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Show BLUNDER WAS MADE IN TAKING PANAMA ROUTE. i 8EATTLE. May 12. Senator 'John H. Mitchell paid a visit to Seattle today returning home to Oregon. Senator Mitchell is a strong .. advocate of the Isthmian canal project. He said: ' "I have always been strongly in favor of an Isthmian canal, but I think a great blunder was made when the Panama route was selected. I don't think much more attention need be paid to the telegraphic tele-graphic reports of the opposition in Colombia Co-lombia against the canal concession. There is no doubt in my mind but that the Colombian politicians are putting up a bluff in order to get a share of the large sum of money the United States is paying for the right to build the canaL in the end the treaty will be ratified." |