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Show L PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO st Attor- CONGRESS FIFTY-EIGHT- H law as It now stands, to be expended under the direction of the ney-General, Accordingly (by the legislative, executive, and Judlrlal appropriation act of February 25. Via, 82 Stat., 854, 904), the Congress appropriated, for the purpose of enforcing the various Federal trust anil Interstate-commerc- e laws, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direcIn the emtion of the Attorney-Generployment of special counsel and agents In the Department of Justice to conduct proceedings and prosecutions under said laws In tho courts of the United States. 1 now recommend, as a matter of the utmost Importance and urgency, the extension of tha purposes of this appropriation, so that It may be available, under and the direction of the Attorney-Genera- l, until used, for tho due enforcement of the lawa of the United Stales in general and especially of the civil and criminal laws relating to public lands and the laws relating tn postal crimes and offenses and the subject of naturalization. Hecent investigations have shown a deplorable atate of affairs tn these three matters of vital concern. By various frauds and by forgeries and perjuries, thousands .of acres of the public domain, embracing lands of different character and extending through various sections of the country. have been dishonestly acquired. It Is hardly necessary to urge the Importance of recovering these dishonest acquisitions, stolen from the people, and of promptly and duly punishing the ofanti-tru- al Chief Executive Recommends Passage Important of to Formation the Causes Leading Legislation the New Republic of Panama No Obstruction Now to the Building of the Isthmian Canal Venezuelan Dispute a Triumph for International Arbitration-Extens- ion of Purposes of Appropriation for Enforcing Trust and Interstate Commerce Laws Favored Public Land and Postal Frauds Need for Treaties Making Bribery Extraditable Relations of the Government to Capital and Labor. of rho President Charges the Colombian Government with Acting in Bad Faith in Repudiating the Treaty Between That Country and the United States Precedents Brought Forward to Explain the Attitude of the State Department in the Recent Crisis-Coulias Been in an Almost Constant State of Turmoil for Many Years The Importance of Preserving Peace in the Isthmus Declared of Paramount Importance. ntry President Rosevelts message to the Consecond session of the Fifty-eightgress is substantially as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: With a nation aa with a man the moat hnportant things are those of the house-boland therefore the country Is especially to be congratulated on what has been accomplished In the direction of for the exercise of supervision ever the great corporations and combinations of corporations engaged In Interstate commerce. The Congress has created the Department of Commerce and Labor. Including the Bureau of Coipora-tiouwith for the first time authority to secure proper publicity of such proceedings of these great corporations aa the publlo has the right to know. It has provided for the expediting of suits for the enforcement of the Federal anti-trulaw; and by another law it has secured equal treatment to all producers In the transportation of their goods, thus taking a long stride forward In making effective the work of the Interstate Commerce h d. pro-eldi- s, st Commission. Department of Commerce and Labor. The establishment of the Department ef Commerce and Labor, with the Bureau ef Corporations thereunder, masks a real advance In the direction of doing all that la possible for the solution of the questions s. vitally affecting capltallstsi and . wage-woiker- Functions of New Department The preliminary work of the Bureau In the department has f Corporations hown the wisdom of Its creation. Publicity In corporate affairs will tend to do away with Ignorance, and wjll afford facta upon which Intelligent action may be taken. Byatematio, Intelligent Investigation la already developing facta the knowledge ot which Is essential to a right of live needs and duties of the business world. The corporation which Is honestly and fairly organized, whose managers In the condnrt of ils business recognize their obligation to deal their aquarelv with their stockholders, competitors, and the public, has nothing to fear from such supervision. The purpose of this bureau Is not to embarrass or assail legitimate business, but to aid In bringing about a better Industrial condition a condition under which thcro hall be obedience to law and recognition of public obligation by all corporations, great or small. The Department of Commerce and Labor will be not only the clearing house for Information regarding the business transactions of the nation but the executive arm of the government to aid in strengthening our domestic