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.[Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907], Volume 1

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Page 3126 - Cong.) of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States of which the Hon.
Page 3215 - SEC. 5. That the sum of ten million dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, toward the project herein contemplated by either route so selected. And the President is hereby authorized to cause to be entered into such contract or contracts as may be deemed necessary for the proper excavation, construction, completion, and defense of said canal, harbors, and defenses, by the route finally determined upon under the provisions of this Act. Appropriations...
Page 3199 - Were they paying you for your personal influence upon the United States or the people of the United States and the Congress of the United States, or were they paying you for professional services ? Mr.
Page 3258 - Surety, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America, hereinafter called the Government, in the penal sum of dollars, lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. The condition of this obligation is such, that whereas the principal...
Page 3268 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Page 3200 - Co. to other persons besides those yon addressed to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, and to the chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House'' IPnse 1140.] Mr. CBOMWELL. I decline to answer, on the ground that It Is a professional confidence.
Page 3268 - That a lock canal he constructed across the Isthmus of Panama connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, of the general type proposed by the minority of the Board of Consulting Engineers created by order of the President...
Page 3187 - ... Company does not seek any financial aid from the Government, it recognizes the national sentiment in favor of acquiring some pecuniary interest in any canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Therefore the New Panama Canal Company declares that if, as the result of any such investigation, the Government of the United States adopts the Panama route, the company, if the Government so desires, will reincorporate under the laws of the State of New York (under the laws of which State the...
Page 3215 - President is hereby authorized to cause to be entered into such contract or contracts as may be deemed necessary for the proper excavation, construction, completion, and defense of said canal, harbors, and defenses, by the route finally determined upon under the provisions of this Act. Appropriations therefor shall from time to time be hereafter made, not to exceed in the aggregate the additional sum of one hundred and thirty-five millions of dollars should the Panama route be adopted, or one hundred...
Page 3254 - The Government will get the benefit of the combined efforts of the best and most experienced contractors in the world, each in charge of a department in which he is a specialist and co-operating with other specialists, because all are sharers in results, to bring the whole work to the earliest and most successful conclusion. "(2) The Government will secure the co-operation of these powerful interests in keeping full the ranks of foremen, locomotive engineers, steamshovel men, and mechanics of all...

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