Show PANAMAS PANAMA'S REPLY TO CRITICISM PANAMA AKA Feb 1 The I.-The The charges s 's made in tho the American rican congress con recently by Representative e Henry Henri T. T Rainey of Illinois Illi 1111 no nois is against Domin Domingo o do a president lent dent of Panama and others have brou brought ht out denials from tho the president and sixteen members of tho the national as as- em The Tue ap have bare signed nerl a statement statement state state- ment asserting that the they were present at st a meeting in tho the presidents president's where hero tho the contract for the exploitation of ot the timber industry along alons the Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic coast of Panama was discussed and that during the tho meeting neither Pr President President si- si dent nor any my one else said or implied that Charles P. P Taft William Nelson Cromwell or Roger ROJer 1 L L. Farnham Jm had l any m direct or indirect participation in In the bug business ness Among those thOM signing the statement are arc Dr Pablo Arosemena Julio and other prom prominent opposition opposition op Ope op- op position leaders of the thc assembly Concerning some of the charges e President Pres ident has hns given out omit tho following following follow follow- iD ing statement for publication c My attitude while in the th Colombian congress of 1903 1103 and my entire public lifo Iio aro arc beyond tho the r reach ach of slanderers Time The Arias Amador-Arias government was riot not overthrown o hut but after the expiration of its constitutional term was defeated in ina in ina a n freo fren r n election At the meeting in my ray office neither Mr r. r Ehrman nor any oth other r outsider was wa present and no mention was made le of Charles P. P Taft William Nelson Cromwell Cromwell Crom Crom- w well ll or Roger J. J L. L J Farnham Tho The railway proposal was presented to tho assembly by br y a Mr 1 Ward and was rejected The Tho ho assembly then enacted a la law authorizing the to construction of a railway with ith national na na- na funds to l become national prop erty Mr Ehrman's timber contract was wa al also o rejected by the tho a assembly where a hill bill is now now being beine discussed regulating tho the forc foreign exploitation on thc the AU Atlantic antic coast h between tween the tha rh river r Conception and Costa Rica including tho the entire Chagres valley Pr President has rl discharged a local government employee cp who ho published nub pub pith a pamphlet criticising Wil William iam Nelson Cromwell and President Roose Roose- velt |