and foreign matkets. In perfecting our transportation facilities. In building up our merchant marine. In preventing the entrance of undesltable immigrants. In Improving commercial and Industrial conditions, and In bringing together on common ground those necessary partners In Industrial progress capital and labor. Commerce between the nations la steadily growing In volume, and the tendency of tho times la toward closer trade relations. Constant watchfulness la needed to secure to Americana the chance to participate to tho best advantage In foreign trade; and we may confidently expect that the new department wilt justify the expectation of Its creators by tho exercise of this watchfulness, aa well aa by the businesslike administration of such laws relating to our Internal affairs aa aro Intrusted to Its care In enacting tho laws above enumerated tha Congress proceeded on sane and conservative lines. Nothing revolutionary and waa attempted; but a common-sens- e successful effort waa made In the direction of seeing that corporations are ao handled aa to subserve tho publlo good. The legislation was moderate, it waa eharacterlzed throughout by the Idea that wo were not attacking corporations, but endeavoring to provide for doing away with any evil In them; that we drew the not against line against misconduct, wealth; gladly recognising the great good done by capitalists who alone, or In onjunctlon with his follows, does hia work along ptoper and bgltlmnte lines The purpose of the legislation, which purpose will undoubtedly be fulfilled, was to favor such a man when he does well, and to supervise his action only to prevent blra from doing 111. Publicity ran do no Th barm to the honest corporation. only corporation that ha rause to great! It la tho corporation which shrinks from tho light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not tie oversensitive. The work of the Department of Commerce and has been conditioned upon this theory, of recurlng fair treatment alike (or labor and for capital. .nder.u..1' gsrd the law or act In a spirit of arbitrary and tyrannous Interference with the rights of others, whether corporations or Individuals, then where the Federal Government has Jurisdiction, It to it that the misconduct will se Is stopped, paying not the slightest heed to or the position power of the corporation, the union or the Individual, hut only to one vital fact that Is, the question whether or not the conduct ot the Individual or aggregate of individuals la In accordance with the law of the land. Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as ht likes with his property or hts labor, so long as he does not Infringe the rights of others. No man Is above the law and no mnn Is below It; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey It. Obedience to the law Is demanded as a right; not asked a a favor. Receipts and Expenditures. From all sources, exclusive of the postal service, tho receipts of the government for the last fiscal year aggregated $560,396,674. The expenditures for the same period were $506,099,007, the surplus for the fiscal year being 104.297.6(77. The Indications are that the surplus for the present fiscal year will be very small, If Indeed there be any surplus. From July to November the receipts from customs were, approximately, nine million dollars less than the receipts from the same source for a corresponding portion of last year. Should this decrease continue at tne same ratio throughout the fiscai year, the surplus would .be reduced by, approximately, thirty million dollars. Should the revenue from rustoma suffer much further decrease during the fiscal year, the surplus would vanish., A large Two surplus Is certainly undesirable. yenr ago the war taxes were taken off with the express Intention of equalizing the government receipts and expenditures, and though the first year thereafter still showed a surplus. It now seems likely the a. rabwentM tqwlUr t revenue and expenditure will be attained. Such being the case It Is of great moment both to exercise enre and economy In appropriations, and to scan eharply any change In our fiscal revenue system which may reduce our Income, The need of strict economy in our expenditures le emphasized by the fact that we can not, afford to be parsimonious In providing for what 1s essential to our national well-bein- Careful economy wherever possible will alone prevent our Income from falling below the point required In order to meet our genuine needs. Needs of Financial Situation. The Integrity of our currency Is beyond question, and under present conditions It would be unwise and unnecessary to attempt a reconstruction of our entire monetary system. The same liberty should be granted the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit customs receipts as Is grunted him In the deposit of receipt from other sources. In my message of Dec. 2. 