Show 4 H 4 M t M t. 4 M 4 M t 44 t 4 MM 4 4 M i-M-M 44 4 tM 4 4 4 t 4 M 4 4 MM 4 I 4 f M 9 t M I f MM f THE CAN CANAL L PROBLEM i 4 4 4 4 4 e t e t t I 4 4 44 t Senator Morgan and other friends of the isthmian isthmian m mian an canal proposition are making a a. brave effort to some secure favorable action upon it at atthe the present present present pres pres- ent session of Congress but the prospects are not not- good as matters stand In the Senate Senate yesterday the Committee on Isthmian an Canals sub submitted a report adverse to the bill bilI of Senator Hoar placing the selection selection selection se se- se- se I lection of a a canal route in the hands of the dent Among Among other matters the report discusses the attitude of Colombia toward the canal question and explains that were her offer i ir in- in connection with t the e Panama route accepted a long delay would result re re- re- re sult suit suit-a sult-a sult a delay cunningly provided for r in an article of her protocol with our Government The report goes on to osay say Colombia Colombians Is ls anxious to get rid of the Panama Canal company com corn pany without U giving offence c to France so that s she can seize and possess all ng the y plants I f oX of W tile the eF canal rc company ul all r the l lands and houses it owns In Panama including the great hospital the machine shops and wharVes at Colon all the vast cry In use by the Pana ma Canal company the Hie hospitals an another and other houses the palace built for tor De Lesseps and his hla sons ons and become the owner of or It it along alone with the Panama company com corn pany which reverts to her In 1966 If It this convention should be adopted not only would delav delay de de- lay lav attend the opening of or the canal but the United States will assume obligations to the world that It will be Impossible to keep and relations a o with Colombia that will v deprive the canal n of a all r value af to the e U United ef States f and will make k f it a cause a of Irritation that must Involve the most serious s. s So SQ we get a a- glimpse of th tb the interminable maze maze in which the canal question has has' become become be be- come involved The great project which has been the dream o of Am American rican statesmen en and all Amer American merican can patriots for three quarters of a century seems no nearer accomplishment t than m it was when Wren the iniquitous iniquitous in in- Bulwer Clayton tr its pra pray pray- fical consideration for half halfa a c century r j |