Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-11-13
REPUBLIC IS RECOGNIZED
Special Action Taken at important Cab.
met Meeting.
HERRAN MAY LEAVE WASHINGTON.
President Roosevelt and His Cabinet Decide
to Recognize the De Facto Government OF
the New Republic Secretary Hay Clearly
Defines Validity OF Action Taken-Cruiser
Dixie Reaches Colon.

Washington, D. c. tSpecia) The
United States government has reccg-
nized the de facto government OF Pan
ANA
1t was announced at the State De-
partment after the return OF Secre-
tary Hay from the cabinet meeting that
instructions had been sent to United
States Minister Beaupre, at Bogota
| assuming that he has not LETT the cap
ital yeti, and to Mr.. Ehrman, the Unit
ed States vice-consul at Panam, and
now acting consul there, to inform
the governments OF Colombia and Pan
anna, respectively, that the de facto
government is recognized.
DR.. Thomas Herran, the Colombian
charge here, is prepared to leave WASH
ington on short notice, with his tam
lily, for Colombia. 1t may be stated
that instructions withdrawing him will
cause no surprise at the Colombian le-
CATION. where it is believed that the
State Department. recognition OF the
Republic of Panama will cause intense
feeling in Colombia.
So far DR.. Herran has had no adj
vices from his government.
The decision TO recognize the de
facto government OF Panama was ar.
rived at after protracted session OF
the cabinet, at which every member was
present except Secretaries Root and
Wilson
No other subject was considered. l nc
President emphasized the importance or
the recognition of the dc facto govern
ment.
With the withdrawal Of the Colombian
officials, the isthmus was left entirely
without a government unless that eStab-'
lished by the seceSsionists should be rec
Cgnzed, and this step seemed necessary
for the transaction of the routine bust
ness Of the United States OH the isthmuS.
When the decision was reached the
following telegram was sent by the State
Department to Mr.. Ehrman, the acting
consul general of the United States at
Panama:
"The people of Panama have, by an
apparently unanimous movement, dis
solved their political connection with the
republic of Colombia and resumed their
independence. When you are satisfied
that a de facto government, republican
in form and without substantial opposl-
ton from its own people, has been cs-
tablished in the State of Panama, you
will enter into relations with it as the
responsible government of the territory,
and look to it for all due action to pro-
tect the persons and property of citizens
of the United States. and to keep open
the isthmian transit in accordance with
the obligations of existing treaties gov
erning the relations of the United States
to that territory"
Immediately afterward an instruction
was sent by telegram to Mr.. Beauprc,
the United States minister at Bogota, i'll
the following terms:
The people of Panama, having by all
apparently unanimous movement. dis
solved their political connection with the
Republic of Colombia and resumed thcil
and having adopted gov
eminent of their own, republican in form
with which the government of the United
States of America has entered into re-
lations, the President of the United
States. in accordance with the ties Of
friendship which have so long and SC
happily existed between the respective
nations, most earnestly commends to the
governments of Colombia and Panama
the peaceful and equitable settlement OF
all questions at issue between them He
holds that he is bound not merely by
treaty obligations, but by the interests OF
civilization to see that the peaceful traf-
fic of the world across the IsthmuS OF
Panama shall not longer be disturbed by
a constant succession of unnecessary and
wasteful civil wars"