1903, I called attention to certain needs of the financial situation, and I again ask the consideration of the Congress for these questions. Gold and Silver Standard. During the hist session of the Congress, at the suggestion of a Joint note from the Itepublio of Mexico and the Imperial Government of China, and In harmony with an act of the Congress appropriating $36,000 to pay the expenses thereof, a commission was appointed to confer with the principal European countries In the hope that some plan might be devised whereby a fixed rate of exchange could be assured between the councountries and the tries. This commission hae filed It preliminary report, which hae been made public. I deem It Important that the commission be continued, and that a sum of money be appropriated sufficient to pay the expenses of It further labor. sllver-etanda- fenders. compensation of esclerks engaged In tho postal service, rural new on the pecially routes. More route have been Installed since the first of July lust than in any histon. like period In the departments must be While a due regard to economy of new establishment kept in mind In the of the rural routes, yet the extension be continued, system must o policy. for reasons of sound public recent of movement J,p,,rs governmental benefit has resulted In greater Immediatedistricts. to the people of the country connection Itural free delivery, taken tn with the telephone, the bicycle, and the trolley accomplishes much lifetoward and makthe Isolation of farm attractive. In ing It brighter nn.l more the immediute past the lack of Just such the facilities a these has driven many of and more active and restless young men women from the farm to tne cities; for and lack of they rebelled at loneliness mental companionship. It Is unhealthy and undesirable for the cities to grow at the expense of the country; and rural free delivery Is not only a good thing In itself, but Is good because It is one of the cause which check this unwholesome tendency towards the urban concentration of our population at the exfor pense of the country districts. It Iswith the same reason that we sympathize and approve of the policy of building good roads. The movement for good roads Is one fraught with the greatest benefit to the country districts. free-deiiii- free-delive- civil-servi- causes which led to the appointment of the Alaskan boundary commission, and congratulate both countries on the satisfactory termination of the sessions of the tribunal. It continues: The result Ls satisfactory In every way. Is of great material advantage to our people In the far Northwest. It ha removed from the field of discussion and possible danger a question liable to become more acutely accentuated with each passing year. Finally, It has furnished a signal proof of the fairness and good will with which two friendly nation can approach and determine Issues Involving national sovereignty and by their nature Incapable of submission to a thlid power It 1 e x et - Free-Deliver- becoming fugitives In foreign lands. Bribmand. In but comuaratlvely few cases ery has not been Included In extradition has It been necessary to go Into court for treaties heretofore, aB the necessity This work will It hae not arisen. While there may have to accomplish this purpose.until all unlawbeen as much official corruption In former be vigorously prosecuted ful Inclosures have been removed. years, there has been more developed and brought to light In the Immediate Irrigation. The work of reclamation of the arid past than In the preceding century of our countrys history, it should be the lands of the West Is progressing steadily policy of the United States to leave no and satisfactorily under the terms ot place on earth where a corrupt man the law setting aside the proceeds from fleeing from this country can rest In the disposal of public lands. The corps of peace. There is no reason why bribery engineers known as the Reclamation should not be Included in all treaties as Service, which Is conducting the surveys extraditable. The recent amended treaty and examinations, has been thoroughly with Mexico, whereby this crime was organized, especial pains being taken to rules a put in tho list of extraditable offenses, secure under the has established a salutary precedent In body of skilled, experienced, and efficient this regd. Under this treaty the State men. are Surveys and examinations Department has asked, and Mexico has progressing throughout the arid states St. the one of t.ml terrltoiles, plans for reclaiming works granted, the extradition of Louis bribe givers. and passed upon by prepared being Then can he no . crime more serious board ot nginwr before approval by than bribery. Other offenses violate one the Secretary of the Interior. Jn Arizona law, while corruption strikes at the founand Nevada, In localities where such dation of till law. Under our form of govwork Is needed, construcernment all authority la vested In the tion has already been begun. In other to those them and arid