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Show MAKE STRONG DENIAL. President of Panama Republic Says Charges of Rainey Are False. Panama. -The charges made in the American congress recently by Representative Rep-resentative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois Illi-nois against Domingo de Obaldia, president of Panama, and others have brought cut denials from the president and sixteen members of the national assembly. The assemblymen have signed a statement asserting that they were present at a meeting in the president's pres-ident's office where the contract for the exploitation of the timber industry indus-try along the Atlantic coast of Panama Pan-ama was discussed and that during the meeting neither President Obaldia nor any one else said or implied that Charles P. Taft, William Nelson -Cromwell or Roger L. Farnham had any direct or indirect participation in the business. Among those signing the statement are Dr. Pablo Arosemena, Julio Febregar and other prominent opposition leads of the assembly. |