Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-06
ADVICE FROM The PRESIDENT.
II is that Colombia and Panama Come
To Peaceful Settlement of Cues
lions Between Them.
TRAFFIC ACROSS THE IsTHmus.
This Country Is Bound by Treaty
obligation and Interests Of Civiliz'
alton to See it is Maintained.

Washington, Nov 6.-The events OF
the day as developed here as to the SIT
nation on the lsthmus were the reeognl-
,on Of the de facto government, the
,ecelpt OF dispatches from Commander
hubbard Of the Nashville; the arrival
IN washington of Consul-General Gud-
GER of Panama, and the issue of orders
TO Admiral Coghlan to proceed forth
nm n the lsthmus with the CONSUL
general
lieut. Commander Hubbard cabled
that the Colombian government troops
under Gems. Torres and Tovar, 4oO
strong. at Colon, had departed on
merchant vessel. He stated that the
istbmus from one side to the other was
IN the hands Of the revolutlonists. TINS
statement is of the greatest Importance
the United States government oeing
bound by treaty to maintain order ana
preserve free traffic across the isthmus
IS nov under the obligation to prevent
any hostile collisions either along the
line Of the Panama railway or ut the
termlni Panama and Colon. Thus the
enure attitude OF the Colombian gov
erpment towards the new republic Of
Panama becomes OF little Importance
for It is practically impossible for IL
10 go TO war with Panama
officials here familiar with the coun-
try declare that It is impossible TO
move Colombian army overland TO
the isthmus, owing to the character OF
the country. on the other hand, II an
attempt Is made to bring troops either
to Colon or Panama by water, the Unit
cd States naval officers at those points
would interfere, by the force OF
treaty obligations requiring the
maintenance OF order across the 18TH
mus as a necessary condition to free
transit. the United States government
practically has been placed in the posi-
ton of a protector to the new republic
Of Panama and that too, regardless OF
any bias on the part OF the United
States government toward either party
to the strife In Colombia. A report was
current that the Colombian government
bitterly resented this attitude on the
part Of the United States government,
holding that It had infringed Colom-
bias sovereign right on the sthmus and
had lnterfered without allowing Colom-
bla 10 itself quel tho revolution, But
DR. Ilerran, the Colombian minister, to-
day emphaticaly denied that he had
made such representations, while the
state department officials asserted that
nothing OF this character had 80 far
come from the Colombian government
directly or indirectly, SO for practical
purposes the separation Of Panama
from Colombia is complete and is likely
to be permanent, according to the olil-
cial belief here
The following telegram was sent by
the state department today to Mr.. Ehr-
man. the acting consul general of the
United States at Panama.
The people of Panama have by an
apparently unanimous movement dis
solved their political relations with the
republic of Colombia. and assumed their
independence. When you are satisfied
that de facto government, republican
In form. and without substantial oppo-
sltion from its own people, has been es-
tablished In the state of Panama, you
win enter into relations with 1t as the
responsible government OF territory and
look TO II for all due action TO protect
the persons and property of the citizens
Of the United States, and to keep open
the isthman transit in accordance with
the obligations Of existing treaties gov
eming the relations OF the United
states to that territory"
Immediately afterward an instruction
was sent by telegram to Mr.. Beaupre.
the United States minister at Bogota,
In the following terms;
THE people OF Panama. having by an
apparently unanimous movement dis
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the republic of Colombia, and resumed
their independence, and having adopted
a government OF their own. republican
In form, with which the government ~
the United States OF American has en-
tered into relations, the president OF the
United States In accordance with the
ties OF friendship which have so long
and 30 happily existed between the re-
speetlve nations most earnestly COM
mends 10 the governments OF Colombia
and of Panama the peaceful and equlta-
bic 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