REPORTED BY MR. HITCHCOCK.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

April 29, 1914. Resolved, that there be printed as a Senate document the message from the President of the United States, dated April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State in relation to the negotiation and application of certain treaties on the subject of an interoceanic canal; the message of the President of the United States, dated November sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, with accompanying papers, included in House Document Numbered Eight, parts one and two, Fifty-eighth Congress, first session; the message of the President of the United States, dated December eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, with accompanying papers, included in Senate Document Numbered Fifty-one, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session ; and certain letters from Jose Vicente Concha, the Colombian minister, and other papers, included in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eleven, Fiftyseventh Congress, first session; together with correspondence relating to said protocol, and that one thousand additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Attest:

JAMES M. BAKER, Secretary.

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CONTENTS.

PART I.

Page.

Bryan, William J., Secretary of State, letter to the President, April 23, 1914...

Choate, Joseph H., American ambassador to Great Britain:

Telegram to Mr. Hay, January 11, 1901...

Letter to Mr. Hay, January 12, 1901.

Letter to Lord Lansdowne, January 4, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, February 19, 1901.

Extracts from private letter to Mr. Hay, June 24, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, August 16, 1901...

Letter to Mr. Hay, August 20, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 3, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, September 20, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 21, 1901..

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 25, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, September 27, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 27, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, October 2, 1901..

Letter to Mr. Hay, October 2, 1901

Letter to Mr. Hay, October 9, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, October 9, 1901..

Hay, John, Secretary of State:

Letter to Mr. White, December 7, 1898 .

Letter to Mr. Choate, December 22, 1900..

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, December 22, 1900.

Telegram to Mr. ( hoate, December 29, 1900..

Letter to Mr. Choate, January 25, 1901.,

Telegram to Mr. Choate, February 16, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Choate, March 13, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. (hoate, March 15, 1901..

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, March 25, 1901.

Extract from private letter to Mr. Choate, April 27, 1901.

Telegram to Nir. Choate, August 22, 1901..

Extracts from private letter to Mr. Choate, September 2; 1901.

Extracts from private letter to Lord Pauncefote, September 2, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Choate, September 21, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Choate, September 29, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Choate, October 2, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Choate, Ocwber 3, 1901.

Letter to Lord Paunceiote, November 8, 1901.

Letter, explanatory of provisions of second treaty, addressed to Hon. S. M.

Cullom, chairman Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, December

12, 1901...

Letter to Lord Pauncelote, December 16, 1901.

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, February 20, 1902.

Hay-Pauncefote treaty (November 18, 1901):

Original draft submitted to Lord Lansdowne..

Amendments to Mr. Hay's original draft proposed by Lord Lansdowne..

History of amendments proposed and considered which resulted in sec-

ond treaty:

Lansdowne, the Marquis of:

Pago.

Papers transmitted in response to Senate resolution 339, April 23, 1914, list of... ' XI

Pauncefote, Lord, British ambassador to the United States:

Letter to Mi. Hay, December 26, 1900..

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Letter of Lord Lansdowne, April 25, 1901.

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Letter to Lord Lansdowne, November 18, 1901.

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Letter to Lord Lansdowne, November 19, 1901.

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Telegram to Lord Lansdowne, December 16, 1901.

53

Letter to Mr. Hay, February 18, 1902...

68

Spectator, London, editorial in, December 10, 1898.

4

White, Henry, chargé d'affaires, American Embassy, London:

Telegram to Mr. Hay, December 21, 1898.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, December 22, 1898.

Letter to Mr. Hay, December 22, 1898..

3

Telegram to Mr. Hay, October 23, 1901..

50

Extracts from personal letter to Mr. Hay, October 26, 1901..

51

Wilson, Woodrow, President of the United States, transmitting correspondence,

April 24, 1914

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PART II.

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Bacon, Robert, Secretary of State, letter to Mr. Bryce, February 20, 1909......

Bryce, James, British ambassador to the United States:

Letter to Mr. Root, January 8, 1909...

Memorandum to Mr. Root, February 3, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Bacon, February 24, 1909...

Reid, Whitelaw, American ambassador to Great Britain:

Telegram to Mr. Root, January 11, 1909.

Telegram to Mr. Root, January 15, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Root, January 25, 1909..

Memorandum to Sir Edward Grey, January 20, 1909..

Root, Elihu, Secretary of State:

Letter to Mr. Bryce, January 8, 1909..

Letter to Mr. Reid, January 9, 1909.

Letter to the British ambassador, January 16, 1909.

Telegram to Mr. Reid, January 16, 1909.

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PART III.

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82

83

Bryce, James, British ambassador, Washington, letter to Mr. Knox, February

27, 1913..

Grey, Sir Edward, secretary of state for foreign affairs, Great Britain, letter to

Mr. Bryce, November 14, 1912.
Innes, A. Mitchell, British chargé d'affaires, Washington:

Letter to Mr. Knox, July 8, 1912..

Letter to Mr. Knox, August 27, 1912...

Knox, P. C., Secretary of State, letter to Chargé d'Affaires Laughlin, London,

January 17, 1913..

Panama Canal dues, interrogations in the House of Commons (October 11, 1912)

concerning.

Phillips, William, American embassy, London, letter to Mr. Knox, October

11, 1912.

Taft, William H., President of the United States, proclamation (Panama Canal

toll rates), November 13, 1912...

Wilson, Huntington, Acting Secretary of State, letter to Mr. Innes, August 30,

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100

83
l'age.

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112

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129

105

242

248

129

152

152

130

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147

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152

156

157

160

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Barrett, John, minister to Colombia:

Letter to Mr. Root, April 7, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, May 23, 1906.

Telegram to Mr. Root, June 12, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, June 13, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, June 13, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, June 13, 1906.

