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Show 3 law as It now stands, X t expended under the direction of e y l. Accordingly (by u, Ulatlve, executive and judicial , of ion set February &. print font vd .rd), the Congress apfilpp, fur (he purpose of enforcing th hederal in t snd lu(rrsit-co-Ilaws, the sum of live hundred doi.a r to b- - exirended under th X g In tlon of the Att plojnient of special counsel urtg of Justice to In the iJetartmem pro, 6 dliige and pro-- e ti'iuns laws tn the ui.rls of Ut, I r.itn grog 1 now rrvommiMl aa u matter of ths p most Imjor'an - and uiency, tlw eg-Si on of the impcs of id's tlon so H ,t It tr a b available, the d m tloTi at tue Att ur il uv i for t) e . . Lr , tr Uw-- f ) of ! r g ,uPU lav k anti-tru- PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO torney-Genera- CONGRESS FIFTY-EIGHT- H mpcy-Gener- Chief Executive Recommends Passage of Important Legislatiori Causes Leading to the Formation of Obstruction Now the New Republic of Panama-N- o to the Building of the Isthmian Canal Venezuelan Dispute a Triumph for International Arbitration Extension of Purposes of Appropriation for Enforcing Trust and Interstate Commerce Laws Favored Public Land and Postal Frauds Need for Treaties Making Bribery Extraditable Relations of the Government to Capital and Labor. Chargee the Colombian Government with Acting In Bad Faith In Repudiating the Treaty Between That Country and the United States Precedents Brought Forward to Explain try the Attitude of the Slate Department in the Recent, Has Been In an Almost Constant State of Turmoil for Many Years The Importance of Preserving Peace in the Isthmus Declared of Paramount Importance. fht President Crisis-Coun- UStf the year under consideration the excess of expenditure over receipts on account of tha consular service amounted to IJti 1212, as against 836S72M (or the year and 1147 to 1 for rhe ending J we 3U, ! This ts tha year ending June 31) 131 beat show it g In tHs respect fur the con. sular tcrvlts for the past fourteen y ef- tc and the Jetton Ir t e coat of the to the Onv rnmrnt lias htn made in rptte of the fact that the eip nittur for the year In mure than U0.GQO Kratt-- r than for ! he jt.ar Rural Service. t rv si e has been The rural frot-tPsjidily extend 1 Thu uti ntton of the -- r! will they number U for the 57 years Unearthat one of them lasted for ly thrte years oefo-- e it was quelled, another for nearly a year in slant, th exreritnre of over 1 ilf a ctrt iry has and Colombia, has now sucto the rlgnts which first one and then tbe other formerly exercised over the Isthmus. But as tong as the Isthmus endure the mere geofc a; bli al (act of Us existence, and ti e peculiar interest therein which 1' required by otir poli cm. (te eok mi cor tract wlu.n pcrfitJi'e hinds the ho lers of i'i territory to reto ' of trai,-,i- t spect our across it. at u mi ts t.s in reiuru to safeard the sor'd the guard for tn exercise of that :i pnih-he true it rclai. u of tht oi caI i in a tions upin w!Uh ii b.it.) Granada rv-l- Frec-Dfeliveii be noted ceeded lu fisktd to the of ill Coiigr compensation of the Ujrter carriers and talks engdMd in the postal erke 1! tht nt w rural ery ivuwa. Mor mutes hace been installed n of tins c of iM ha-- me utuiuticr r. in Ca-- s t si-- In fe. I jries of to b s 'ale illy nai.d 11 , n of clou I'u - -- -. ot this Gojernmtnl as toioas 1 t.e of t,e. has rird. led jii rt s route n - ttr raiiow the InUivf-ai.Of Ju'y last tbn In an, h i Annina vast's lu.por portion ef t like period In th? dipartmmts hittorv and -, While a due regard to , onomy must be tnr.t totothe crmnieru-- l woild, whoee U .s to'atm tie lnild IT In In new mind the tit of ft Tf riHtura G 4 mnj establlshm, I kept aesslona extmd a'ong (he Atlantic aid yet the , vtemdon of the rural I'acih- - coasts, ard . h vr TT, t the ot du d.tnand s; ' ay mem must be continued s of corrm.uu.oa u n No and easu st mod. fur reasons of Round public policy s of sovereignty of the While tbe ifOvernmrnt.il movement of recent ear region s( ould ha reUittU in greater Immediate hem tit slatis beoccui Mug this it peeled we shall expect tl at to the people of the lountry dUtnc be- (xeicls.d In a the-,,.trit rights Kur&l free delivery, taken In connection the occaeton and the wants ard vIth th telephone the bh tie. and the circumstance bovii-ignttlat have -- trolley, accomplishes much toward ' lx hardly nm has Ha duties as well as Its rights J ening the luolatlxin of farm Ilf? nd mak. and none lo al of thes. governments ir a':! brighler and more attractive In .he neT?,?. if administered with more regard to I th Immediate past the laik of juat uth even TTnetiv iii .. Hniv nnnlkhfnv of other nations than the demands just j Fj facilities a there baa dilvrn many of the been would be permitt.d, in a enutn. I more native and restlew men and they liave young spirit of eastern isolation, to close the rosiat rrauas. j women from tbe farma to me cities; for Intercourse on the great high-waI tp.ak