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Show COLOMBIA TO BE ALLOWED FREE USE OF THE CANAL New Treaty Negotiated by Secretary Bryan is Identical With the Root-Cortes Root-Cortes C-onvention of 1C09. Washington. Free use of the Panama Pan-ama canal by Colombian men-of-war, troops and army and navy supply ves sols is proposed In the new treaty between be-tween the Culted States and Colombia, Colom-bia, signed at Bogota Tuesday, to heal the breach between the two countries over the separation of Pan-uma. Pan-uma. This was announced Friday Vy Secretary Sec-retary Bryan, with the explanation that the clause in the convention was Identical with one in the Colombian treaty negotiated by Secretary Root in 11)09, with the approval of Great Britain and ratified by the United States senate, though never accepted by Colombia. Mr. Bryan's statement followed a long conference at the state department depart-ment with Senator O'Gorman, chairman chair-man of the senate canals committee, which has under consideration the administration bill repealing the clause of the Panama canal act exempting ex-empting American coastwise shipping ship-ping from canal tolls. |