Show I r Impossible To Find Out Washington Dec Dee 16 Pres dent Roosevelt today sent to congress congre s a let ter of the secretary of war transmitting tr a memorandum prepared by Judge Charlton Chariton of the bureau of insular affairs af rs and Richard R H Rogers the gen eral emI counsel of the Isthmian canal commission co bearing further upon the charges that Americans were interested in the Panama canal property at the time of the purchase by the United States The memorandum states that at the time the be property was transferred It Included the archives and they are now in possess on of this government Examination of these archives by Charlton and Rogers show however that neither at the time of the first examination nor now were i there any lists of stockholders In the old or new Panama Canal companies except those hose contained in the formal minutes The minutes of the last meet ing prior to the transfer of ot the property were not contained In the archives i surrendered and the law officers say that the United States government has T no concern In them It Its is believed to be impossible therefore to gather for I the records the names of Americans if I any any who profited by the sale saIe L of the property j 1 |