West the delegated by of people various projects parts who represent them In official capacity. are well advanced toward the drawing The exposure and punishment of public up of contracts, those being delayed In corruption Is an honor to a nation, not part by necessities of reaching agreea disgrace. The shame lies In toleration, ments or understanding as regards rights not In correction. No city or state, still of way or acquisition of real estate. Most less the nation, can be Injured by the of the works contemplated for construcenforcement of law. As long as public tion are if national Importance. Involvplunderers when detected can find a ing Interstate qiustlons or the securing haven of refuge In any foreign land and of stable, communities In avoid punishment. Just so long encourthe midst of vust tracts of vacant land. agement la given them to continue their The Nation as a whole Is of course the practices. If we fail to do all that tn us gainer by the creation of these homes, lies to stamp out corruption we can not adding as they do to the wealth and staescape our share of responsibility for the bility cf the country, and furnishing a guilt. The first requisite of successful home market for the products of the East Is unflinching enforcennu South. The reclamation law, while ment of the las and the cutting out of perhaps not Ideal, appeurs at present to answer the larger needs for which It Is corruption. Alaskan Boundary. designed. Further legislation Is not recuntil the necessities of change Tha message gives in detail the ommended are more apparent. 1 fn-du- m. ?', ' Postal Frauds. I speak In another part of this message of the widespread crimes by which the sacred right of citizenship Is falsely asserted and that "Inestimable heritage" perverted to base ends. By similar mean that Is, through frauds, forgeries, and perjuries, and by shameless briberies the lawa relating to the proper conduct of the public service In general and to the due administration ot the Postolfice department have been notoriously violated, and many Indictments have been found, and tha consequent prosecution are In course of hearing or on the eve thereof, F'or the teasons thus Indicated, and so that the Government may he preIn tho Philippines and Porto Rico, pared to enforce promptly and with the It Is declared, steady progress Is being such effect due the for penalties greatest violations of law, end to this end may made and the condition of the Islandhe furnished with sufficient Instrumentaliers already has been materially ties and competent legal assistance for the Investigations and trials which will be necessary at many different points of Receipts of General Land Office. the country. I urge upon the Congress On the subject of the public lands said of the approthe necessity making of use the for Immediate country the message says: available for priation all such purposes, to be expended under The cash receipts of the General Land Office for the last fiscal year were the direction of the .Attorney-Genera- l. an increase of $1,762,816.47 over Need for Treaties Making Bribery the preceding year. Of this sum, approxExtraditable. imately. $S, 461 403 will go to the credit Steps have been taken by the State of the fund for the reclamation of arid Department .looking to the making of land, making the total of this fund, up forbribery an extraditable offense with to the 30th of June. 1903, approximately, eign powers. The need of more effective $16,191,836. manifest. is this crime treaties covering been A gratifying disposition has The 'exposures end prosecutions of of- evinced by those having unlawful ficial corruption In St. Louis. Mo., and land to remove their other cities and states have resulted In fences. of public Nearly two million acres so ina number of givers and takers of bribes closed have been thrown open on de- for adjudication. Claim Against Venezuela. Referring to the success which crowned the efforts of the United With regards to the Improvement of States to have the Venezuelan distho American merchant marine the submitted to Impartial arbitrapute President recommends that the Con- tors the President says: of the gress direct the Secretary There seems good ground for ths beNavy, the Postmaster General, and tho lief that there ha been a real growth the civilized nation of sentiSecretary of Commerce and Labor, as- among ment which will permit a gradual subsociated with such a representation stitution of other methods than th from the Senate and House of Repre- method of wnr In the settlement of disI not pretended that a yet sentatives as the Congress in Its wis- pute. It dom may designate, to serve as a com- we are near a position In which It will be possible wholly to prevent war, or mission for the purpose of Investigat- that a Just regard for natlonnl Interest ing and reporting to the Congress at and honor will In all casea permit of Its next session what legislation is de- the settlement of