Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-29
IN PANAMA
COLON COUNCIL PETIoNINS FOR
INTERVENTION.

The municipal council OF Panama IN ex-
traordinary session May "a unanimously
adopted declaration alleging that acts of
violence and fraud have been executed by
agents of the government in imprisoning
members of the electional corporation and
innocent citizens, increasing the number OF
police, sending out detachments armed with
rifles to intimidate citizens, destroying
voters lists In districts in which the oppo-
sition possesses a majority and falsfylng
Others" demonstrating that the next cleo
tons will be conducted in the most daring.
illegal manner"
The declaration concludes:
Resolved, That we solicit the interview
ton of the authority of the United States
in the popular elections of June "a and
July l. in order that they may be realized
without favor to any and without prejudice
to any legitimate interest, allowing each
citizen free and spontaneous vote.
THE municipal council of Panama, which
is the same corporation that assumed on
November g. 1903, the responsibility for the
movement for separation from Colombia
for the betterment of our native land and
for establishing just government. respect
able and obedient to the laws, consider it
their duty to express hereby the hope cher
ished that the illustrious government OF
the United States, penetrated by its his
toric responsibility, voluntarily accepted
before the world, will favorably receive this
petition which tends to strengthen the ties
of sympathy and gratitude between the
Panama people ana the united states.
I'VE send a copy of this resolution TO his
excelIency Theodore Roosevelt. President
of the United States. and to the honorable
Secretaries of State and War, and publish
It as fiysheet.
&c AROSEMENA, President.
dated at Panama, May "a, 1906"
Denounced as Unpatriotic at Colon.
The municipal council of Colon held a
session Sunday at which the following
was adopted:
of our constituents against the unpa-
triotic conduct of the municipal council
of Panama in assuming an attitude in
yolying functions OF national representa-
ton and soliciting the Intervention of a
foreign power in the internal affairs OF
this country to the detriment of the sec
rotary of this republic.
''Resolved, That this resolution be pub
lished as a fiysheet. and that copies be
republic. the secretary OF government and
the secretary of foreign relations"
The preamble to the foregoing resolu-
lions asserts that the municipal council OF
Panama transcribed the sphere OF It's
and legal functions.
The presamble concludes with the decla-
ration that the government of the United
States alone possesses the authority TO
preserve public order In the country, an
authority derived from the canal treaty
and the constitution OF Panama, both OF
which had been approved by the votes OF
tho legitimate representatives of the ma
ton, among whom was the chief of the
liberal opposition, Pablo Arosemena-
The United States cruiser Columbia ar
rived at Colon yesterday from Guantana-
mo- with 400 marines on board These
marines are expected to land today. The
of the marines on the
isthmus at the present moment has no
direct bearing on the political situation
there.