In another part of this kteaxg) they rebelled at lonellne and lack of gates ofof the woild and justify the act by of the widespread crimes by whfcd.iq.1 mental companionship It unhealthy that these avenues of pretension .aired right of Utlxemthlp la faUtlyiwI and undesirable for the cities to grow at the and travel belong to them and that .erted and that Inestimable torttagf I the expense of the country; and rural trade choose to shut them, or what is aa free delivery 1. not only a good thing they perverted to baw ernix. By similar almost equivalent, to encumber them that 1, through fraud., forger, jn ftaelf. but 1 good because It Is one with auch unjust relations as would preperjurle. and by .hamelea brtbre- - of the cause which check thui unwhole-tlaw re.atlng to th proper eoaixti .ome tendency toward, the urban con-o- f vent their general use Seven years later in 1865, Mr. Seward the public wrvlce In general u j B centratlon of our population at the due admlni.tratlon of tha P6Mof6a pense of the country districts. It is for In different communications took the folposition' department have been notoriously tha same reaeon that wa sympathise with lowing The United States have taken and la ted. and many Indictments hay. bm. and approve of th policy of building will take no interevt In anv question of found, and the consequent proMctttlcsl road. The movement for good Internal revolution in the State of Bahare In course of hearing or on th e good roads la on fraught with the greatest ama, or.any Slate of the United States of thereof. For the reasons thus Indkatti benefit to the country districts. Colombia, but will maintain a perfect and so that the Government may b pwl Ia the Philippines and Porto Rico, neutrality In connection with auch do pared to enforce promptly and with 1M altercations The United States greatest effect theiue penalties ror suA It la declared, steady progress ia being mestlc will, nevertheless, hold themselves ready violations of law. 'hind to this enl iptf made and tbe condition of the islandto t lutfi.-lenprotect the transit trade across the be furnluh'-- with Instrumental ad isthmus against Invasion of either tins and competent legal assistance In ers already baa been materially or foreign dlstuibers ot the peace th Investigations and trials which 1 vanced. of the State of Panama Neither be necessary at many different point, i Land Office. General of Receipt the text nor the spirit of the stipulation th country. I urge upon th Congms land In of the On the that which article the United Stabs public aubject by the necessity of making the said kpprv of the engages to preserve the prlatlon available for immediate m for of the country the message says: Isthmus of Panama. an obllga Imposes all such purposes, to bo expended end The cash receipts of the General Land tlon on this Government to comply with the direction of the Attorney-GenerOffice for the last fiscal year were the requisition of the President of the 63. an increase of $4,762,818.47 over Needs for Treaties Making Brlbtff United Slates of Colombia for a force to the preceding year Of this sum, approxt Extraditable. credit protect the Isthmus of Panama from a lb 4tl 41fl will go to th Steps have been taken by th BqtS imately. fund for the reclamation of arid body of insurgents of that country) The Department looking to the malting k T.Ta was to guai fimil up purpose of the ante the Isthmus agahyst seizure or In pproxlmately vasion bv a ton ign power only." treaties covering this crime Is manit.A JlS.m.bM. lor four hundred years, ever since has been disposition Ths exposures and prosecutions ef pi A gratifying shortly after the discovery of this hem In flctal corruption In St. Lottie, Mo, art evinced by those having unlawful the canal across the Isthmus has closures of public land to remove their sphere een planned other cities and states have resulted:! fences. For two score years It Inso acres million two Nearly a number of glvera and takers of hrlb has been worked at When made It is to deon thrown been have closed open rst tor the ages becoming fugitives tn foreign land Bids it Is to alter the In but comuaratlvely few case ery has not been Included In extrsdltloi mand eographv ot a continent and tup tiade has It been necessary to go Into eouit mutes treaties heretofore, as the necessity fet to of world the We have shown by accomplish this purpose This work will (very treaty we have It has not arisen. While there negotiated or at UnU been a. much official corruption In lor me to with tne peoples hi empted negotiate removed. been have Inclosures ful on trot of the Isthmus and with foreign yeara, there has been more develop and brought to light In the lmmsdits nations In refeience thereto our consis Irrigation. past than tn tha preceding century id Tbo work of reclamation of the arid tent good faith In observing otir obllga our country' history, it should be ls lands of the West ts progressing steadily Ions on the one hand to the peoples of policy of the