International disputes by arbitration; but by a mixture ot prusirable or necessary for the develop- dence and firmness with wisdom w think ment of the American merchant ma- It possible to do away with much of rine and American commerce, and In- the provocation and excuse for war, and least In many case to substitute some cidentally of a nattonnl ocean mall at other and more rational method for th scrvlco of adequate auxiliary naval settlement of dispute The Hugo court Capital and Labor. offer so good an example ot what ran Tho consistent policy of the national cruisers anil navel reserves. On the subject of Immigration the be done In th direction of such settlegovernment, ao far a It hu the power, ment that It should be encouraged In U to hold In check the unscrupulous man. message culls attention to the report every way. whether employer or eniploe; but to re- of a commlitoe of New York citizens President McKinley, tn hi mesfute to weaken Individual Initiative or ot high standing. Messrs. Arthur . sage) of Dec. 6, 1S98, urged that tho to hamper or ernmp the Industrial development of the country We recognise Vrlosen, I.eo K. Krnnkcl, Eugene A. Executive be authorized to cprrexpond that this ta an or of freedom end com- Phllbln, Thomas W. Hynes, and Ralph with the governments of the principal bination, In whuh gnat capitalistic corporations and luhni unions have become Trautnmn, whhh deals with the whole maritime power with a view ot Infactor of tremendous Importance In all situation at length, and concludes with Into the permanent law of Industrlil center, licnrtv recognition I certain recommendations for admlnlu-trntlv- e corporating civilized bill Iona the principle of the beneficent the woik gtveh and lesiislntlve action. It Is exemption of all private property at been accomptishr d through which ha both corporations end unions, and the now receiving the attention of the aoa, nut contraband of war, from capline at Let ween different corporations, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. ture or destruction by belligerent t hot different unions, drawn a The mesf-accontinues: powera. It Wien dllToloni Individuals; that Artl-Tru- t beLaws. President Roosevelt say he corI. Ittola drawn on tomluct, thei effort and treat both organized On the subject of the antitrust dially renewa this recommendation, as ipll.il ing ouamred labor a'lfic asking nothi g measures which have been dealt with ft matter ot humanity and morals. Vi t'o Inloiast of tnoh )al he bt out-li- t Consular Service. the President says: Into L.timony with the liihaiit of the by tho Congro-1 call your attention ta th redueed tn my Int annual message, In eonneo-gre-r- u oohllc, and that the conduct of emit hs; cottfoitn t, the run, lament il tlan with the pf th due rum', tn maintaining the consular service for ruh-r rmitng June 39, Ri'jJ, a t of i'n;lull which th fiscal nhe 'mm 0 to law, or until .dual lien nf combl-intlofind f.i.r tleoni g are nr may b. in injurious to the pub- shown In th annual report of th Audof .1'.. nt. leal a special approprla-(iu- tl itor fur th Biato and o'hrr departments, alt Win is or cither to'pota. lic, t too o, done- 'nr the better enfurotnnt of the a compared w Ith th yar previous. For nm. Uuui union, or Individual 1 the th year under consideration on of expenditures over receipts to of the consular service amounted ' J 125.12. as against $96,972.60 for the h for ending June 30. VM. DO.and1M.$I4..0IThis w Job year ending June co i best showing In this respect for they sular eervleo for the past fourteen and thft reduction in the cost of the nlft loo to the Government for spit of the fact that the expenditure more than the year In question $20,000 greater than fur the previous lar. Service. Rural service bos been The rural attention of the steadily extended. The to the question of Congress Is asked 11)0 letter carriers and Preservation of Forests. The President points out the necessity of taking steps for the preservation of our forests, especially at the headwaters of streams. Of the cotton-weevhe says: The States hav recently been Invaded by a weevil that ha done much damage and threatens the entire cotton Industry. I suggest to the Congress the prompt enactment of such remedial legislation aa Ita Judgment may il cotton-growin- approve. g Isthmian Canal. The causes leading up to tha establishment of tho new republic of Panama, and Its recognition by the United States are given In much detail, as follows: By the act of June 28, 199. the Congress authorized th President to enter Into treaty with Colombia for the buildthe Wtiitnus nt ing of the canal aero lnninu: it being provided that In the event of failure to secure eueh treaty after the laps of a rrnannnhl time, recourse should be hud to building a canal not been through Nicaragua. It ha this alternative, a necessary to I am enabled to ley before tho Senate a treaty providing for th building of the canal across the Isthmus of