Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-03 | Page 9 | Panama Canal Acts Denounced

PANAMA CANAL JICTS DENOUNCED Roosevelt Denounced by Sen. Thomps in Speech on Payment to Colombia WASHINGTON-. Jan. 3 A merle n nn-ducl nn-ducl in th neeol ihtioiifl for th oonatr i U r at the PanaiiM -nal bgur '.:-,t wltli the rt-puhlle of Colombia nnd later c-arrled on with the revolution-bull) t1 I .f I'Knami. wt. "without Justlfl -.-i i n ! nnd therefore Ind'riMlhle." Senat. r Thcmof, DrmrM ra dorado, drelar-'l today to-day in th- eenate. epeaklnc for raun- Otlon of th- troat Invoblnw pa iwn' 6f ISB.e00.00 tf. Colombia Which has heen pendlnc M)6laj rears Ho re-oMntrl the Involved Mnrv of the diplomatic and eommerelal deallngl of 1103 tha finally resulii-l In the canal's . ', truetlon, and !ar,r"l 'ho' Treslilent ThecJore lnorevep "aenulred the rlhi f era) for tii eanaJ from hand of rill-!. rill-!. usters by bartering for U the honor of the naM.-n ATTACK ON ROOST V E L T "Tin- on!', .-..nifr.rt one ea'hers from tit Vi.anWo! and '.or. I'd f.,r N that It 'tnds n. precedent In cur history" he said In statlnB his conclusions "I trust that we mav sonn neknowledKe the WfOng and maV:. nemo rc petit tl On lest II he Invoked n-'in,rt In a)if!rr r.l 1ifl' :lMsaillt upon the Integrity of some weak and helnlaat nation " ITe-'dent Roosevelt's conduct "from the commencement to the close of tbe ent" ; sf-te frtur iti ! h;-. no oarullel in the l diplomat! Itlsfori of the fnlteii svt -. Senator Thomas charged. At lnrtnir that ! the government ( the Lblted States shared responelhllity to a cheater or less deprce for the revolution which cut up an old state and made a. new one when Cob 1 nit ia refused to raltfly n treaty with the i"r,i'd States govern InK the oant. i "Preparations were made under tils very m for a vaudeville Isthmian Insiirre.--'lion.'' the senator added, "to whlon lis 1 must have shut his eyes, fir otherwuii I he would have seen them, and filled his :ir- wi'h cotton, for otherwise he would j have heard them." DOCUMENTS SUPPRESSED. Pacts to the p;il'tl. lJitk.n of the rov-i rov-i ernment In the Successful Insurrection. s. nater Thomaa obareed. had been sup- I nrossed b lreldent fb . - I'.. ;ind cop- ( , ie of official dispatches bearing upon it i 1 ili manded b senate resolutions had hoc.-. ' withheld or mutilated. ! "The man who 'uppresses or deatroys I testimony, " he said, of this, "stands ielf-OOnVlcted. ielf-OOnVlcted. Mr. Rnnsewlt nequlrel the rlnht of way for the canal from a hand of filibusters by bartering fOl It the honor Of the nation. "Between justice and our offense I aralnst Colombia, there can be reconciliation reconcilia-tion only throujjh national atonement, t'ntil these th.m;s are done, our eham-I eham-I I ihehlp of 'mnll nations and weal: peu-i peu-i les are as the sound of tinkling- eym-palS. eym-palS. When we shall have sciuared our aetlr.ns; with our sentiments, Latin-America will (rraii our extended hand and Tan-Amerlra will then assume the ma-wriai ma-wriai j.r. .portions of an enduring atrur-