Dotted States to leave pv and satisfactorily under the terms ot the Isthmus, and on the other hand to place on earth where a corrupt npti the law setting aside the proceeds from the civilized world whose commercial fleeing from this country can rest 4 ths disposal of public lands. The corps of Ights we- are safi guarding and guaian-teeinpeace. There Is no reason why bribed t h Reclamation by- our action Wt have done our glnoers known a should hot be Included tn all treatise a Service, which Is conducting the surveys luty to others In letter and In spirit, nnd we si. extraditable. The recent amended treaty and examinations have own been the utmost foibearance In ha. thoroughly with Mexico, whereby this crime w pfganlzed, especial pain bclpg taken to varting our own rights. Last spring, under the act above rerules a put tn the list Of extraditable Offsawtb secure under th civ baa established a salutary precedent body of skilled, experienced, and efficient ferred to, a treaty concluded between the this reggd. Under this treaty the S it men. Surveys and examinations are representatives of the Republic of CoS has Mexico Department asked, and progressing throughout ths arid states lombia and of our Government was ratiit on extradition the the of of granted, and territories, plans for reclaiming works fied by the Senpte. This treaty waa enLouis bribe glvera , and passed upon by tered into at the Urgent solicitation of being prepared There can be no crime more aeM boards of engineers befors approval by the people of Colombia and after a body V a than bribery. Other offenses violate th Secretary of the Interior. In Arisona of expert appointed by emr Government law, whit corruption strikes at th fomw and Nevada, in localities where such especially to go Into the matter of the datlon of all law. Under our form ef gewj work needed, construe routes across the Isthmus had pronounced ernment all authority la vested In- ths tlon ha already been begun. In other unanimously In favor of the Panama people and by them delegated to those parts of the arid West various projects route. In drawing up this treaty every who represent theta In official capacity. are well advanced toward the drawing concession was made to the people and Tho exposure and punishment of publlt up of contracts, these being delayed tn to the Government of Colombia. We were more than Just In dealing witn them. Our corruption Is an honor to a satloa, not part by necessities of reaching agreea disgrace. The sham lies In toleration ments or understanding as regards rights generosity was such as to make it a senot In correction No city or stats stiB of way or acquisition of real estate Mot rious question whether we bad not gone less the nation, can bs Injured by the of the works contemplated for construe too fay in theh- - Interest at the expense of our own. for In our scrupulous desire to enforcement of law. As lonf as pubis tlon are of national Importance. Involvpav all possible heed not merely to the plunderers when detected can find I ing Interstate questions or the securing haven of refuge In any foreign land anf of stable, communities In r.al but even to the fancied rights of our avoid punishment, Just so long encouthe midst of vast tracts of vacant land weaker neighbor who already owed so ragement Is given them to continue thell Th Nation as a whole Is of course the much to our protection and forbea -- a practices. If w fall to do all that la uf gainer by the creation of these homes yielded In all posalble ways to her Ilea to stamp out corruption wa caa not adding aa they do to the wealth and stadesires In draw ing up the treaty. Neverour of for a share th theless escape the Government of Colombia not responsibility bility cf the country, and furnishing guilt. The first requisite of successful home market for the products of the East merely repudiated the treaty, but reputs unflinching enfereo-men- t ana South. The reclamation law, while diated It In such manner as to make It of th las and tbs cutting out ol perhaps not Ideal, appears at present to ev Ident bv the time the Colombian Concorruption. f answer the larger needs for which It 1. gress adjourned that not the scantiest . Alaskan Boundary. Further legislation Is not rec- hope remained of ever getting a satisdestgn-- d Tbo message gives In detail tbt ommended until the necessities of change factory treaty from them The Government of Colombia made the treaty, and causes which led to the appointment are more apparent. yet when the Colombian Congress was of Forests. Preservation of the Alaskan boundary commission, called to ratify It the vote against rati neces- filiation was The out President th points unanimous It docs not apsnd congratulates both countrlet os steps for the preserva- pear that the Government made any real th a&tisfactory termination of th sity of taking to effort secure ratification. tion of our forests, especially at the a,. - a rt-a- . 