l'nnama. This was the route which commended Itaelf to th deliberate Judgment of the t engrest, and we can now acquire by treaty th right to construct the canal over this route. The question now. therefore, Is rot by which rout the Isthmian canal ahull be built, for that question has been definitely and Irrevocably decided. Th question Is simply whether or not w shall have an Isthmian canal. this Governmint enIn th year tered Into a trmty with Sew Granada, th predecessor upon th Isthmus of th itepublio of Colombia and of ths present Itepublio of Panama, by which treaty It was provided that the Government and citizen of ths United (Gate should always hav free and open right of way nr transit across the Isthmus of Panama by any mode of communication that might be constructed, while In return our Government guaranteed the perfect neutrality of the vlsw th with the thst Isthmus (re transit from th on to the other e might not be Interrupted or embarrassed. The treaty vested In t,h United H:te a substantial property right carved out of the rights of sovereignty snd property which New Oi anuria then had and po. seseed over the Jtd territory The mm of New Urnnait Ion passed eeay and lie territory h turn dirt. led Us ucte.r, the Government of Colombia, lue c"ej com-lde- r ',, Colombia, has now which first one and itheJ formerly exercised over isfhmu But as long aa the Isthmus the geographical fact of Itscu ar Interest there1st e m 'e! a t he in which is required by our PoaUiom nernctmi'te the s()lrmn conract 'vhlc bolder of the territory Uireour Tight to treedom of transit across It, and binds us in return to safe- and the world the inestimable privilege, exMcVooVVw of the obliga The true interpretationUnited b tales on upon which the 1810 has been given Ilred in this treaty of of repeatedly in the utterances of State. Secretary n a and Secretaries the stated cavi in I'M officially follows: position of-- tills Governmentof as events has rendered The prog to: narrow the Intel oc ani- route across the Ameiica vastly impor- l oitlon of (Mittal rlt to the commercial world, and espewhose poscially to the United States, and sessions extend along the Atlantic Pacific coasts, uml dunand the speediest and easiest modes of communication. of the While the rights of sovereignty states occupying this region should he injected, we shall expect that spirit these lights be exorcised In awants end tho occasion nnd the y clrcumstanci s that have arisen, bus its duties ns well as Its lights, and none of these loeal governments, even If administered with more regaid to the Just demands of other nations than would he permitted. In a they have bet n, to close the sphit of eastern isolation, high-wagates of Intercourse on the great act by of the world, and Justify the the pretension that these avenues of trade nnd travel belong to them and that or, what is they choose to shut them, to encumber them almost equivalent, with such unjust relations as would prevent their general use." Seven years later. In 1865, Mr. Seward took the folIn different communications lowing position: The United States have taken and will take no Interest In any question of Internal revolution In the State of Panama. or any State of the United States of Colombia, but will maintain a perfect neutrality In connection with such domestic altercations. The United Slates will, nevertheh ss. hold themselves ready to protect the transit trade across the Isthmus against Invasion of either domestic or foreign disturbers of the peace Neither of the State of Panama. the text nor the spirit of the stipulation in that article by which the United States engagps to preserve the neutrality of the Isthmus of Panama. Imposes an obligation on this Government to comply with of the President of the the requisition United States of Colombia for a force to protect the Isthmus of Panama from a body of Insui gents of that country). The purpose of the stipulation was to guarantee the Isthmus Hgalnst seizure or invasion by a foreign power only. For four hundred years, ever since shortly after the discovery of this the canal across the Isthmus has een planned. For two score years It has been worked at. When made It is to list for the ages. It Is to alter the geography of a continent and toe trade mutes of tho world. We have shown by every treaty we have negotiated or attempted to negotiate with tne peoples in control of the Isthmus and with foreign nations In reference thereto our consistent good faith In observing otlr obligations; on the one hand to the peoples of the Isthmus, and on the other hand to the rlvlltzed world whose commercial Jghts we are soft guarding and guaran-teeln- g by our action. We have done our duty to otliers in letter and lq spirit, nnd we have shown the utmost forbearance In exacting our own rights. Last spring, under the act above referred to. a treaty concluded between the representatives of the Itepublio of Colombia and of our Government was