The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-27
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cret agencies of the government had
oeen at work investigating The senior
senator from South Carolina. They
nave, he said. discovered that he
used his frank inadvertently IN private
correspondence and so deprived the
government of revenue to- the amount
OF : GEMS, eId the matter vas cnnsid-
cred important enough to DC embodied
| IN iipe 'idl Ices sage frlrn Tie president
| to congress. The senior senator from
/ Massa iusetts. j believe. IS still, invit-
/ cd to White 1ruse dinners is the pres
/ idents frie7 and adviser and the cab
/ met maker or the fncor iag r!csident.
nave Mt heail' Of any SA.rst service
/ agents disJurbisIs the senior senator
! from MassacEus. rs. end VT he 5 CI-
/ reetly, individually anG yOlelv IeEpon-
4 sibie that Tire = was t,tken out of the
/ treasury IF tie UGi'sd states over
| 81 goo 00G'
Downfall of Amador.
a year OF two after the independ-
! ence of Panama continued Mr.. Raj
/ ney, tine officials Of the little republic
/ commenced to absorb ideas of patriot
ism peculiarly distasteful to Mr.. Crom-
/ well. Mr.. Cromwell determined to dis
| place Mr.. Amador and the other lead
ers of the constitutional party OF Pana-
ma and put in a president more plant,
{ ACsoS lEADAtu ~ DlkIl lttdiS anu. VI
/ course, in such an emergency as that
his attention was directed TO his sld
/ friend and ally. Obaldia. He was
/ man after CTomwell's own heart. So II
was determined that Obaldia was TO
! become president of Panama. Cron-
/ well and his friends had developed GER
I tain methods for defrsuding and rob-
/ bling the little country. and they aid
/ not propose to be interrupted in any
way by the awakened public patriotism
and honesty Of DR.. Amador and his
! friends
subsequently" he said. "Obaldis's
opponent Withdrew on account OF the
| interference of Secretary Taft in the
| elections"
In President Amador's farewell mes
| sage to the general assembly, said Mr.
Rainey, he directly charged Mr.. Taft
with forcing the election OF Obaldia.
/ The plan of Mr.. Cromwell and his
associates he declared, was to abso-
lutely appropriate TO their own use
the revenue of the republic and to steal
the forests and the public lands. The
I necessity for Mr.. Tafts interference
and for the election of Obaldia be-
comes now al plain as day"
infamous Proposition.
Mr.. Rainey referred to the fact that
/ there was pending and about to be
adopted in the general assembly of
Panama the most Infamous railroad
| proposition ever submitted to any gov
| eminent by which Randolph d. Ward
of New York was to be largely the ben
efieiary. He called attention to what
/ he said was the failure Of Arnold
/ Shanklin, the American consul general
/ at Panama 10 make a report request
/ ed by the bureau of forestry last year
! because ''he evidently feels he owes his
position there to William Nelson CTom-
we'll" and charged that certain inter-
| ested parties were seeking to levy
TT butte upon the people of Panama. and
| indirectly the people of the United
/ States. in connection with these timbtr
land frauds.
/ IT viii be interesting to know who
the gentlemen are who are attempting
in this way to impoverish the republic
/ of Panama" and he mentioned William
/ Nelson Cromwell. Roger l.. Farnham.
w. s. Harvey and Charles p. Taft.
I don't charge that the gentleman
! who will be inaugurated president of
/ the United states on the fourth day Of
l March is a party to this Infamous
scheme for robbing this little country.
! His friendship for Cromwell, Farnham
and z. A. Drake, as members of the
| board of directors of the Panama rail-
road his continued endorsement Of
both Cromwell and Farnham, his inter
| ference on the isthmus of Panama.
| which compelled the election of cor
| rupt statesman. absolutely under the
control of Cromwell. as president of
that republican, these things and
other things for which the present ad-
ministration is esponsible-made pos
sible the signing of a contract by Obal-
dia which may bring to the gentlemen
| interested therein riches beyond the
d-oa ms of aVarirp
Some Direct Charges.
Mr.. Rainey charged that Mr. Crom-
| we'll and Mr.. Farnham have been ac-
| lively engaged here for two or three
| weeks promoting treaties affecting Co.
| iomba and Panama. pending before the
/ senate He said that if the plans of
Mr.. Cromwell and his associates go
| through and If these treaties are con-
frmed. there will be no revenues in
Panama out OF which to pay the mil
lion dollars or more indemnity to Co.
| lolubia. payment of which is guaran-
teed By this country.
1.-THE United States government VIII
be called upon TO pay il all" he pre-
dicted. and if these plans for the
| spoliation of Panama proceed to Sue
cessful conclusion. it will not be long
/ until immense burdens of a different
! character connected with Panama will
be imposed upon our treasury"
These patriotic gentlemen said
Mr. Rainey, in conclus on. "therefors
are being permitted not only to rob
the republic of Panama but Indirectly
TO rob the treasury of the United
States. and in their efforts in this d.
rection they have had so far the com
plete cooperation and the active as
sistsnce of the present admin stration
and of the next president of the United
States"