1 . e- liT' ti. rote. -- free-diilve- in-l- -- - , r ri-- y tu "L f 1 J1 1 v 1 ex-th- e 1 President Rouvelte message to the Con second session of the Fifty-eight- h grata ia anbataatlally aa follow: teuait and Bout t of Rerttm-tauvt- r. fe gards tha law or acts tn a spirit of arbitrary and tyrannous Interfertnca with tho rights of others, whether corporations or Individuals, then where the Federal Government has Jurisdiction, it will see to It Uint the misconduct Is paying not the slightest heed to aa with a man the mott stopped, ths position or power of the corporation, bouse-bol- d, thoa at ths hnpertaat things art tho union or ths Individual, but only to and therefore the country Is one vital fact that Is, tbs question whethon has what congratulated er or not ths conduct of ths Individual tqb been accomplished ia the direction of proor aggregate of Individuals la In acviding (or the exercise of supervision cordance with ths law of tho land. Every ever the treat corporations and combinaman must be guaranteed his liberty and tions of corporations engaged in Interbis right to do ss he likes with his propstate commerce. The Congress has creor hie labor, so long ss he does not ated tbs Department of Commerce and erty infringe the rights of others No man Is Labor, Including the Bureau of Cotpora-tlonabove ths law and no man Is below It; with for the first time authority to cor do we ask any man's permission when scours proper publicity of such proceedwe require him to obey It. Obedience to of these greet corporations as the tho law ings Is demanded aa a right; not asked to know. baa the has It public right aa a favor for the expediting of suits for the Receipt and Expenditure. enforcement of the federal anti-truFrom all sources, sxclualvo of ths poa-tlaw; and by another law It hag secured service, the receipt of the govern-meequal treatment to all producers in the for the last fiscal year aggregated transportation of their goods, thus taking 238 874. The expenditures for the a long stride forward In making effective t5S0 the aork of the interstate Commerce same period were M OHS 007, the surplus I&4.K17.667. for the fiscal year being Commie Ion. The Indications are that ths surplus for the Department of Commerce and Labor. present fiscal year will be very amall. If The establishment of the Department indeed there be From July ef Commerce and Labor, with the Bureau to November theany surplus.from customs receipts ef Corporation thereunder, mark a real were, approximately, nine million dollars advance in the direction of doing all that less thsn ths receipts from ths earns Is poselble for the solution of the questions source for a corresponding portion of last eltally affecting capitalists and wage-wor- k year. Should this decrease continue at ere, tho same ratio throughout tho fiscal Functions of Ntw Department year, the surplus would be reduced by, The preliminary work of the Bureau approximately, thirty million dollars. the revenue from customs suffer tt Corporations la the department baa Should much further decrease during the fiscal shown the wisdom of Its creation. Publicity a corporate affairs will tend to do year, the surplus would vanish. A large -la Two surplus with will afford certainly undesirable. sway Ignorance, and ago the war taxes were taken off facts epos which Intelligent action may with th express Intention of equalising be taken. Systematic Intelligent investigation ia already developing facts the the government receipts end expenditures, knowledge ef which is essential to a right and though the first year thereafter still understanding of the needs and duties of showed a surplus, it now seems likely The corporation that a substantial equality of revenue world. .the Lulns uulih U honestly end fairly organised, and expenditure will be attained. Such wboee managers In the conduct of Its being th case It ts of great moment both business recognise their obligation to dial to exercise care and economy In approsquarely with their stockholders, their priations, and to scan sharply any change competitors, end the public, has nothing tn our fiscal revenue system which may reduce our Income. The need of strict to fear from such superstition. The pureconomy in our expenditures Is emphapose ef this hureau Is not to embarrass er assail legitimate business, but to aid sised by the fact that we can not afford to bringing about a better Industrial eon- -' to be parsimonious In providing fop what ditton a condition under which there Is essential to our national shall be obedience to law and recognition Careful economy wherever possible will ef public obligation by all coiporatlorta, atone prevent our Income from falling great or small. The Department of Com. below the point required In order to meet memo and Labor will be not only the our genuine needs el earing house for Information regarding Needs of Financial Situation. the business transactions of the nation The of our currency Is beyond but the executive arm of the government question,Integrity under present conditions It to eld In strengthening our domestic and would be and unwise and unnecessary to atforeign mark, tn. in perfecting our transtempt a reconstruction of our entire monportation facilities, la building up our etary aystem. The same liberty should merchant marine. In preventing the engranted the Secretary of the Treasury trance of urdeetrable immigrants, in Im- be to deposit customs receipts aa te granted proving commercial and Industrial condihim In the deposit of receipts from other tions. and In bringing together on comIn my message of Dec. 1, 1903, mon ground those necessary partners In sources. 