New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-29
THE ISTHMUS EXCITED
Colon Rebukes Panama for asking
Intervention Wmsbips ArriUe.

Colon, May 2S.-The Municipal Council Of
Panama at an extraordinary session held on
May d unanimously adopted the following dec
laration:
Considering % that the government of the
United States interpreting Article OF the
Canal Treaty and Article 1876 of the COnstitu-
tion of the Republic OF Panama, has determined
to intervene in this country to maintain therein
peace and constitutional order; CD that such
resolution confers on the government Of the
United States the faculty of intervening in the
internal relations existing between the estao-
Iished government and the people which founded
1t; 80 that the right of suffrage is the funda-
mental basis of the republic and the only con-
stitutional means of proving the succession OF
public power; a. that for the legitimate sue
cession of this national power 1t is absolutely
necessary that popular elections be verified as
TO their legality. purity and honesty. In order
that no citizen may be deprived Of the right of
franchise and that citizenship be not conferred
upon those not possessing that right: (o) that
the next election (the countrys first for repre-
sentatives of the people, ought to be realized
with the greatest order q rs at the Sare tiiI
with the greatest puritytsafla honesty m order
that IL may example and give sta
bility and respectability 10 its institutions; 90
that acts of violence and fraud already executed
by agents of the government in imprisonip"
members of the electional corporation and in
nocent citizens increa sing the number of police
sending out detachments armed with rifles to In
umidate citizens destroying voters lists in dis
tricts in which the opposition possesses major
ity and falsfying others evidently demonstrates
that the next elections will be conducted in the
most daringly illegal manner. and a that the
government of the United States cannot intend
supporting these acts shameful to the power
executing them. and that intervention has for
its object the establishment of legal civilized
order, and not an oppressive regime;
Resolved, That solicit the intervention OF
the authority of the United States in the popular
elections OF June "a and July | 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 corporation that assumed NOVen-
ber J. 1903, the responsibility for the movement
for separation from Columbia for the better
ment of our native land and for esta ablishng a
just government. respectable and obedient to
the laws. consider it their duty TO express here
ernment of the United States penetrated bv
its historic responsibility, voluntarily accepted
before the world VIII favorabi" receive this pc.
tition. which tends TO strengthen the ties Of
sympathy and gratitude between the Panaman
people and the United States.
We send a copy of this resolution TO his ex-
cellercy, Theodore Roosevelt. President of the
United States, and TO the Honorable Secretaries
Of State and War, and publish it as a fly sheet
c. ARosEMENA
President.
The Municipal Council of Colon held a session
yesterday. at which the following resolutions
adopted:
Resolved. That we protest in the name Of our
constituents against the unpatriotic conduct of
the Municipal Council Of Panama in assuming
an attitude involving functions of national rep
resentation and soliciting the intervention of a
foreign power in the internal affairs of this coun
try. TO the detriment of the sovereignty of this
republic
resolved, That this resolution be published as
a fly sheet. and that copies be sent to his ex
cellency. the President of the republic the Sec
retary of government and the Secretary of For
egn relations. NJ. GRENADE. President
The preamble to the foregoing resolutions as
serts that the Municipal Council of Panama
transcribed the sphere of its constitutional and
10, .,1 +hat 9TH iDal
councils in the republic did not notice such
strange proceeding their silence would be re-
garded as tacit assent to the revolutionary prin-
cpe proclaimed The preamble concludes with
the declaratio that the government of the
United States alone possesses the authority 10
preserve public order in this country, an au-
thority derived from the canal treaty and the
Constitution of Panama, both of which had been
approved by the votes of the legitimate repre-
sentatives of the nation. among whom was the
chief Of the Liberal opposition, Pablo Arose
mena.
The United states cruiser Columbia arrived
here to-day from Guantanamo with four hun
dred marines on board These marines are ex-
pected to land tomorrow. The reinforcement
OF the marines on the isthmus at the present
moment has no direct bearing the political
situation here.
Panama. May 2S.-The United States cruiser
Marblehead, Commander r. T. Mulligan. ar
rived here to-day.
Washington. May 2s-The Panaman Minister at
Washington has received the following cable dis
patch: - o,.
Panama Legation. Washington. Il. g.
Have published that Municipal Council OF the
city OF Panama has commissioned the Liberal Di-
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