Millard County Chronicle | 1913-02-27 | Page 4 | Taft Urges Payment.

TAFT URGES PAYMENT. Recommends That Congress Begins Paying Annual Sum to Panama. Washington. In a sptnial messagi to congress on Tuesday, President Tart urgently recommends the ttum dlate appropriation of $250,000 for ths first annual payment to Panama, under un-der the terms of tbe treaty by which Panama gave the United States permission per-mission to build the Panama canal Tbe treaty provided that. In addition to 1 10.000,000 la gold paid for the canal zone, an annual sum of $250,000 was to be paid as long aa the treaty eilsted, beginning nine years after ratification of the treaty. j