1 called needa of the Industrial progress capital and labor. financial attention to certain situation, and I again ask the Commerce between the nations is steadconsideration of the Congress for these ily growing In volume, and the tendency questions. of the times ia toward closer trade relaGold and Silver Standard. tions. Constant watchfulness la needed to secure to Americans the chance to parDuring the hist session of the Congress, ticipate to the best advantage In foreign at th suggestion of a Joint not from trade) and we may confidently expect th Republic of Mexico and th Imperial that the new department will Justify the Government of China, and In harmony with an art of tho Congress appropriatexpectation of its creators by ths excreta of this watchfulness, ee well ee by ing 126.000 to pay th expense thereof, the businesslike administration of auch a commission was appointed to confer laws relating to pur internal affair aa with th principal European countries lit the hope that some plan might be devised are intrusted to Its care. a fixed rate of exchange could In enacting the taws above enumerated whereby be assured between th the Congress proceeded on can and countries and th countinea. Nothing revolutionary end tries. This commission has filed Its preWM attempted; but a common-sens- e successful effort waa made In the direc- liminary report, which ha been made tion of seeing that corporations are so public. I deem It Important that th handled ae to subservo tho public good. commission be continued, and that a sum It was of money be appropriated sufficient to t - Tbe legislation waa moderate. characterised throughout by the Idea that pay th expense of Its further tabor. wo were not attacking corporations, but Will) regards to the Improvement of to provide for doing away the American merchant marine tha . endeavoring with any evil In them; that we drew the President recommend that tha Con not against Bne against misconduct, of th wealth; gladly recognising tbe great rood gross direct tha Secretary done by capitalists who alone, or In Nary, tha Poetmaeter-Gcneral- , and tha conjunction with hie fellows, does his Secretar of Commcrca and Labor, aswork along proper and legitimate lines The purpose of the legislation which pur- sociated with auch a representation pose will undoubtedly be fulfided, wss to from th Senata and House of Reprefavor such a man when he does well, and sentative as th Congress in Its wiste supervise his aetlun only to prevent dom may designate, to serve aa a comhim from doing I1L publicity can do no barm to the honest corporation. Thy mission for tha purpose of Investigatealy corporation that has cause to dread ing and reporting to tha Congress at N ts the corporation which shrinks from its next session what legislation Is dethe light, and about tbe welfare of such - corporations sirable or necessary tor the developwe need not be oversensitive e ment of th American merchant maThe work of tho Department of and Labor has been conditioned rina and American commerce, and Inpen this theory, of lecurlng fair treatcidentally of a national ocean mail ment alike for latxJMnid for capital. With a aatloa espe-eial- ly a, pro-eld- i st al nt Vrs well-bein- g. J silver-standa- Com-mor- Capital and Labor. Tbo consistent policy of the national so far aa tt hag the power, to te hold in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or ymploye; but to refuse to weaken individual Initiative or to hamper or cramp the Industrial develof the country We recognise that this la an era of freedom and combine Ion. In which great capita Hello corporations and labor unions have become factor of tremendous Importance In all Industrial centers. Hearty recognition ts beneficent work given the which has been accomplished through and untors, and the corporation - both Bne as between different - corporations, aa between different unions, is drawn as aertlc of adequate auxiliary naval cruiser and navel reserves. Dtt thS subject of Immigration the message calls attention to th report of a committee of New York cltlxens of high standing, Messrs. Arthur T. Yriasen, Lea K. Frank el, Eugene A. Philbln, Thomas W. Hynes, snd Ralph Trantman, which deals with the whole situation at length, and concludes with certain recommendation for administrative and legislative action. It la nowZreceivlng the attention of th Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Th message continues: that It ts between different Individuals, Anti-TrubeLaws. on the effort conduct, ,4a, it Is drawn On th subject of the anti trust capital and ing to treat both organised labor alikeasking nothing mensures which have been detit with save the Interest of e,-- she. I toe brought by the Congress the President says: harmony with the Interest of th Annual Tnensngt, In eorm In my generuf juhde, 'ul that the conduct of each cn.il! conform to the fun laments! lion with th vublpct of the fin rui-tio- n of capital which of combination to liw, of Individual of dealing ar of mny becom Injurious to th pub an! of Jjjce ni fair lie, 1 recommended a special appropriae'tht"- rorrora-roa au. Mhenev.r loa. labor tion or th better enforcement of th union, or individual dure opment st erg-rriz-- d lt o obe-crir- u. y -- el iry tbe pos.dun be ruii -- d In kepiii -- I repeatedly dt n an 1 olomhix tn be u terly incapable Only orotf on the United of B e th? a. ntf rf, to'ot s has en ibleo tn r to i reserve so Had nioLh as a eintlai, e tf eovTr.b-ntit not been for Uie txerdae by tnu United totaus of lie njlke ower in her inherent, Ler to. m tt in with the Htl.mus would have ta . o lt, 'ered big agi In 1854. In in and again In H", ,n i , - m 4,2 uii itml mailits from United sia.ua war i .pa were fon ed te land In oulcr to pit c.l the ltbinus to protect nfe and p- ivity. and to eee flat th lran-.lat ro-- a the leUnnji was kept In in and In ISM). (,,(11 In lo He C" om in Gove nrner.t assed that the Lr,.ed Mans Give) inn it would land its interrsts and maintrotps to nius lei hips th tain or! r on tin most exirti i l.n.ry rv.ue--- t is thil which 1,18 Jan m.i Iitvivtd and. which runs as fi .lows Know i g i it revolutt m has already eotnm.nt.-- i in Unninii Ian eminent ,ai s..ya tbal it the Government of mat- - s will land troops to preit.e In,! and tb serve (. Ijmbnii &ovtre,gnt by Columb.ajn charge transit, If r .uu-ie- d daft mes l.u-- Government will declare virtue of vested mtrrtial law and .1 iuthv.nl) when pubne order is irsio.d will approve by decree th latitkdtion of ihe .anal treaty us signed; or. If the Government of the (Jetted States pr.fus will .all extra session of and friendly with new the l iii members next May to approve th has th Colombian iminent An treaty ho lerftv.t confidvn. e ot says arid it It beifttne necessary will go or send representative to the there to adjust matters along above ttaes to the sHisfavtHwi ot tho people there." This dispatch is noteworthy from two Its offer of immediately Standpoints guaranteeing the treaty to us Is In sharp tonlrast with the positive and contemptuous refusal of the Congress which has consider fajust closed Itsa sessions it toshows that th treaty, vorably such Governmt i whl.h made the treaty really had absolute control over the situation, but did not choose to exercise this ooo-trThe dispatch further calls on us lo restore order and secure Colombian supremacy in the Isthmus from which Colombian Government has just by Us action dtridrd to bar u by preventing the construe tlon ot the canal Importance or Peace in Isthmus. The control In the interest of the commerce nnd trtffic of the whole civilized woild. of the- rntans of undisturbed tranof Panama has sit across the to become of trarsrendent Importance ihe United Plates We have repeatedly ixertised his control by Intervening ID the lom-- e of domestic dissension, and by proto. dig the territory from foreign shown I al 1 g 1 t it Co-lo- , s I t, ol ta - nv.i-i.r- n Everett assured In H53 Mr the Ptruvian minister that we should not h.sruie to maintain the neutrality of the Hthmus In the case of war be- tween Peru and Colombia. In 1S64 Colombia. wnlch has always been vigilant io avail itself ot Its privileges conferred by the tr.aty, expressed its expectation that in the event of war between Peru .ltd Spain the United Stales would carry nto effect the guarantv of neutrality. Iheie have been few admknistiatlons of Ihe State Department1, in which this treaty has not either by the one sld or the other, been ued as a basis of more or less important demands. It was vatd by Mr Fieh In 1871 that the Department of State had reason to believe that an attack upon Colombian sovereignty on the Hthmus had, on several occasions, been averted by warning from this Government. In l!ft6. when Colombia was unde--r ths menace of hostilities from Italy In the Cerruti case. Mr. Bayard expressed the seriuua concern that th United 8tates could not but feel, that a European power should resort to fore against a si star republic of this hemisphere, as to the sovereign and uninterrupted use of a part of whose territory we are guarantors under th solemn faith a treaty. Treaty With Republic of Panama. Every effort has been made by th Gov. unment of the United Btates to persuade Colombia to follow a course which was vssenttallv not only to our Interest and to tbe Interests of the world, but to th inter. ts of Colombia Itself These efforts have failed, and Colombia, by her persist! nee In repulsing the advances that have been made has forced us for th sake of our own honor, and of the Inter- st and not merely of our own people but of the people of tne Isthmus of Panama and the people of the civilized rot ntries of the world to take decisive steps to bring to an end a condition of nfftlrs which had become Intolerable. The new Republic of Pararna Immediately offered to negotiate a treaty with u. 