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No. 35

The Minister of Colombia to the Secretary of State

LEGATION OF COLOMBIA, Washington, February 11, 1916.

MR. SECRETARY: Following my conference with your excellency on the 7th instant, I informed my Government of the inaccuracy of the news published in the newspapers by which it was affirmed that the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations had acted in accord with the Executive Power when the committee modified Articles 1 and 3 of the Treaty of April 6, 1914.

I also informed my Government that your excellency's Government had endeavored by all means possible to obtain full approval of said pact upon which the American Senate is to deliberate, which it had already begun to do.

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I have been instructed by cable to state to your excellency that Government duly appreciates and acknowledges all the interest taken by the Executive of the United States in favor of said pact. I also have special charge to inform your excellency that my Government would consider it a proof of particular deference to Colombia that His Excellency President Wilson be pleased to send to the Senate a message specially recommending the approval of the Treaty of April 6, 1914.

In any case it befits the Legislative Power of Colombia to consider the resolutions arrived at by the American Senate from whose high spirit of justice my Government expects an adequate resolution which will bring to an end forever the pending differences between Colombia and the United States.

Such has also been the subject of my constant efforts, in compliance with the mission that I have been fulfilling before the Government of your excellency, since I consider a supreme duty, at this most sad and perilous hour of the international life of the world, to endeavor to obtain the concert and solidarity of all the nations of America.

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JULIO BETANCOURT

The Secretary of State to the Senate Committee on Foreign

Relations

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 14, 1916. SIR: By direction of the Secretary, I beg to enclose herewith a paraphrase of a telegram' received from the American Minister at Bogotá, Colombia, relative to the proposed amendments to the treaty with Colombia now pending ratification in the United States Senate. Very truly yours,

RICHARD CRANE,
Private Secretary

'Of February 10.

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Minister Thomson to the Secretary of State

[Telegram-Extract]

AMERICAN LEGATION,Bogotá, February 15, 1916. Minister for Foreign Affairs desires me to express to the President and the Secretary of State sincere gratitude of the Colombian Government for the interest they are manifesting in the approval of the treaty and to state that if it should be amended the Colombian Government will make no comment as the Colombian Congress will have to pass on it. Various recent developments here and reports of German propaganda convince me that the ratification of the treaty in some form is of the greatest importance in connection with the defense of the Panama Canal *

THOMPSON

COSTA RICA

MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT, ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ, TO THE

CONGRESS

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No. 92

Minister Hale to the Secretary of State

AMERICAN LEGATION,
San José, May 2, 1916.

SIR: I have the honor to enclose copies of the official pamphlet containing the President's Message sent to the new Congress at its meeting on May 1.

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[Inclosure-Extract]

E. J. HALE

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CANAL TREATY

Our international life, traditionally so tranquil, registers in the year which has just terminated events of importance.

I refer, in the first place, to the discussion that we have had with the Governments of the United States and of Nicaragua on account of the conclusion of the Bryan-Chamorro Canal Treaty, which discussion, as it has not been possible for us to come to a direct agreement, we have been obliged to carry up to the Central American Court of Justice.

The case is well known to all Costa Ricans: against the clearest prescriptions of existing treaties stipulating Nicagarua's obligation previously to obtain the opinion of Costa Rica in every negotiation relating to an interoceanic canal, the Government of Nicaragua, giving to those stipulations the most erroneous and inadmissible interpretation, and concealing from Costa Rica its motives, entered into a convention with the Government of the United States whereby it cedes in perpetuity to the latter all the rights necessary for the construction, maintenance and protection of an interoceanic canal along the route bathed by the Great Lake and the San Juan River.

My Government could not remain indifferent before such forgetfulness of its proclaimed and unquestionable rights, and hastened to lay before the signatory Governments the reasons for its opposition, which, if indeed they were sufficient for both the notified parties to recognize our right in principle, unfortunately failed to cause the proceeding to be reformed as Costa Rica asked and as the treaties stipulate.

Consequently there remained to us no other recourse than to the Court, in order to obtain before this august tribunal a civilized and fraternal solution of the very sensible difference between us today.

WHITE AWARD

The difficulties which more than a year ago arose with the neighbor Republic of Panama in consequence of the promulgation of the White Award have not yet been overcome, in spite of the incessant endeavor which the Government has made to that end.

The subject, as you know, is under the friendly mediation of the Government of the United States, and Costa Ricans may rest assured that at no distant day it will be settled in perfect consonance with the sacred and unrenounceable rights of the Republic.

PROTEST OF COSTA RICA AGAINST PROPOSED NICARAGUA CANAL TREATY AND SUIT OF COSTA RICA AGAINST NICARAGUA

(See Nicaragua)

DENMARK

ABROGATION OF PROVISIONS OF CERTAIN TREATIES CONFLICTING WITH THE SEAMEN'S ACT OF MARCH 4, 1915,-ACCEPTANCE OF THE ABROGATION BY DENMARK

(See Belgium)

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