The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-14
THE PANAMA
CANAL TREATY
Details of Proposition Being Dis
cussed at Bogota.
COLOMBIA INCREASES RENT
Wants 100000 Year and s2o,00O,-
600 Down Upon the Exchange OF
Notifications Lease of Zone
FOR one Hundred Years.

Washington. Sept. a. The state de-
partment has received from Minister
Beaupre at Bogota a dispatch confirm
ing the report received earlier in the
week outlining a new proposal from
Colombia 10 take the place Of the Hay
Hefran treaty The items Of the prop3
sitfon as described by Mr. Beaupro
coincide with tie first accounts. CO.
lombia wants another S10,000000 and
lshoves the yearly rental up from $3.50
600 to 100000
The dispatch states that the special
committee appointed to prepare meas
ure which would be acceptable 70 both
houses Of congress brought in this bilI
Saturday, Sept 3, and the senate WAS
to take il up last Monday, but did not
and It had been agreed TO begin coasi3-
GRAFTON Of the measure next Monday.
The main provisions recommended
1 by the committee are
First Approval Of tile action % the
senate In rejecting the Hay-Herran
treaty
/ Second. Authority to be given to the
president to conclude treaties for ca
nal or TO contract for canal with pri-
vate parties subject to the rights Of tie
companies,
/ Third. Panama Railway compa
I ny to be permitted to transfer its prop
erty, all existing obligations to be as
sumed by the purchaser, including the
annual payment Of S250000 and the
surrender of the property to Colombia
in 1867.
Fourth. The canal company TO be
permitted to transfer, it's rights and
4 property on payment Of S10000000 ID
4 the government Of Colombia
Fifth Authority to be given 70 the
president of Colombia to make the fol
lowing concessions and conditions:
Lease of the canal zone for hundred
years, not including therein cities Of
Panama and Colon; annual rental
therefor until 1867 to be $4,000
Lease renewable every hundred years,
with increase Of % per centum in tile
rental for each succeeding hundred
year period. Neutrality Of the canal
and recognition of Colombian sover-
eighty over the whole territory and the
inhabitants thereof Mixed tribunals
only in the canal zone. Police and san
1 itary commissions to be exclusively
/ Colombian a time limit to be fixed
/ for the completion of the canal and
works.
Gets s20,Oo0.000 Down.
Sixth Colombia to receive from the
contracting government S2o000000 on
the exchange az ratihcations Of the
treaty
/ Seventh. Regulations to be made fix
Ing the conditions of purchase Of pri
vate company.
Or. Herran, the Colombian minister,
when he was told the substance Of Mr.,
Beaupre's dispatch said that he was
grievously disappointed "rhe idea is
simply Wild said he II have kept
my government minutely Informed on
the state Of opinion here in official cir
cles, and from nothing | have ever
stated in my dispatches can any such
an attempt to undo the work already
accomplished ON the canal treaty lie
ipredicated. This measure would simply
stamp out tile slow and tedious work
Of the past three years on the isthmian
canal problem.
THE additional S10000.000 is ex-
pected to come from the canal com
lpany in consideration for the consent
to the transfer | cannot understand
the equity of such a proposition 1t
does not enter into the Hay-Herran
. treaty. and the United States cannot
be made party to 1t at this late day.
Il sincerely trust that wise counsels
may prevail and that the president Of
/ Colombia win be empowered TO act
| with reasonable discretion III the
| light of the pending treaty and the
Spooner act to secure an agreement
that will result III the prompt building
of the canal shall hope for this until
the last The congress has given itself
barely week in which to debate the
situation and accept or refuse the pend
| ing treaty. The result depends on the
decision OF five men in the senate. We
can only wait patiently for the end Of
the matter"
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