'this treaty I herewith submit By It our interests are better safeguarded than In the treaty with Colombia which was ratified bv the Senate at Its last session. It ts hotter In its terms than the treaties offered to us bv the Republics of NicaraAt last the right gua and Costa Rica to begin this great undertaking ts mads Revolution In Panama. available. Panama done her part. has Immediately after the adjournment of Alt that remains is for the American Cona revolution broke out In It part and forthwith this Panama. The people of Panama had gress to do Republic will enter upon the execution long been discontented with the Republic a project colossal in Its size and of of Colombia, and they had been kept quiet at well-ni- g Incalculable possibilities for th only by the prospect of the conclusion of this country and the nations of good of the treaty, which was to them a matter of vital concern. When It became mankind Provision of Treaty. evident that the treaty was hopelessly Rv the provisions of the treaty th lost, the people of Panama rose literally as one man. Not a shot was fired by a Urlted States guarantees and will mainsingle man on the Isthmus in the interest tain the Independence of the Republic of of th Colombian Government Not a Panama. Tht re Is granted to the United life was lost in the accomplishment of Stales in perp tultv the use, occupation, th revolution. The Colombian troops and control of a strip ten miles wide and stationed on the Isthmus, who had long .xundiiig three nautical miles into th been unpaid, made common cause with a at rlther terminal, with all lands g e of the zone necessary for tb the people of Panama, and with aston tlon of the canal or for Its auxIshtng unanimity the new repu '!e was staried. The duty of th United States iliary works and with the ts'ands In tha in the premises was clear. In strict acBav of Panama The cities of Panama cordance with the principles laid down and Colon are not embraced In the canal zone tut the United Slats assumes by Secretaries Cass and 6eward In the official documents above quoted, the United their sanitation and In case of ned. th States gave notice that It would permit maintenance of ordqr therein; the United th landing of no expeditionary forct States enjoys within' the granted limits th arrival of which would mean chaos all the rights powrr and authority which and destruction along the line of the rail It would possess were it the sovereign ot road and of tho proposed canal, and an the territory to the exclusion of the exinterruption of transit ox an Inevitable ercise of sovereign rights by the Republla. All railway snd canal property rights beconsequence. Th de facto Government of Panama waa recognized in tha followlonging to Paitamp and needed for th Mr. to Ehrman: canal pass to the United States, including telegram Th people of Panama have, by aping any property of the respective In the cities of Panama and Coparently unanimous movement, dissolved their political connection with the Re- lon: the wor..s property and personnel public of Colombia and resumed their In- of the canal and rallwavs are exempted dependence. When you are satisfied that from taxation as well In the cities of a da facto government republican In Panama and Colon as in- son'' form and without substantial opposition end Its dependencies Free Immigration from Its own people, has been established of the personnel and Importation of supIn ths Stats of Panama, you wilt enter plies for the construction and operation Into relations with It as th responsible of the canal are granted Provision is government of the territory and look to made for the use of military force and It for all duo action to protect ths pertha building of fortifications by. the Unitsons Slid property of citizens of the ed States for the protection of th tranUnited Stales and to keep open the sit. In other details,- aa to Isthmian transit. In accordance with the th acquisition of the particularly Interests of obligations of existing treaties govern' New Panama Canal company and th the relations of ths United States to Panama railway by the Unlted'states th I ing th condemnation of private property and I thatterrltory' for Disturbance On Isthmus Since 1846. the uses of the canal the stipulations of n tb n When these events happened, treaty are closely folwhile lowed, the since the bad United Stste years eapsed compensation to bs had entered into Its treaty with New Gra- given for these eplargeal grant remains the same, bring ten millions of dollars nada. During that time the Government of New Granada and of Its successor, payable on exchange of ratifications; and. s Colombia, have been tn a constant state beginning from that data, an annml of flux. payment, of $250,009 during-th- e A long list of the disturbances and TIFa o th corner lion 1 HEODORE ROOSEVELT. revolutions which have convulsed the White House. Dee. 7. 