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Show . PANAMA CANAL MATTER. Colombian Senate Has Appointed a Committee of Three. Washington. Aug. 25. Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge d'affaires at Washing- j ton tonight made public the text of the , latent dispatch received by him from Sen-or Sen-or Rico, the minister of foreign affairs I at Bogota, regarding the isthmian canal i negotiations. Only a gcnfral referer.-e J heretofore has been made in the d;s- , patches showing the feeling in Colombia j toward the canal project and the ap-nointment ap-nointment of a committee of the senate i to take up the matter. The text of the cablegram which was received in Y ash- i lir-ton on the lft and which has been j sent to the stale department, follows: "The senate, considering that the Co-' Co-' lom'ii.m people arc desirous of .maintain- , I ln the most cordial relations with the ! CnVed States and that the construction of the canp.l is of the greatest important-- to the universal American commerce, has I appointed a committee of three senators to device the manner of satisfying the vehement desire for the excavation of a Panama canal, harmonizing national interests in-terests and legality." |