The evening world., 1903-12-17
WAR AT ISTHMUS
is NOW FEARED.
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with that country was negotiated.

with that country was negotiated.
man in tie courtry desired more eager
~ than himself TO support the Admin
~fstration md s.l with his party assoc
ciates In the Senate Chamber. He also
was favorable to the Isthmian canal,
and moreover he was anxious that the
construction of the canal should be ac-
complished In his lifetime and by the
Republican party. He also was desir-
GUS hat the present President of the
United States should build the great
waterway. But. anxious as he was for
the accomplishment of all these ends.
he was even, more anxious that the
canal should be built without faint or
suspicious of national d%ishonor."
what we to know Is" he said,
.did this Government. knowing that a
revolution was about to take place, SO
arrange matters that the revolution,
whether. peaceable or otherwise, should
be permitted to go on without Interrupt
ton, and whether our national authorl-
TICS took measures to prevent Colombia
from stopping it,"
Mr. Hoar quoted the correspondence
Bearing upon the revolution and asked
'tWhy this great anxiety before any dis
said. clear that IL the correspondence 30
far printed, included all the informa ton
possible to give on the subject, tina
from ftwenty-four 10 forty-eight hours
before the revolution broke out this
+ Government had instructed a man of
war 70 prevent Colombia from doing
Anything to prevent II.
II want TO know and the American
people want TO know IND have Alright
TO know whether this mighty policeman
on me sshmas seeing q man about. to
blow Is struck, in manacling the a..
sailed party, and whether, after the
assault a been made, the pyuC emdn
is 1nstlhed in claiming the poctG:tapk
by the ~4ssailant should be turned over
p him U4e policeman on the ground
fhat ne was the rightful owger?"
MI. Hear said that II was impossible
TO believe, n no did not believe, the
President way capable of such intrigue
n ind'-ection as thus indicated, and
declared that IL was for the purpose OF
saving hint fem such impntation thai
ne Desired all the information possible
to secure on the question. He was sure
that ali the Information on the subject
wotld entirely relieve the Chief Exec.
Senator German followed Mr. Hoar
He ridiculed the Panama revolution and
claimed that the Administration had
suppressed Information.
Mr.. German sharply attacked the Ad.
m~inistration. and intimated that the
course which had been entered upon
was for the purpose of securing partisan
advantage in the approaching Preslden.
tai election.
He complained bitterly OF the course
81 Assistant Secretary Of State LOOMS
IN giving the facts bearing upon the
treaty to a banquet In New York, which
a he said, a violation of a sacred
secrecy, and also said the facts dfd No,
q Justify the statement by Mr.. Loomit
that the Nicaragua Canal was not feas.
Fl 1ble.
He concluded by declaring that III,
nrmg 81 the United States should no,
- used 20 aastain the fortunes OF .
EtIIatniF FORAKER warmly defended th,
Hftf1stAnt and showed feeling ayainsl
.t HnaF for HIS u~fterances, which h.
H6dald Hase been made in CLOSED
EI.maa akked II BID anew whethe,
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