1303. net-w- - sessions of the tribunal. It continues: Th result Is satisfactory In every way. headwaters of streams. Of the cotton It U of treat material advantage te our weevil he says: It hi repeople In the far Northwest. g Tho States have re moved from the field of dlscutsloa and eently been Invaded by a weevil that has possible danger a question liable to be- don much damage and threatens th come more acutely accentuated with each entlr cotton Industry- I suggest to the passing year. Finally, tt has fumkhed th prompt enactment of such a signal proof of the fairness and (odd Congress remedial legislation a Its Judgment may cotton-growin- - will with which two friendly nation eaa approve. approach and determine Issues Invoking Isthmian Canal national sovereignty and by their nature The causes leading up to the estabincapable of submission to a third power for adjudication. lishment of the new republic of Pan- ' Claims Against Venezuela. Referring to the success which crowned the efforts of th Unite! States to have the Venezuelan dispute submitted to Impartial arbitrators the President says: There seems good ground for th bw lief that there has been a real growth among the civilised nations of a stk l ment permit a feradual substitution of1 other methods than thi method of war In the settlement of deputes. It la not pretended that a yet wa ars near a position In which It will b possible wholly to prevent wir, or that a just regard for national tntwegt and honor will In all cases pens of tho settlement of International dtipgtei whk-hwtl- donee ant? firmness V 01 wisdom w V- - ama, snd Its recognition by the United States are given In much detail, aa follows: By tha act of June 28. 1102. tha Con the President to enter gras authorized Into treaty with Colombia for the building ot tha canal across the Isthmus ot Panama; It being provided that in the event ot failure to eecure auch treaty after th laps of a reasonable time, recourse should be had to building a canal It has not been through Nicaragua necessary to consider this alternative, as 1 am enabled to lay before the Senate a treaty providing for tbe building of the canal across th Isthmus of Panama This was the rout which commended Itself to the deliberate Judgment of the can now acquire by ccngrexs, and right ta construct thi Mnal tMnk I 0Yer thi rout. The question now, there- not by which root th Isthmian canal ahall be built, for that question has been definitely and Irrevocably decided. The question la simply whether or not w ahall have aq Isthmian cwnaL . in tha year IMS this Government entered Into a treaty with Neve Granada, the predecessor upon the Isthmus of the Republla of Colombia and of the present Repobllo of Panama, by which sag of Dec. S, 1838, urged that Ih I tfexty tt was provided that th Govern- Executive be authorized to correswmd I mmt nd cltl'n of. th u,mte1 free and open right with the governments of the principal II should always haveacross the Isthmus of ot way or transit maritime powers With a view Of In- - ( Panama by any modes of communication I that might be constructed, while tn re- corpora ting Into the permanent U .y. I turn our Government guaranteed tb Civilized nations th nHnnini neutrality of th exemption of all private property at I perfect isthmus with tha view that the free trxn-ae- a, not contraband of war, from mn. j alt from th one to th other sea m'sht tur or destruction by DeI!serfnt I no & Interrupted or embarrassed. Tb treaty vested In th United State a v I substantial . property right carved out of Roosevelt he of sovereignty and property president says j th right (Rally renews this recommendation as I which New Granada then hadsnd poa-matter cf bumnutTr amr tnon T to ' Consular Service. J territory ha been divided It successor, a 1 X call your attention to Colombia.-hceased tbe redne wt th Government of hi maintaining the rrnsqjar sen tr for I to own anr property In th ltamu. A tho fiscal year ending June 30, isa J new republic, that of Panama, which waa gj shown tn tha annual tvprrt of th aa. at on time a sovereign state, and at ttor for the State and o'her drpartsimt, 1 another time a mar department of tb I aa compared with the year prevfon successive confederations know as New fore, Is abovo-menOon- " j-- well-bein- g ly-n- out-lo- com-r.anl- ea the-can- fifty-seve- Hay-Herra- nine-year- Isthmus is given, and the report con eludes: The venerable William Jackson, on The above la only a partial l!t of th of the oldest of Wesleyan minister re be Hons. revolutions, insurrections, riot and other outbreaks that have oc- nnd for twenty-fou- r years governor ot curred during th period In question; yet Dfdsbury college, is dead. 1 -- - f |