The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

$40, 100000 thus paid by the United
| States government, $25,OOO,OO0 was
| paid to the liquidator of the old Pan
anna Canal company under and in
pursuance of an agreement entered
into between the liquidator and the
new company. OF the balance of
| SIS, 100000 paid to the new Panama
| Canal company S12,00O,O00 have al
| ready been distributed among its
stockholders, and the remainder is
now being held awaiting final distri-
button and payment
What follows is further eloquent
testimony taken by the senate com
g Senator Taliferro-There is ss.-
! 900, 0O0?'
Mr. Cromwell-Three million.
yes. sir
90 Senator Taliferro-Who holds
that money!
Mr. Cromwell-The New Panama
| Canal company in its treasury
And yet Mr.. Roosevelt says that
| the United States government has
not the slightest knowledge as to the
distribution of the $4O,O0O,OOO and
| that this was the business of the
French government
LAS to Mr.. Roosevelt's statement
| that there was no syndicate he could
| have read the syndicate subscription
agreement on page 1850, volume II,
of the testimony before the commit
tee on interoceanic canals-if he had
cared for the truth.
Duque's Testimony.
''That the United States govern
ment was not dealing with the
French government or the liquidator
appointed by the French government,
or with Colombia or with Panama, or
with any one else except William Mel
son Cromwell and his associates, is
made still more plain by the descrip-
ton of Senior J. Gabriel Duque as to
the Panama revolution and as to the
manner in which Mr.. Cromwell got
$10.OO0,000 additional from the Unit
ed States treasury. Senior Duque said;
Mr.. Cromwell made the revolu-
ton. He offered to make me presi-
dent of the new republic and to see
me through if 1 would raise a small
force of men and declare a secession
from Colombia. He made promises
that we should have the help of his
government 1t was accompanied by
| a liberal use of money. We bought
| this general and that one, paying
$4,000 to $4,000 per general. The
! Colombia officers were all paid off
| and the Colombian general who was
sent to stop the revolution was also
| bought off,
when Mr.. Cromwell, having been
elected by the Panama republic as
general counsel and he and J. P.
Morgan having been appointed
fiscal commission negotiated with
President Roosevelt by which the
United States paid $10,0OO,0O0. more
Cromwells Panama republic OF this
money three-quarters is still under the
control of the fiscal commission
why did the United States pay
| S40,00O.000 for a bankrupt property
whose control could undoubtedly have
been bought in the open market for
less than $4,000.000?
who were the Panama Canal
company?
''Who bought up the obligations of
the old Panama Canal company for
few cents on the dollar?
Among whom was divided the
S15.OO0.000 paid to the new Panama
Canal company?
whether Douglas Robinson, who is
Mr.. RooSeVelt'S brother-in-law. or any
of Mr. Taft's brothers associated him
self with Mr.. Cromwell in Panama
exploitation or shared in these profits
is incidental to the main issue of let
ting in the light.
'fWhether they did or did not.
0hether all the profits went into Mr..