The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-12
IS REC0G NIzED
PRESIDENT TAKES ACTION =,
lSTHMIAN MATTER.
Consuls Instructed to Treat wv,
the de facto Government of p.
ama-.Action Said to Be Neo.
sary in Order to PROTECT IT,.
Across Isthmus,

Washington, Nov. The Init,
States government has recognized .Iu
de tacto government of Panama T.
announced at the state department ., ."s
the return of Secretary Hay from .sa
cabinet meeting that instructions ,s no
b cen sent to United States Ministss
Beaupre at Bogota (assuminp thai sa
has not left the capitaD, and f. N.Y. ~
Ehrman, the United States vice or
sulat Panama, and now acting cono,.i
there, to inform the governments ~.
Colombia and Panama respect;voiU
that the de facto government ia reco,
nized
Following is the telegram sent bv tbo
state department to Mr.. Erman. at Pan
anna:
"The people of Panama have. nv or
apparently unanimous movement dis.
solved their political relations with the
Republic of Colombia and assumed
their independence. When you are sat.
isfied that de facto government. re-.
publican in form and without substan.
tial opposition from it's own peonla
has been established in the state Of
Panama, you will enter into arranue.
ments with it as the responsible GOV.
eminent of territory and look to it for
all due action to protect the propertv
of the citizens of the United States and
to keep open the isthmisn transit in
accordance with the obligations of ex.
listing treaties governing the relations
of the United States to that territory"
Cables to Beaupre.
Immediately afterward an instryuc.
ton was sent to Mr.. Reaupre, by tele
graph, to inform the Colombian gov.
eminent of the action of this govern.
ment in recognizing the new republic.
This notification was in the following
terms:
"The people of Panama having bv an
apparently unanimous movement dis
solved their political connections with
the Republic of Colombia and assumed
their independence, and having adopt.
ed a government of their own, republic
can in form, with which the govern.
ment of the United States of America
has entered into relations, the presi
dent of the United States, in accord
ance with the ties of friendship which
have so long and SO happily existed be-
tween the respective nations, most ear
nestly recommends to the governments
of Colombia ana Panama the peaceful
and equitable settlement of all ques-
tons at issue between them. He holds
that he is Bound not merely by treaty
obligation but by the interest of civiliz-
alton to see that the peaceful traffic OF
the world across the isthmus of Pana-
ma shall not longer be disturbed by
constant succession of unnecessary and
wast1ful civil wars"
The decision to recognize the de facto
government of Panama was arrived at
after protracted session of the cabl-
net, at which every member was pres
ent except Secretaries Root and Wilson.
The president emphasized the import
ance OF the recognition of the de iacto
government.
With the withdrawal of the Coiom'
ban ocffiials the isthmus WAS LETT en-
tirely without a government unless
that estab ished under the secessionists
should be recognized, and this step,
seemed necessary for the transaction Of
the business o. the United States on
tho lot ronc