Book/Printed Material Panama Canal and our relations with Columbia. Papers relating to the acquisition of the Canal Zone, including an extract from the message of President Roosevelt, December 7, 1903, and the message relating to the Isthmian Canal, January 4, 1904; an address by the Hon. Elihu Root...on the "Ethics of the Panama Question; an editorial from the Outlook of October 7, 1911, on "how the United States acquired the right to dig the Panama Canal... Presented by Mr. Lodge. April 23, 1914. -- Ordered to be printed
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 63D CONGRESS DocuMENT 2d Session SENATE No 471 THE PANAMA CANAL AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA PAPERS RELATING TO The acquisition of the Canal Zone including an extract from the message of…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 CONTENTS Page Extract from Message of President Roosevelt of December 7 1903 esvese 5 Message of President Roosevelt of January 4 1904 cccceeeee 13 The ethics of the Panama question by Hon…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 THE PANAMA CANAL AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT OF DECEMBER 7 1903 Extract from the message of President Roosevelt dated December 7 1903 ISTHMIAN CANAL By the act…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 6 THE PANAMA CANAL that of Panama which was at one time a sovereign State and at another time a mere department of the successive confederations known as New Granada and Colombia…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 7 commercial rights we are safeguarding and guaranteeing by our action We have done our duty to others in letter and in spirit and we have shown…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 8 THE PANAMA CANAL without substantial opposition from its own people has been established in the State of Panama you will enter into relations with it as the responsible government of the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 9 August 1876Civil war which lasted until April 1877 July 1878Rebellion December 1878Revolt April 1879Revolution June 1879Revolution March 1883Riot May 1883Riot June 1884Revolutionary attempt December 1884Revolutionary attempt…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 10 THE PANAMA CANAL that the Government which made the treaty really had absolute control over the situation but did not choose to exercise this control The dispatch further calls on us…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 13 has nevertheless declined to ratify a treaty the conclusion of which opened the only chance to secure its own stability and to guarantee ermanent peace on…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 12 THE PANAMA CANAL AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA of order therein the United States enjoys within the granted limits all the rights power and authority which it would possess were it…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT OF JANUARY 4 1904 ii from the President of the United States transmitting a statement of action in executing the act entitled An act to provide for the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 14 THE PANAMA CANAL proposed to come to the aid of the French Panama Co by guarantee ing their bonds the Senate of the United States in executive session with only some…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 15 include jurisdiction to make police and sanitary regulations and to establish such judicial tribunals as might be agreed on for their enforcement These were conditions precedent…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 16 THE PANAMA CANAL Government of the United States proposed a treaty which was not merely just but generous to Colombia which our people regarded as erring if at all on the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 17 on assembling early in November would be confronted with a situ ation in which there had been a failure to come to terms as to building…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 18 THE PANAMA CANAL The Government forces in Panama and Colon numbering less than 1500 men are reported to be a little more than friendly to the revolutionary spirit They have been…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 19 was hurrying troops to the Isthmus to put down the projected revolt In the New York Herald of November 2 it was announced that in Bogota…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 20 THE PANAMA CANAL they reckoned that it would be at least three or four weekssay not until October 20before a sufficient quantity of arms and munitions would have been landed In…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 21 Panama October 8 1902 SecrETARY NAVY Washington D C Have sent this communication to the American consul at Panama Inform governor while trains running under United…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 29 THE PANAMA CANAL the United States by the officer in command of the Colombian troops in Colon At 1 oclock p m on that date I was summoned on shore by…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 238 vessel which had come in during the night was the Colombian gunboat Cartagena carrying between 400 and 500 troops I had her boarded and learned that…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 24 THE PANAMA CANAL Col Torress only reply was that it was unhealthy at Monkey Hill a reiteration of his love of Americans and persistence in his intention to occupy Colon should…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 25 prosperity for us President Marroquin appointed an Isthmian to be governor of anama and we looked upon that as of happy augury Soon we heard