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Show U. S. WILL NOT STAND FOR COMMENT Washington. Feb. 9. The United States government disavows all responsibility re-sponsibility for recent remarks made by Representative Rainey of Illinois, criticising President Obaldla of Fun-ama. Fun-ama. This is indicated in a letter sent today by Secretary Bacon to C. C Arosmena, minister from Panama, in reply to a protest by the latter in behalf of his government. Mr. Bacon's letter says: "The utterances of individual members mem-bers are not to be taken as expressing express-ing the views either of the government govern-ment of the United States or of th? house in which such remarks are made. As regards the statements in question. made by Representative Rainey. the president attached so little Importance to them that he had nor; even read them until your protest came. Ho has now read tnera, and none of them concerning which he had .knowledge has any foundation in fact. The president need hardly Bay that this government disavows all responsibility re-sponsibility for the remarks of Rep-sesentatlvo Rep-sesentatlvo Rainoy to which you refer." re-fer." In his protest, Mr. Arosmena requested re-quested a disavowal ot the offensive remarks concerning the president and republic of Panama, such as may be deemed Just and commensurate "with the deep and unwarranted injury" in flicted upon President Obaldla. The letter continued: "Your excellency will note that I am Instructed to include In the protest pro-test the consul of this legation and of tho commissioner of Panama in this country. I havo not rererred to him in the foregoing protest, solely In deference to his request that I refrain re-frain from so doing, since he, a6 a citizen of the United States, does not desire that any foreign government ehall Intervene in his behalf. I should not be doing my duty if I did not express ex-press tho perfoct confidence of my government and people In his integrity integ-rity and uprightness, and In the name of my government absolutely deny the truth of any of the injurious statements state-ments In tho addresses to which I have referred concerning his relations or transactions with my government or any memher of it." s |