Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-02-16
PANAMA WAR
PLANNED IN US.
CORRESPONDENT FOR GOTHAM
PAPER SUBMITS DoCu.
MENrARY EVIDENCE.
INTERESTING LETTERS
Assertion That Copies Of Secret Navy
Codes Could Be Purchased
Causes Sersation.-Chem.
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lcai Bill Ready.

Washington, Feb 14.-Correspond.
ANA revolution had been planned in
New York and Washington was pro.
duced before the house committee
on foreign affairs BY Henry N. Hall,
correspondent for the New York
World
The committee is Investigating incl.
dents Injected with the acquisition
of the Panama canal zone by the
United States. The witness put in
evidence. letters and cable dispatches
which have passed between DR.. AM
ador and Mr.. Arrange, Panama officials,
prior to the revolution.
These he contended sustained his as
sertion that the war was inspired in
the United States. He also quoted
from correspondence procured from
the confidential files of the navy de-
partment but which was withheld from
congress under President Roosevelt's
orders, which he said. threw light on
preparations
Mr.. Hall created mild sensation by
declaring that copies of the state de-
partmcnts secret code could easily be
bought in Paris. The declaration was
answered later by assistant secretary
of state, Huntingdon Wilson, who said
that the old cipher codes undoubted!'
ly could be bought there, but that
since the time of which Hall was,
treating the code had been twice
changed.
EvsrgIade Probe Delayed.
Engineering Investigations of the
Florida Everglades have cost the gov
eminent $11.017 to date. according to
A. Zappone, chief disbursing officer
Of the department of agriculture be-
fore the house committee which has
undertaken a complete Everglades in
quiry. Mr.. Zapponc explained that his
knowledge Of the Everglades project
was limited to book accounts in his
Office.
The nomination of Cornelius p.
Swayne as United States marshal for
Delaware was withdrawn from the
senate This action followed a series
of hearings at which wholesale brib-
cry charges in the Delaware election
OF 1904 We're aired.
Chemical Duty Bill Reported.
The Democratic chemical tariff bill
made public by the ways and means
committee of the house. is expected to
increase the governments revenues
by $500 $40 over those of the pres
ent ii'Gal year although the reduction
of ad valorem duties proposed is about
81 per cent
Principally. the measure increases
duties on perfumes. fancy soaps and
other Injuries and lowers the duties
on all drugs, such as barks. beans.
berries, fruits, dried fbers, roots and
the like. il: a crude state, not adj
Nanced i'll value or condition by treat
ment beyond that essential to the
prevention Of deterioration pending
manufacture The same drugs adj
vanced in value or condition are sub
ject to 10 per cent ad valorem against
1914 per cent now.
Lorimer Report March 20.
The senate committee investigating
the election of Senator Lorimer
agreed to take up on March % con-
sid7ration of report to be made to
the senate. The committee hopes to
dispose of the matter that day. The
committee decided to proceed no fur
Their against Mr. Blumenberg, the Of
fetal committee stenographer, who
was dismissed for his conduct in the
presence of the committee near the
close of its hearings.
Northwest Men Get Jobs.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nominal ions of Geo. NJ. Bourqus,
TO be United States district judge Of
Montana and Lockwell j. Flint to be
United States marshal for the western
district of Wisconsin.