Show TAFT URGES PAYMENT recommends that congress begins paying annual sum to panama washington in a special message to congress on tuesday president taft urgently recommends the immediate appropriation of for tho the first annual payment to panama under the terms of the treaty by which panama gave the united states permission to build the panama canal the treaty provided that in addition to in gold paid for the canal zone an annual sum of was to be paid as long as the treaty existed beginning nine years after ratification ot of tho the treaty |