Investigation of Panama Canal Matters: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Senate Resolution Adopted January 9, 1906, Providing for an Investigation of Matters Relating to the Panama Canal, Etc, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Panama Canal (Panama) |
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Page 1951
... possible water- way between the two oceans . Judged by the capitalization and divi- dends now paid upon the stock of the Suez Canal it is apparent that the rates charged for transit through it are excessive , and on the assumption that ...
... possible water- way between the two oceans . Judged by the capitalization and divi- dends now paid upon the stock of the Suez Canal it is apparent that the rates charged for transit through it are excessive , and on the assumption that ...
Page 1952
... possible sense of injury . There is another engineering problem which ought to have careful consideration , and that is whether the Congress will feel justified in indorsing the construction of any dam of large dimensions retaining a ...
... possible sense of injury . There is another engineering problem which ought to have careful consideration , and that is whether the Congress will feel justified in indorsing the construction of any dam of large dimensions retaining a ...
Page 1954
... possible advantage over any competing line of ships . The method thus suggested of operating the railroad as a simple transfer line across the Isthmus and therefore as an immediate and practicable substitute for the canal with a low ...
... possible advantage over any competing line of ships . The method thus suggested of operating the railroad as a simple transfer line across the Isthmus and therefore as an immediate and practicable substitute for the canal with a low ...
Page 1957
... possible , that we could find some place where the indurated clay was not so deep as it was at the point first selected for examination . In other words , to present the matter more clearly to you , the prin- ciple I was working on was ...
... possible , that we could find some place where the indurated clay was not so deep as it was at the point first selected for examination . In other words , to present the matter more clearly to you , the prin- ciple I was working on was ...
Page 1958
... possible to drain that water off absolutely and not be able to hold water in your dam and still not destroy the dam . But I would not take the chances on it if I were building the dam , though I can not say that it would not be possible ...
... possible to drain that water off absolutely and not be able to hold water in your dam and still not destroy the dam . But I would not take the chances on it if I were building the dam , though I can not say that it would not be possible ...
Common terms and phrases
Ancon appointed Article authority Boca Bohio building Canal Zone cent Chagres River CHAIRMAN charge chief engineer city of Panama Colonel ERNST committee Congress construction cost Cristobal Cromwell cubic Culebra DAVIS dredging duties employees excavation executive exercise feet French Gamboa Gatun Gatun dam Government governor HAINS harbor Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama June La Boca laborers land letter lock canal material matter ment miles Miraflores necessary Obispo operation Pacific Panama and Colon Panama Canal Company Panama Railroad Company pipe line ports present President question rates Republic of Panama sanitary sea-level canal Secretary of War Secretary TAFT Senator ANKENY Senator DRYDEN Senator HOPKINS Senator KITTREDGE Senator MORGAN Senator SIMMONS Senator TALIAFERRO ship Shonts shovels silver Suez supplies territory tion track treaty United vessels WALLACE Washington width
Popular passages
Page 2524 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 2386 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal...
Page 2579 - States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of any other lands and waters outside of the Zone above described which may l>e necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said enterprise.
Page 2582 - ... during the life of this convention of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in like gold coin, beginning nine years after the date aforesaid. The provisions of this Article shall be in addition to all other benefits assured to the Republic of Panama under this convention. But no delay or difference of opinion under this Article or any other provisions of this Treaty shall affect or interrupt the full operation and effect of this convention in all other respects.
Page 2357 - ... vessels, dredges, engines, cars, machinery, tools, explosives, materials, supplies, and other articles necessary and convenient in the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the Canal and auxiliary works, and all provisions, medicines, clothing, supplies and other things necessary and convenient for the officers, employees, workmen and laborers in the service and employ of the United States and for their families.
Page 2583 - If it should become necessary at any time to employ armed forces for the safety or protection of the canal, or of the ships that make use of the same, or the railways and auxiliary works, the United States shall have the right, at all times and in its discretion, to use its police and its land and naval forces or to establish fortifications for these purposes.
Page 2414 - The Government of the Republic of Panama shall permit the immigration and free access to the lands and workshops of the Canal and its auxiliary works of all employees and workmen of whatever nationality under contract to work upon or seeking employment upon or in any wise connected with the said Canal and its auxiliary works, with their respective families, and all such persons shall be free and exempt from the military service of the Republic of Panama.
Page 2583 - Government or the citizens and subjects of a third power relative to an interoceanic means of communication which in any of its terms may be incompatible with the terms of the present convention, the Republic of Panama agrees to cancel or modify such treaty in due form, for which purpose it shall give to the said...
Page 2415 - Panama shall nominate two persons and they shall proceed to a decision; but in case of disagreement of the Commission (by reason of their being equally divided in conclusion), an umpire shall be appointed by the two Governments who shall render the decision.
Page 2416 - ... all right, title and interest which it now has or may hereafter have, in and to the lands, canal, works, property and rights held by the said companies under said concessions or otherwise, and acquired or to be acquired by the United States from or through the New Panama Canal Company...