The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-02-04
UphOlds the Policy and Acts
of the Administration as
Just and Necessary
DISCUSSED THE REVOLUTION
And Proved That the United
States Had No Completely or
Pa in the Recent Revolt

Washington, Feb. 3.-In the senate
today business proceedings were be
gun by adopting a resolution by Mr..
Hoar, permitting the committee APP
pointed to investigate the charges
against Senator Dietrich, to employ
clerk, to send for witnesses and to
take other steps necessary to carry
out the orders of the senate. The Ba
con resolution, looking for the arbi
tration of the claims OF Colombia
against the United States on account
of the Panama revolt. was laid be
fore the senate. Mr.. Fairbanks was
recognized to speak. His remarks Were
devoted largely to a discussion of In
question whether the United State.
was in completely with Panama in TIE
revolt of last November. He spoke of
the Importance of showing this charge
to be without foundation, saying:
while we greatly desire an inter
oceanic canal. we are far more anxious
that 1t shall be constructed withou
any taint whatever of national dis
credit
He conceded, however, that the rec
ord made by the government was con
elusive proof on one side or the othe
of the controversy.
by 1t and by it alone,' said he
"the administration must be judg d,
adding that for himself, ne would ac-
cept "the record as Ii has been mad
by the executive. department and sut
mitted to the congress unless 1t l.
impeached by something more conclu-
sive than vague suspicion, uhsupport
ed assertions. and Wild conjecture
We must proceed. upon the assumptio4
that the executive department, with
In it's constitutional prerogatives, l.
actuated by proper motives. and that
1T is as regal dful of the good name 0.
the country as either the legislative OF
the judicial department. Who sha.i
determine what steps should be taken
to make sure peace and protect on.
people from harm upon the line o.
transit across the isthmus? A deter
mined revolution was. at hand unde-
ci. cumsIances as similar as any tnat
had preceded it. Bioodshed was ap-
parently imminent, and interrupted
to highway across the isthmus wa
among the reasonably probable tnings
The DUTY devolved upon the chief exc
cutive to take such steps as In his
Judgment were necessary to preserve
the lives of Americans and to maintain
unbroken peace. We are not iei'
in uncertainty as to what was done p5
tls United States in connection with
the Panama revolt, for Secretary HAY
says emphatically in his note TO Gen-
eral Reyes, Jan. /, 1904: Any chaige
that this government, or any respoa-
whether officially or unofficially, wit.
agents of the revolution in Colombia,
Is utterly without justification. Equal
ly so is the insinuation that any actio.l
of this government, prior to the ievo-
luton in Panama, was the result OF
completely with the plans of the revo-
lutionists The department sees fit
to make these denials and 1t makes
them final This is a complete refuta-
tion of the charge that this govern
ment had any completely In the revo-
lutionary movement The American
people will accept the emphatical de-
NAL Of the secretary of state witnou,
question or doubt"
Mr.. Fairbanks made the following
summary of conclusions as establish
ed by the record in the case of Pana-
ma: The revolution by the people OF
Panama was due to long series or
wrongs inflicted upon them by the gov
eminent at Bogota, and more pa ticu'
Iarly to the rejection of the Hay-Her-
ran treaty.
The revolution was initiated by the
people of aPnama and was not inspir-
ed by the United States
1t was the duty of the president 10
adopt such measures as he deemed
necessary to preserve the freedom of
transit across the isthmus and to pro-
tect the lives and property of Ameri-
can citizens and of citizens of other
countries upon the line OF transit.
The independence of Panama was ac-
complished by the people Of the 18TH
mus
There was no vessel or armed force
of the United States at the city OF
Panama and from only one vessel, the
Nashville. a third-rater at Colon. only
len. They were landed to protect ths