Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18
TREATY REJECTED.
Colombian Senate Not in Favor
of Canal Scheme.
Treaty Must Be Amended Before Again
Going Before Congress.
Delay Is Vexatous, but Hope Is Not
Yet Abandoned.

Washington, Aug. IA cablegram
dated Aug. u has been received at the
| state department from Minister
Beaupre, at Bogota, saying that the
Panama canal treaty has been reject
| ed by the Colombian Senate
| President Roosevelt was Immediately
advised of the news. Very little addi-
| tional information concerning the ac-
| ton of the Colombian Senate could be
obtained at the state department Mr.
| Loomis was not at the department, to-
day, he being away on business.
| Mr.. AIDE, acting secretary, would not
| discuss Colombian affairs, nor indicate
What course the United States would
| pursue. The information in the cable
| gram of Minister Beaupre was meagre
and there was no i2timation whether
| the treaty might no. 2gain be brought
up for consideration.
Section of the isthmian canal act
provides that should the President be
unable to obtain a satisfactory title to
| the property of the new canal company
and control of the necessary territory
and the rights necessary to the con-
struction of the canal from the republic
of Colombia, he shall make the neces-
sary treaties with Costa Rico and Mic
| aragua and proceed with the construc-
ton of a canal by the Nicaraguan
route.
1t will be impossible for President
Marroquin to again submit the treaty
to the Colombian Congress in it's pres
ent form. The Senate having rejected
it, the treaty cannot again come before
that body, except by the Senates own
vote. President Marroquin, however,
can send the treaty slightly amended
to the Senate and reopen the canal
debate 1t is believed at the Colombian
legation that he will adopt some such
procedure.
New York, Aug. 17.-When word was
received in this city, today, that the
Panama canal treaty had been reject
ed by the Colombian Senate, VIM. Nell
son Cromwell made the following brief
statement, as counsel for the Panama
Canal Co.:
"A committee of the Colombian Sem
ate on the 9Th inst. recommended the
treaty with number of amendments.
Our recent cables states that various
parliamentary motions have been
made, more or less involving these
amendments and recent one indicates
that the treaty is not acceptable with
out amendment, but this is not regard
ed as final.'
Colon, Colombia, Aug. 1.-THE re-
lection of the canal treaty by the CO.
lombia Senate has produced a tremen-
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generally believed that the treaty
would pass with some notifications.
There is good reason to suppose that
the majority of the members of the
Senate regard the Spooner amendment
to build a canal by the Nicaragua
route, if the Panama route was reject
ed by Colombia, as a mere threat on
the part of the United States. They are
convinced that the Nicaraguan pro-
ject is impossible, and that the United
States will again deal with Colombia.
The rejection is q heavy blow to
property owners here, who have been
investing heavily on the prospect of the
treaty being ratified.
Panama, Colombia, Aug. 1.-THE
unanimous rejection of the Panama
canal treaty by the Senate has caused
a profound impression here in all
circles. The question on all lips is what
will become of Panama. The only con-
ISOLATION the isthmians have is that the
rest of the republic, with the exchange
at very high figure and with an up
ward tendency, will suffer great deal
more.
1t seem that the government never
expected the treaty to be ratified, and
it was not supported at all in the Sen
ate.
Bogota, Aug 4.-Via Buena Venture
1t is reported, today, that President Mar
roqquin has been authorized by Congress
to make a new treaty which will not re-
qure further ratification, but that the ba
sis given for the treaty will probably
prove unacceptable to the United States.
Washington. Aug. 1.-THE reason given
for the rejection of the treaty by the Co
lombian Senate, it is said here, was the
alleged encroachment on Colombian sover-
eighty which it's opponents contended
would result from the treaty. This infor-
nation was contained in a dispatch re-
ceived, tonight by DR.. Herran, the Co
lombian charge, from Foreign Minister
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