ratified by the Senate. This treaty was entered Into nt the urgent solicitation of the people of Colombia nnd after a body of expei ts appointed by our Government especially to go Into the matter of the routes across the Isthmus bad pronounced unanimously In favor of the Panama mute. In drawing up this treaty every concession was made to the anil to the Government of Colombia.people Wo than Just In dealing witn them. Our generosity was such as to make it a question whether we had not gone too far In their interest at the of our own; for In our scrupulous expense Ucslie to pay all possible heed, not merely to the real but even to the fancied tights of our weaker neighbor, who already owed so much to our protection and forbearance, ws yielded In nil possible wavs to her desires In drawing ttp the treaty. s the Government of Colombia not merely repudiated the treaty, but repudiated It In such manner as to make It e blent by the time the Colombian Congress adjourned that not ths scantiest hope remained of ever getting a satisfactory treaty from them. Tho Government of Colombia mnde tho treaty, and was !h'n hc Colombian called to ratify it th vote Congress ratification was unanimous. It against does not that th Government made any real ffort to secure ratification. Revolution in Panama. Immediately aftT the of the Congress a revolutionadjournment broke out In Panama. The people of Panama had long been dlseont-nte- d with the Republic of Co.otnbla, ant) had been ouh t thy oniy by th preset of tho conclusion of th treaty, which waa to them a mat-te- r of vital concern. When It became ,h' treaty was lost, th people of Panama rosehopelessly literally na on man. Not a shot was fired hv u ingl man on the Isthmus In ths Interest Colombian Government. ? ;ut a wa ,! ,hl accomplishment " of th revomt.on The Colombian troop stationed on the Uthtmis, who had been unpaid, made comm on cause long with the people of Pamtina. and with aston Uhlng unanimity the new repuMle was The duty of th. United Ht'.. in the premise was char In strict ne- ordancs wdth the principle quw- "nJ Reward In H lal document above quoted, ths the of Mates gave not,r that It would United , (h landing of no fore (ha arrival of whuh expeditionary would m"en chime snd d strut tion along the line of the rail road and of tho propos.d canal, of interruption transit ,,n fnovitnb'2 eon,equcnee. The de facto Governm, nt of Panama was reeoK,,l,.od th log teiegram to Mr. Khrinun: Th people of Panama have, by Pwntl, mrv(rmrt, dl'nolvni their political connection with th rt. public of Colombia and In" dependence. When you rumed nr. atltu'd tl.ai A aft ffti to ROVprnnirnt. form snd without a u t a t i n tTa i I! n,?-'! , .rum It, own people, has suc-Gr"- ami rfVe0 - Z tiover-Plent- hem-spher- wen-mor- Never-theles- np-pe- sta-te- d. nj i nn ft n$t proprnv Slate a,id $if t VnH ' 8,n,c:r?o d to own any prooertv In the new republic, thst of Panama, which wee at on time a snveieisn slut, and at another time a mere depsrtment of th successive contedeiatlons known New e other for nearly a yearaJn,U'11a: eorb t experience of over half shown Colombia to be utteri?1.! k of keeping order on the ihllrpU1,k4Ii the active Interference -- 0 States ha ermbbuf her i,', ,ln lt, much a a semblance of over!a,!?rv !f n.ot becn. for tha exorcise bv , state of the police pl)wer la r her connection with the have been sundered long up in 1873. in 1885. in bui I.,1"18 sailor 8.11" and matlnos .Lwi States war ships wete u.reeit ln4 order to patrol the isthmus Ufa and property, and to w I860, 1902, f,-- , open. In 1861, in 1302, In Ln5 waa hd M l. the Colombian Government .i b United States Government wIm1 ta troops to protect Its Interests an k ttiu' tain order on tho isthmus most extraordinary request has Just been received and"wh?Btkw!u' ft. as follows: liiiaiL!e.!?iut.i(,n ha. alrej commenced Panama Ian emi. lomhlan says that if the Govern' the United States will land tm0D, meat top, serve Colombian soversin.. transit, if requested by Colombia? d'affaires, this Government will s i tint Jaw; and.by virtue of VestM! C itltutlonal authority, when pubUe3 Is restored, will approve by dect-ratification of the canal treaty a or. If the Government of the i:7 State prefers, will call extra SeSsuf the Congress with new and tru'' members next May to treaty. An eminent Colombian hL.dtfi perfect confidence of I ! says, and If It became necessary to the Isthmus or send renVes, there to adjust matters along above to the satisfaction of the people tC This dispatch Is notew. th from i Its offer t immedbL1 standpoints. guaranteeing the treaty to us is B contrast with the positive and tuous refusal of the Congress whlcHl its sessions to consider : just closed vorably such a treaty; It show th4ta Government which made the treaty r had absolute control over the eitu&a! but did not choose to exercise thij trol. The dispatch further calls oe , to restore order and secure Colomb supremacy