Show L M M M M M H M M M 4 t M M M M i ANOTHER PANAMA HIT HITCH H. H i 11 t 1 S t M M MM I MM H 4 t M t t t t The French el shareholders shai o in the old Panama Canal i enterprise ut are experiencing more than a little littIe lit- lit tle 5 tie difficulty It in getting etting rid of their white elephant even even at any price One of our foreign dispatches yesterday announced that at an extraordinary meeting of the tile company held in Paris on the same day notice was received from the Government of Colombia that no transfer of the French concession wOuld he be allowed pd to become effective without without its prior consent Thereupon the c company by bJ resolution 1 tion decided not to enter into any engagements for forT T S the present t It is impossible to say Eay what effect this new defa de- de fa may have ha upon canal legislation at It apt Washington ashington Certain interests ostensibly favorable favora favora- ble to the Panama route but in fact opposed to tot t any can canal canals no doubt will utilize the obstruction presented pre- pre k jk by the tho dictator Marroquin and his assor asso- asso ti r I elates at B Bogota gota as a fresh means of securing delay deti de- de day lay It is known of that course the Marroquin gov- gov tj T eminent is without any legality other than that t 3 which may attach to a revolutionary and bloody i- i iv v usurpation of power Neither either its chief nor his 4 partners partners' Jn in the loot of the r country c care r le a cent I about who builds the Panama canal or what becomes heI be- be I comes of the isthmus so that ll lie he and they are richly car cared for in the deal Were the Panama proposition tion j Intrinsically as good as the miraculously conT con con- T rt Walker now seems to think it the opposition tl tion n o- o of oth need not stand i in the a way J WI d I 5 w I. I iIla 1 three weeks A little financial and material aid to the Colombian liberal party who are trying to oust the dictator and restore the constitution and a arc re republican publican form forin of government would very shortly result in Marroquin's Maroquin's disappearance from the scene We Ve are afraid that a great disappointment is isn in n store for the American people in the matter of the isthmian canal It now looks almost as though the influences antagonistic to the project had hadj strength enough to prevent action during the pre j jent ent session of Congress |