Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-05


lit Hra It'll saying that if the Govern
nl-4t ~ Tie United states would LAM
troon@ Il preserve Colombian soVer-
ai-rtv ..nI the transit. the colombian
,;.yeru,r.ut would ,dcclare martha
INV: ..tr! BY virtue Of vested con
,,litution4i authority, when publ,
order Il disturbed. ,wouldp approve b,
d.,ree the ratification of the cana
treaty - signed: cr. if the Govern
,n-nt of tho United States prefers
,vouldD rull extra session OF the con
, q, ..-uith now ANA friendly members
-acxt May To approve the treaty,
Having these facts in view: There is IT
shallow al Question that the Cover.
! in,.,t, ri the United States proposed Z
! treaty Which WAS not merely just, hui
! Generous to Columbia. which Oh.
raoI!t- rtc:.r(ied IS cl1ing, il at AL, Un
/ ;he side Of overEeEerosity which VIZ.
! nailed with delight by tn" people Of This
! Immediate locality through which III,
! c..Idl vas t. PASS, Who We're most con-
/ c-!red rs 10 the ueW ""dar of things
/ ana which tha Colombian authorities
| now recognize as being 50 good thai
hoy are willing To promise its umJoN-
| t.itiounl ratification if only We Mil
! desert those who have shown them
selves our friends ard restore to those
/ no have SHOWN themselves unfrieVG' y
| the power 10 undo what they did. !
/ pass 10y the question as to what
assurance We have that obey Won,
| noW Keep their pledge ANA not agHi"
! refuse to ritify the treaty if they ha@
! ihe power: for, of course. | Will not TO-
! one moment discuss the possibility 81
! the United States committing AN act o.
| such ha3cncss as to abandon the new
HapubliC of Panama.
Third. Finally the Congress de-
fnitely settled where the canal was I"
he built. Il WAS provided that Il treaty
should be lnad" for building the can".
; across the ISthmuS Of Panama; and II,
after reasonable time, it proved I'M
possible to secure such treaty, tha;
then we should go to Nicaragua. The
treaty has been made; for ii needs il"
! argument to show that the intent OF
the Congress was to insure Il cana:
acI oss Panama, and that whether the
republic granting the title was called
New Granada, Colombia, or PandnEr
natteIeG not one whit. AS events
| turned out. the question of ''reasOnab!;
time" did not enter into the matter al
al. Although, as the months went by,
il became Increasingly improbable chat
tn" Colombian Congress would ratify
|. he treaty or take steps which would
be equivalent thereto, vet all chanr,
for such action on their part did moi
/ Vanish until The Congress closed at tia
rn! OF o,-tobcr: ana within three day
thereafter the revolution in Panam@
had broken out Panama became ~
Independent state ana the control at
the territory necessary 1or bulldlls IN
canal thea became obtahiapie' IN
'"''t!t'oN u"''l Nhi'ii "l'ilr We ''u'''
haNe gore - NiclrdSu th'Fepy ~
came lnlHoSSihie Oh lulliiil'i1'' IL ti'
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nn-fcSS on assembling early III NoN-
! MIXER would b" confronted WITH
Il situation III which there had been ::
/ failure t. come to terms as to building
me canal along the Panama route. ana
vet there had not been a lapse OF "
'caSohap'" tnn'-u*ihG the word
it'Eh!ianle III any proper "tiSe-Such
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