ln the Isthmus from which q i -- J Colombian Government has Just b action decided to bar us by prevents the construction of the canal. Importanca oi Peace in Isthmut The control. In the Interest of the cod merce and traffic of the whole clvtn world, of the means of undisturbed tn j sit across tho Isthmus of Panama ht become of transcendent Importance the United States. We have reputed exercised this control by Intervening the course of domestic dissension, protecting the territory from foreig In 1853 Mr. Everett nom- Invasion. the Peruvian minister that we hesitate to maintain the nentnlr of the isthmus In the case of wtr b tween Peru and Colombia, in C: lombia, wnlch has always been vl!li' Its ot Itself to avail privileges contm by the treaty, expressed Its expected that ln the event of war between Spain the United States would ar Into effect the guaranty of rtm-no- t 1SS4 neutral.-Ther- have been few administration! the State Department In which ll treaty lias not. either by the on i. or the other, been uccd as a bask more or less Important demands. It ts said by Mr. Fish In 1871 that the of State had reason to believe th: an attack upon Colombian sovereip on tho Isthmus had, on several ooe slons, been averted by warning froath In 1SS6, when Colombia Government. under the menace of hostilities fr Italy In the Cerruti case, Mr. Eayarte pressed the serious concern that United Stales could not but feel, thl European power should resort to torn .against a sister republic ot thtiVau phere. as to tho sovereign and unlaw rupted use of a part ef whose temtori we are guarantors under the solemn h of a treaty. Treaty With Republic of Panama. Every effort has been made by the On eminent of the United States to pemuli Colombia to follow a couise which v essentially not only to our Interest! g; to the Interests of the world, buttstt. interests of Colombia itself. Then i hnvc failed; und Colombia, hr b persistence In repulsing the advance tie: have been made, has forced us. test sake of our own honor, and of the tw- ist and not merely of onrr, people, but of the people of tne bthoal of Panama nnd the people of the clrllivit countries of the world, to take dcclsoj steps to bring to an end a condltloa w, affair which bad become lntolerabk The new Republic of Panama Immediate ly offered to negotiate a treaty with This treaty I herewith submit. Interests are better safeguarded thu W the treaty with Colombia which wuntH lied by the Bcnate at Its lost sesdoattH better In ita terms than the treaties H fored to us by the Republics of Mcamj gua and Costa Itlca. At Inst th rtU? M to begin this great undertaking available, lnnama has done hef j All that remains Is for the America gress to do Its part nnd forthwith Itepublio will enter upon of a project rolnssn! .. Incalculable , good nf tbia country and th nstlc mankind. well-bein- Pr! I W-- wrll-nlg- Provisions of Treaty. ttH By the provisions of the treaty ) United Ftntes gnat nntees and will Min the Independence of the Republic) I I'nnnma. There Is granted to State In petpetulty the use, occupac!! and control of a strip ten mile wld-- t i Int j xiindlug three nautical mile I14 ? a nt either terminal, with all f "" tig otilsliie of the tone necessary eniistruetlon of the ennal or for Its llliiry works, and with th l"''indlPM lb ty of Uitniim.i Th cities f ( mi Colon are not In th .one. but the United Btat.n a' their sanitation and. ln cas of maintenance of order therein: ' I J .ttiitea rnjoya within the granted .! all the rights, power, and authority It would posses were It the I th 111 territory to the exclusion ofRep11 I the ercls of soveii-igrights by All railway and canal property r,t;hu k,f longing to Paniima and needed canal pass to I he United Btates. inow ng any property of the respect nnles In tie cities of Panama n" Inn: the wnr..a, property, and of the ennui nnd railways ar from taxation ns well In th clt rL lnnama mal Colon as In ths Free I nt m tgj nnd Its dependencies. of the piisiqinel and Importation -piles for the const! urt Inn and ope id the rnnul are granted. ProvUlo made fur the tie of military tho building of fortifications h Y h 4 ed Stale for the protection of ths sit. In other del a Is. particularly th acquisition of ths Inlcrtsia New Un im uia Canal company Panama uiiiwny by tb United 8tnl J th cundi innation of private property th use nt the ennui, ths stlpuiM o Hi treaty are dose if j, owed, wild th compn(Ul"n given fur the enlarged (BTHfltft the same, being ten ($ payable nq exchange of iiitub'ajj v beginning nlnn years fiom that durlns nnntiil psymrnt of $360,000 Ilf of the convention. ROOSEVEbi' 11 EG DURR White House. Dec. 7. 1000- . n-- (, , c1 Ilay-iiorrn- r:'f finmtdrt.ha v'iVn'm A list lung ',v,r'"ior- nt slut. o t tha ilNitirtnm-f- ' I!'" and .curt con- - Tim rurrd snd mhsr durli t), ' ' i ( ! q jet;,,,,; ' wnrrallo William of th oiilcft of Wesleyan and f'r twenty.four year Dldn',jiiry collcgffi ! dead- - !nl Ter Jjj |