Show According to the reports Colombia does not want the Isthmian canal built within her boundaries Her new demand de-mand Is that the United States shall pay twenty live million dollars In cash for the privilege of spending a hundred I and fifty millions more at Panama and Colombia to retain complete and unquestioned un-questioned Jurisdiction of the whole region re-gion with her purchaseable ofilclals her venal courts and her Interminable > pro crasllnallona all of which would paralyze para-lyze commerce and make the canal of but little practicable use after it were built If that Is I the best that Colombia has to offer then this country will have to go to Nicaragua or else take possession posses-sion of the French companys holdings nnd build the canal In spite of Colombia Colom-bia paying her nothing and hold the sovereignty over as much of the region as Is necessary for the purposes of the canal and Its trafilc Including the cities and harbors at each end |