Hartman and Nor
gan Are Interested.

Rockefeller, Hartman and Nor
gan Are Interested.
A Washington special dated June 13.
to the St. Louis Republic says: Lobby
lists representing the millionaire owners
OF the Transcontinental Railway Sys-
tenn are now charged with responsibility
for the delay in the ratification OF the
Panama Canal treaty by Colombia.
The men are on the ground, with mill
ions OF dollars to spend, and they are
spending it.
A statement to this effect was made to-
day by a well-known railroad man who
has recently returned from Bogota.
The interests which are said to have
contributed to the fund to secure votes OF
Colombian legislators are Morgan, Hill,
Rockefeller, Gould, Hartman and 9TH
ers controlling the Union Pacific, the
Canadian and Central Pacific, the South
ern Pacific and nearly every other trans
continental railroad in the country.
The lobbyists who formed the third
house in Washington during the fight for
the treaty in Congress, re-enforced by a
number OF Central American lawyers,
politicians and revolutionists, are in Bo.
gotta and the other cities OF Colombia.
1t is said that the vast railroad interests
are willing to pay even more than the
ten million dollars offered by the United
States if the treaty is rejected.
An emissary OF the Colombian Gov
ernment is now on his way to Washing
ton for a conference with the President,
but it was said this morning that unless
the United States offers more money
than that already agreed upon the con-
ference will come to naught.
"The men who control the big cross
conntry lines cannot afford to have the
canal built" said the railroad man from
Bogota, because it will come near bank
rupting some OF them"
The Canal Project and Colombian
Feeling.
The following article was prepared, by
request, for the New York Independent,
by a gentleman residing in Colombia.
For business reasons he did not wish his
name to appear when the article was
published, May 2S.
Much is being said, and the wide world
in patient expectation is awaiting further
developments as regards ratification or
rejection by the Colombian Congress OF
the Treaty with the United States con-
cerning the Panama Canal. Congress is
supposed to meet in June next.
In Colombia, "a free country"-with-
out free press-the Panama Canal ques-
tion is discussed but by groups OF individ-
uals belonging to different political par
ties. To get at Just estimate OF the feel
ing OF the Colombian people as whole it
is necessary to give the opinions OF the
different parties.
The nation might be divided. as things
now stand, into three parties: First, in
point OF number, the Liberal party ;
second the Nationalist Conservative, and
third, the Historical Conservative; this
last the party in power, or the Govern
ment OF to-day.
The Liberal party. already split up
into several sections. admirers OF their
chosen chiefs, expresses the opinion that
the Treaty should be rejected. The Ma
tionalist Conservative party isof like
opinion. But the third. the Government
party, entertains the idea OF treating with
the United States.
Not TO Ceds Territory TO United states
The feeling throughout the country is
not to cede territory TO the United States,
or to any other country, because
this would not be in accordance with the
ideas OF national honor and patriotism.
There is feeling in the South Ameri :
can republics OF distrust OF the great re-
public of the North, feeling that with
the "Yanquis," as they call them, might
is right; and so it is that they misinter
pret the motives OF the Americans. The
measures taken by the Americans on the
isthmus during the late revolution have
caused greater distrust and suspicion to
arise. The Liberals declare that the
Americans prevented their success, and
at the same time the Government re-
sented the measure which practically
prevented the expeditions transporta-
ton of armed troops across the isthmus
on several exciting occasions, believing
that they favored the rebels. This state
ment may surprise many readers, since
it is known that the representatives OF
the Government and OF the rebels as
sured the Americans that they did not in
any way interrupt their military move
ments on the isthmus. This is charac-
teristic OF the Colombians.
A Conservative general on his way
from the interior to Panama said in