Show hi it 1 Among the explanation of the defeat m of the Isthmian canal treaty at Bogota il perhaps the most plausible and every way comprehensive from the Colombian Colom-bian standpoint > is that the design is i c ii to keep the United States in play on fc r this question for the next fourteen I t l j months at the expiration of which time I t 3 the French canal companys ranchl i j4 c Ifc I 1 1 will eplre The hope then would be ii rl > 1 that thc forty million dollars this country I t Li i I coun-try is to pay the French company I would be paid to Colombia and the ten I million dollars and annual rentals be I c Ij I nldes 1 Its a great programme 1 but many things can happen In fourteen t months |