Show CABINET TALKS I I BIG CANAL 4 e the Advantages of the Proposed Routes and Cost REPUBLICS ARE AVARICIOUS t I tOTE AND AiD COLOM ilIA WT MONEY t t X 1 April cab T VV Iv IR fRet t held beld a hort today during the relative ot of the and aDd NIer guan goan rn pt in n with the th canal were Weft dl B Iloth tb will Ite be at oaro aib mUted t On The president is whatever deter determination on onre nay come me to as to t the relative merits of tile the two routes that e la y 7 be reeled reached at this A compari oa of the out of the thea a or treaties made by the state department with Colombia In re to tb the Panama canal and with and CoRa Coata Rica as to the Nicaragua canal shows abow a general re in the scope of the arrange m ments but important differences In de details tails One point ot of e is the amount cf money mony to be paid down dowa at once by the United Stat States government to the country making the eo n nin in aeh ease ca e thia In 18 1 It If the Panama route Is chosen Colombia gets all of o If the choice falls on the Nicaragua route ua will receive O and aad Co Costa t Rica 4 A good deal of de t that has bas oc 00 occurred la Ia c th tb arrange arronge ments menta w was to the In reaching a basis basta of division as between Nicaragua and CostA RIca Bica nd this Is generally fixed upon as b to is toone isone one la In favo 0 of NI a aNo No is Ie made In th the lan nian for the t st any annual matter wiD be left lett t fatur of ours UtIe it l i expected i that SO rant r WIP be charged The TIte m as to the Ni Nicaragua gua cIne ally state the rent to be paid p which I is 3 r of which 1 Nicara nL go Rm all get shout 11 N and Costa Rica Ri I While this relit is nOminal i it t serves a In Inthe inthe 1 the or of the I namely to C rt the nomi nominal sovereignty nal ol of N Nicaragua lid and ta C taRtt ovet on thE Ite through Which the i s eat The original was to pay It a lump the lion tion of 18 rent for fOT 1 y year Put but the prefer r to t have the m pAid r Arly hi of sever anit in consideration of tIK th al 1 allowance l lowance n of wish in tJ this matter nutter they rone to the 1 th of sink tug the to th the United States per i s against the I year renew renewable able leaF Iem of the Colombian agree nent 7 N Neither ither 0 the or ta Costa yet received too the full powers power from frons th their r government ne necessary essary to the perfection of oC t the treaties L Lr The r e question Ion of the ft eal agency In Inthe Inthe the alSo was discussed Rd by bythe the cabinet but no was reached ached and aud It wag stated that none nonen era n hi be until the attorney general ran reo randers den ders opinion on the power of the Guar Gnat amy Trust company to keep ItS Ita |