Telegram to Mr. Root, July 14, 1906..

Bryan, William Jennings, Secretary of State, letter to President, May 6, 1914..

Calderon, Carlos, minister for foreign affairs, Colombia:

Letter to Mr. Northcott, October 2, 1909..

Letter to Mr. Northcott, December 20, 1909.,

Cobo, Vasquez, minister för foreign affairs, Colombia, confidential memorandum

submitted to Mr. Root and Mr. Barrett, September 20, 1906..

Colombia and Panama, protocol transmitted by President Tait, August 17, 1907.

Cortes-Arango protocol, August 17, 1907.....

Cortes, Enrico, Colombian minister:

Confidential memorandum to Mr. Root, November 8, 1906..

Memorandum submitted to Mr. Root, January 3, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Buchanan, March 4, 1907..

Memorandum relating to proposed treaty with Colombia, March 4, 1907..

Statement covering views concerning Colombian claims against Panama;

Costa Rican boundary dispute, etc., March 4, 1907..

Letter to Mr. Buchanan, March 7, 1907..

Letter to Mr. Root, April 25, 1907.

Telegram to Colombian Government, May 10, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Root, August 18, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Root, December 5, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Root, December 20, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Root. December 28, 1907..

Memorandum to Mr. Root, comparing Columbian protocol with protocol of

August 17, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Root, January 26, 1908.

Letter to Mr. Root, February 19, 1908.

Letter to Mr. Root, March 12, 1908.

Letter to Mr. Root, March 31, 1908.

Letter to Mr. Root, December 31, 1908.

Letter to Mr. Root, January 10, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Knox, March 16, 1909.
Letter to Mr. Knox, March 22, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Knox, March 24, 1909.
Cromwell, William Nelson, counsel New Panama Canal Co., letter to the Presi-

dent, March 10, 1908..

Dawson, Thomas C., minister to Colombia:

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219

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Hibben, Paxton, chargé d'affaires American Legation, Bogota–Continued.

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Letter to Mr. Knox (edited), May 13, 1909.

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Letter to Mr. Knox, May 27, 1909...

237
Knox, P. C., Secretary of State:
Telegram to Mr. Ďawson, March 15, 1909.

213
Telegram to Mr. Dawson, March 17, 1909.

214
Telegram to Mr. Dawson, March 19, 1909.

215
Memorandum, March 19, 1909...

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Telegram to Mr. Dawson, March 19, 1909.

216
Letter to Mr. Cortes, March 19, 1909.

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Letter to Mr. Cortes, March 22, 1909.

217
Letter to Mr. Dawson, April 19, 1909..

Loomis, Francis, Acting Secretary of State, letter to Mr. Russell, January 9,

1905.

110

Palau, Dr. Ignacio, interview in Correo Nacional.

127

Papers transmitted in response to Senate resolution 346 (tripartite treaties),

list of.

107

Northcott, Elliott, minister to Colombia:
Telegram to Mr. Knox, September 29, 1909.

238
Letter to Mr. Knox, October 1, 1909..

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Letter to Mr. Knox, October 7, 1909.

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Telegram to Mr. Knox, October 13, 1909.

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Letter to Mr. Knox, October 29, 1909..

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Letter to Minister Calderon, October 26, 1909.

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Telegram to Mr. Knox, January 5, 1910.

247
Letter to Mr. Knox, February 18, 1910.

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Letter to Mr. Knox, May 13, 1910.

248
Letter to Mr. Calderon, May 12, 1910...

249

Reyes, Rafael, President of Colombia:

Conferences with Mr. Barrett, May 23, 1906..

113

Memorandum submitted to Mr. Barrett, May 23, 1906..

117

Summary of proposals to Vír. Barrett, May 23, 1906.

115

Informal memorandum presented to Mr. Barrett, June 12, 1906.

124

Telegram to Colombian Legation, January 12, 1909.

186
Presidential message, February 22, 1909.

196
Presidential message, February 22, 1909.

219
Manifesto, May 10, 1909.

237

Root, Elihu, Secretary of State:

Telegram to Mr. Barrett, June 14, 1906..

128

Letter to Mr. Barrett, July 2, 1906...

128

Interview with Vr. Barreit and Mr. C'obo, Cartagena, ('olombia, September
24, 1906...

129, 131

Letter to Mr. Obaldia, April 24, 1907.

147

Letter to Mr. Cortes, August 26, 1907.

157

Letter to Mr. Cortes, transmitting drait of treaty submitted by chargé

d'affaires of Panama for agreement between Panama and Colombia,

December 17, 1907.

157

Letter to Jr. Cortes, January 28, 1908.

168

Letter to Mr. (ortes, February 18, 1908.

170

Letter to Mr. Cortes, March 17, 1908..

173

Letter to London & County Banking Co. (Ltd.), March 17, 1908.

173

Letter to Mr. Cortes, December 29, 1908.

175

Draft of Colombia-Panama treaty, December 29, 1908.

175

Letter to Mr. Cortes, December 30, 1908.

179

Draft of treaty, United States-Colombia, December 30, 1908.

180

Russell, William W., United States minister to Colombia:

Letter to Mr. Hay, December 20, 1904..

110

Letter to Vír. Hay, January 13, 1905.

111

Telegram to Mr. Hay, May 8, 1905.

111

Squiers, ('. T., minister to Panama:
Telegram to Mr. Root, January 30, 1909..

190
Letter to Mr. Knox, June 17, 1909.

238
Taft-Arango protocol, August 17, 1907.

154
Taft, William H., President of the United States:

Letter to Mr. Wilson, transmitting protocols between United States and
Colombia, and between Colombia and Panania, August 17, 1907.

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Letter to Jr. Root, March 11, 1908..

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