Show PANAMA CANAL TREATY ALMOST READY TO SiGN Colombia Thinks It Ought to Have a Bonus WILLING TO WAIT FOR MONEY Wants United States to Pay 25000000 French Company Has Option at Bigger Big-ger Figures but Undo Sams Credit Is Better New York Oct 10 Tsrnael Enrique Arolniegna of the Colombian diplomatic diplomat-ic service hun arrived in this city on his way to Washington with special I dispatches containing instructions for i Dr roma Jlcrran the Colombian I Minister concerning the Panama canal I I treaty Pie also is the bearer of the I i text of the amendments to the treaty I made by the Senate of Colombia Und r President Ilarroquln WANTS A BONUS The only condition on which the Colombian Government is now prepared pre-pared to conclude the pending treaty he said Is the payment of 21000000 by 1 the United States for the advantage advan-tage It would receive and an agreement agree-ment to let the territory t remain a part I of Colombia I WANT TUB CANAL There are just as strong advocate of the construction of the canal In my country as In the United States he said Tn fact everybody understands that It would be of some material I benefit ben-efit to us and that the relations Into which it would bring us with such a great country as the United Slates would he of great use to a small country coun-try such ns ouis The people want it have wanted It for a long time and know that they will get it some day UNITED STATES WOULD GAIN However there is a pretty general fueling that the United States will gain a great deal more out of this canal 1 than we not only In the long run but from the very stare PO It Is argued that I Continued on Pane 2 r |