that…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 26 THE PANAMA CANAL By the unanimous action of its people without the firing of a shotwith a unanimity hardly before recorded in any similar case the people of Panama declared themselves…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA or for the construction of means of interoceanic communication it was only because it was not imagined that such concessions would ever be withheld As it was…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 28 THE PANAMA CANAL ever essential to our national selfdefense In transmitting to the Senate the treaty of 1846 President Polk pointed out as the princi pal reason for its ratification that…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 29 highest interests was fitly to end in further injury to the citizens of a friendly nation whose enormous losses in their generous efforts to pierce the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 30 THE PANAMA CANAL been many revolutionary movements na movements for the dis memberment of countries which were evil tried by any standard But in my opinion no disinterested and fairminded observer…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 31 made with the United States many years before SpanishAmerican independence In that case Mr John Quincy Adams Secretary of State in an instruction to Mr Anderson…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 32 THE PANAMA CANAL of the two Republics the second in regard to the method of pay ment of the 10000000 the Pawson of which by the United States to Panama is…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 33 States agrees to maintain the independence of the Republic of Pana ma that although the treaty has not yet become law by the action of the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 34 THE PANAMA CANAL we should take upon such a contingency must be determined by the circumstances of the case I am instructed further to inform you that this Government has only…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 35 THE MINISTER OF PANAMA TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE LeecaTiON OF THE REPUBLIC OF Panama AT WASHINGTON Washington D C December 31 1903 DEAR Sir I…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 THE ETHICS OF THE PANAMA QUESTION Address by Hon Elihu Root before the Union League Club of Chicago Feb 22 1904 On the 3d of November 1903 the people of Panama revolted…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 THE PANAMA CANAL AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 37 In considering these charges we may well thrust aside as carrying no weight of authority the expressions of those who while they con…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 38 THE PANAMA CANAL judge a people who were acting in accordance with the substance and reality of things as they knew them to be In the same way they are in…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 AND OUR RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA 39 The Monroe doctrine itself upon which we stand so firmly is an assertion of our right for our own interest to interfere with the action of…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
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Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471 40 THE PANAMA CANAL for the right of way and the abolition of the discriminating differential duties other Ye N ow Granada would be obliged to grant the same privileges unconditionally to…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Lodge, Henry Cabot - United States. Government Publishing Office - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt - Root, Elihu - Hay, John - United States. President ( : Roosevelt) - United States. Congress. Senate
- Date: 1914
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Title
- Panama Canal and our relations with Columbia. Papers relating to the acquisition of the Canal Zone, including an extract from the message of President Roosevelt, December 7, 1903, and the message relating to the Isthmian Canal, January 4, 1904; an address by the Hon. Elihu Root...on the "Ethics of the Panama Question; an editorial from the Outlook of October 7, 1911, on "how the United States acquired the right to dig the Panama Canal... Presented by Mr. Lodge. April 23, 1914. -- Ordered to be printed
Other Title
- Cited as: S. Doc. 63-471
Names
- United States Congress. Senate
- Hay, John 1838-1905
- Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924
- Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
- Root, Elihu 1845-1937
- Theodore Roosevelt originator
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. Senate, author
- United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt)
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914.
Headings
- - Annexation (International law)
- - Canals
- - History
- - International relations
- - Canals, Interoceanic
- - Military art and science
- - Revolutions
- - Sovereignty
- - Speeches, addresses, etc
- - Treaties
- - Construction
- - Cost
- - Panama--History--Revolution, 1903
Genre
- Government publication
- Legislative materials
Medium
- 1 online resource (75 pages).
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF12
- 63-2:S.DOC.471
- Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 6594
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- 2024875235
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- Hay, John
- Lodge, Henry Cabot
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Root, Elihu
- Theodore Roosevelt
- United States Congress. Senate
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Government Publishing Office
- United States. President ( : Roosevelt)